Any2Poster vs Ridvay

Any2Poster converts source material into academic posters and produces PDF, PNG, and HTML artifacts. It accepts documents and presentations, LaTeX, Markdown, plain text, Jupyter notebooks, HTML, URLs, and YouTube URLs. Its six-stage process parses, chunks, analyzes, plans, generates, and compiles posters; saved checkpoints let a run resume from cached stages. Poster text is rendered with HTML and CSS through Playwright, which the project says avoids typography hallucination. Suitable figures can be extracted from the source, while AI image generation can supply panels without a suitable figure. An optional panel-level review checks overflow, blank space, font size, figure balance, and reading order. Users can select named themes, use automatic theme selection, or set custom colors and poster dimensions. The project is open source under an MIT license, with source and Docker installation instructions for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Setup requires Python 3.10 or newer, the Playwright Chromium browser, and an OPENROUTER_API_KEY. A web interface is marked as coming soon.

Ridvay Studio turns plain-language descriptions into editable posters, social posts, slides, thumbnails and multi-page designs such as decks, carousels and documents. Users can move, restyle or delete generated elements. The Recreate feature converts an uploaded screenshot, photo or old flyer into a design with editable text and layers. Brand kits store colors, fonts, logos and a brand voice for use during generation and refinement. Designs can be exported as PNG, SVG, PDF, PowerPoint, GIF or MP4, and shared through editable links. Free exports carry a small “Made with Ridvay” credit; paid plans remove it. A hosted MCP server can connect to clients including Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and GitHub Copilot in VS Code, allowing agents to create or refine designs, export and share them, and update variables. The Free plan includes five AI designs and three AI images per day, plus unlimited manual designs and templates. Plus costs €5.99 a month. Ridvay has no mobile apps. The maker says chat messages and uploaded images may be processed by third-party AI providers depending on the selected model.