--- title: Keynote Reviews meta_title: 'Keynote Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 530 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Keynote works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 530 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-04' parent_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Keynote Reviews **Vendor:** Apple **Category:** [Presentation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/presentation-software) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 530 ## About Keynote Keynote is Apple's powerful presentation software, designed to help users create stunning and professional-quality presentations with ease. Available across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS, Keynote offers a seamless experience for crafting, editing, and delivering presentations on any Apple device. Its intuitive interface, combined with a rich set of features, makes it an ideal tool for both beginners and seasoned professionals. Key Features and Functionality: - Professional Themes and Layouts: Choose from over 30 eye-catching themes that provide a polished look to your presentations. Customize slide designs, background images, and layouts to suit your content. - Advanced Animations and Transitions: Enhance your slides with over 30 cinematic transitions and effects. Animate objects along a path using Apple Pencil or your finger on iOS devices, adding dynamic movement to your presentations. - Live Video Integration: Incorporate live video feeds directly into your slides, allowing you to appear in a window during remote presentations or include a live feed of your iPhone or iPad screen to showcase apps. - Real-Time Collaboration: Work simultaneously with your team on the same presentation from different locations. See edits in real-time and take turns controlling the deck during collaborative presentations. - Multimedia Support: Embed videos from YouTube or Vimeo and play them directly within your slides without the need to download or open them in a separate media player. - Cross-Device Compatibility: Start a presentation on your Mac and continue editing on your iPad or iPhone. Keynote ensures a consistent experience across all your Apple devices. Primary Value and Solutions: Keynote empowers users to create compelling and visually engaging presentations effortlessly. Its user-friendly design and robust feature set address common challenges in presentation creation, such as maintaining design consistency, incorporating multimedia elements, and collaborating with team members remotely. By offering seamless integration across Apple devices and compatibility with Microsoft PowerPoint, Keynote provides a versatile platform that enhances productivity and creativity for individuals and teams alike. ## Keynote Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise Keynote for its **visually appealing presentations** and customizable templates, enhancing their creative presentations effortlessly. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **implementation ease** of Keynote, finding it simple to create effective presentations quickly. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **intuitive interface** of Keynote, allowing for seamless navigation and easy application of customizations. (1 reviews) - Users find **navigation fluidity** in Keynote's interface, enhancing their experience even during complex edits and transitions. (1 reviews) - Users value the **high-quality templates and animations** in Keynote, enhancing their presentation creation experience. (1 reviews) - Quick Creation (1 reviews) - Sharing Ease (1 reviews) - Simple (1 reviews) - Templates (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **missing compatibility features** with Android and Microsoft frustrating for seamless presentation experiences. (1 reviews) - Users face **PowerPoint issues** with Keynote, as exported content often loses transitions and becomes static. (1 reviews) - Users are disappointed by the **limited template options** in Keynote, impacting their design choices for presentations. (1 reviews) ## Keynote Reviews ### 1. Great for presentations. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Like most Apple software, it's easy to use. Templates are plentiful (but more options is always nice). **What do you dislike about Keynote?** It would be nice to have more export options. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** It works great with other Apple products. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to help train people. It's nice to have something where they can go at their own pace. ### 2. Create Stunning Presentations including Audio and Video Slides **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaj H. | Small Business Owner, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Ease of composing stylish Slides. Ease of including sound, images and video. Ease of converting to other formats like Power Point, PDF, JPG, HTML **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Absolutely nothing at all - it couldn't be better **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Yes, just begin using it to gain experience **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving long lectures or presentations including animated AV material playback ### 3. Great alternative to powerpoint **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Simplicity of use, very user friendly, straight forward design and user interface **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Exclusively for Mac. Can be saved as different file formats but that can cause loss of formatting and data **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great tool for making presentations as a Mac user. It has a more modern design and template offerings. ### 4. Stylish, easy to use with powerful graphics. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Keynote easily allows me to create amazing presentations with ease with great built in templates. There are lots of prebuilt templates and it is very easy to use. It is easy to lay out designs and the built in transitions and effects are impressive. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Sometimes it is difficult to find things in the UI. Because it is mac only you have to export presentations to share with windows users. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** It is mac only so sharing with Windows can be problematic. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I want to create professional looking presentations with ease. It helps me do this with a great range of built in templates and effects. It allows me to create really slick presentations. ### 5. Apple Keynote Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** lisa b. