[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":185},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-free-ppt-to-scorm-conversion-launch":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"description":162,"draft":163,"extension":164,"meta":165,"navigation":166,"path":167,"publishedAt":168,"relatedPages":169,"seo":176,"stem":177,"tags":178,"updatedAt":183,"__hash__":184},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-ppt-to-scorm-conversion-launch.md","Free PowerPoint-to-SCORM conversion is live — here's exactly how it works","Larry \u002F LOST END FOUND LTD",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":152},"minimark",[10,14,24,27,32,35,38,42,45,84,87,91,94,109,112,116,119,123,126,130,144],[11,12,13],"p",{},"We've shipped a free tier on ppt-to-scorm.com. If you have a PowerPoint deck up to 200 MB, you can convert it to SCORM right now without paying. Three free conversions per email per 30 days. No card, no signup form, no waiting for a sales follow-up.",[15,16,17],"blockquote",{},[11,18,19,23],{},[20,21,22],"strong",{},"Update (2026-06-09):"," Free conversions no longer have a slide-count cap, and the free upload limit is now 200 MB (up from 50 MB). The sections below have been updated to match; the original launch announcement described a 30-slide \u002F 50 MB free tier.",[11,25,26],{},"The catch — and we want to be unambiguous about it — is that free outputs carry a five-layer attribution watermark. The Basic tier (£150 + tax) strips every one of those layers and ships a clean SCORM zip. There is no \"free trial that becomes paid\" mechanic here. Free is a real, usable product. Basic is what you buy when you're ready to put the SCORM in front of paying learners or compliance auditors.",[28,29,31],"h2",{"id":30},"why-ship-a-free-tier-at-all","Why ship a free tier at all",[11,33,34],{},"The honest answer: we wanted a top-of-funnel product that we could put in front of L&D managers, compliance teams, and academic learning designers without an upfront ask. Most of our paid conversions come from people who'd never heard of ppt-to-scorm.com a week prior. A free tier gives them a way to validate \"does SCORM out of PowerPoint even work for our content?\" before they commit £150.",[11,36,37],{},"Free conversion costs us almost nothing once the pipeline exists — a one-shot LibreOffice → poppler → sharp watermark composite → SCORM zip, the same flow as paid jobs. Every free output that makes it into a learner's browser becomes an ambient ad for the paid product. It's the cheapest acquisition channel we've ever shipped.",[28,39,41],{"id":40},"the-five-layers-in-plain-english","The five layers, in plain English",[11,43,44],{},"We talk about the watermark as five layers because we built it that way deliberately:",[46,47,48,55,61,67,73],"ol",{},[49,50,51,54],"li",{},[20,52,53],{},"Slide image watermark."," A small \"ppt-to-scorm.com\" wordmark composited onto the bottom-right of every rendered slide image. About 9% of the slide width, 30% opacity, dark grey. Burns into the JPEG itself — there's no way to remove it without re-rendering from source.",[49,56,57,60],{},[20,58,59],{},"Loader splash."," A two-second branded splash before the content starts: \"Free SCORM conversion at ppt-to-scorm.com\". Fades out automatically.",[49,62,63,66],{},[20,64,65],{},"Slide footer chrome."," A persistent strip below every slide with a clickable, UTM-tagged \"Made free with ppt-to-scorm.com\" link. Small, but visible.",[49,68,69,72],{},[20,70,71],{},"Completion screen."," When the learner finishes the deck, a full-screen view appears: \"Course completed · Made free with ppt-to-scorm.com\" with an upgrade link.",[49,74,75,78,79,83],{},[20,76,77],{},"Manifest XML comment."," A technical attribution line inside the SCORM package's ",[80,81,82],"code",{},"imsmanifest.xml",". Invisible to learners but legible to any LMS administrator inspecting the package.",[11,85,86],{},"We