Everyone Picks Tome. I Kept Gemini and Here's the Uncomfortable Why

I opened it, poked around, and shipped something before lunch. I came to Tome because weaves AI images into a narrative deck as you type. That part delivered.

The bit that confused me, Gemini holds a million tokens so the whole repo fits in one prompt. summarized the wrong PDF

Neither is clean. Tome export to PowerPoint mangles the layout. Gemini free tier now auto-picks the model and quietly drops to Flash-Lite. You feel both within a day.

My call: Gemini for 'huge context jobs and multimodal analysis' -- it's the one I trust there. Tome takes 'pitch decks that need visuals fast', where its quirk matters less. Plenty of people flip this; I didn't, because the failure mode of Tome costs me more.

It did the job and didn't make me think.