Chronicle 2.0 - AI presentations without the AI slop
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Chronicle is your AI-powered design partner for presentations. Turn notes, prompts, or existing decks into beautiful, on-brand slides in minutes. It asks a few questions, builds an impressive first draft, and lets you refine slides through conversation.
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Hey Product Hunt family 👋 We’re back!
A few months ago you helped Chronicle become #1 Product of the Month, and later #4 Product of the Year. Since then, the product has grown to 200k+ users. With that, came a huge amount of honest feedback. Hundreds of you told us where Chronicle worked, where it didn’t, and where it could be much better.
We read all of it.
Today, we're excited to launch Chronicle 2.0 to all of you!
Chronicle turns notes, prompts, or existing slide decks into stunning, on-brand presentations, generates an impressive first draft, and lets you refine slides through conversation.
There are a lot of AI presentation tools popping up right now. But most of them generate what we’ve started calling AI slide slop: generic layouts, messy structure, and decks you still have to spend hours fixing.
Our ambition is simple: to build the best storytelling tool for teams.
Here are a few things I’m most excited for you to try:
✴️ Chronicle AI: Think of it as a slide design coworker. Give it anything: notes, a prompt, or a rough idea, and it builds an impressive first draft you can refine and iterate on together.
🖼️ Custom branding & themes: Dozens of beautiful templates with real design taste, plus full brand customization so teams can stay on-brand.
📊 Charts & graphs: You can now add and customize charts directly inside Chronicle. They automatically adapt to your presentation’s theme.
🗃️ Export to PowerPoint & PDF: One of the most requested features, now live.
🪄 Hundreds of world-class templates: Created by designers from places like Apple, IDEO, McKinsey and BCG.
Special thanks to @benln for hunting us. And honestly, thank you. The feedback from this community is the reason Chronicle 2.0 exists. As a small thank you, use code PHPRO this week for 1 month of free PRO on any new account.
We’re shipping updates every single day, and will be hanging out in the comments all day. We’d genuinely love your thoughts. What should we build next?
PS. We also have a Slack community where you can interact with the team directly, get early access to new features, and shape what we build next. Would love to see you there: chr.so/slackcommunity
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@benln @tejgw This is so exciting! 👏 It's been inspiring to see the team launch so many new capabilities + improvements. Cannot wait for everyone to try it out! 💖
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@benln @tejgw love being on this journey with you <3
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@benln @tejgw And a huge thank you to Ben for hunting us! 🙌
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@benln @tejgw And a lot of what Chronicle 2.0 became came directly from feedback from this community. We’re grateful for it! Can't wait for everyone to try the new product.
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@benln @tejgw So awesome to get this out!
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Seeing Chronicle launch today is really special 😇 — this team has spent a lot of time thinking about how ideas should be communicated visually.
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@pavan_tirumani You're the real MVP Pavan 👏
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@pavan_tirumani @reneezhang23 it's been so special to create this alongside you and your insane brain Pavan <3
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@pavan_tirumani almost 3-4 years if I am not wrong. Congratulations on the launch!
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@pavan_tirumani @designerdada yes! he's the goat.
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@pavan_tirumani @designerdada 💪 💪
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@pavan_tirumani @designerdada He's the best 💯
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@pavan_tirumani Thank you Pavan 🙏 and honestly, that's the core of what we've all obsessed over together. Proud to be building this with you!
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Proud to be part of this team! From day one, the ambition has been to build something truly great for storytelling.
What we’ve created has the potential to change how people tell stories - making it easier, more powerful, and more impactful than ever.
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@praveendinesh Couldn’t have built this without this team ❤️
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@praveendinesh we have such a special team and I'm so happy to have worked on it with you Praveen <3
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I knew this launch would be special, we've been listening to your feedback and created a tasteful way to create presentations. Templates, image gen, themes, and new widgets are just the tip of the iceberg.
I'm so proud of this team and can't wait to hear what you all think! Would love to hear your feedback!