deliberately wrote each copy differently. The image is minimal and ambient; the loader calls out \"free\"; the footer says \"made free with us\"; the completion screen celebrates the learner first and credits us second; the manifest is technical and bureaucratic. If you find yourself unifying all five into the same wording, you've defeated the point.",[28,88,90],{"id":89},"caps-and-limits","Caps and limits",[11,92,93],{},"Free conversions are limited to:",[95,96,97,103],"ul",{},[49,98,99,102],{},[20,100,101],{},"200 MB upload."," Larger decks are rejected before any compute spends. Basic accepts up to 500 MB.",[49,104,105,108],{},[20,106,107],{},"3 conversions per email per 30 days."," Tracked by lower-cased email. We surface the date your next free slot opens whenever you hit the cap.",[11,110,111],{},"If any of those limits is the wrong shape for what you're trying to do, Basic is the right call. £150 + tax for a clean, customisable, no-cap conversion, with a 14-day re-upload guarantee if the SCORM doesn't behave in your LMS.",[28,113,115],{"id":114},"free-basic-upgrade-in-one-click","Free → Basic upgrade in one click",[11,117,118],{},"If you converted on Free and decide you want the clean version, every delivered free job carries an \"Upgrade to Basic\" button on its result page. Clicking it creates a new Basic-tier job, copies your already-uploaded .pptx across, and opens a Stripe Checkout. On payment, we rebuild your SCORM without the five layers and email you the clean zip. You don't re-upload, you don't re-fill any forms.",[28,120,122],{"id":121},"what-we-wont-do","What we won't do",[11,124,125],{},"We don't track which slides a free user views, we don't sell or rent the email list, we don't add a third-party analytics tag to the SCORM player, and we don't show ads inside the free output. The watermark layers all point at ppt-to-scorm.com and nowhere else. The slide footer's UTM link is the only outbound URL in the zip.",[28,127,129],{"id":128},"try-it","Try it",[11,131,132,133,138,139,143],{},"Head to ",[134,135,137],"a",{"href":136},"\u002Fconvert\u002Ffree","ppt-to-scorm.com\u002Fconvert\u002Ffree",", drop your deck, and watch it convert — we only ask for an email at the end to send you the SCORM zip. Or ",[134,140,142],{"href":141},"\u002Flearn\u002Ffree-vs-basic","read the Free vs Basic breakdown"," if you want to scope which tier fits your project before you start.",[11,145,146,147,151],{},"If the Basic tier still doesn't cover what your content needs — narration, branching, scored quizzes — we have an Enhanced and Premium tier that involve real humans rebuilding the module. And if your existing SCORM library is the problem, our ",[134,148,150],{"href":149},"\u002Faudit","audit service"," finds why your modules don't track and writes the fix plan.",{"title":153,"searchDepth":154,"depth":154,"links":155},"",2,[156,157,158,159,160,161],{"id":30,"depth":154,"text":31},{"id":40,"depth":154,"text":41},{"id":89,"depth":154,"text":90},{"id":114,"depth":154,"text":115},{"id":121,"depth":154,"text":122},{"id":128,"depth":154,"text":129},"We've added a free tier to ppt-to-scorm.com. Five attribution layers on the output, a 200 MB upload cap, three conversions per email per month. Here's the rationale, the trade-offs, and where it makes sense to use it.",false,"md",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-ppt-to-scorm-conversion-launch","2026-05-13",[170,173],{"path":171,"title":172},"\u002Fblog\u002Fppt-to-scorm-conversion-cost-2026","How much does PowerPoint-to-SCORM conversion cost in 2026?",{"path":174,"title":175},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-free-ppt-to-scorm-tools-fail-on-mobile","Why free PPT-to-SCORM tools fail on mobile",{"title":5,"description":162},"blog\u002Ffree-ppt-to-scorm-conversion-launch",[179,180,181,182],"scorm","powerpoint","pricing","product","2026-06-09","t3QrU1NNISQGFBLyZeMRpNwqUxM1F9D7EjD9CNp1Dnc",1781007283466]