Keynote 4+

Build stunning presentations

Apple

    • 4.8 • 64.3K Ratings
    • Free

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Description

Easily create gorgeous presentations with Keynote, featuring powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects that will make you a very hard act to follow.

The Theme Chooser lets you skim through an impressive collection of over 40 Apple-designed themes. Easy-to-use tools let you add text, tables, charts, shapes, photos, and videos to slides—and bring it all to life with cinematic animations and transitions that look as though they were created by your own special effects team. Add live video to your slideshow and appear right on your slides in remote presentations, how-to videos, and lectures. Confidently present to your audience from anywhere, in person or virtually, and take turns controlling a presentation in multi-presenter slideshows.

Collaborate with others at the same time
• With real-time collaboration, your whole team can work together on a presentation at the same time on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and even on a PC
• Share your document publicly or with specific people, see who’s currently in the presentation with you, and view other people’s cursors to follow their edits
• See a list of recent changes in collaborative presentations, including when people join, comment, and make edits
• Available for presentations stored in iCloud or in Box

Get started quickly
• Choose from over 40 Apple-designed themes to give your presentations a beautiful start
• Use the slide navigator to quickly skim through your presentation, add new slides, and reorder slides
• Get quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts, and sharing options
• Import and edit Microsoft PowerPoint presentations
• Quickly open password-protected presentations using Touch ID on supported Macs

Create stunning presentations
• Easily change slide layouts and backgrounds
• Use the built-in camera or a connected device to add live video right on your slides
• Engage your audience with interactive charts and chart animations
• Enhance your presentations with a library of over 700 editable shapes
• Quickly add your photos and videos from the Photos app using the Media Browser
• Add an interactive image gallery to view a collection of photos
• Easily remove image backgrounds
• Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes, and images look beautiful
• Edit down to the pixel with rulers and alignment guides

Cinema-quality animations
• Beautiful cinematic slide transitions and impressive text and object animations
• Magic Move effect effortlessly animates and morphs graphics
• Emphasis builds let you add impact with one click
• See live on-canvas previews as you animate your slides

Present to your audience
• Customizable presenter display with support for up to six displays
• Rehearse a presentation with current slide, presenter notes, and timer all in one view
• Present on an external display or projector, or stream wirelessly using AirPlay and Apple TV
• Present over video conference and view presenter notes, current and upcoming slides, and slide navigation in a separate window
• Use multi-presenter slideshows to let participants take turns controlling a shared presentation from their own device
• Control your slideshow from iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch
• Create self-running, interactive shows for kiosks and displays

iCloud
• Turn on iCloud so you can access and edit your presentations from your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and from a Mac or PC browser at iCloud.com
• Keynote automatically saves your presentations as you make changes

Share a copy of your work
• Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint, PDF, HTML, movies, and image files
• Use AirDrop to send your presentation to anyone nearby
• Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail or Messages

Some features may require Internet access; additional fees and terms may apply.

What’s New

Version 14.2

• See HDR images and movies in greater dynamic range on supported displays. (Requires macOS Sequoia)
• Play your slideshow during a FaceTime call or video conference to automatically start sharing your presentation window. (Requires macOS Sequoia)
• Additional bug fixes and performance improvements.

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
64.3K Ratings

64.3K Ratings

Andrew579 ,

Keynote is a very good piece of software

I find keynote to be an indispensible piece of software. There are a couple of things that make me feel that way:. 1) you don't need to click on the edge of the text box to drag it. It's incredibly intuitive this way. 2) The equations being done in latex are AMAZING, I can never go back any other way of doing this. 3) Handling media and images is great, you can readily import/export images and data while preserving the resolution and format. Even large things.

That said, there are a few things I would like to see change. 1) I'd like to make it easier to remove the "autosize text". I loathe that this is a default feature in powerpoint and it's always a hassle to turn it off when importing into keynote. 2) I would like it if nested bullets kept the formatting as defined in the template. Currently, nested bullets maintain constant formatting as the 1st level ones, unless you specifically change the format on a set of bullets. 3) Sometimes there is an inconsistent application of a template formatting to a slide, where something that should be a title is not formatting the way I expect.

Overall, an amazing piece of software where I would hate my job if I had to use the alternatives.

The Unpronounceable Nickname ,

Exceptional platform that needs to update features

Kaynote's terrific. However, with Figma, Canva, and the Adobe Suite out there, it seems like it's time to add more features and design tools. For instance, Figma has the ability to add features with plug-ins, e.g., free illustrations. And others have easier-to-accomplish presentation animations - even partially automated.

Also, with the rise of AI, it would be great to have Keynote assist more in making presentations. I know this is a big one, but that's something Canva's already doing. All of the Apple apps could use a similar refresh that helps make them easier and faster to use. I know Apple's likely working on it -- I guess I'm just saying I'm looking forward to (i.e., sincerely hoping for!...) a bigger evolution in Keynote and other Apple apps soon.

I don't want to spend the time just complaining about what's not there. Most importantly, I've done very good work with Keynote. That's the bottom line. But that's exactly why I'd like to use it for more tasks.

Useful in my research ,

Essential in presenting scientific research with one minor defect

I have recently started using Keynote for my presentations as a substitute for Latex and Powerpoint. While the output in Keynote looks much better compared to the previously mentioned softwares, I have been suffering from a defect which might be happening to other users too. Its regarding dragging objects around on a slide. Lets say I write an equation using Latexit or say copy and paste an image from my computer, it sometimes get “stuck” and won’t move around when selected and dragged around. It will eventually but I have no clue as to the origin of the problem. This is time consuming and annoying while editing presentations at the last minute or in general. I haven’t found a good solution to this problem online. The typical solution suggested is to use coordinates which works but sometimes and more often you would like to place the object according to your liking which is difficult to judge from the coordinates. Compared to Keynote, it is seamless in Powerpoint to drag and drog items. Barring this issue, Keynote is a wonderful software, easy to start with and highly useful in presenting your research anywhere.

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