What are the best offline presentation apps for OSX?

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Best offline presentation apps for OSX	Price	Platforms	Last Updated
-- Keynote	-	Mac, iOS	Oct 17, 2016
-- Prezi	-	-	Mar 3, 2016
-- Microsoft PowerPoint	-	-	Dec 22, 2015

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Keynote

Top Pro

Templates are easily customizable

Each template has built-in settings that allow for multiple different layout options, choice of which elements should be shown or hidden and change things like the background image all without having to edit the template itself. See More

Top Con

Poor PowerPoint compatibility

While you can transfer files from Keynote to PowerPoint, graphs and animations often break in the process. See More

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Platforms:Mac, iOS

Top Pro

Usability - it works for you, not the other way around

Though Apple now tries to converge its macOS software packages to iOS markets ("click here to buy"), Keynote still excels in the area "I want to do xxx, how to achieve?". Using Keynote, even a user who has never done a presentation before, will produce remarkable presentations, provided he's willing to invest a certain amount of time, that is less than half of the endeavor needed to create a slick Powerpoint presentation. See More

Top Pro

Presentations can be shared over iCloud

You can save presentations to iCloud directly from the app and from there you can share them with people both on a Mac and PC. See More

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Prezi

Top Pro

Lets you create beautiful presentations that flow well

Prezi helps you create presentations that tell a story. The UI lets you create a storyboard for the presentation so it's really easy to design the big picture for the presentation and then drill down to the individual "slides". See More

Top Con

Might run slow on lower end systems

On lower end systems it might be a little too slow, so you have to take into account what systems are you planning to present on. See More

Top Pro

The Storyboard UI makes it easier to think through presentations

Instead of being constrained by individual slides, Prezi lets you input all the various text & media you want to cover and then organise it into a logical flow later on. See More

Top Con

The transitions are a distraction from your content

Prezi encourages you to use gimmicky, distracting transitions. See More

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Microsoft PowerPoint

Top Pro

De facto standard

Top Con

Is poor at handling animation-heavy presentations

Adding too many animations might cause it to slow down quite significantly, as well as on older versions more complicated animations might not work very well. See More

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Lots of free templates

Because PowerPoint is so common, there are tons of free templates found within the program or online. See More

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What are the best offline presentation apps for OSX?

3 Options Considered

Keynote

My Recommendation for Keynote

My Recommendation for Keynote

Templates are easily customizable

Poor PowerPoint compatibility

Usability - it works for you, not the other way around

Presentations can be shared over iCloud

Prezi

My Recommendation for Prezi

My Recommendation for Prezi

Lets you create beautiful presentations that flow well

Might run slow on lower end systems

The Storyboard UI makes it easier to think through presentations

The transitions are a distraction from your content

Microsoft PowerPoint

My Recommendation for Microsoft PowerPoint

My Recommendation for Microsoft PowerPoint

De facto standard

Is poor at handling animation-heavy presentations

Lots of free templates

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