iA Presenter

Instant Slides

4.6•21 reviews•

651 followers

Instant Slides

4.6•21 reviews•

651 followers

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Most presentation apps make us spend hours fiddling with layouts, colors, and fonts… only to end up with boring, cluttered slides. iA Presenter takes a different approach: it lets you focus on your story. In under 20 minutes, you create a beautiful, typographically precise deck. And now, for the first time, you can do it all on iPhone and iPad.

iA Presenter Reviews

The community submitted 21 reviews to tell us what they like about iA Presenter, what iA Presenter can do better, and more.

4.6

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Reviewers largely praise iA Presenter for making presentations fast, clean, and story-first, with strong Markdown support, reliable delivery, and polished output that feels less cluttered than PowerPoint or Keynote. Several say it changes how they write talks by pushing them to focus on narrative instead of slide tweaking, and some highlight useful touches like syntax-highlighted code and easy text or PDF exports. The main reservation is that its opinionated workflow can feel narrow: users who need custom layouts, image-heavy slides, or more flexible formatting may find it limiting or inconsistent with its text-first pitch.

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focus on content (7)

Markdown support (4)

simple and elegant presentations (4)

fast performance (3)

minimalistic design (2)

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•1 review

I love the idea of generating slidedecks from Markdown and I've tried pretty much all of the options in this area. Presenter is the epitome of an opinionated app. If you are willing to work the way it wants you to work -- and only that way -- then it's pretty great. But that is a narrow lane you must stay in and the tool quickly loses its appeal when you want to do something even slightly off-course from the well-intentioned but very limited and limiting workflow it prescribes.

What's great

Markdown support (4)

What needs improvement

limited workflow flexibility (1)

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•2 reviews

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.

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focus on content (7)easy slide tweaking (1)

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•1 review

Handles code presentation with syntax highlighting too? Yes, it does. In my 10 minutes of using the product I am totally sold. Instabuy. Highly recommended. [So many things that were obviously done right here it is impressive. A former me might have tried to create this software myself. Instead of spending the 1000s of hours to developing it, I can just purchase a license and get to work on my presentations. :D ]

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syntax highlighting (1)

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•2 reviews

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! ✨

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focus on content (7)

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•1 review

Provides a great workflow for creating simple, elegant presentations. If you aren't confident with crafting the totality of a presentation using Keynote or PowerPoint (they can both be distracting), this is a great alternative that allows you to focus on the message and getting that across. For disclosure, I signed up to the beta and used it regularly.

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simple and elegant presentations (4)focus on content (7)

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•1 review

Best presentation app I've ever used. People will comment, "I thought you didn't have time to put together a presentation, but you came prepared with slides and everything!" It makes beautiful presentations easy and focuses on all the right things, just like iA Writer. Essential tool.

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simple and elegant presentations (4)focus on content (7)

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3 views3yr ago

•4 reviews

This is an excellent application and way of creating a narrative and ensuring that you are complete in your explanations when you present. As an early beta tester and now paid customer, I highly recommend this software and approach to present. I use it and have never had a problem during presentations or during the creation process.

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•1 review

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.

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minimalistic design (2)simple and elegant presentations (4)focus on content (7)

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•1 review

Not sure if I understand. I’m testing iA Presenter, it’s supposed to remove all the format-based approach and keep it text-only-focused. But I see tons of format & design options. If the format & design options are there, but are optional… isn’t it the same as PowerPoint?

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•2 reviews

It simply changed how I approach my presentations and made things much more easier for me. Being Markdown centric is a major plus for me, fits perfectly into my workflow with iA Writer and Obsidian.

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Markdown support (4)

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3yr ago