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Apple keynote is very useful for users of IOS and it helps you create eye catching and engaging presentations such as the ones created by Microsoft Powerpoint. It is also great for those who do not want to use Powerpoint and are opting for an easier app. it is also free for IOS users which is great as they can all benefit from Keynote. keynote also has a good transition and animation effects. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I dislike the fact that mp4 is not supported as a export file type. The collaboration features are still in beta which can be quite frustrating. It is not available to those who do not use IOS which is quite discriminatory. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am not solving any problems with Keynote. The benefits are the Keynote is free and easy to use for IOS users and enables you to create excellent presentations. ### 6. Keynote use for beginners **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like that it is easy to navigate and build slides. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I dislike that it is just enough different from PowerPoint that it took me longer to create in Keynote. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Keynote for presentation making reasons. It is easy for my students to visualize my lesson with Keynote slides. ### 7. Great for design, not for collaboration **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** The design capabilities are far better than Google Slides or PowerPoint **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Collaboration features are very clunky - much better in Google Slides. Even simple functionality like tagging is not possible. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating decks ### 8. Easy to use, great results **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Doug H. | Associate VP, Tech Launch Arizona, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Easy to use, and remote control via iPhone **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Not quite as expansive as Powerpoint, and takes experience to jump between the two products. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Primarily, both the beauty of the presentations, and the ability to control remotely from iPhone (without buying additional hardware) ### 9. User friendly, multi-functional tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andi W. | Revenue Operations Senior Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like Keynote because it is very versatile, and can be used for several different things. I use it to build decks, create maps and floorplans, as well as simple design features. It's easy to use and very user friendly for someone who is not prone to design software. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I have had a hard time using the collaboration feature. It didn't use to exist to my knowledge, which was my biggest problem with it. I'm happy to see that now you and a teammate can collaborate on a project in keynote together, but I haven't been able to get this to work yet. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** It's much better than Powerpoint, if that's what you're switching from. It's not as in depth as Adobe products, but it's free and if you don't need all of the extra features and want a simple way to create quick projects, use Keynote. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quickly and easily being able to throw together a beautiful deck, diagram, presentation. There are many shortcuts that make this easy and it takes away all the unnecessary fluff other softwares have in them. ### 10. My #1 Presentation Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew R. | Creative Producer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Keynote saves time and allows for incredible looking presentation decks to be made. From a technical standpoint, this software runs quicker and with less issues than any other presentation program. From a workflow point of view, being able to set up templates using the master slide system saves a tremendous amount of time for myself and for my company. We have been able to develop a deck template matching our corporate brand guidelines and have that look remain consistent regardless of who is making the presentation. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** We have a number of clients that prefer to use Google Slides. Converting decks from Keynote to Slides is quite cumbersome and I would love to see the integration between these 2 fixed. We currently have to convert a keynote deck to a Powerpoint presentation, make necessary formatting adjustments to fix conversion issues, then convert the Powerpoint to Slides, and then make a second round of formatting adjustments. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Switching to and learning this software over Powerpoint will save you a lot of time and frustration. Just be aware that integration with Google Slides is not functional and you will need Powerpoint to bridge the gap between the 2 programs. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Personally, I build a lot of decks for client presentations. Keynote allows me to build eye-catching presentations quickly while adhering to our company's brand guidelines. Furthermore, assigning deck creation to my assistants is also seamless due to the convenience of the master slide system. Last, this software rarely crashed and can handle large image/video files without wreaking havoc on our computers. ### 11. Keynote - delivering presentations in a way you haven’t seen before! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Great software for creating simple presentations. Much better than powerpoint and overall faster to use. Faster creation of presentations together with amazing MacOSX integration makes this software a force to be reckoned with. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Sending a Keynote file to someone who has’t got Keynote can be troublesome as file conversion is not automatic. Other than this not have an other dislikes apart from the interface and usability of the software can be difficult at time when searching for a feature. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** You may have to make the switch to PC to Mac for the best integration but this move is well worth it. Keynote makes giving presentations a doddle! **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote is great for all presentations. Can be used on the go as it has mobile version on apps and can be used on mobile phones and tablets. Allowing Keynote to run on both iPhone and iPad means that I seamlessly switch between the two which makes it more useful. ### 12. Keynote is livelier and more modern than powerpoint **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Renemyr C. | Sales Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like best that Keynote is both available as an application on macbook, ipad and iphone. Likewise, it can be accessed online thru iCloud.com. It is free service or application provided by Apple. The best thing about Keynote is during presentation, you can use your iPad or Iphone as a wireless connector and presentor. