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Video2Any vs MagicSlides

The difference here is not a feature, it is what comes out. One product returns the slides the presenter showed. The other writes a new deck about them.

 Video2AnyMagicSlides
What you get backThe frames that were on screen, at the moments they changedAn AI-generated presentation; the tool also offers a direct mode that captures frames in the browser
Account to startNoneA Gmail or GSuite account
SubscriptionNot offered — there is nothing here for you to cancel“$8 /month billed monthly” Essential, “$16 /month billed monthly” Pro, “$29 /month billed monthly” Premium
Buy it once$49, paid once, with nothing that renewsNo one-off licence — the “$99 one-time” buys a presentation built for you, not the tool
Design and templatesNone. You get the slides the presenter made, not new ones“200+ premium templates”, “150+ design system presets”
Someone else does itNot offered“Done By Us” — “Full presentation built for you — zero work on your end”
SharingAn encrypted link the recipient opens without an account“Secure share — password + view analytics”
Beyond slidesNothing — we convert recordings and stop thereMagic Sheets and Docs with AI editing, and “Magic Talks”, an AI meeting agent
Stated length limit30 minutes free, any length once unlockedTheir pricing page does not say
Export formatsPowerPoint, PDF, Word, Markdown, image ZIP, all slides on one image, audio. Each slide is a picture, so the text on it cannot be edited“PPTX, PDF, PNG, JPG & HTML”

The honest summary: MagicSlides does far more than convert — templates, design systems, a meeting agent, a designer who will build the deck for you — and it is priced for that. Their subscription costs $8–$29 a month; ours costs $49 once, because we only do the one thing. If what you need is the slides that were actually on screen, you would be paying for a lot of machinery you will never open.

Everything in the MagicSlides column is quoted or restated from their own pages, read on 2026-10-05. Prices change — if something here has gone out of date, tell us and we will fix it. We have not run their converter, so this page says nothing about what it produces.

What it got out of a real recording

libioth — the definitive API for the Internet of Threads · Renzo Davoli and Mikey Goldweber · FOSDEM 2021 · Microkernel devroom

  1. Slide 1 of “libioth — the definitive API for the Internet of Threads”, kept at 0:00

    #1 · 0:00

  2. Slide 6 of “libioth — the definitive API for the Internet of Threads”, kept at 5:27

    #6 · 5:27

  3. Slide 18 of “libioth — the definitive API for the Internet of Threads”, kept at 24:10

    #18 · 24:10

  4. Slide 30 of “libioth — the definitive API for the Internet of Threads”, kept at 32:39

    #30 · 32:39

  5. Slide 36 of “libioth — the definitive API for the Internet of Threads”, kept at 39:03

    #36 · 39:03

  6. Slide 42 of “libioth — the definitive API for the Internet of Threads”, kept at 42:41

    #42 · 42:41

59:29 of recording → 78 slides kept

Recording from FOSDEM, used under CC BY 2.0 BE. open the recording · Rights concern? request removal

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