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Features

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

Editor

Use the Editor 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:

Inspector

The Inspector has tabs for text, visuals and design that help you create and modify your presentation.

Inspector
Text Visuals Design
Speech Images Theme selector
Text on slide Bundled videos Fonts
Format YouTube and Unsplash integration Colors and light/dark versions
Code & math Delete unused assets Header and footer
Table generator Drag and drop target Logo

Themes and Layouts

iA Presenter comes with ten ready-to-use built-in themes. Or, create your own custom themes.

Themes
Opiniated Vibrants Pastels Colorful Classics
New York San Francisco Copenhagen Tokyo Zurich
Basel Los Angeles Vancouver Milano Paris

Layouts are responsive. That means they automatically adapt to the content you add, and the device you use to present. Layouts are grouped into six categories: Title, text, split, grid, caption, and image background.

Presentation

Showtime! Presentation Mode comes with a teleprompter that guides you through your spoken text, along with the slides your audience will see. In Presentation Mode for Mac you’ll find:

Graphics

Add local images and videos in different formats. The responsive layout takes care of the rendering.

Images

We support traditional Markdown syntax for images ![](image.png) but recommend the simplest Content Blocks Syntax.

Images
Format Extension
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

Images are centered by default (D) on the cover and content positions, but you have more options to choose from:

Image Options
Size Alignments Order Filters
Cover (D) Center (D) Content (D) Filter (5*)
Contain Left/Top Background Opacity
Right/Bottom

*Filters: Lighten, Darken, Grayscale, Sepia, Blur.

Videos

Besides bundled files, you can add YouTube videos directly to the app from the Inspector.

Videos
Format Extension
M4V .m4v
Moving Picture Expert Group 4 .mp4
Quicktime .mov

Language Support

Our apps are designed for a global audience. iA Presenter’s interface is currently available in English but we aim to support more languages in future versions.

Export

You can easily share your Presenter files—simply choose your preferred Export option:

When exporting to PDF, your can choose from seven layouts:


Current OS Support
Presenter is currently available on MacOS:
Platform Version Supported OS
Mac 1 macOS 11+
iOS/iPadOS TBD
Android TBD
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 here.

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.