Chronicle combines AI generation with powerful editing to create stunning presentations. Start from a prompt, notes, or raw idea and generate beautiful, on-brand slides in minutes. Edit with full control and export to PPT, PDF, or any format. No design skills required.
First, thank you. Everyone who voted, commented, or tried Chronicle. You helped us with a #1 finish in our first official launch on the same day Bubble also crossed 1000 votes. Massive gratitude
As a first-time founder, this was a special day. I would love to share what we've learnt. And would love to hear how we can do better, both in growing Chronicle and in improving the product itself.
Last month we kicked things off with a high-level recap of our Product of the Month launch - and you had so many questions that we went back to document every tactic in full. Today, here s the in-depth playbook: the exact strategies, experiments, and community-powered tests that took Chronicle to #1 on Product Hunt and over 1,000 upvotes within 24 hours.
Reviewers mostly praise Chronicle for making presentations fast, polished, and easy to shape from rough notes or bullet points, with several saying it improves storytelling, pitching, and team alignment. Users repeatedly highlight strong design taste, smooth layout changes, useful AI help, and thoughtful UX touches. The main complaints are narrower but consistent: limited export and slide-tool integration, weak or missing image generation, sharing friction, and glitches, especially on mobile. A founder of KREV similarly says it feels faster and more modern than traditional slide tools.
free tier (2)ease of use (2)fast presentation creation (5)storytelling focus (3)design quality (6)AI workflows (6)visual presentation (4)
Chronicle is a beautiful product. For someone who appreciates good design as a tool for creating it, it's a genuine pleasure to use. From the outset, the team has clearly been obsessed with building something stunning, and it shows.
The pace of feature delivery is impressive too. Excited to see what the team builds next.
vs Alternatives
Chronicle is presentations of the future, other tools are made for the 2000s, Chronicle is made for 2026
As someone who struggles with the design side of things often, I really appreciate an assistant by my side to speed up my workflow and assure my choices. I think it can be tailored more towards a brand voice/identity focused stand point so that you can make designs that connecgt with each other of a wide range of projects. The ux seems to lead the user very well. Overall smooth experience with a few possible improvements. Very great.
The product shows tremendous potential. I really like the concept of starting with a few notes, refining them into a structured narrative, and then moving seamlessly into visual presentation. That said, there are some key areas that still need refinement. For example, I expected an automatic layout optimization feature to clean up the design after manually adding individual widgets. Unfortunately, viewing the presentation on my iPhone 13 was a poor experience—glitches and a lack of smooth performance made it frustrating to use. Also, requiring users to log in just to share their work feels unnecessarily restrictive.
What's great
visual presentation (4)
What needs improvement
mobile performance issues (1)automatic layout optimization (1)login requirement for sharing (1)
Thanks for the feedback Hugo. We haven't worked on the mobile experience yet - we have big dreams for it and surely we will get to it soon. There is an automatic layout optimisation. It is called remix. There is also a tidy up feature for simpler layouts.
Re: requiring users to login just to share: you can publish your work to the web and others can see it without logging in. Presentations need to be secure and private more often than not. Logging in is the safest way to do that. If you have alternative ideas or examples would love to hear.
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Thanks for the feedback Hugo. We haven't worked on the mobile experience yet - we have big dreams for it and surely we will get to it soon.
There is an automatic layout optimisation. It is called remix. There is also a tidy up feature for simpler layouts.
Re: requiring users to login just to share: you can publish your work to the web and others can see it without logging in. Presentations need to be secure and private more often than not. Logging in is the safest way to do that. If you have alternative ideas or examples would love to hear.