What happened to Tome, and where its users went

If you search for Tome today you get a dead link. tome.app returns a 404, the app is gone, and the company that made it is building something else. For a product that once claimed 20 million users and was, for a while, the name people meant when they said "AI presentations", that deserves a straight explanation.

The short timeline

• 2022 to 2023. Tome launched as an AI-native storytelling and presentation app, grew fast on the back of the first wave of generative AI, and raised a $43 million round in 2023.
• 2024. The company pivoted away from general-purpose presentations toward sales use cases, narrowing the product to account research and sales content.
• 2025 to 2026. The presentation app was wound down. On 9 September 2026, the founders announced a $47 million Series A, led by Andreessen Horowitz, for Lightfield, an AI-native CRM built to replace Salesforce for AI-agent workflows.

So Tome did not fail as a company. It stopped being a presentation tool. The people who used it for presentations were left to find a new one.

If you still have Tome files

If you cannot sign in, there is nothing left to export from Tome itself. What you can do depends on what you kept:

• PDF or PowerPoint exports. Import the PPTX into NextDocs and it becomes an editable deck again. A PDF works as source material: upload it, and NextDocs builds a new deck from its content.
• Shared links. Tome's public links are gone with the site. If a colleague printed one to PDF, treat it as above.
• Nothing but memory. Rebuild from a prompt. Describe the deck you had, in as much detail as you remember, and generate several versions to pick from. It is faster than it sounds.

The guide to turning a PDF or Word file into a presentation covers the import routes step by step.

Where Tome users went

Tome's appeal was a particular feel: a narrative, scrolling, "not a slideshow" document that the AI drafted for you. Three kinds of tool inherited that audience.

Narrative deck tools. Gamma is the closest in spirit and the biggest, with a large template library and, since March, its own image generation. Pitch and Beautiful.ai serve people who want a designed deck with less AI in the loop. All three are covered in our September 2026 update to the best AI presentation makers.

Document generators with real exports. This is where NextDocs sits. You describe what you need, get several complete versions to choose from, edit the one you like, and export to PDF, PowerPoint, Google Slides, Google Docs or Word. It suits people who have to hand a file to someone else at the end, which Tome was never good at.

Shared canvases with an agent on them. Shyne, our sister product, is for the case Tome hinted at but never built: several people and an AI in one live file, with decks, documents, social posts and video on the same canvas, and the agent making changes where you can see them.

A fair way to choose

• You mostly worked alone in Tome and exported at the end: NextDocs.
• You shared Tome links with a team and edited together: Shyne.
• You loved the scrolling narrative format above all: Gamma.

Tome proved that people want to describe a presentation and get one back. That idea did not go away when the app did. It moved.

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The NextDocs Team