Gamma Review – Strong Start, but Limited Long-Term Value for Paying Users
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Konstantinos Balogiannis
I’ve been using Gamma on a subscription basis—not the free version—and was initially impressed by its user-friendly interface and how quickly it allowed me to generate polished presentations. It’s a great tool for creating clean, modern slides with minimal effort, especially in the early stages of a project.
However, after extended use, several drawbacks became clear. The biggest issue is that most presentations end up looking very similar. The templates, visuals, and graphic elements are quite limited, and anyone familiar with Gamma can instantly recognize when a deck has been created using the tool.
Customization is another weak point. When trying to embed more complex or tailored content, the visualizations often break or fail to render properly. Layouts don’t adapt well, and there’s very little room for creative flexibility. Moreover, typos occur frequently and are surprisingly hard to eliminate—even when requesting revised versions.
As a paying user, I expected more depth and control. Right now, the toolbox for visuals and slide adjustments feels underdeveloped for professional use. Unless these limitations are addressed soon, I’m not sure I’ll continue my subscription. Gamma has strong potential, but it urgently needs to expand its customization features and improve output reliability to justify the cost.
Fernand Schroell
Yeah, I fully agree with that. I'm not yet a paid user, and still hesitant in becoming one because my biggest complaint is that I need to produce corporate design slides. Best Gamma can do for me is to extract from longer outlines the most important points in order to form them somehow in an attractive way on slide deck. I always use slide decks without pictures at all because I cannot use in a corporate environment these AI-created pictures. I need to use pictures from our own repository, so I have to either cater for placeholders or replace the AI generated Pictures.
My other big complaint is that we have no possibility to influence the style and formatting by uploading corporate design example ppt templates. Best Gamma is doing is just taking into account the color gradings but cannot reuse the design elements or formatting elements, fonts,.. etc. So I have to export them to PowerPoint and then have still hours of tedious work to bring over the Gamma result into corporate template in order to be able to use it professionally.
Another thing that bothers me and does not make me comfortable is, even in the paid plans, that I have limitations in AI credits. This whole credit topic is also difficult to understand, so I asked an AI to do a research on it in order to fully oversee what it really means. In the paid versions, I still need to watch these AI credits, and the fear that in one project I run out of AI credits or need to split this is not making me very comfortable in going for this product.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
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My Review and User Experience with Gamma (After ~6 Months of Use)
Wasfi AlSafadi
After using Gamma for nearly six months, I’ve found that the tool has become increasingly underwhelming. While it initially showed promise, over time it started to feel boring due to its limited features, repetitive designs, static layouts, and lackluster visuals.
One major drawback is that the presentations built on Gamma tend to look and feel the same, regardless of the content — the themes, visuals, and structure become predictable and lose their appeal. This significantly reduces its competitive edge, especially when compared to other platforms that continue to evolve and innovate.
As a user, I expected Gamma to leverage the rapid advancements in AI and offer more advanced, dynamic features that go beyond static templates. Unfortunately, the platform feels stagnant, and without meaningful updates or new capabilities, it’s hard to stay engaged or excited about using it.
Overall, while Gamma may be a decent starting point, it urgently needs innovation and expansion in its feature set, design flexibility, and visual appeal to stay competitive in today’s fast-moving landscape.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Thanks for the feedback Wasfi. I will pass along to the team!