Open-Source AI Presentation Generator and API (Gamma, Beautiful AI, Decktopus Alternative)

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What makes Presenton different?

• Use Fully self-hosted in Web through Docker Package
• Or Download Desktop App (Mac, Windows & Linux)
• Works with OpenAI, Gemini, Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Fireworks, Together AI, Anthropic, LM Studio, Ollama, or custom models
• Comes with AI Presentation Generation API
• Fully open-source (Apache 2.0)
• Works with your own design/templates
• Fully editable PPTX export

Create AI-powered presentations using your own model provider (BYOK) or run everything locally on your own machine for full control and data privacy.

Available Platforms

Deploy to Cloud Providers

Presenton gives you complete control over your AI presentation workflow. Choose your models, customize your experience, and keep your data private.

• Custom Templates & Themes — Create unlimited presentation designs with HTML and Tailwind CSS
• AI Template Generation — Create presentation templates from existing Powerpoint documents.
• Flexible Generation — Build presentations from prompts or uploaded documents
• Export Ready — Save as PowerPoint (PPTX) and PDF with professional formatting
• Built-In MCP Server — Generate presentations over Model Context Protocol
• Bring Your Own Key — Use your own API keys for OpenAI, Google Gemini, Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or any compatible provider. Only pay for what you use, no hidden fees or subscriptions.
• Ollama Integration — Run open-source models locally with full privacy
• OpenAI API Compatible — Connect to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with your own models
• Multi-Provider Support — Mix and match text and image generation providers
• Versatile Image Generation — Choose from DALL-E 3, Gemini Flash, Pexels, or Pixabay
• Rich Media Support — Icons, charts, and custom graphics for professional presentations
• Runs Locally — All processing happens on your device, no cloud dependencies
• API Deployment — Host as your own API service for your team
• Fully Open-Source — Apache 2.0 licensed, inspect, modify, and contribute
• Docker Ready — One-command deployment with GPU support for local models
• Electron Desktop App — Run Presenton as a native desktop application on Windows, macOS, and Linux (no browser required)
• Sign in with ChatGPT — Use your free or paid ChatGPT account to sign in and start creating presentations instantly — no separate API key required

Run Presenton directly in your browser — no installation, no setup required. Start creating presentations instantly from anywhere.

You can run Presenton in two ways: Docker for a one-command setup without installing a local dev stack, or the Electron desktop app for a native app experience (ideal for development or offline use).

Option 1: Electron (Desktop App)

Run Presenton as a native desktop application. LLM and image provider (API keys, etc.) can be configured in the app. The same environment variables used for Docker apply when running the bundled backend.

Prerequisites: Node.js (LTS), npm, Python 3.11, and uv (for the shared FastAPI backend in servers/fastapi).

• Setup (First Time)

  cd electron
  npm run setup:env

  This installs Node dependencies, runs uv sync in the FastAPI server, and installs Next.js dependencies.

• Run in Development

  npm run dev

  This compiles TypeScript and starts Electron. The backend and UI run locally inside the desktop window.

• Build Distributable (Optional) To create installers for Windows, macOS, or Linux:

  npm run build:all
  npm run dist

  Output files are written to electron/dist (or as configured in your electron-builder settings).

Option 2: Docker

• Start Presenton Linux/MacOS (Bash/Zsh Shell):

  docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

  Windows (PowerShell):

  docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -v "${PWD}\app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

• Open Presenton

  Open http://localhost:5000 in the browser of your choice to use Presenton.

  Note: You can replace 5000 with any other port number of your choice to run Presenton on a different port number.

The lists below match the environment variables forwarded in this repository’s docker-compose.yml (production, production-gpu, development, and development-gpu). Put values in a .env file next to the compose file, or export them before docker compose up. The Electron app backend can read the same names when run outside Docker.

Other optional variables exist in code (for example advanced Mem0 paths, LiteParse runners, or FAST_API_INTERNAL_URL when Next.js and FastAPI are not same-origin); they are not wired in docker-compose.yml. Supported names are discoverable from servers/fastapi/utils/get_env.py and the Next.js server utilities under servers/nextjs/.