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@clairetaylor Such big leaps in our ai capabilities, templates, image gen, charts & graphs, exports and so much more by our small but mighty team 💪
@clairetaylor you’ve been such an inspiration to all of us! from design to raising PRs — you’ve come such a long way. really looking forward to collaborating more, it’s always super fun working with you <3
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@clairetaylor So proud ➕💯
Really proud of what the team has built here. Chronicle is the result of a lot of thoughtful design work and storytelling thinking.
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@jordan_lee14 Couldn’t have done this without the engineering team. So much of Chronicle’s design and storytelling quality comes from the care you all put into building it!
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@jordan_lee14 your thoughtfulness in how you build widgets is a massive part of this - you should be so proud! <3
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@jordan_lee14 so proud of this one Jordan!! The care you put in really shows 🙌
I've used Chronicle, and I've used Gamma, but I felt that Chronicle fits my vibe much better than Gamma.
Both tools are good, but for me, Chronicle is a better fit. I really enjoy using the app, but if there's one thing I would improve, it is the customer support. I feel the customer support has a lot of scope for improvement. And a bad experience (delayed response) can leave a bitter taste.
Anyhow, wish you guys the very best! Onwards and upwards...
@bhavvikminhas Really appreciate this - glad Chronicle fits your vibe better! That’s exactly what we’re aiming for: helping people take rough thinking and turn it into something that feels polished and ready to present.
Also hear you on the customer support - that’s on us and something we’re actively working to improve. Thanks for calling it out, and for the kind words. Onwards and upwards 🙌
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@bhavvikminhas Thank you Bhavik for the kind words.
On the customer support side, thanks for calling that out. Feedback like this is super helpful, and it’s something we’ve already been talking about internally.
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@bhavvikminhas Hey Bhavvik, we're a small team + an overwhelmingly large user base, so we're not able to get to all our support requests immediately. Thanks for your patience!
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@bhavvikminhas thanks for the feedback! We're a small team, but being more active on customer support is something we're definitely looking at improving <3
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Honestly one of the most fun products I’ve ever had to market. As a marketer who spends all day thinking about storytelling, working on a storytelling product is a dream 💖 Can't wait for everyone to try it!
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@reneezhang23 seriously love how closely marketing and design and product work together - it's a dream to work with you! can't wait to hear what everyone thinks!
@reneezhang23 you’re the GOAT — love how you manage to multitask and always have everything ready! such an inspiration. all the crazy stuff we’re building wouldn’t have been possible without you, super excited for people to finally try it out.
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@tushar_n 🥹💖😭
It’s been inspiring watching the team build something that puts storytelling and design quality first.
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@tushar_n Thank you for all the work that went into this!! A lot of the magic in Chronicle comes from the thoughtfulness behind the engineering.
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@tushar_n never seen an engineer ramp up so quickly on a truly new space - love being on the frontier with you!
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@tushar_n @clairetaylor +1!!
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The positioning around AI slop is spot on. Every AI presentation tool right now generates the same generic layouts with the same stock-photo energy. The fact that you are leaning into design quality and conversational refinement rather than just speed is a real differentiator. Congrats on the 2.0 launch and 200k users!
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@handuo Thank you! That’s exactly the direction we’re aiming for. Our hope is that AI can eventually help people focus more on the thinking and storytelling behind presentations, rather than wrestling with slides. But also, we don't want AI slop!! 😭 There's too much of that on the internet already. We care about craft, being intentional and producing high quality outputs that would make anyone proud to present as their own!
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@handuo Glad you noticed! Design quality is one of the biggest priorities for us.
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@handuo Thank you so much. "AI slop" is exactly what we've been fighting against 😅 speed is table stakes but taste is the real unlock. Really means a lot coming from you, appreciate the support! 🙏
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@handuo appreciate that you notice what we've been stressing over! thanks for the support!
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Huge moment for the team today. Can’t wait to see what people build with Chronicle ✨
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@harrispjose You should so proud Harris!
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@harrispjose it's so good! can't wait to hear what people think!