PowerPoint still dominates boardrooms, but building decks there means duplicating design work and losing visibility. Pitchdeck keeps everything in Figma while still exporting .pptx files for stakeholders who insist on them. When I compare it to PowerPoint, these are the criteria that matter.

Criteria that matter

• Does it respect your Figma components and typography?
• Can you export to PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, and PDF?
• Is there a hosted presentation option with analytics and link tracking?
• Can multiple teams (sales, product, exec) share templates without version chaos?

Pitchdeck nails all four, which is why I keep it installed.

When PowerPoint still helps

If an exec needs to tweak slides minutes before presenting without touching Figma, exporting from Pitchdeck to PowerPoint still works. But for building, iterating, and sharing analytics-rich decks, I stay in Pitchdeck and only hand off PowerPoint files when absolutely necessary.

Evaluation idea

Run a full campaign brief through every alternative. If the tool can’t export editable Keynote, PowerPoint, and browser-friendly decks in one go, or if it lacks analytics, it’s not really replacing Pitchdeck—just creating more work.