Features available
with Keynote.
Keynote lets you create presentations as groundbreaking as your ideas.
So go ahead. Wow people like never before.
Features available
New
Add live video feeds in any slide.
Appear in a window, right on your slides, with a picture-in-picture display in remote presentations, how-to videos, and lectures. You can now add live video from the built-in camera on Mac, iPad, or iPhone. Or when presenting on your Mac, include a live feed of your iPhone or iPad screen to show off apps.
New
Present with your team. Seamlessly.
Say goodbye to saying “Next slide, please.” For slideshows with multiple presenters, you can now take turns controlling a single deck — from anywhere — on Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
Present over video conference. Like a pro.
Keynote for Mac now delivers a better experience over video conferences. Play a slideshow in its own window so you can access other apps while you present. You can view your presenter notes, current and upcoming slides, and slide navigation in a separate window as well.
Outline your presentation. Easier.
With outline mode for iPhone and iPad, you can look at your presentation in a whole new way. Quickly jot down your thoughts, restructure ideas, and move concepts from slide to slide. Then switch to slide view and start designing.
Showcase videos like never before.
Play videos and movies continuously across slides, without the need to start and stop, find where you left off, or edit them into clips. Change the position, size, or rotation, and the video will animate seamlessly. The audio can even fade between slides or adjust when there is dialogue or voiceover.
Align objects to motion paths.
With just a tap, you can point an object in the right direction, and it will stay pointed in that direction as it travels along a path.
Turn handwriting into text. Magically.
With iPadOS and Apple Pencil your handwriting will automatically transform to typed text, so you can get back to what you were doing without interrupting your flow. Jot down a text bullet or scribble a date, and see it quickly turn into text.
Other Key Features
Accessibility descriptions
Add accessibility descriptions to images, image galleries, movies, and audio to help people using assistive technology.
Audio
Easily record, edit, and play audio directly on a slide.
Captions and titles that stick with objects
Easily add text to images, videos, and shapes. Your words will automatically stay with objects — if and when you move them.
Color, gradients, and images
Apply a color, gradient, or image to the background of any presentation, to your text, or to any shape.
Custom themes
Create themes to use as a model for new presentations, and access them on any device using iCloud.
Dark Mode
Enable Dark Mode to give Keynote a dramatic dark look and emphasize your content.
Drop caps
Add a large, decorative letter to make the beginning of your story or paragraph stand out.
Export
Export your presentation as a movie or an animated GIF to share online.
Gorgeous charts
From columns to donut charts, there are many ways to display your data. You can also create an audio representation of your chart using VoiceOver on iOS and iPadOS.
iCloud Drive folder sharing
Add a Keynote presentation to a shared iCloud Drive folder, and automatically start collaborating.
Image gallery
Add and view a collection of photos on one slide, and include unique captions per photo.
Interactive presentations
Turn text, text boxes, images, shapes, lines, arrows, videos, and more into links. Then, during a presentation, tap to open webpages or email messages, to jump to other slides, or to exit the slideshow.
Math equations
Add elegance to your mathematical equations using LaTeX or MathML notation.
Offline collaboration
Edit shared presentations while offline, and your changes will automatically upload when your account’s online again.
Paragraph styles
Use paragraph styles to achieve a consistent look throughout your presentation, and to quickly make global changes to your text.
Precise object editing
Use more precise editing controls to fine‑tune the look and placement of your objects.
Reading Mode.
Scroll through your presentation, zoom in and out, and interact with it — without accidentally changing anything.
Remove parts of an image
Use the Instant Alpha tool to make parts of an image transparent and remove an unwanted background or color.
Shapes library
There are over 700 Apple-designed shapes to choose from. You can change the color and size, add text, and even create and save your own shapes.
Trackpad support on iPad
Use Keynote with Magic Keyboard, Mouse, or Trackpad for a new way to work with your presentations.
Web videos
Embed a video from YouTube or Vimeo, then play it right in your presentations, without the need to download or open the video in a media player.*