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Features

Presenter for iPhone and iPad is currently in beta testing. Sign up for the waitlist here.

Find out how iA Presenter helps you tell a story they’ll remember.

Editor

Use the Editor to write your story, create and move slides, and add media. Markdown handles all the formatting, while Presenter looks after the design. In the Editor you’ll find:

iPhone and iPad Mac
Markdown Format Menu
Thumbnails Preview
Design Menu
Media Manager
Focus Mode
Content Blocks
Light/Dark mode
Timers
Backups And Recovery
Smart Substitutions

Import/Export

Create a presentation quickly by importing a Markdown or text file into Presenter, which will convert it into slides.

When it’s ready, share your presentation online or choose from multiple paper-friendly Export options:

iPhone and iPad Mac
.md and .txt Import
Web Sharing
PDF
PowerPoint (Beta)
Images
HTML
Markdown

Presentation

Presentation Mode comes with a teleprompter that guides you through your spoken text, along with the slides your audience will see:

iPhone and iPad Mac
Thumbnails Mode
Speaker Notes Mode
Speaker Notes as Subtitles
Timer
Custom Navigation Keys
Autoplay video

Layout

Presenter automatically analyzes your slide content and creates an optimal layout that looks great on any display. If you prefer, you can select a custom aspect ratio via Settings.

iPhone and iPad Mac
Responsive
Regular 4:3
Wide 16:9
Mobile 9:16
Portrait 4:5*
Square 1:1*

*This aspect ratio is specifically designed for sharing slides on Social Media.

Images

Import images from your device, the web, or even more easily through our built-in Unsplash integration.

Each image comes with customizable options, including size, alignment, filters, and descriptions.

iPhone and iPad Mac
Portable Network Graphics .apng, .png
Graphics Interchange Format .gif
WebP .webp
Joint Photographic Experts Group .jpg, .jpeg
Tagged Image File Format .tif, .tiff
Scalable Vector Graphics .svg
Portable Document Format .pdf
Unsplash Integration

Videos

Add local videos, or link directly to YouTube using the Media Manager.

Local videos come with customizable options, including size, alignment, filters, and descriptions.

iPhone and iPad Mac
M4V .m4v
Moving Picture Expert Group 4 .mp4
Quicktime .mov
YouTube Integration

Audio

Simply drag-and-drop audio files to add them to your slides.

iPhone and iPad Mac
Advanced Audio Coding .aac
Audio Codec 3 (Dolby Digital) .ac3
Audio Interchange File Format .aiff
Audio File Format (Sun/NeXT) .au
Free Lossless Audio Codec .flac
MPEG-4 Audio .m4a
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 .mp3
Waveform Audio File Format .wav

Language Support

iA Presenter’s interface is currently available in English but we aim to support more languages in future versions.

iPhone and iPad Mac
Menus & UI English English
Spelling, Autocorrect and Grammar System-Based* System-Based*
Presentation content Any Left-to-right languages Any Left-to-right languages

Current OS Support

Presenter is currently available for MacOS devices—and coming soon to iOS and iPadOS:

Platform Version Supported OS
Mac 1.0+ macOS 11+
iOS/iPadOS 1.0+ iOS and iPadOS 15.0+
Windows TBD

Future OS Support

As we make further improvements and add new features to iA Presenter, we may stop supporting older operating systems after most of our customers have migrated.

Older Versions

Older versions are not available for download. You’ll always find the most current version of iA Presenter from our website.

Contact Us

If you are experiencing a problem that our support section doesn’t solve please reach out to us. We take a break on the weekends (JST), but during weekdays we aim to reply within 1-2 business days.

Basics

Core Components

A quick tour of iA Presenter‘s core components for Mac.

Presenter 101

Discover the main features of iA Presenter in under 10 minutes with these short videos.

Features

Find out what you get with iA Presenter, and how it helps you tell a story they’ll remember.

Settings

A wide range of options to fit the various use cases, professional and personal needs.

Markdown Guide

Learn quickly the basics of Markdown—or dive in to discover more complex formatting.

Presentation Tips

How tell your story without boring the audience to death.

Languages

iA Presenter’s user interface is currently available in English, while presentation content supports left-to-right language text.