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** There are limited templates provided by Apple on Keynote is the only downside I see. But they are so modern and easy to change, so not a biggy! **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** I highly recommend that you use Keynote by Apple. It is way better than powerpoint and more capable than powerpoint. It is also free to use, whether you are an apple product user or not, just go to icloud.com. But of course, it is best to use it with Mac together with other Apple Products and services. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote is a great tool and a big help for people like me who work in sales and marketing. The templates are very modern and more dynamic. They are easy to change to get your feel and need for your business presentation. Keynote is best because even if I don't have any of my Apple gadgets, I can still access my files thru iCloud.com. So even if I am just using a windows desktop or laptop, I am not limited. I can still edit and complete my business presentation or proposal. Furthermore, what I like best is that during presentation my iphone serves as a wireless mouse/connector or presentor, so my focus is on the people that are listening to my presentation, and I don't easily get lost because I can see on my iphone what is being presented at the moment on the screen seen by my audience. I am always in sync even if I don't turn by back to look at the main screen. ### 13. A Great PowerPoint Alternative **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Canaan H. | Production assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** The best thing about Keynote is that it has all the features you like in PowerPoint but it has a simpler interface to use them in. Finding things is much easier than in PowerPoint. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** The only downside is that if you transfer a PowerPoint file into Keynote you will sometimes have to reposition things on your slides as they may not fit like they did before. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work with guest lectures' a lot and most of them bring a Keynote file to be played so instead of trying to open the Keynote file in PowerPoint my company bought Keynote so we could use the correct software for their presentations. It has worked very smoothly. ### 14. The Best Presentation App **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim C. | CEO, Solution Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Clean, elegant interface with excellent visual tools. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Limited collaboration capabilities pre-Catalina. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create all sorts of presentations. ### 15. Its alright, UX can be improved. I prefer Powerpoint **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sughosh J. | Full-stack Developer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Keynote has all the features , Keynote is also easy to use. We can get our work done pretty quickly on Keynote. There are not much complications are there in the keynote software. ALmost anyone who has a macbook can just open keynote ans start working with it. It alright **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I personally donot like the User experience part of the key note software. There are features available on the keynote but its pretty hard for me to find out which feature is available where in the keynote. Things can be categorized in a better way. Rotating slides has a bug i guess **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Go for it, They keep improving it. Its ok to use. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just use it for viewing ppt's on lectures for my college. I had previously used keynote when i was working in piktorlabs to give presentations ### 16. Easy to pick up and easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Straightforward and user-friendly. The best feature for me is removing backgrounds on images. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** There's a couple of features that are not available on Keynote but is available on competitor applications. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Easy to pick up. Play around with the menu/options. If you have any questions, use a search engine and you'll highly likely find your answer(s) online. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Presentations and removing backgrounds on images. Good application option if you don't have access to Powerpoint, or if you are using a Macintosh. ### 17. Great, so long as your colleagues don't use Windows **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danny T. | Founder and Industrial Designer, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Keynote is very easy to get to grips with, having a stripped back interface that presents only the options that you need to create a slick presentation. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Whilst Keynote imports Powerpoint files easily, the same is not true in the other direction. Whilst this is not the fault of Keynote, it does mean that there are limitations in organisations that also use Windows computers, as the cross-compatibility only works one way. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** We create internal and external presentations using Keynote. Our presentations tend to be better-received than those created with Powerpoint. ### 18. Keynote as presentation tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like how intuitive it is to use right away and be able to make a clean and professional presentation. When I insert pictures, Keynote will show grid lines to help with placement of photos for a clean appearance. Also, I like that Keynote will autosave your file so you can pick up where you left off after leaving the computer and coming back to it. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** It's a little difficult for me to figure out how to add animation features to my slides. I also don't like that when I try opening Powerpoint files using Keynote, it shifts the fonts and placement of pictures. It gets a little tricky when I need to share files between Mac and PC users. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote has helped me create presentation aid for events as well as visual reports to share with others. I am able to choose from a variety of templates depending on the type of presentation I need to create. ### 19. Microsoft Keynote IS GREAT **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** When many people have to create a presentation, their primary option is usually Microsoft PowerPoint. Whether the presentation is required for work or for school, PowerPoint is the most popular option. However, over the past few years, competition has increased dramatically. Currently, data visualization and innovation are growing aspects of professional presentations. Although Symphony, Google Presentation, Prezi, and Impress all offer similar features to Microsoft PowerPoint; the biggest rival is Apple’s Keynote. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Many people have heard of Apple’s version of PowerPoint known as Keynote. Apple enthusiasts praise the program for its innovative features and user-friendly interface. Although the program may be popular with loyal Mac users, Keynote has yet to attain the popularity of PowerPoint. Keynote has received excellent reviews from experts and designers. However, when it comes to overall performance it may be beneficial to evaluate PowerPoint and Keynote one feature at a time. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** In most cases, when creating a presentation in the corporate arena, PowerPoint is the standard. Most businesses, unless creatively driven, prefer the simplicity and ease of PowerPoint. Although Keynote is gaining popularity, observing the advantages and disadvantages of both programs can offer the most useful software. ### 20. Using Keynote for Delivering Sermons **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steve C. | Youth Pastor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I love the various design options featured in the templates in Keynote. Many of them help make my presentations look clean, crisp, and appealing. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** The only thing I dislike about Keynote is the fact that I cannot print multiple slides on an 8.5x11 page, along with lines for note-taking, as I used to be able to do when I used PowerPoint. Maybe I'm mistaken, but up till now, I haven't found this as an option in Keynote. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** If you want a nice, clean-looking presentation tool, then Keynote is the right option for you! **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote helps me put together quality presentation slides for when I preach. I preach to high school students twice a week (every Sunday and every Wednesday), and Keynote helps me maintain their attention while I speak to them. ### 21. Good software for editing slides **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Riley B. | Aplication Developer , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** For simple presentations is a lot clearer than powerpoint and overall faster to use, making presentation creation time faster and has amazing MacOSX integration. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Exporting to powerpoint doesn't always work as it should be making it unnecessarily hard to share with Windows users and making it slower than just using powerpoint for slide creation since the troubleshooting time is usually larger than the time cut off by skipping powerpoint. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** It's a good partial replacement for powerpoint but has some glitches when sharing with powerpoint. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating presentations that don't need to be edited with powerpoint and exporting them to PDF for easy slide viewing on every OS. ### 22. Inspirational platform built for easy collaboration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** The interface is not only user-friendly, but beautifully designed. When working in keynote, I actually want to do work compared to other options and the presentations always turn out better designed when using keynote. It is very easy to share documents back and forth with co-workers, esp. compared to Indesign. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Wish there could be more hot keys/short cuts which I think has been solved on the newer Apple computer that I don't have yet. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work in the design industry, so presentation design is extremely important — our presentations have to look just as nice as the work itself. Keynote is one of the platforms where it is easy to achieve this. When creating presentations, we usually have more than one person building the deck so there is a lot of passing back and forth. It is so easy to do this with Keynote. ### 23. Best presentation software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joannie C. | Content creator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like that Keynote is user friendly. You can create a presentation with intuitives templates, add images, icons, videos, text and custom colours. Another useful feature is that you can also align the items on each slide. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** It can sometimes be a little complicated to find the perfect template. Also, it only works with apple. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can now make presentations faster and they look very professionnal. ### 24. Best Presentation Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Scott W. | Sales Advisor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** The best presentation software you can use. Easy to use and much better than PowerPoint. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** MacOS only, can not edit or create Keynotes on Windows machines. If you export a keynote to a different format, some of the animations do not move over. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Use a custom slide design and ensure that all in the workplace have MacOs devices. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Delivering presentations that pop and hold the attention of users. ### 25. Good for Mac Oriented People! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madeline M. | Graphic Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Keynote allows multiple users (Mac Only) to create and edit the presentation at the same time. This is great for working on a project remotely with other colleagues. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Keynote is still fidgety when signing in, as it stores presentations on the cloud automatically. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Great for Mac users who want to Crete presentations and avoid integrating Google software. Its great for people who want more freedom when designing and editing slides. