Comparison

Slaide vs DSDir

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Slaide

Transform plain text into polished presentations on your mobile device. Edit, present full-screen with speaker notes, and export to various formats. Generate new decks from simple descriptions and ensure brand consistency with custom themes.

Highlights
  • Text-to-presentation generation
  • Full-screen presentation mode
  • Speaker notes display
  • Export to PDF and PowerPoint
  • Custom theme application
  • AI-powered content creation
  • Presentation practice coach
Features
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Presentations that travel with you. Slaide turns a plain-text file into a polished presentation — and this app puts the whole thing in your hand. Open a deck, fix a line, and present it full-screen from your phone or iPad. Everything you need to work on a deck Open any .slaide file or .slaidec bundle and see it exactly as it renders everywhere else — same fonts, same layouts, same theme. Edit the words, swap an image, reorder slides, tighten a headline in the taxi. Present full-screen with speaker notes on your device while the audience sees only the slides. Export to PDF or an editable PowerPoint file and send it from wherever you are. Build a new deck from a sentence (paid account) Describe what you need and Slaide writes it — structure, headlines, supporting points, all laid out in your theme. It checks its own work, renders the result, and fixes what doesn't fit before handing it to you. A pitch on the train. A workshop outline between meetings. A client update you'd otherwise have written at midnight. Your design, applied automatically A Slaide theme is a reusable master: fonts, colors, spacing and layouts defined once. Every slide you write or generate arrives already on-brand, so there's no dragging text boxes on a touchscreen — the one job phones have always been bad at. One source, every format The same file becomes a web deck, a print-ready PDF and a real PowerPoint file with editable text boxes and shapes. Nothing is flattened into pictures, and nothing drifts between formats. It's plain text, so it's yours A deck is a small text file you can read, diff, back up and keep. Slaide's core format is open source under Apache-2.0. If you ever stop using us, your decks still open. Practice your presentation with a coach Want to run through your presentation before you hold it? Slaide has a built in coach that times you and gives you feedback on how well you are hitting the points from the slide. Let it help you find your perfect pitch. Works with decks made in the Slaide desktop app or CLI, so what you build at your desk is on your phone when you need it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

DSDir

Features
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DSDir is a remote management app for Synology NAS, built for people who use their NAS every day. • Desktop Mode: turn the NAS screen into a small desktop with multiple windows. Drag files between windows to move or copy them, create new folders, and use an external display with your phone as the trackpad. • theirdrop: send photos, videos and files from the share sheet straight to a Windows PC on the same network, with no pairing. Choose the original or a highly compatible format, get camera-style file names, and rename each file before sending. • And more: file search, list sorting and grouping, folder sharing, browsing the NAS from the Files app (read-only), a text editor and an image viewer. • Multiple NAS at once: add several Synology NAS units and switch between them quickly. Connect with QuickConnect or an IP address / DDNS name. • File management: multi-select, cut / copy / paste, rename, delete, upload, download, compress / extract and new folders. Switch between list and grid views, with thumbnails for photos and videos. • Play video directly: tap a video to stream it without downloading first, with a classic wheel-style player. • Browse music by cover art: flip through the album covers stored on your NAS, and keep listening with the mini player while you browse. • Offline manager: save music folders and videos to your device and play them without a connection. Download on Wi-Fi only, and changes on your NAS are updated automatically. • Download center: manage Download Station tasks, add URLs or magnet links, pause / resume / delete, and follow progress live. • Sync status: see the state of Synology Drive / Cloud Station at a glance. • Share extension: tap Share in other apps to send a URL or magnet link straight to Download Station. • 10 languages: English, Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Russian, Spanish, German and Portuguese. • Your NAS list and quick-share settings sync to your other devices through your own iCloud account. Passwords stay in the device Keychain and are never synced through iCloud. DSDir collects no user data. All connection information stays on your own devices and in your own iCloud account.

Screenshots

Slaide4 screens
DSDir4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Slaide at Free against DSDir's $1.99. DSDir's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Slaide is free to download; DSDir costs $1.99 up front. Slaide sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. DSDir asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Slaide ships an update every 5 days, DSDir weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Slaide versus DSDir: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSlaideDSDir
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAIVory IncUSHIO FUJIMURA

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Slaide

Subscriptions1
  • Slaide Hosted Monthly$12.991 Month
One-time1
  • Day Pass$4.99
None

DSDir

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Slaide free?
Slaide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DSDir free?
DSDir costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Slaide or DSDir have ads?
Neither Slaide nor DSDir shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Slaide or DSDir?
Slaide ships an update every 5 days, and DSDir weekly. Most recently, Slaide was updated on October 31, 2026 and DSDir on October 29, 2026.

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