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Whatʹs Great
1. Easy-to-use tools let you add 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.
2. 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.
Latest Version: 12.2.1
Licence: Free
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Cons |
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- Free - Runs great with little or no bugs - Less cluttered and bloated than MS PowerPoint - Elegant, visually pleasing, versatile, and stable - Easy to use and works seamlessly across Macs and iOS devices - Added safety and security that comes with using the Apple ecosystem - Object list, text masking, and collaborative enhancements |
- Can't export presentation as a quicktime movie on iPad - Can't scroll through slides - Face detection feature has no options, parameters, or variables |
What does Keynote do? 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 Microsoft-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. Add live video to your slideshow and appear right on your slides. 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 Windows, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch—even on a PC • Share your presentation publicly or with specific people, see who’s currently in the presentation with you, and view other people’s cursors to follow their edits • Available on presentations stored in iCloud or in Box Create stunning presentations • Choose from over 40 Microsoft-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 • 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 • Quickly add photos and videos from the Photos app using the Media Browser or any of over 700 editable shapes • Add an interactive image gallery to view a collection of photos • Use Instant Alpha to easily remove image backgrounds • Import and edit Microsoft PowerPoint presentations Cinema-quality animations • Beautiful cinematic slide transitions and impressive text and object animations • Magic Move effect to effortlessly animate and morph graphics • Emphasis builds let you add impact with one click • See live on-canvas previews as you animate your slides Present to your audience • 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 Microsoft 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, Microsoft Watch, or iPod touch • Create self-running, interactive shows for kiosks and displays iCloud • Turn on iCloud so you can access and edit your presentations from your Windows, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and from a Windows 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 Some features may require Internet access; additional fees and terms may apply.
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Lots to like about KeyNote but...
One thing that is extremely annoying is that this app is missing the “Save AS” feature. Apparently the people writing this app are not familiar with this concept. I use keynote every week to do my Sunday School lesson for my class. It has a lot of things that I like but I always open the previous week’s lesson and update everything and then I want to Save As - as I have been able to do in every other app on Macs since the original Word and Excel apps from the 1980s. The writers of this app think that I should think of it differently and first open it, then remember to “duplicate” it and then Rename it. That is a far less intuitive way to work and does not make sense - at all. Maybe someone somewhere in Microsoft will read this and have an “Opps” monent and restore this functionality.
Awesome and free
Ok, This app may often fall under that shadow of the "almighty" microsoft Powerpoint. But it has almost, maybe even as much, maybe even more features than Powerpoint. But you want a simple, easy to understand reason why Keynote is better? Well, Keynote is free. Now how much is Powerpoint? Not 10, not 20, not 40, but 140 dollars. I am not joking. Sure, you could buy office, which is less. But not free. The cheapest plans are 70 dollars a year or a 150 dollars one time purchase, which is even more than powerpoint. But let's move on from the price. Sure, there are reported issues. But they're more annoyances than roadblocks, and I've never actually encountered any of them, except for the having to update thing but all that requires you to do is, well, update Keynote. And, there are complaints for Powerpoint too. So, the conclusion is, Don't buy Powerpoint. Use this for free.
Trash
Some of the most basic quality of life features are missing from Keynote and other similarly terrible Windows apps like Pages. Perfect example, I can't scroll through the slides. I won't even go further than that because there issues go much further and deeper than something as simple as that. And I think something as basic and almost neccessary for any application like this should be an absolute given.. and yet even after seeing people mentioning this in online forums as far back as almost 10 years ago paints a picture that Microsoft not only does not care to listen but truly does not care about these kinds of products of theirs since Microsoft probably dominates anyways but this kind of behavior has offically driven me away. Truly upsetting, frustrating and dissapointing such a large corporation can't do some minor alterations for these apps. Such small changes could make large differences but nope. Microsoft is content with how it is. Keynote is trash and Powerpoint is not. Sad to say but true.
Update adds and takes away.
Keynote has been recieveing some big updates recently: the object list, text masking, and collaborative enhancements have made it an incredible design and storytelling tool. Other features are added that take away some of its functionality and have left me (a power user) feeling frustrated. One example: the new 'face detection' feature. This feature is intended to make masking images of humans easier by centering the content on ther face. sounds great on paper, however the feature was implemented with zero options, parameters, or variables. This means that if you are creating a custom shape (to cut out a person or achieve another artistic effect) the subject is repositioned within the mask. This is incredibly frutrating and feels like a major step backwards. Please Microsoft Keynote team - if you read this review (or the other feedback I have submitted) add an option to disable face detection,.
Quirky and unstable
I’ve been using Keynote for “slide” presentations for a dozen years or so, and I always do so with great trepidation. I’m sitting here now having been working all afternoon on a presentation that must be done in three days. I constantly save my project offsite because you never know when Keynote is going to simply quit or drop photos or do something that’s unexplainable. Today, it began telling me that Autosave no longer was working, so I frequently did a manual save. Suddenly, Keynote dumped on me, trashing most (but not all) of my work. I opened my offsite saved copy, which was largely intact, but there were still a couple of missing photos. A prompt came up that said something to the effect “Your images may not look the same.” Huh? I’ve been trying to download the newest version now for about a half hour, but it won’t complete the download. I guess I’m going to have to switch to PowerPoint. Sad.