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote is wonderful for Mac users who want more freedom than Google Slides templates and fonts. It is easy to create new slides and add pictures or other things to illustrate your point. ### 26. Great alternative to Powerpoint **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kurt W. | Information Technology Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** The customization options are fantastic. There are tons of great looking animations that are all very easy to make fit to your designs. It also makes for a very basic animation software for those who do that. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Truthfully, Keynote has done everything I have asked of it and more. I dont have anything negative to say about it. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Keynote makes creating presentations easy and they look great. Every Apple user should try this out if they havent done so yet. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote has given me a great option to work with people using both Macs and PCs since it reads both types of files. ### 27. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Ppt may have more functions, but keynote is definitely more easier to use for simple composition. And I just prefer Apple’s aesthetics than Microsoft. My presentations look nicer with keynote **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Personally I do prefer to use keynote but most of our works are still on ppt so if I’m working on both, I can’t simply drag a slide from one to another like what you could do within the same product. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I just like how it look, the templates are simple and elegant, hope to have more free templates. ### 28. A nice presentation break from Powerpoint **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harold W. | Consulting Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** It's easier to use as powerpoint and for simple presentations, it's faster to use and it saves time since the interface is cleaner and easier to read without so many buttons and options in the action bar, giving you only what you need for creating a presentation **What do you dislike about Keynote?** It's not as powerful as powerpoint, for presentations involving fine details is not the best even option since for advanced use all those menus available in PowerPoint actually save time, the biggest flaw is that is Mac only and importing/exporting from KeyNote and Vice versa usually has warnings and unexpected glitches so no way to reliably collaborate with Windows users **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** It's a lot more enjoyable to use than powerpoint but not as powerful, I use it every time I have the chance. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating presentations for anything that isn't too complex or that involves Windows users. ### 29. A great powerpoint tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** it's very easy to use and create high-quality presentations. great templates, nice integrations, etc. highly recommend **What do you dislike about Keynote?** it can be hard to totally customize everything, and you cant easily control every feature. for instance, choosing the background of a shape to be a photo is nearly impossible were it not for masks, but learning how to implement a mask in keynote was tough and took much trial and error **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** creating high-quality presentations that can easily be presented and shared both internally and externally. nice easy present option via a website url ### 30. User-friendly and easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like keynote for making simple, nice-looking presentations that aren't too busy. I find the tools easy to navigate, and it is less intimidating than Powerpoint. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** At times, I find that while it's less intimidating than Powerpoint, it's less comprehensive. I don't know what tools are available to me in total, and I find it challenging to access the more advanced tools. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** If you have more advanced presentation needs, stick with PPT. But if you're looking for ease of use to create simple, clean projects, Keynote all the way. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not solving any problems per se, but more so have been able to step out of the Microsoft bubble with the design-based software. For more art-minded people, I think this is a better program than PPT. ### 31. Keynote is a game changer for professional presentations **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Keynote is super helpful for making presentations look professional but can be easy to understand and pick up. There is a variety of tools that allow for animation and lots of customization. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** There isn't a lot ot dislike about Keynote but sometimes there can be a lot of different clicks and steps you need to take to change an element. For example, to change character spacing you need to go into the sub-menu to change it. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Take the time to learn all the various features of Keynote, there is a lot of different tools that can make presentations look professional. You don't need a designer to make your decks if you're able to effectively learn Keynote. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote has streamlined the deck making process, with the features and tools it provides it can help save time compared to other presentation softwares. ### 32. Keynote review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** That not only you can use it to help with presentation it also works as a prototyping tool. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** The size changes when trying to open with other format like powerpoint or PDF **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has better interface that's easy to use. I like that with iCloud, I can use Keynote on multiple devices and sync my files through the cloud. As a designer, Keynote helps me get more creative with many different themes, animation, and effects. ### 33. Presentations made easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan B. | Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** The ability to add content with ease and having videos play within the presentation is great! Our creative team is able to make comps and show clients presentation and allowing direct feedback within the presentation. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Not everyone has a mac or can support the product, so difficult when working with other agencies. