Writing

Tome

AI storytelling and presentation tool for modern teams

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Shut down★4.3ratingPricing · Freemium from $20/moDeclining

What happened to Tome?

Tome shut down in 2025.

VentureBeat reported on 20 Nov 2025 that Tome's founders had dropped the AI presentation app, which reached 20 million users, and rebuilt the company as the AI CRM Lightfield. The Tome app no longer runs.

Source: venturebeat.com ↗Its AI Graveyard record →AI products shut down or acquired in 2025 →

The FalcoScan Intel PanelTome · Writing

Data updated 2 November 2026

Opportunity

Low

Band

Saturation

Contested

Band

Wrapper risk

Low

Band

Moat

None

Band · Writing moats

Momentum

Declining

Market trend

Rating

4.3

of 5 · FalcoScan rating

Writing AI has no moat to speak of on average, from the moat scores of its rated products. What protects Writing AI tools, and the widest moats

The Brief

What Tome does

Tome uses AI to help you build narrative-driven presentations and documents. Its AI co-author helps you structure stories, generate slides, and create compelling narratives — used by teams at OpenAI and Notion.

How Tome compares with its closest alternatives

4 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Tome did. Among the 4 that list a starting price, the cheapest is NovelAI at $10 a month and the median is $16.50. Tome started at $20 a month, above that median. None of the 5 offers an API; FalcoScan's records show none for Tome. Tome offered a web app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app. Tome was founded in 2021; the alternatives were founded between 2018 and 2021, 2 of them earlier. Tome was based in San Francisco, United States; 1 of the 4 alternatives with a known headquarters is in the United States too, and the others in Germany and India.

Market position · Writing

How Tome compares in Writing

Tome had low opportunity before it shut down. Across Writing, the average opportunity score is 39.5 and the average saturation score 64.8. FalcoScan rates Tome's own market position as contested. 23 of the 329 operating Writing tools have hot momentum, and FalcoScan has recorded 20 shutdowns in the category.

Tome compared with its closest alternatives
Product	Opportunity	Saturation	Pricing	Pricing from	Free plan	API	Platforms	Momentum
TomeFounded 2021 · San Francisco, United States	Low	Contested	Freemium	$20/mo	Yes	No	Web	Declining
PitchFounded 2018 · Berlin, Germany	Low	Contested	Freemium	$25/mo	Yes	No	Web	Rising
GammaFounded 2020 · San Francisco, United States	Moderate	Crowded	Freemium	$15/mo	Yes	No	Web	Hot
NovelAIFounded 2021 · Remote-first	Moderate	Open	Paid	$10/mo	No	No	Web	Stable
SimplifiedFounded 2021 · Bengaluru, India	Low	Crowded	Freemium	$18/mo	Yes	No	Web, Mobile	Stable
Simplified WriterFounded 2021 · Bengaluru, India	Moderate	Crowded	Freemium	—	Yes	No	Web	Stable

Exact opportunity and saturation scores for all 6 of these, and where each ranks in Writing.

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What it ships with

Capabilities & who uses it

The capabilities Tome exposes to builders and the verticals it currently serves.

AI Capabilities

Text GenerationDesign AutomationImage Generation

Industry Verticals

TechnologyConsultingVenture Capital

Tagged

Tome shows up when builders search for these

presentationsstorytellingnarrativeteamsdesign

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Alternatives to Tome

Products still running that do the same job, from the writing market and related ones, closest match first.

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Pitch

Collaborative presentation software with AI writing tools

★ 4.4Opportunity Low

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Gamma

AI-powered presentations, documents, and webpages in minutes

★ 4.6Opportunity Moderate

Freemium

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NovelAI

AI storytelling platform for world-building and fiction

★ 4.3Opportunity Moderate

Paid

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Simplified

All-in-one AI for writing, design, video, and social media

★ 4.3Opportunity Low

Freemium

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Simplified Writer

All-in-one AI content creation suite

★ 4.2Opportunity Moderate

Freemium

Writing

Storybird AI

AI-illustrated storytelling for creators

★ 4.1Opportunity Moderate

Freemium

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Tome across FalcoScan

Questions

Tome: common questions

Is Tome still running?

No. Tome shut down in 2025, according to venturebeat.com. VentureBeat reported on 20 Nov 2025 that Tome's founders had dropped the AI presentation app, which reached 20 million users, and rebuilt the company as the AI CRM Lightfield. The Tome app no longer runs.

Source: venturebeat.com ↗

When did Tome shut down?

Tome shut down in 2025, according to venturebeat.com.

Source: venturebeat.com ↗

What are the best alternatives to Tome?

The closest alternatives to Tome that are still running, matched on the AI capabilities, uses and audience they share, are Pitch, Gamma, NovelAI, Simplified, and Simplified Writer.

Where was Tome based?

Tome was headquartered in San Francisco, United States.

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