Tome Review 2026: Tome Slides Is Gone. What Happened to tome.app and What to Use Instead

Tome Slides shut down on April 30, 2025 and its files were deleted. What Tome was, why 20 million users were not a business, what tome.app is now, the Lightfield pivot and what to use instead.

The Proof Desk8 min read

Tome was one of the first AI presentation makers to go viral: type a prompt, get a finished deck with layouts, text and AI images. In 2026 people still search for "Tome AI" and "tome.app review", and several software directories still list it with prices as if you could sign up today.

You cannot. Tome Slides shut down on April 30, 2025. Sign-ins stopped that day, all user files were scheduled for deletion, and tome.app now returns a bare Vercel 404 page. This review covers what Tome was, why its founders walked away from it, what became of the company, which look-alike "Tome" products to watch for, and what to use instead.

Verdict up front: do not try to use Tome. The product does not exist, there is nothing to buy, and old decks cannot be recovered.

Verdict: Tome Slides no longer exists

Our live check on October 28, 2026 found that https://tome.app/, https://www.tome.app/, https://help.tome.app/ and https://tome.app/pricing all return HTTP 404 with the message "The deployment could not be found on Vercel. DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND". There is no redirect to the company's new product and no sign-in page.

Status: discontinued. Tome Slides closed on April 30, 2025.
Sign-ups: closed since early 2025, when Tome paused new accounts and Pro upgrades.
Your old decks: gone. Tome said all user data, including Tome Slides files, would be deleted after April 30, 2025.
The company: still exists under a new name and product. The founders now run Lightfield, an AI-native CRM for sales teams.
Recommendation: pick a live presentation tool such as Gamma, or the AI features built into PowerPoint and Google Slides.

If a directory still lists Tome pricing

Treat it as out of date. Any page in 2026 that offers a Tome Slides plan, a free trial or a discount code is describing a product that has been closed for well over a year.

What Tome was and what it cost

Tome launched as "AI-powered storytelling". Its core trick was a command bar: you typed something like "Create presentation about..." or used "Document to presentation..." and Tome built a multi-page deck with headings, body text, layouts and AI-generated image tiles. You could then edit pages by hand or ask the AI to rewrite, restyle or add pages.

Tome Slides AI command bar listing Add AI image tile, Create page about, Document to presentation and Create presentation about, with the prompt how to master the art of storytelling typed in — The prompt-to-deck command bar was the heart of Tome Slides (2023 marketing image).

Decks were web-first: you shared a link rather than a file, and paid plans tracked who viewed what. The look was polished and image-heavy, with full-bleed photos, big type and simple chart tiles, which is a big part of why it spread so fast among founders and marketers.

Sample Tome slide in a dark theme with the headline The activewear market is growing rapidly YoY and a magenta line chart — A sample slide from Tome's own site, showing the chart tile and the dark theme.

The last pricing Tome published

The final archived pricing page (May 2025) listed three plans:

Basic, $0 per month: manual editing, template browsing and unlimited sharing. "AI features not included."
Professional, $16 per month: everything in Basic plus AI generation and design tools, engagement analytics, custom branding, 100+ templates and Export to PDF.
Enterprise, contact sales: AI research and personalization, custom AI output tuning, custom data integrations, company template import and white-glove setup.

There was no "Business" plan, and the annual price could not be recovered from the archive. Directory listings that quote other figures, such as $20 per month or a per-user annual rate, do not match Tome's own last pricing page. In the end the free plan had no AI generation at all, so the feature Tome was famous for needed a paid plan.

Why Tome shut down: 20 million users, no business

Tome grew faster than almost any productivity tool of its era. In February 2023 it announced a $43 million Series B and billed itself as the fastest productivity tool to reach 1 million users. TheWrap, citing Forbes, reported a $300 million valuation for a company that had not yet made a sale.

Usage did not turn into revenue. In April 2024 Semafor reported that Tome laid off about 20% of its 59 employees, including consumer go-to-market staff and product developers, to be replaced with enterprise sales staff. The company was refocusing on sales teams that build customized decks.

In early March 2025 Tome announced the end of Tome Slides. Its help center said: "We tried our best to improve the product and turn Tome Slides into a business, but we weren't able to find a way to make it work."

VentureBeat's November 2025 profile of the pivot described Tome as a startup that once had 20 million users and still had $43 million in the bank. The team had concluded that "building lasting differentiation in the general-purpose presentation market would prove difficult", and headcount was reduced to a core group of engineers. Lightfield's own repost of the article calls it the thinking "behind why we walked away from 20M users".

What this means for buyers

A huge free user base is not proof that a tool will last. If a presentation tool holds work you need to keep, check how it exports, and keep your own copies in PowerPoint or PDF.

The shutdown timeline and what happened to your decks

Early March 2025: Tome announces that Tome Slides will sunset. New sign-ups and "Upgrade to Tome Pro" are paused. By mid-March the notice reads: "Tome Pro is no longer available. Tome Slides will be sunsetting on April 30th, 2025."
By March 31, 2025: "All active subscriptions will be cancelled by March 31st with refunds issued for the remaining time on the subscription."
March to April 2025: users are told to move their work off Tome. The official route is Export to PDF, a Professional feature; free users have to contact support.
April 30, 2025: Tome Slides closes. "After April 30th, users will not be able to sign in or access any Tome content."
After April 30, 2025: "All user data, including Tome Slides files, will be deleted."

If you did not export your decks in that window, there is no route back to them. The domain no longer serves an app, the help center is offline, and Tome stated plainly that files would be deleted. The only copies that still exist are PDFs people exported themselves, or pages saved in the Internet Archive for decks that were shared publicly.

