Looking for a Simplified Alternative? Here's an Honest Comparison

Simplified launched in 2020 as a design tool and has grown into a broader marketing suite. Its AI agent, Riley, handles the presentation side: you give it a one-line brief, it picks from 10 template categories and 36 color themes (360 combinations), applies your brand kit, and returns a finished deck of six slides by default (up to 30 on request). You can keep iterating by asking it to redo a slide or adjust the color theme through chat.

That same account also covers an AI video editor with auto-generated subtitles and short-clip extraction, a social media scheduler, and an AI copywriter, all drawing from a shared credit allowance. That's genuinely convenient if you need all of it. But if presentations are your actual job, you're sharing capacity, template design, and product attention with four other tools, and the deck workflow starts from an agent brief rather than a document you shape yourself.

People look for an alternative when they want a tool built specifically around writing and shaping deck content, one that treats an existing PDF, Word doc, or PowerPoint file as a real starting point rather than a footnote to a template-generation flow.

In Eazy, you write first: headings, bullets, toggle lists, notes, and slide dividers in a real editor, or you drop in a PDF, Word doc, PowerPoint, Excel/CSV file, or web link, and Eazy reads it into editable content. The document is the source of truth throughout the whole workflow, from first thought to a finished, on-brand deck. When you're ready, you design, and you can apply a theme to restyle the whole deck in one click.

Simplified's presentation maker works the other direction: you brief the agent, it picks a template and theme, and it hands back a complete deck. That's a fast way to get a first draft with almost no upfront writing, and it's a fair trade for a quick, low-stakes deck. But the content lives inside the generated deck rather than in a structured document you can edit like a doc, and follow-up changes go through chat requests scoped to the deck itself.

The practical difference shows up in iteration. In Eazy, changing one line only rebuilds the affected slide, because the document and the deck stay linked. Simplified's chat-based edits work at the slide or theme level, which is fine for small tweaks but doesn't give you the same document-level thread connecting your original content to the final deck.

If a team already produces social posts, short-form video, and marketing copy alongside presentations, Simplified's pitch is straightforward: one login, one brand kit, one credit pool across all of it. That's a real, honest strength, and it can replace several separate subscriptions for a small marketing team.

The tradeoff is that credits, template design effort, and product attention are split five ways. A team whose main deliverable is presentations doesn't get a presentation-specific tool; it gets one module of a broader suite, sized and priced around the whole bundle. Eazy is built around one job: write or import content, design it, and refine it, with nothing else competing for the same credits or the same product roadmap.

Simplified's own pricing pages don't fully agree with each other as of this writing: one shows a free tier plus small-team plans in the $20-$80/month range, another shows Starter/Pro/Business tiers running roughly $59-$239/month depending on billing term, and a presentation-specific landing page cites plans "from $29/mo." That's consistent with an actively-repricing, credit-based product — the practical takeaway is to check simplified.com/pricing directly for the number that applies to you rather than trusting a fixed figure from any single source, including this one.

Eazy is currently free early access: credits included to draft and design decks, no watermark on exports, and PDF/PPTX export from day one. If your only need is presentations, that's less money and less complexity than qualifying for the tier of Simplified that unlocks the credit allowance and features you actually want. If you already need video editing and social scheduling too, Simplified's bundle may cost less overall than several separate subscriptions — that comparison is worth running with your own usage numbers.