Keynote for Mac

Powerful creative tools

Make a great show of your ideas.

Picture a dazzling presentation. Then make it happen with easy‑to‑use visual tools. Drop in photos or video. Add reflections and picture frames. Punch up your data with interactive charts. Use the new Split View feature in OS X El Capitan to source stock art in Safari. Then tie it all together with cinema‑quality transitions. Keynote is built to handle it. Spectacularly.

Truly special effects.

Use over 30 stunning cinematic transitions and effects for objects and text that will affect your audience in a big way.

A pixel-perfect performance.

Pixel‑accurate rulers and alignment guides make it a snap to line up elements on your slide. Just drag until the guide appears, then let go. Everything literally snaps into position.

Visual aids for your visual aids.

Powerful image editing tools help you make every frame an eye‑opener. Automatically tweak photos with one‑click image enhancement. Remove a photo’s background with Instant Alpha. Or even add advanced graphics like contact shadows.

Make your pitch perfect with presentation tools.

The customizable Presenter Display lets you choose the tools you want to use. You can edit your notes while you present, with the support of up to six displays. And quickly pair with a nearby iOS device to control a presentation on your Mac — even without a wireless network.

Split and conquer.

The new Split View feature in OS X El Capitan makes quick work of multitasking. Now you can revise your presentation while reviewing your notes. Or resize a chart while searching for supporting visuals in Safari.

Designed for simplicity

It’s easy to get the show started.

Right from the beginning, Keynote sets the stage for a compelling presentation. A clean, intuitive interface puts all the tools you need front and center. And it’s built to harness the 64‑bit performance of OS X El Capitan. So everything runs smoothly — no matter how big or graphically rich.

Look good. Before you’ve made your first point.

Apple‑designed themes instantly give your presentation a polished look. Choose from over 30 eye‑catching designs.

The right tools. Right at hand.

The format panel automatically displays relevant options based on what you’ve selected. So you have the tools you need, just when you need them.

Your canvas is now the center of attention.

The canvas you work on is centered in your window, making it easier to handle objects outside the slide borders. It may seem like a little thing. Until you have to animate something from offscreen.

Presentation coach included.

Turn on coaching tips, and help will pop up just when you need it. That’ll give you the confidence to get the presentation going.

Impressive charts

Data takes center stage.

When it comes to explaining data, a chart is worth a thousand words. Choose from column, bar, pie, scatter, bubble charts, and more. Use animation to add visual impact. And make your charts interactive to focus attention on important stages of the story. The effect is huge, but the effort isn’t.

Interactive charts that steal the show.

Take your audience through your data step by step with interactive charts. Just move the slider to advance your chart through the data points. And to wow the audience.

Make your charts as unique as your data.

It’s easy to style your chart. Choose types, pick textures, specify 2D or 3D, and much more. So your data has your personality.

Keynote everywhere

Put all your devices to work. Together.

You don’t work in just one place on just one device. The same goes for Keynote. Presentations created on your Mac look exactly the same on your iPhone or iPad and vice versa. And it’s effortless to move your work from one device to another. You can even access your presentations from the web, share them, and collaborate with others in real time.

Always at hand.

Now with iCloud Drive, you have a place in the cloud where you can store all kinds of files, organize them however you want, and access them from any of your devices. Put a presentation in an iCloud Drive folder on one device and you’ll find it in the same folder on your other devices with your latest edits — so you never have to wonder what’s where or which is the latest version.

See it here. See it there.

With Handoff, you can seamlessly switch from Keynote on your iOS device to Keynote on your Mac and vice versa. Whatever presentation you were last working on will be there waiting for you with all your latest edits. Thanks to a single file format shared by Keynote for Mac and Keynote for iOS, your presentation will look the same no matter the device.

Welcome to the world wide workplace.

With iWork for iCloud, you can access all your presentations from iCloud.com in any Mac or PC web browser. You can also share a presentation with others and edit it together in real time — whether they’re in the next room or on the other side of the world. It’s amazing. And amazingly productive.

Learn more about iWork for iCloud

Easy to share

Expand your audience.

Keynote makes it easy to share your show with a cast of dozens. Right from the toolbar, you can send a copy of your file. Or share a link to your presentation that people can view even on mobile browsers. You can also work on files that are stored with third-party services. And presentations can be sent via services such as Gmail or Dropbox. It makes connecting with your team — and ultimately your audience — a lot smoother.

Microsoft PowerPoint friendly

You don’t have to work in Office to work with Office.

Teaming up with someone who uses Microsoft PowerPoint? Keynote makes it a great working relationship. You can save Keynote documents as PowerPoint files. Or import and edit PowerPoint documents right in Keynote. Most popular PowerPoint features are supported, too. Now it’s no problem to work on the same project. Even if you use different apps.

Learn more about Microsoft PowerPoint compatibility