Refunds

Paying subscribers were refunded for the unused part of their subscription when plans were cancelled in March 2025. There is nothing left to cancel today; if you still see a Tome charge in 2026, it is not from Tome Slides and you should check who the merchant really is.

What tome.app is now: the sales pivot and Lightfield

Tome did not simply close. Through 2024 and 2025 the company moved toward sales software, and by June 2025 tome.app had become "Tome - The AI assistant for sales", with the pitch "A second brain, engineered for sales" and a demo request button. The footer still read "Magical Tome, Inc."

Tome's 2025 AI assistant for sales answering the question What's top of mind for the executive team with a News and Executive Thoughts card quoting three executives — Tome's 2025 sales assistant. This is the post-pivot product, not Tome Slides.

That product was in turn renamed and relaunched. Founders Keith Peiris (CEO) and Henri Liriani, both formerly at Meta, launched Lightfield in November 2025. It describes itself as "an AI-native CRM for high growth companies to capture, analyze, and understand everything about their customer", and says it "replaces your CRM, call recorder, sequencer, and enrichment tools with a single platform." The live domain is lightfield.com.

Lightfield meeting record for Bolt Collective and Beacon proposal with a recorded video call, tasks from the meeting, a summary and a sidebar of accounts and participants — Lightfield, the AI-native CRM the Tome founders built after Tome Slides.

On September 9, 2026 Lightfield announced a $47 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and said over 5,000 companies had signed up since launch. Its published pricing:

Starter: $89 per user per month, billed monthly, up to 3 seats and 50,000 records, with a 14-day free trial.
Pro: $999 per month per workspace, billed annually, 5 capture seats, unlimited viewer seats, up to 250,000 records.
Growth: $1,999 per month per workspace, billed annually, 10 capture seats, up to 750,000 records.
Enterprise: custom. Extra capture seats are $200 per month, billed annually.

Look-alike "Tome" products to watch for

The Tome name is now attached to several unrelated things, which is why search results are confusing.

AngelList's Tome: in April 2025 AngelList announced "AngelList has acquired Tome." That was a different company, at tome.com, which made AI software to summarize term sheets for investors and founders. It had nothing to do with tome.app or presentations, and AngelList did not buy Tome Slides.
"Tome Ai" on the App Store: an app by Love Power Up, LLC that "helps you turn raw ideas, complex documents, web links, and even videos into polished, professional presentations". It lists a $4.99 price plus in-app purchases of $19.99, $29.99 and $119.99. It is not made by the original Tome team and has no access to old Tome accounts or decks.
Directory listings: many AI tool directories still show Tome Slides as active with old or invented prices. Check the date and whether the link actually opens a working app.

A quick test

The original Tome lived at tome.app and was run by Magical Tome, Inc. If a product sits somewhere else or comes from another developer, it is not the Tome that 20 million people used.

What to use instead of Tome

Tome's job, turning a prompt or a document into a designed, shareable deck, is now done by several live tools.

Gamma: the closest match to Tome's approach, with prompt-to-deck generation, web-first sharing and PowerPoint export. We cover its plans, credits and refund rules in our Gamma review (theproofdesk.com/gamma-app-review).
Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides: both now have AI drafting features built in. They are the safest choice if you need files your team can open and keep for years.
Other AI deck makers such as Beautiful.ai and Pitch also cover this space. We have not reviewed them yet, so check their current plans directly before you buy.

Sample Tome slide titled Mindful Space with an interior photo of a bright room and a forest view — The image-led slide style Tome popularized, which tools like Gamma now produce.

Whichever you choose, learn from how Tome ended: favor a tool that exports to PowerPoint or PDF, and export anything you cannot afford to lose.

Frequently asked questions

Is Tome AI still available in 2026?

No. Tome Slides shut down on April 30, 2025, and tome.app now returns a Vercel 404 page. You cannot sign up, sign in or pay for it.

How much did Tome cost?

The last listed prices were Basic at $0 per month without AI features, Professional at $16 per month with AI generation and PDF export, and Enterprise by quote. None of these plans can be bought now.

Can I recover my old Tome presentations?

No. Tome said all user data, including Tome Slides files, would be deleted after April 30, 2025. Only PDFs you exported before then, or publicly shared pages saved by the Internet Archive, still exist.

Did Tome refund paying subscribers?

Yes. Active subscriptions were cancelled by March 31, 2025 with refunds for the remaining time. There is no Tome subscription left to cancel today.

Did AngelList buy Tome?

No, not the presentation app. AngelList acquired a different company called Tome, at tome.com, which summarized term sheets. The tome.app team pivoted to sales software and now runs Lightfield.

Is the "Tome Ai" app on the App Store the original Tome?

No. It is published by Love Power Up, LLC, an unrelated developer. It cannot open old Tome accounts or decks.

What is the best Tome alternative?

For prompt-to-deck presentations, Gamma is the closest replacement. If long-term file access matters most, use the AI features in PowerPoint or Google Slides.

Key takeaways

Tome Slides shut down on April 30, 2025; tome.app is now a dead Vercel 404.
Old Tome decks were deleted after the shutdown and cannot be recovered.
Tome reached 20 million users but its founders could not turn it into a business.
The company pivoted to sales software and now runs Lightfield, an AI-native CRM that raised a $47M Series A in September 2026.
AngelList's Tome and the App Store "Tome Ai" app are unrelated to the original product.
For AI presentations today, use Gamma or the AI features in PowerPoint and Google Slides.