Data to presentation tools

Why the list is short

Of the 128 tools on this site, 122 write PDF and 26 write a presentation format. Only 10 write Google Slides. A slide is a fixed canvas. Text has to fit a box, and a table that runs long cannot flow onto a second page the way it does in a PDF. A tool has to handle charts, images and overflow slide by slide, so most vendors stop at documents. Several tools here write PPTX as one format among many: Carbone, Docupilot and Formstack Documents treat a PowerPoint template the same way they treat a Word one.

Google Slides or PPTX

Google Slides output is a native deck in Google Drive. It opens in the browser, can be shared like any Google file, and stays editable by the team. The template is usually a Google Slides deck with merge tags. PPTX output is a file. It opens in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides, and it suits teams that send decks to clients on Microsoft 365 or attach them to email.

Eight tools write both. Sixteen write PPTX only, and two, Document Studio and Merge Slides, write Google Slides only. The PPTX generators and Google Slides generators pages list each group on its own.

Who the tools are

• SourceToDocs reads Airtable, Google Sheets, CSV uploads and a JSON API, writes Google Slides and Google Docs, and exports PDF, PPTX and DOCX from Google Docs templates. It starts from $19 a month billed annually, with a free plan of 1 document a month.
• Matik reads Salesforce, HubSpot and Google Sheets, and its record also names Snowflake, Looker and Gong. It builds data-driven decks for QBRs and renewals. Pricing is by demo only.
• Rollstack puts Tableau, Power BI and Looker dashboards into Google Slides, PPTX and Google Docs, from $833 a month billed yearly.
• Slideform builds reports from HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Sheets, Excel and Airtable into Slides, PPTX and Docs. Its pricing page did not load; a free trial is offered.
• Portant reads HubSpot, Google Sheets, Google Forms, Typeform and Xero and writes Google Slides and PPTX, from $42 a month billed annually, with 30 free documents a month.
• Merge Slides merges Google Sheets rows into a Google Slides deck, with 100 free rows a month.
• Document Studio and Form Publisher are Google Workspace add-ons for Sheets and Forms, from $6.58 and $8.25 a month on yearly plans.
• UpSlide is a Microsoft 365 add-in that links Excel to PowerPoint and Word for finance teams, sold per user per year with a five-license minimum.
• Plus AI builds slides in Google Slides and PowerPoint from prompts and uploaded files, from $10 a month billed annually. Gamma makes AI presentations and exports PPTX, PDF and Google Slides on its free plan.

On Salesforce, Conga Composer, S-Docs and the native Salesforce Document Generation fill PowerPoint templates from records. All three price by quote.

Picking by source

Start from where the data lives. Google Sheets to Google Slides has 8 tools, HubSpot to PPTX has 8, Salesforce to PPTX has 11 and Airtable to PPTX has 6. The step-by-step guides cover Google Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce, Airtable and Notion.

These tools fill a deck with figures and fields. Teams that need the narrative of a deck written by a person can find content agencies and ghostwriters on Ghostwriter Index.