--- 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: '2026-07-17' 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 product that integrates various media types seemlessly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Molly M. | Communications Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I love how easily keynote automatically packages itself as a file, so that you don't have to locate all the media assets you've put in it every time. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Nothing. I mean that. It works great, and it is a great solution for large format presentations! **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating large file presentations with videos and links without having internet ### 2. Easy experience for presentations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** The thing I like best about keynote is that it feels like a more modern version of PowerPoint. It is easy to use and the end result always looks good. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Right now I use it on my iPad versus a laptop. I feel like some of the feature are missing between the two devices. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Turning text into visuals to keep the audience engaged. It is sleek looking, there are fun animations you can add, shapes and Icons, easy to embed photo and video! ### 3. Keynote is an excellent team resource **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tara B T. | Executive Administrative Asst + Communications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** SIMPLICITY - no instructions needed. Keynote has a great layout, is organized and very self-explanatory. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** The iPhone app is pretty average. Lots of room for improvement on that. It does not have a "save as" feature via phone app, but the computer and ipad apps are excellent. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** The iPad app is by far the best one, if you have access to it, get it! Presentations take up a lot of iCloud storage so I usually move to a flash drive or delete when I no longer need. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Keynote to present data inquiries, it has a few features that powerpoint does not have. It is a great software for presentations with less complexity than others. ### 4. PowerPoints trendy cousin **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex R. | IT Services Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Clean simple UI that is intuitive and still feature-rich. The collaboration tools also mean it is good for group projects with a team. The end result of most presentations is often very professional even for new users. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** It lacks some more complex editing tools found in PowerPoint. Naturally being part of the Apple suite it misses out on some of the more business-oriented cloud and sync options found in Office 365. It also means it's only available on Apple devices making it a no go for our Windows users. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** If you are looking for a sleeker and perhaps more intuitive PowerPoint for Apple devices, this is it. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote just works effortlessly when using Mac or even the iPad app, though it has limited use for our Windows users. ### 5. If you use a Mac, Keynote is the only program you need to create presentations, animations, and PDFs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Keynote is an extremely powerful software tool for how simple it looks on the surface. The ability to customize almost everything is impressive, which is why it can be "hacked" to create incredible animations and PDFs with minimal effort. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Because the UI is so simple, sometimes it might take a while to find the menu for a specific thing you want to tweak. I highly recommend memorizing shortcuts for the workflows you use the most. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it primarily to create presentations and wireframes for our SaaS business. From the wireframes, you can animate powerful prototypes that can compete with anything you can do on Figma. ### 6. 3 year frequent user **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lora D. | Operations Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** The ease of use and real time feedback are most helpful **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Does not always interface with other programs or applications **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Good for large companies or small **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communication issues ### 7. Keynote is the more modern PowerPoint **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I love that it's clean and easy to set up. It's also very modern and nice update from powerpoint. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I don't love that sometimes fonts aren't transferred over and it can be tricky to save a PDF from it in certain cases **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making presentations with templates that make them look super professional. ### 8. Easy to Use and Share **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** How easy the product is to use, like with most apple products the simplicity is dual-edged. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Some of the dsign restrictions the simplicity puts on you that PowerPoint does not. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** This product is good for smaller teams operating on IOS with basic needs. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to share projects with the greater team. This built-in product works well for teams running on IOS ### 9. Easy to use, beautiful design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kelli A. | Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like the different designs and how easy it is to use-- especially for those used to Mac products. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** It seems like there are fewer presentation templates than other programs. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I think it is a quick, simple, and easy way to create great presentations. ### 10. Like powerpoint but better for presenting in MacOSX **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Caleb P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** It works better than PowerPoint even when the presentation was created in Powerpoint, and it is a lot more intuitive for apple users, it works like the rest of the applications on the Apple ecosystem, especially amazing since you can control it from an iPhone and a MacBook at the same time in case you decide to switch devices for any reason and it is really hard to accidentally exit the presentation. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Presenting in Keynote is far superior, editing not so much, font missing is a way too common experience and the simplicity can be a limitation, everything that can be done in PowerPoint can be done in Keynote, but it takes longer since the amount of tools on screen is limited, great to avoid clutter and for presenting, but the tradeoff is editing speed. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** As a Mac user is far better than any other presentation software in my opinion. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Presenting ideas and progress in projects. ### 11. Ease of Use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Keynote is easy to use, particularly as an app. It makes a great presentation but without a lot of technical skill right on a mobile device. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** While it's easy to use, a user needs to explore its features a bit to not miss some great functions. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I love cloud based presentation tools but their design features are not always accessible from mobile devices. Keynote provides that benefit of great functionality and design capabilities from an iPhone or iPad. ### 12. Powerpoint for mac users **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** As it is an Apple product, we get the best design and smooth experience. The collection of templates helps to make the presentation more lively. Very easy learning curve as everything is very sophisticated. Graphics of the presentation is much more Vivid. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Very environment-specific, not so liked by windows users. Difficulty while convertinng keynote file to PPT File. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use keynote for making personal(Project demonstrations) and professional presentations. I use it daily when I need to convert presentation slides to PDF files. I also use Keynote when I need to create Videos. It saves time as we don't need to dig deep to find a particular feature. ### 13. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Great for apple users! I thought it was easier to use than other presentations. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Sometimes the audio wasn't always 100% reliable. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to make presentations more accessible, mainly because I am doing a lot with my job. ### 14. Great alternative to Power Point **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** The ease of use and easy to learn . Its free with the computer as well. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Would love more template to use for the slides, but other than that its great. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy access to create presentations for personal and business use. ### 15. Fluid and easy to create amazing documents **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francesca M. | UX UI designer Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** It's easy to use and has fluid design functionalities **What do you dislike about Keynote?** T hate that is not compatible with PPTX and sometimes i have to re-do all the presentation from scratch **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I make good Business and case histories presentations ### 16. good but not the best **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sophie M. | Web Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** keynote is wasy to use between apple products and pretty easy to pick up if you are a first time user **What do you dislike about Keynote?** not a fan of the tool for including links on slides **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** keynote is easy for collaborating with other apple users ### 17. Great for Technical Presentations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Keynote is terrific for making technical presentations, especially for mathematical talks, which has been my primary use case. The equation editor allows for seamless integration of equations into slides, unlike other alternatives, and is also extremely easy to make everything aesthetic. The animations interface is also highly intuitive. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** One of the main drawbacks is that keynote isn't as widely used, so if I want to send it to someone, then I need to convert the slide deck into PowerPoint format. This is undesirable, since this conversion process can sometimes corrupt the slide deck and requires editing afterwards. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote allows me to create effective mathematical presentations that allows me to illustrate complex and abstract concepts from mathematics and computer science effortlessly and intuitively. ### 18. USEFUL FOR SCHOOL PROJECTS AND MORE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ZENIA M. | INSURANCE AGENT, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** IF YOU HAVE USED MICROSOFT POWERSCHOOL, THIS IS VERY IDENTICAL TO POWERSCHOOL. IT GOT ME THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL WITH MY PROJECTS AS WELL AS WORK ENVISIONING WHAT I SEE. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I JUST WISH IT HAD MORE CHOISES FOR THE PRESENTATIONS. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** PROJECTS AND ENVISIONING WHAT I SEE OR IMAGINE. ### 19. Beauty and Ease beyond Microsoft Powerpoint **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Apple gives some great templates to work from but the editor is simple, easy to use, and with little creativity the slides turn out beautifully! **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I think some of the collaboration and slide recording capabilities need to build-out and streamlining. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to access slides from iPhone, iPad or iMac to create, modify and present from using iCloud. This is great with multiple devices. ### 20. Great presentation tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam K. | Account Executive, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Everything is laid out well and the features are powerful. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Cross compatibility with Microsoft Power Point **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** It is very elegant and great for MAC users **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sales presentations and demos ### 21. Keynote elevates presentations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hayato H. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I really like how elegant Keynote is in terms of presentations. The templates they have are much more professional than the ones on PowerPoint and there's more that you can do with it. