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Keynote FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Keynote?

Keynote has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business

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Q. What languages does Keynote support?

Keynote supports the following languages:
Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, English


Q. Does Keynote support mobile devices?

Keynote supports the following devices:
iPhone


Q. Does Keynote offer an API?

No, Keynote does not have an API available.


Q. What level of support does Keynote offer?

Keynote offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base

Keynote product overview

What is 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.

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
Knowledge Base

Training options

Documentation

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Keynote features

Functionality

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Total features

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Keynote users reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

/5

134

Positive reviews

96

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.68/10
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Pros
Not only does it offer beautiful templates to help you create professional presentations, but it also has great features, such as making your slides interactive and linking them to your audio files.
You can achieve the best quality animated presentation with this “entry level” software. Using the transitions, animations plugins and tools you can obtain amazing results.
I love how simple and intuitive it is. I don't want to know anything more about Power Point. For me, Keynote is the best in interface, animations and design.
Cons
Poor compatibility with windows software and complementary tools.
In addition, presentations tend to take up a lot of storage, and it is sometimes necessary to use Keynote through iCloud, with extremely limited resources, making my work difficult.
Templates are not updated, they need to be versioned, which leads to mismateches in styles of presentations within the company. The editor UI is sometimes difficult to use.
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Steve C.

Youth Pastor

Religious Institutions, 11-50 employees

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Keynote - great for pastors!

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Hasan F.

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Helps to focus on the story telling

Reviewed 2 years ago

There's no alternative if you own a Mac. It's not receiving annual updates and it has started to look old, but I love it and use it every month.

Pros

How user-friendly it is. Super easy to add images and details, align them, and create various slides. Creating visuals is not my strength and I use Keynote to create posters too. I started using Canva recently but I still feel more comfortable with Keynote.

Cons

It would be great if it had more templates and more styles. I've purchased some PowerPoint template and it works ok with Keynote, but I'd rather have access to more default templates when creating a new file.

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Richard C.

Architecture & Planning, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Everything and anything...

Reviewed 2 years ago

It's great, It's a day-to-day go-to for me for all sorts of creative projects. I use it for diagrams, illustrations, digital assets, book figures, and images, and believe it or not I even sketch out architectural plans (more or less to scale - by importing a scale drawing into the background and tracing over it) it's so much quicker that firing up CAD packages and software, and it does the job perfectly....

Pros

I love that you can export a slide by dragging and dropping it into another package. It automatically creates an image of the slide. It's great for compiling reports from presentations, but also using the slides in the non-fiction personal development, business, and money books that I author and self-publish.

Cons

For what keynote is - a presentation slide show software - there's little I don't like about it. It seems to me there's a plethora of simple, easy-to-use tools that when combined and understood can create pretty much whatever you want. I err toward keeping it simple and clean so I rarely hit any roadblocks in terms of features or functionality. In fact I can't remember the last time I had any issues.

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Gaia B.

Marketing and Advertising, self-employed

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend3/10

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In 2022 you would not want to use it

Reviewed 2 years ago

I used it when it was my only option but I tend to steer clear of it due to its many limitations

Pros

The one and probably only pro I can think of is that it is readily available on your laptop, even if you have no internet connection.

Cons

It does nothing better than Google's presentation software and its being limited to mac and Apple ecosystem users is very limiting when it comes to sharing and cooperation

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Rayhann K.

Religious Institutions, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Keynote Review

Reviewed 3 months ago
Pros

One of the things I really like about Keynote is how much you can do with it. There are many options to choose and although it does the same job as Google Slides or PowerPoint, it does the job and does it well.

Cons

There isn't much to not like about Keynote as it's pretty standard (in my opinion), but if I were to complain about one thing, it would be the video playing within the presentation. It works as expected, but I wish there was an "easier" way of playing it (as in making it more "obvious"), but again, it's a minor complaint.

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François L.

Human Resources, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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More over Poser Point

Reviewed 2 years ago

I have been using Keynote since 2005. The adaptation period (coming form PowerPoint) was about 3 weeks. Never looked back. Each time I have to use PowerPoint because a client want to use the presentation on a PC reminds me how awful PP is compare to Keynote. Keynote is a professional presentation software and anybody I know who has used it does not want to go back to Powerpoint

Pros

Very sophisticated yet easy to use User interface is vastly superior to Powerpoint Easily convertible to Ppt format if required. Compatible with ppt format Super animations Fully compatible with the rest of the Apple suite Using Keynote with a projector is a breeze!

Cons

File size is surprisingly high. Some bullet are not reproduced adequately when importing to ppt format Imported files for ppt format sometimes have to be rearranged Font compatibility between ppt files

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