• CAN_CHANGE_KEYS=[true/false]: Set to false if you want to keep API keys hidden and make them unmodifiable.
• LLM=[openai/google/vertex/azure/anthropic/lmstudio/ollama/custom/codex]: Select the text LLM.
• OPENAI_API_KEY: Required if LLM is openai.
• OPENAI_MODEL: Required if LLM is openai (default: gpt-4.1).
• GOOGLE_API_KEY: Required if LLM is google.
• GOOGLE_MODEL: Required if LLM is google (default: models/gemini-2.0-flash).
• VERTEX_MODEL: Required if LLM is vertex (default: gemini-2.5-flash).
• VERTEX_API_KEY: Optional auth path for LLM=vertex (Vertex Express).
• VERTEX_PROJECT / VERTEX_LOCATION: Optional auth path for LLM=vertex when using GCP project credentials (do not combine with VERTEX_API_KEY).
• VERTEX_BASE_URL: Optional Vertex gateway/base URL override.
• AZURE_OPENAI_MODEL: Required if LLM is azure (deployment/model name).
• AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY: Required if LLM is azure.
• AZURE_OPENAI_API_VERSION: Required if LLM is azure (for example 2024-10-21).
• AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT / AZURE_OPENAI_BASE_URL: At least one is required if LLM is azure.
• AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT: Optional deployment override for LLM is azure.
• BEDROCK_REGION: Optional if LLM is bedrock (default: us-east-1).
• BEDROCK_MODEL: Required if LLM is bedrock (example: us.anthropic.claude-3-5-haiku-20241022-v1:0).
• BEDROCK_API_KEY: Optional if LLM is bedrock (API key auth mode).
• BEDROCK_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID / BEDROCK_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: Optional if LLM is bedrock (AWS key auth mode; use together when BEDROCK_API_KEY is not set).
• BEDROCK_AWS_SESSION_TOKEN: Optional session token for LLM is bedrock.
• BEDROCK_PROFILE_NAME: Optional AWS profile name for LLM is bedrock.
• FIREWORKS_API_KEY: Required if LLM is fireworks.
• FIREWORKS_MODEL: Required if LLM is fireworks (example: accounts/fireworks/models/llama-v3p1-8b-instruct).
• FIREWORKS_BASE_URL: Optional if LLM is fireworks (default: https://api.fireworks.ai/inference/v1).
• TOGETHER_API_KEY: Required if LLM is together.
• TOGETHER_MODEL: Required if LLM is together (example: openai/gpt-oss-20b).
• TOGETHER_BASE_URL: Optional if LLM is together (default: https://api.together.ai/v1).
• ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: Required if LLM is anthropic.
• ANTHROPIC_MODEL: Required if LLM is anthropic (default: claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022).
• CODEX_MODEL: Required if LLM is codex (Codex OAuth flow; compose maps host port 1455 for the callback).
• CUSTOM_LLM_URL: OpenAI-compatible base URL if LLM is custom.
• CUSTOM_LLM_API_KEY: API key if LLM is custom.
• CUSTOM_MODEL: Model id if LLM is custom.
• LMSTUDIO_BASE_URL: Optional LM Studio base URL if LLM is lmstudio (default: http://localhost:1234/v1; /v1 is auto-appended when omitted).
• LMSTUDIO_API_KEY: Optional API key if LLM is lmstudio.
• LMSTUDIO_MODEL: Required if LLM is lmstudio (example: openai/gpt-oss-20b).
• DISABLE_THINKING=[true/false]: If true, disables “thinking” on the custom LLM.
• WEB_GROUNDING=[true/false]: If true, enables web search for OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic models.
• EXTENDED_REASONING=[true/false]: Enables extended reasoning where supported by the configured stack.

Use when LLM is ollama:

• OLLAMA_URL: Base URL of the Ollama HTTP API (e.g. http://host.docker.internal:11434 from Docker).
• OLLAMA_MODEL: Model name in Ollama (e.g. llama3.2:3b).
• START_OLLAMA=[true/false]: Container entrypoint (start.js): optional install + ollama serve. Default false (development / production compose).

Mem0 uses local Qdrant + SQLite (OSS); memory is scoped per presentation.

By default the Docker runtime now points Mem0 at a local Ollama-compatible LLM endpoint, so it no longer needs an OpenAI key just to initialize. If you want to use OpenAI instead, set MEM0_LLM_BASE_URL/MEM0_LLM_API_KEY to your OpenAI-compatible endpoint and key. Docker images install the default spaCy model (en_core_web_sm) during build so Mem0 can start without extra setup on each run.

• DATABASE_URL: SQLAlchemy URL; if unset, the app falls back to SQLite under app data.
• MIGRATE_DATABASE_ON_STARTUP: Compose sets true for all services so migrations run on startup.