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** The only thing about Keynote that I do not like is that it takes up a lot of space when creating presentations. That's the only downside **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote has made it possible to make very professional and elegant presentations that can be proudly shown to clients. ### 22. Great software for its purposes **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Svitlana U. | Founder and Fitness Instructor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I love the design of templates, and the easy to use interface **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Sometimes changing the format gets difficult **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I create slides for clients to show while I speak ### 23. Perfect for a Presentation on the go **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Caitlin B. | RN, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like how Keynote is an Apple product. It is universal. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Often it is incompatable with operating systems that aren't apple. (formatting changes) **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is easy to use and auto saves very effectively. ### 24. Easy to use, great for simple presentations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Performing Arts | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like that I can easily share files with coworkers via iCloud and it has all of the basics I need for simple presentations. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I wish there were more features to make presentations more customized. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving how to present data and information in a clean and easy-to-understand way. The benefit is that it is an easy and quick way to present ideas during staff meetings. ### 25. Best presentation templates **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** friendly use, cleanliness of visual space **What do you dislike about Keynote?** perhaps more options are needed in terms of arrows, figures, etc. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** is a great platform for elegant and minimalist presentations **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do all my presentations in Keynote, as it has an immaculate and clear display ### 26. Keys to Keynote **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Some of the things that I love about Keynote are that the platform is very clean and easy to use. I love the templates that Keynote has and how simple it is to add notes for presenters compared to PPT. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Some of the things that I dislike about keynote include the limited amount of templates that Apple currently has for designs. I also dislike that I can't collaborate with other users at the same time. That's a feature that Microsoft and Google have started to master. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote is free with the Macbook. So it solves the biggest problem which is being able to afford software that can create clean PPTs for free. ### 27. So Easy to Use!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I love that Keynote is so easy to use. My slides always look professional! **What do you dislike about Keynote?** That others do not know how to use Keynote, so when I collaborate, I can't use it. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Keynote is so simple to use! Just play around with it a d you will fall in love!! **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Professional looking presentations that are engaging done in a fraction if the time. ### 28. A Good Substitute for PPT for Creative Decks **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Publishing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** It has a lot of great creative uses, templates, and helpful tools to create visually appealing decks and presentations **What do you dislike about Keynote?** It's hard to understand at first if you're used to creating decks in PowerPoint. However, once you get the hang of it and understand all of the elements, there is an opportunity to make more visually appealing presentations. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Presentation skills, creative design, templates ### 29. Keynote Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Keynote allows you to create polished presentations. Some of the included templates help you to layout your content in a clean and modern way. The transitions and animations (referred to as builds in Keynote) are quite stunning. I am also a long time user of PowerPoint and I find the transitions amd builds in Keynote to be more modern and refined than what PowerPoint offers. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I think the user interface and panels in Keynote are a bit clunky. Also doing bulk changes on animation timing and effects is very cumbersome. There are so many steps to go through to change your animations. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keynote has helped me produce stunning presentations. ### 30. Keynote **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Navroz v. | Sales Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Ease of use and functionality. Also, lots of templates are available to utilize **What do you dislike about Keynote?** One thing I dislike is it doesn't carry forward the formatting and layout if it's converted to another app. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it mostly for our Mac users to develop presentation ### 31. Useful but a bit clunky **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen S. | Multimedia Producer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like how intuitively the software works once you get it going. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I'm really not a fan of the layout and how clunky it can be to find certain tools. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I like how it can integrate things from my camera roll as an example to speed up the process of creating presentations. ### 32. more like Key-NOT **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** nothing. cant think of literally anything to write here. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** everything. horrible interface. clunky and glitchy. poor performance. looks unprofessional. no one uses it. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** nothing at all, zero, zap. :( sad ### 33. My Experience with Keynote **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I have used it mostly for my class presentations. So fonts and text edit is great. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Putting watermark in keynote and trying to export file in Microsoft Presentation does not work. It gets converted to dark normal text. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use keynote to make presentations for all classes that I take online ### 34. Makes me WANT to create! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** A simple, intuitive interface puts essential tools front and center, so everyone on your team can easily add beautiful charts, edit photos, and incorporate cinematic effects. And Rehearse Mode lets you practice on the go, with the current or next slide, notes, and clock — all in one view. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I want more templates! There aren't enough templates. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** The urge to create comes easily because Keynote makes it very easy ### 35. under utilised! **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shibin G. | Lead Hardware Design Engineer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** more number of shapes, dark mode, apple font **What do you dislike about Keynote?** complex UI, all of the "presentation" apps sticks to powerpoint UI and keynote stay different maybe it will be complex for a first time user **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** best app for productivity, classy fonts **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** poster making, presentation making, better shape options all are having unified design ### 36. Keynote **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** The options that are available for animations. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Formatting the slides can be a pain with layouts. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use keynote when google slides have too much to handle, or I need to work offline. ### 37. Keynote Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I love how Keynote is free with the purchase of a Mac. Keynote is designed perfectly with the Mac user in mind. It covers everything you need. I like the features, such as color changes that indicate current operations. Keynote works well with powerpoint so working with other users is more manageable. It is compatible with icould, which is easier for storing presentations. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I was not too fond of the scarcity of controls at the toolbar. It is only aviable to apple users so not able to work with other presentation software users. It only allows power point to go one way. Everything in powerpoint also can be done in keynote. The amount of tools is limited **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Keynote is a great program. Keynote is an upgrade from powerpoint. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Presenting projects is a lot easier using keynote. ### 38. Easy to use, great templates **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julián M. | Auxiliar de Conversación de Inglés, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like how easy it is to use and center text, images, etc. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I wish there were a way to change fonts simultaneously on multiple slides. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Always convert your presentations to other file formats just in case others' computers can't read Keynote files. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** At work, my presentations always look clean and interesting. ### 39. Better for presentations than powerpoint **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishnu D. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** It doesn't carry the same subjective negatives as PowerPoint, both are presentation software and you can do great presentations in both but Keynote has a certain prestige because you don't associate it with a boring presentation, there is a reason for the phrase "death by PowerPoint" is not "death by Keynote" and it comes to the number of people using the software, as more people use it you are bound to have bad presentations and almost everyone with a computer uses PowerPoint in one way or another. When you are in sales like me you want to use every advantage and starting with a little advantage is always good to close the sale. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I love presenting in Keynote but I don't like making presentations in Keynote, it lacks some things you take for granted in PowerPoint, it is simpler and harder to make mistakes by overcomplicating things like many do in PowerPoint but it also limits you if you want to make a specific change that isn't as easily available. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** When you make a great presentation everything matters even the software you use to present it **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Presenting my slides to customers, features, prices, benefits, etc.. ### 40. As a MacOSX user is far superior to PowerPoint for presentations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Frankie R. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** It is far more intuitive for presentations, when I'm in the middle of a webex I can easily share all content without messing up a shortcut or quiting the app by Mistake like it has happened to me before in PowerPoint. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** It is the best at presenting but for creating slides I think PowerPoint is just better, there are just so many little details that are more easily editable on PowerPoint. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** PowerPoint and Keynote complement each other, not compete directly; unless you need to choose only one they work very well together. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a project manager, I need to present a lot of slides from many projects, and as a Mac user it's just simpler to use the built-in tools in Mac, it doesn't matter if it was created on PowerPoint or in Keynote as long as the file opens it can easily be presented by Keynote. ### 41. great for college students **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like that it is user friendly, that it is similar to a lot of platforms but offer unique and different designs. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Sometimes its too different and if someone is not use to using Apple Products, they can be limited. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly school work. A lot of group projects that require collaboration, multiple user changes and editing. ### 42. Keynote is accessible and can be crafted to your imagination **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like how easy Keynote is to customize but keep concise and aesthetically the same, whether format, font, color etc. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** The icons can be a little deceiving, I wish they'd name them better. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** I say use Keynote over Powerpoint, the interface is easier to use and it is compatible with the cloud. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving problems of disorganization among presentations, Keynote has so many ways to keep everything in the same place no matter the slide. ### 43. Improved PowerPoint for MacOSX **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Meng Z. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Less cluttered than PowerPoint and with all the things I need for the presentations I need to create. I hate doing presentations and presenting them but It's a little better to do them in Keynote compared to PowerPoint. The main advantage is that the animations are just better and more smooth, they look a lot better with less effort. My main job is Engineering and Developing software I want something fast that doesn't waste my time and Keynote also works with .ppt files so even if a template is created in PowerPoint it's just easier to work in KeyNote. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Creating templates is just horrible, for whenever I need to create a presentation Keynote wins but I had to create a template for some series of presentations our team needed and fine tunning the formatting and design got me frustrated and switches to PowerPoint after a frustrating hour trying to change one shape. Keynote is the best as long as you don't need to put emphasis in little details because those are almost impossible to edit easily. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** If you have a Mac this is better than PowerPoint unless you really need to focus on small details **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Presenting advances and milestones with the development and engineering of whatever we are working at the moment ### 44. Easy to Use Presentation Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** Ability to customize slides and animations; can collaborate via iCloud drive **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Not as many file types to export compared to PowerPoint **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** Use the various animation tools to spice up your presentation and keep viewers interested **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Conveying data/information in a creative, visually-appealing manner ### 45. Learning Curve **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I love how easily Keynote can transition from my laptop to the cell phone. It is easily accessible and easy to access. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** There was/is a learning curve, however it is getting easier to navigate through as I work in the program more often. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am creating keynote presentations for clients, currently. The ease to display or send a presentation has helped me move forward with my goals, quickly and efficiently. ### 46. An old-school leader that is not bed but fell behind **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** 1. Keynote is very much "MacOS first" 2. Slick, simple to learn, easy to use and gets the job done. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** 1. There are many alterantives (e.g. pitch) that are much better. 2. It is hard to share keynotes. 3. There is no web-based version. 4. You cannot share a native keynote file to other platforms. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating presentations for VC pitches. ### 47. Keynote has changed my Life!!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taylor A. | Senior Account Executive, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Keynote?** The best thing is the upgraded technology! It has made life so much easier as I am not very tech savvy! **What do you dislike about Keynote?** Absolutely nothing. I really enjoy this program. I have recommended it to many people and they all love it. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** This is the best presentation program ever. You will not regret it :) **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have no problems - the presentation is perfect and graphics are superb. ### 48. It’s simplicity is its power and possibly a weakness. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cesar R. | Library Clerk, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like the simplicity of Keynote. If you’re on the go, using your iPhone or iPad it’s easy to use. Yes, you are limited, but can get it done quick or for a touch up on one of the slides. Not too many buttons, which make it an ease for newbies. I like the way it shows you if your item is aligned with with slide. Easily insert images and shapes. Love the cloud! Wherever you are you can continue your work, using an apple device or using a web browser. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** The downside is using it on a iPhone or iPad because of its limits. Limited templates. No easy remote capabilities for a slideshow. Being with students, it would be great to walk around instead of having to always go back to the desktop to change the slide. Due to it being Apple, you have to use an Apple device to control it. I work at a lower income school and can’t afford Apple products. I can’t use mine due to constantly touching items students have... eh hem... I’m kind of a germaphobe and won’t use my items that I touch and touch my face. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** It’s been great for instructing on conferences. Easy to be mirrored on screens. I use it to create posters or screen shots for a website. Visual aid is one of the best ways to capture modern day students. You could say something and some get, but, when you say and show it captures the attention. Because of its simplicity, you don’t have to take too match time making a slide show. Compared to PowerPoint, in which, could be overwhelming for a newbie. ### 49. Keynote is a great alternative for Powerpoint **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chabad L. | Director , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like how user friendly the interface is. It is also easy to export to powerpoint. **What do you dislike about Keynote?** I don't dislike anything. The only downside is that it's not compatible in PC's. **Recommendations to others considering Keynote:** None, just know that it is best for Apple. **What problems is Keynote solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems are being solved. ### 50. Keynote **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krupa P. | Krupa , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Keynote?** I like how easy it is to format within Keynote over powerpoint. 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