Just like with iA Writer before, it's a bold and novel approach that soon feels so obvious that you wonder why it hasn't always been this way. It's such a no-brainer that a good presentation should be script first, slides last and yet for years presentation software has trained us to fiddle with slide designs and sqeeze in some speaker notes at the end. A great idea, expertly executed.
I found myself with a weekend to turn a blog post into a 30-minute presentation. Presenter tricked me into writing a good talk instead of letting me fiddle with slides for hours. The talk went great and, as a bonus, offering the audience text and PDF versions of the talk + slides was easy peasy.
Congratulations on the launch! After using iA Presenter in beta these past few months, I can't imagine going back to another presentation app. Nothing else looks as clean or elegant, nor do they make it as easy to compose and deliver a presentation.
I bought this one. It keeps you focused on writing a presentation rather than fiddling with a deck. This is a tool for thought, and it's well crafted. For some people, this will be a drafting / writing tool rather than an end product, and their decks will be better for it.
its foundational concept is a stroke of genius, in interlacing MD-editing with very aesthetic, semi-automated slide creation. lots of good ideas added on to that, like the way scripts are handled in addition to the presentation itself.
what it still needs: should be better interoperational w/ itself (like copying slides; document internal search) and get better media handling (like auto-reduce media size – like Keynote has; (re-)naming and (ex-)portability of imported images…)
overall, this is is a unique product, and indespensable for people working inbetween text and presentation, in whatever fashion…
iA Presenter is just as joyful to use as iA Writer. It is a refreshing take on what PowerPoint, Keynote, Slides, etc. failed to address with their apps: focusing on the essential. It's the focus on the "story" which makes the whole process of creating presentation less dreadful and more sophisticated in how I want to present my ideas to the audience. Bravo! ✨