These variables match docker-compose.yml. IMAGE_PROVIDER selects the backend (pexels, pixabay, gemini_flash, nanobanana_pro, dall-e-3, gpt-image-1.5, comfyui, open_webui). Use OPENAI_API_KEY for OpenAI image modes and GOOGLE_API_KEY for Gemini image modes (same keys as the LLM section).

• DISABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION=[true/false]: Disable slide image generation.
• IMAGE_PROVIDER: Provider id (see enum above).
• PEXELS_API_KEY: Pexels stock images.
• PIXABAY_API_KEY: Pixabay stock images.
• DALL_E_3_QUALITY=[standard/hd]: Optional for dall-e-3 (default standard).
• GPT_IMAGE_1_5_QUALITY=[low/medium/high]: Optional for gpt-image-1.5 (default medium).
• COMFYUI_URL / COMFYUI_WORKFLOW: Self-hosted ComfyUI workflow JSON.
• OPEN_WEBUI_IMAGE_URL / OPEN_WEBUI_IMAGE_API_KEY: Open WebUI–compatible image endpoint.
• OPENAI_COMPAT_IMAGE_BASE_URL / OPENAI_COMPAT_IMAGE_API_KEY / OPENAI_COMPAT_IMAGE_MODEL: Required if using openai_compatible to send image requests to any OpenAI-compatible /v1/images/* endpoint (LiteLLM, Azure, vLLM Gateways, etc.).

• DISABLE_ANONYMOUS_TRACKING=[true/false]: Set to true to disable anonymous telemetry.

Presenton uses a single admin account per instance. Credentials live in app_data (hashed; see userConfig.json). Pass these with -e or via .env for compose:

• AUTH_USERNAME / AUTH_PASSWORD — Preseed the admin login on first boot (password at least 6 characters). Ignored if a user already exists unless AUTH_OVERRIDE_FROM_ENV is set.
• AUTH_OVERRIDE_FROM_ENV=[true/false] — If true, replace stored credentials from the env vars on every FastAPI startup and rotate the session signing secret (invalidates existing sessions). Remove after a one-off rotation.
• RESET_AUTH=[true/false] — If true, clear stored credentials on startup. Use for a single boot to recover access, then unset.

Examples

docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e AUTH_USERNAME=admin -e AUTH_PASSWORD=changeme123 -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e AUTH_USERNAME=admin -e AUTH_PASSWORD=changeme123 -v "${PWD}\app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

docker stop presenton && docker rm presenton && docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e AUTH_USERNAME=admin -e AUTH_PASSWORD=newcred456 -e AUTH_OVERRIDE_FROM_ENV=true -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

docker stop presenton && docker rm presenton && docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e RESET_AUTH=true -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

docker stop presenton && docker rm presenton && docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e AUTH_USERNAME=admin -e AUTH_PASSWORD=changeme123 -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

Manual reset: stop the container, edit ./app_data/userConfig.json, delete AUTH_USERNAME, AUTH_PASSWORD_HASH, and AUTH_SECRET_KEY, save, and start again.

Sign out from the app: Settings → Other → Sign out.

Note: LLM and image variables above are forwarded from docker-compose.yml when set in .env.

Docker Run Examples by Provider

Same variables as compose; use -e instead of .env when running docker run directly.

• Using OpenAI

  docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e LLM="openai" -e OPENAI_API_KEY="******" -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="dall-e-3" -e CAN_CHANGE_KEYS="false" -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

• Using Google

  docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e LLM="google" -e GOOGLE_API_KEY="******" -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="gemini_flash" -e CAN_CHANGE_KEYS="false" -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

• Using Vertex AI (API key mode)

  docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e LLM="vertex" -e VERTEX_API_KEY="******" -e VERTEX_MODEL="gemini-2.5-flash" -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="gemini_flash" -e CAN_CHANGE_KEYS="false" -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

• Using Azure OpenAI

  docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e LLM="azure" -e AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY="******" -e AZURE_OPENAI_MODEL="gpt-4.1" -e AZURE_OPENAI_API_VERSION="2024-10-21" -e AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT="https://YOUR-RESOURCE.openai.azure.com" -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="pexels" -e PEXELS_API_KEY="******" -e CAN_CHANGE_KEYS="false" -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

• Using Amazon Bedrock (AWS keys)

  docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e LLM="bedrock" -e BEDROCK_REGION="us-east-1" -e BEDROCK_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="******" -e BEDROCK_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="******" -e BEDROCK_MODEL="us.anthropic.claude-3-5-haiku-20241022-v1:0" -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="pexels" -e PEXELS_API_KEY="******" -e CAN_CHANGE_KEYS="false" -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