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creative and client presentation are now able to keep all comments in one place and work towards a common goal. ### 34. Beautiful Design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kristina P. | Specialty Sales Leader Overnight, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I love that this program gives you the ability to create so many different great documents and breaks it down so that you can personalize it to match any particular genre and/or business. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** In most of these apps and programs it makes you sign up for everything. It would be nice to not have to answer and so much information maybe just an email and or password. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently just be creative and using different platforms to see what works and what doesn’t work. I believe it’s all about the target audience in here trying to reach. ### 35. Not the best but not the worst. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Events Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Very good if you want a presentation that “pops” and is unique. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Because keynote is an Apple product, the UI is un-familiar to the average person. Some customization is also harder to handle compared to PowerPoint. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I used keynote, I used it on presentations that I wanted to make an impression with. I feel there is no need to use it for basic presentations. ### 36. Amazing business presentations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emilie K. | Co-Founder & COO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Keynote allows you to make beautiful presentations intuitively and easily. The most simple presentation will look professionally-made with Keynote **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I'm completely sold on Keynote, it's all positive to me. I moved to Keynote from Powerpoint and it has been an upgrade for me in terms of ease of use and design. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Keynote makes beautiful presentations easily and intuitively. It's easy to start using. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote allowed me to step up the quality of my presentations and showcase my company in a better light ### 37. Great tool for creating beautiful presentations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Keynote is perfect for creating sleek and professional looking presentations on your mobile device, and because it is fully integrated with iOS, you can start designing on your Macbook, and pick up where you left off on your iPhone. Keynote is so user-friendly that someone with little or no experience creating presentations could jump right in. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** One of Keynotes biggest pros is also one of it's biggest cons: Keynote can be used seamlessly across all of your Apple devices, but it can also *only* be used on iOS devices. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** A great presentation tool for those familiar with, and frequently using iOS. For those who are not Apple users, you may want to stick with the tried and true Powerpoint. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote makes it quick and easy to create impressive presentations - perfect for the busy professional on the move. ### 38. The best presentation software available on the market **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas D. | Network Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** It's really simple and easy to use, very clean interface, when I do presentations in Keynote I'm about 20% faster than in Powerpoint **What do you dislike about Keynote?** The only reason this is not a 10/10 is that is not possible to collaborate with my coworkers that use Windows OSes **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** If you have a MacBook and don't need to use powerpoint in a mandatory fashion try keynote, it's just better in almost everything. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating presentations of the work I do. ### 39. The best presentation software for MacOSX **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chad T. | Network Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** It's like powerpoint but better, easier and less buggy. It has a more intuitive and cleaner interface and this allows me to focus and be done sooner with my presentations. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Only available on devices from Apple, since most people run Windows I need to take my MacBook with me if I want to present. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** If you use a Mac as your primary machine this is the presentation software you need to use. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating presentations for when I need to present an idea. ### 40. The best presentation software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter T. | Wireless engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Integrates amazingly well with my MacBook Pro, It's easy to create and present with Keynote and its one of the few apps that the touch bar actually makes sense to use. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** It's not possible to collaborate with people that have windows as this is a Mac only app. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** If you have a Mac this is the natural application to use, forget about powerpoint **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating presentations is around 30% faster that powerpoint and presenting is a lot easier. ### 41. Making presentations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Nayanjot Kaur R. | Project Manager/Research Professional 4, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Keynote is the best tools to make and share presentations at work as well as personally **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I don’t dislike anything about using keynote **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have realized that features provides by keynote to make the presentations are amazing. It is easy to use and help you to share the presentations with other people ### 42. Bene pro presentationibus! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Graphic Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Master the slides, styles, color choices, animation, transitions **What do you dislike about Keynote?** It is strange to save files; sometimes files are too large to share, and sometimes files are slow or cause crashes. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Watch tutorials, try master slides, try styles, use transitions, use animation, try adding in photos, make shapes, try to restyle text **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good for master slides, easy use of photos and cropping ### 43. Keynote for Apple **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pardise M. | Graphic Artist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Very easy to use and well laid out. The program is very straightforward **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Coming from other robust software like Word makes it an uneven playing field, but it would be nice to have more options for features... but that could take away from it's straight-forwardness **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making a presentation that can be accessed from everyones pc ### 44. The Swiss Army Knife of Visuals **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oliver D. | Brand Strategist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** There are many things to love. Everything from creating elegant presentations for school and work, with or without transition animations to actually creating stunning graphical elements for mock-ups is just up the alleyway for a lot of individuals looking for a tool that fulfills a lot of needs. Blessed with simplicity in the UX and UI at its foundation, not only does Apple Keynote have next to no impact of battery life, but it's a tool for just about everybody. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** In certain niche cases, a lot of the more advanced tools or options feel sort of undocumented and require a little bit of searching to find. Additionally, certain tools that modify shapes to ones content are not as fleshed out as other applications on the market, but this is really a non-issue, as the price-tag of "FREE" justifies a lot of its shortcomings. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** If you are looking for a base tool at your arsenal that acts as a filler of sorts. Being available for use in a ton of use cases, it is worth utilizing provided you have a Mac and it is well worth anyones time to learn; especially since one can learn its toolset very quickly. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Be it creating advanced, animation required presentations for class or business, or just visuals to get the point across; the main feature set of Keynote, primarily being a Microsoft PowerPoint competitor, it does presentations well. It also is a potent tool for UX designs. When designing a mock-up for designers and developers to incorporate, one can create quite amazing results with the options one has at their disposal. No complaints there. A more uncommon use of this tool is its ability to convert files from one file-format to another. It has a nice array of options. Some types I convert my projects to the most are the .key, .pdf, .pptx formats, with varying quality options, password protections and whatnot. ### 45. A Great Resource for teaching **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I've used Keynote in my job as a teacher and I really enjoy the ease of use, the functionality and the flexibility it has in presenting my lessons in my classroom. Images are very easily inserted and edited. They always turn out great. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** There is not much to dislike with Keynote. I guess one thing I dislike is that when opening other file types in keynote the formatting becomes skew. In general being a keynote document there is not as much compatibility with other presentation software. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** A great presentation software. Makes information engaging and presented in a professional way. For me personally its a great way to plan and store my lessons. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Keynote in my classroom to present information has made lessons far more engaging for my students. ### 46. Keynote is an amazing presentation tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** De H. | BSA/AML Analyst II, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** The presentation capabilities of Keynote are awesome and enables you to provide a great experience for viewers. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** There are a few limiting factors in regard to capabilities and comparability across devices. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to present on the go with the use of a mobile device has been life saving. ### 47. efficient **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** its ease of use--Very user-friendly for anyone to try **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I cant embed live video content. I feel the presentation would be more seamless if the page with video content auto-plays as well **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** best presentation software hands down. more creative freedom ### 48. Apple keynote presentations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I’m a Mac user for the past 3 years and my experience with Apple softwares has been fantastic. Keynote is one of the features that I use for presentations and photo editing. Loved the options for professional editing of slides. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Lack of fonts I didn’t find some of the fonts that I was looking for. Integration with Google slides is not supported **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Definitely recommend for a Mac user **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I make presentations for classes, projects, and seminars. ### 49. Easy and clean **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I actually used Keynote a little differently than a presentation, I used it as a free substitute to make a lookbook for a fashion company **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I didn't get the full scope of using Keynote, but it is a pretty basic program without a whole lot of things you can do **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can be used for many different usages that originally intended, makes a clean presentation ### 50. This is my goto presentation platform. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Photography | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I love how easy it is. I can just pick up and use it seamlessly and my presentations looks professional. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I wish there would be more templates. It comes with a lot but I’d love more. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I first needed an app to present my ideas, I didn’t know where to look. 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