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What do you like best about Keynote?

Keynote is the perfect PowerPoint alternative; you can quickly make professional-looking slides, and it has features you can control from your Apple Watch when you're presenting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keynote?

Some of the functions that Keynote has can be very limited; one of them is the animations, the variety is little, and you have to repeat some; the same happens with the templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use keynote for the presentation of our reports, it gives us the ability to easily move excel tables or numbers, photos from the iPhone or striking texts from the iPad Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Keynote Overview

What is Keynote?

Keynote for Mac makes it simple to create and deliver beautiful presentations. Updated for OS X El Capitan, Keynote employs powerful tools and dazzling effects that bring your ideas to life. You can work seamlessly between Mac and iOS devices. And work effortlessly with people who use Microsoft PowerPoint.

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Keynote for Mac makes it simple to create and deliver beautiful presentations. Updated for OS X El Capitan, Keynote employs powerful tools and dazzling effects that bring your ideas to life. You can work seamlessly between Mac and iOS devices. And work effortlessly with people who use Microsoft PowerPoint.


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4.5 out of 5
"One of the best tool for presentations with Live streaming"
- Our primary application to create presentations for our clients - Quality of the templates. Implementation is very easy, we created a lot of pr...
Doug H.
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5.0 out of 5
"Easy to use, great results"
Easy to use, and remote control via iPhone
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5.0 out of 5
"Keynote Review"
Easy to use with a fresh look. Great templates.
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Dana Y.
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What do you like best about Keynote?

- Our primary application to create presentations for our clients

- Quality of the templates. Implementation is very easy, we created a lot of presentations based on standard templates

- Animations. They are high quality and very smooth

- Web version. You can share your presentation with colleagues and edit this simultaneously even if your collegues don't have Mac computer

- Live streaming. Stream your presentation live only using link. Presentation live streaming can work not only on Mac's or Pc's but also on mobile. Just using browser

- Full iCloud integration to store files and sync them between devices

- We use Keynote to create reports for our clients every month on regular basis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keynote?

- You can't stream voice during presentation

- Keynote is free only for new users

- You can export to Power Point format, but a lot of content becomes static, not all transitions are supported

- Not so much templates to choose from Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Keynote:

If you buy a new Mac you will get Keynote for free. You can share your presentations and edit this with web version using iCloud. Templates can speed up presentation creation, you don't need to be designer to create professional one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keynote is a great tool for creating beautiful presentations with strong animations and beautiful templates. We use Keynote to prepare presentations for our clients with results of our work on monthly basis, if we need we can export presentation to PDF and just send to the client, very convinient. It's also a great too to do internal seminars for employees, so everybody can follow presentation using live streaming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nir L.
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What do you like best about Keynote?

I am not a big fan, but the small things I do like are 1) the long list of possible animations (that used to be unique but is currently getting more trivial); 2) the ability to open the proprietary Keynote files that you might still have lying around somewhere; 3) the pricing (free for MacOS users); and 4) the fact that it can automatically animate existing presentations and create movie clips. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keynote?

Oh yes, Keynote used to be something special, back when it was Keynote vs PowerPoint. But as time went by more and more presentation tools emerged, and PowerPoint got better and better, and Keynote was left behind. The main dislikes are the lack of a web-based version, the boring and unappealing UI, the lack of connectivity outside the Apple ecosystem, and the lack of interesting tools and images. Compared to other presentation systems like Canva, Miro, and even PowerPoint, I find Keynote to be lacking in both strength and valor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keynote is the tool for creating and editing presentations. It's available for free on the MacOS system so anyone can use it to open common presentation files. I am using Keynote to open older "Keynote" files and convert them to more common formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jason B.
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What do you like best about Keynote?

It was already installed on my MacBook so I gave it a whirl. I like how simple it is. I've worked with other presentation software and a lot of them are just too overwhelming. This is pretty easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keynote?

When exporting for other programs, it doesn't always play nice. Fonts missing, formatting a mess, and some functions/transitions that are in Keynote don't mirror ones in other programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's easily accessible for our team. We switched over to Apple products a while back and decided to do this instead of Google Slides. It is better and more stable in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Keynote?

I can use across all mty devices, it works on the iPhone, iPad, and the MacBook Pro I have. It makes working on any presentation quite convenient. Extremely easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keynote?

Honestly, I do not dislike anything, it works, it's easy, and I have access to everything, there is nothing to dislike about it. It is even free to use no subscription needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Keynote:

I highly recommend the use of Apple Keynote. It works great and is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problems I am solving is how easy it is to use across multiple devices without any need of file conversion. The benefits are having it readily available when needed anywhere I am. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Keynote?

I jumped into Keynote a few years ago and never looked back. I predominantly use its flawless ability to build animated sequences – from simple mini-presentations to fairly complex productions. It offers the ability to paste other Mac app images which is a real time saver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keynote?

That it's Mac only and 99% of my clients are PC/Windows based and limited to Powerpoint. I've even showed clients how good it is and frustrated we can't readily share files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?

From my perspective – it just 'works' – and it fits perfectly with my Mac-based workflow. The tools are intuitive and it integrates seamlessly with the other Apple apps Pages and Numbers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ella H.
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What do you like best about Keynote?

The ability to create beautiful and complete designs. Super professional-looking decks for presentations and proposals etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keynote?

Keynote lacks the seamless collaboration features that other presentation software has like Canva. It's often very clunky to give others access to the decks and relies on paid iCloud storage if you want to save multiple files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ability to create stunning and professional looking presentation decks. Our team of designers are able to make full use of the design functionality to take visual presentations to the next level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

lauren j.
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What do you like best about Keynote?

user friendly for mac users, allows us to present well to groups of people, edit presentations for use on iPads Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keynote?

Some people who arent familiar with macs struggle from time to time, so associates have to use Powerpoint so I have to convert Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?

Presenting from ipads in schools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Keynote?

Keynote is probably my favorite tool on Mac. I've been using it for years now to put together presentations and even to design marketing pieces. It's extremely user-friendly and once you learn all the features, tools, and shortcuts, you are able to put together beautiful presentations very quickly. Everything in it makes sense and it's user-centric. Great UI/UX. Great export options. Great integration with video/audio files. Very comprehensive set of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keynote?

I don't have anything to complain, Keynote is amazing. If I have to say something I dislike, would probably be that sometimes it breaks when exporting files to PowerPoint format, but that's not what this product is made for in my opinion, so it wouldn't be fair to complain about that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keynote helps me put together beautiful presentations (business, educational, personal). It also allows me to express myself creatively given that I'm very familiar with all of its features and tools. It's my go-to tool whenever I'm planning on building static visual aid / presentations (even some other types of files sometimes, like documents with complex images). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Patrick M.
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What do you like best about Keynote?

Ease of working between ipad work and personal mac

easily export to ppt Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keynote?

Can be hard to pick up at first. help files for Keynote are not as comprehensive as others Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?

ability for multicreen/device work comes free with apple products! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Keynote?

Keynote is one of the most easy tool for making presentations. It helps you save a lot of time. It might not be as feature filled as Microsoft Powerpoint but it covers all the necessary information & features. The animations of Keynote are amazing, best thing about Keynote is that it comes built in with Apple Machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Keynote?

There are 2 things I dislike about Keynote, It doesn't as much feature filled as powerpoint but this doesn't bother me much, Its not compatible, If you have a key file and you don't have an apple system there nothing you can do about it.

Animations also doesn't remain the same after exporting in PPT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keynote helps us to create amazing presentations and at the same time it also helps you to save a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.