• Using Fireworks

  docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e LLM="fireworks" -e FIREWORKS_API_KEY="******" -e FIREWORKS_MODEL="accounts/fireworks/models/llama-v3p1-8b-instruct" -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="pexels" -e PEXELS_API_KEY="******" -e CAN_CHANGE_KEYS="false" -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

• Using Together AI

  docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e LLM="together" -e TOGETHER_API_KEY="******" -e TOGETHER_MODEL="openai/gpt-oss-20b" -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="pexels" -e PEXELS_API_KEY="******" -e CAN_CHANGE_KEYS="false" -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

• Using Ollama

  docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e LLM="ollama" -e OLLAMA_MODEL="llama3.2:3b" -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="pexels" -e PEXELS_API_KEY="*******" -e CAN_CHANGE_KEYS="false" -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

• Using Anthropic

  docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e LLM="anthropic" -e ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="******" -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="pexels" -e PEXELS_API_KEY="******" -e CAN_CHANGE_KEYS="false" -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

• Using LM Studio (local)

  docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e LLM="lmstudio" -e LMSTUDIO_BASE_URL="http://host.docker.internal:1234" -e LMSTUDIO_MODEL="openai/gpt-oss-20b" -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="pexels" -e PEXELS_API_KEY="******" -e CAN_CHANGE_KEYS="false" -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

• Using OpenAI Compatible LLM API

  docker run -it -p 5000:80 -e CAN_CHANGE_KEYS="false"  -e LLM="custom" -e CUSTOM_LLM_URL="http://*****" -e CUSTOM_LLM_API_KEY="*****" -e CUSTOM_MODEL="llama3.2:3b" -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="pexels" -e  PEXELS_API_KEY="********" -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

• Running Presenton with GPU Support To use GPU acceleration with Ollama models, you need to install and configure the NVIDIA Container Toolkit. This allows Docker containers to access your NVIDIA GPU. Once the NVIDIA Container Toolkit is installed and configured, you can run Presenton with GPU support by adding the --gpus=all flag:

  docker run -it --name presenton --gpus=all -p 5000:80 -e LLM="ollama" -e OLLAMA_MODEL="llama3.2:3b" -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="pexels" -e PEXELS_API_KEY="*******" -e CAN_CHANGE_KEYS="false" -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

• Using an OpenAI-Compatible Image Provider

  This routes all slide image requests through your OpenAI-compatible gateway (LiteLLM, Azure, vLLM, etc.) while keeping the text LLM configuration independent:

  docker run -it --name presenton -p 5000:80 -e IMAGE_PROVIDER="openai_compatible" -e OPENAI_COMPAT_IMAGE_BASE_URL="https://proxy.example.com/v1" -e OPENAI_COMPAT_IMAGE_API_KEY="******" -e OPENAI_COMPAT_IMAGE_MODEL="gpt-image-1" -v "./app_data:/app_data" ghcr.io/presenton/presenton:latest

Generate Presentation

Endpoint: /api/v1/ppt/presentation/generate
Method: POST
Content-Type: application/json

Authentication (HTTP Basic):
All /api/v1/ routes except /api/v1/auth/* require authentication. Send your Presenton admin username and password (same as the web UI, or AUTH_USERNAME / AUTH_PASSWORD when preseeding Docker). With curl, put them right after -u as -u USERNAME:PASSWORD — that is HTTP Basic auth and sets Authorization: Basic … for you. Replace the sample username:password below with your real credentials.

Request Body

Response

{
  "presentation_id": "string",
  "path": "string",
  "edit_path": "string"
}

Example (curl + HTTP Basic auth with -u)

curl -u username:password \
  -X POST http://localhost:5000/api/v1/ppt/presentation/generate \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
   "content": "Introduction to Machine Learning",
    "n_slides": 5,
    "language": "English",
    "template": "general",
    "export_as": "pptx"
  }'

Example Response

{
  "presentation_id": "d3000f96-096c-4768-b67b-e99aed029b57",
  "path": "/app_data/d3000f96-096c-4768-b67b-e99aed029b57/Introduction_to_Machine_Learning.pptx",
  "edit_path": "/presentation?id=d3000f96-096c-4768-b67b-e99aed029b57"
}

Note: Prepend your server’s root URL to path and edit_path to construct valid links.

Documentation & Tutorials

• Full API Documentation
• Generate Presentations via API in 5 Minutes
• Create Presentations from CSV using AI
• Create Data Reports Using AI

Track the public roadmap on GitHub Projects: https://github.com/orgs/presenton/projects/2