Keynote

About Keynote
Keynote is a presentation software that allows users to create, edit, and manage multimedia presentations. It includes a wide range of graphics and editing tools that enables users to add charts, edit pictures, and integrate cinematic effects into slides. Users can also create customized slides using background photos and predefined customizable themes.
Keynote allows teams to embed animated objects and live video feeds into slides. It offers various transition options such as textures, color gradients, and photos. The built-in collaboration feature allows teams to work on projects together in real-time and share ideas and comments via a unified platform. Other features include custom captions and titles, math equations, reading mode, image gallery, presentation export, and more.
Keynote includes a built-in rehearse mode that displays notes and slides in one view, allowing users to practice presentation and speaking skills. Users can also play videos in slides, modify position, size, and rotation, and fade between slides to engage with the audience.
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- Industry: Machinery
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
A great alternative to MS PowerPoint or Google Slides
Reviewed on 11/01/2023
Overall, we are happy with the features Keynote offeres, especially since it is included for free...
Overall, we are happy with the features Keynote offeres, especially since it is included for free with all Apple products. Keynote is easy to use, allows us to export files for viewing in PowerPoint, and has solid presentation features.
Pros
The biggest advantage to Keynote is the fact that it is native to Apple products and is included with them at purchase, something Microsoft does not do with its Office suite by default. The biggest strnght of Keynote is that it is already there and avaiable for use by our team.
Cons
Keynote lacks some of the deeper features that MS PowerPoint and Google Slides do, including sharing and collaboration tools. While the lack of these is a bit inconvenient, our team still uses Keynote on a pretty regular basis.
Reasons for Choosing Keynote
Cost was definitly a factor. By utilizing Keynote which came pre-installed on our Apple devices, our team was able to save quite a bit on MS Office licenses.Reasons for Switching to Keynote
Keynote was easily accessible to all our team members already and did not require any additional installs or licenses.
- Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Much better design options than PowerPoint
Reviewed on 10/10/2022
Overall I love using Keynote. Most of my coworkers have PCs and use PowerPoint. My projects always...
Overall I love using Keynote. Most of my coworkers have PCs and use PowerPoint. My projects always have that extra bit of flair and I love the amazing built in templates as well as the hundreds of options available in Toolbox for iWork.
Pros
I love that Keynote has almost all the design features available in Pages. If you have used Pages, it is easy to apply all the beautiful options to your projects. Not only is this software free for Mac users, but it has much better templates and design options than PowerPoint as well.
Cons
There are a few date migration or integration options that PowerPoint has that Keynote doesn't have, but I in all my years using Keynote I have only had one project that I could accomplish with this software. Recent updates have added more date merge options that I am excited to try when I have a project that needs them.
There are occasional design options that don't export well when I have to convert my Keynote presentation to a PowerPoint file, but it is getting better and I have learned which features not to use if I know I will have to create a PowerPoint version to share with coworkers.
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Great app for collaboration and presentations
Reviewed on 11/09/2024
I have used this app to create presentations and collaborate with other team members for live...
I have used this app to create presentations and collaborate with other team members for live events. I know it has more functionality and still want to explore.
Pros
It's a really collaborative and compatible tool for building presentations and delivering live events.
Cons
It can be a little cumbersome if others are not familiar with this type of product there is a learning curve and it might stifle collaboration.

- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Keynote time
Reviewed on 04/08/2022
It has been useful for my short presentation that I needed it for and I use it a lot for my...
It has been useful for my short presentation that I needed it for and I use it a lot for my overlays and animated images on Imovie project. plus it is free.
Pros
I have been a powerpoint user for a long time. But this is the first time I can stay on mac programs and not rely on Microsoft products. I can put together a presentation and send it to my Iphone or Ipad and be ready to go. I started to use IMovie and I found out the people use Keynote to make overlays for their Imovie projects.
Cons
There are a few things that Keynote lacks from Powerpoint. But It is better than google slides.
Reasons for Switching to Keynote
It came with Imac Operating system upgrade in the APP Store
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Simply the best presentation package.
Reviewed on 11/04/2022
Keynote has made creating presentations an effortless process. I would not trade it for any other...
Keynote has made creating presentations an effortless process. I would not trade it for any other presentation product.
Pros
I love how easy Keynote is to use. It allows me to focus on my presentation and not on figuring out the software.
Cons
I always have to save my gorgeous Keynote presentation as a Powerpoint because the venue I am presenting at doesn't support Keynote.
Keynote FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Keynote.Q. What type of pricing plans does Keynote offer?
Keynote offers the following pricing plans:
- Free Trial: Not Available
Free to use. No registration or set up fees are required.
Q. Who are the typical users of Keynote?
Keynote has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Keynote support?
Keynote supports the following languages:
Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Q. Does Keynote support mobile devices?
Keynote supports the following devices:
iPhone (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Keynote integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Keynote has
Q. What level of support does Keynote offer?
Keynote offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base
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