Features

Create, present, and share your slides

Add images, video, code, formulas, charts, and diagrams. Keep your notes close while you present. Share the presentation in a browser, as a PDF, or as images.

Use Deckset for Mac or Deckset for iPhone and iPad. The full list below shows what is available on each.

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At a glance

What you can do with Deckset

Start here for the essentials. The full list below has more detail, including what is available on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

01

Design and content

  • Start with a theme or make your own
  • Add images, video, audio, code, formulas, and diagrams
  • Slides that adapt when the screen shape changes
  • Write in the editor you already use
  • Data-driven charts New Beta

02

Present

  • See your notes and the next slide
  • Reveal content one step at a time
  • Practice against a target time
  • Pause on a black, white, or custom screen
  • Present full-screen, in a window, or on another display

04

Keep working with the same source file

  • Write and preview on iPhone and iPad
  • Keep everything together in Text Bundle files
  • Track changes with Git and local history
  • Create presentations with the Deckset skill
  • Control Deckset from other Mac apps

Full reference

Explore all features

Open a section to learn more, see which devices it works on, and read the guides.

01 Content and media Add images, video, code, and more

Build one presentation with text, images, video, audio, code, formulas, charts, diagrams, and tables.

Images and animated GIFs

Use images or SVGs as backgrounds, place them beside text, or arrange them in a grid. Scale, crop, filter, and position them from Markdown.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide

Video and YouTube

Play videos stored with the presentation or clips from YouTube. Choose where they start, whether they play automatically or loop, and whether they begin muted.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide

Audio

Add audio and choose whether its controls appear on the slide. Start it automatically, loop it, or begin muted.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide

Code

Add code in many languages, show line numbers, and highlight selected lines while you present.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide

Math formulas

Write formulas in TeX. Deckset formats them for the slide and keeps readable formula text in accessible exports.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide

Diagrams from text

Use Mermaid or Pikchr to create flowcharts, sequence diagrams, architecture diagrams, and more.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide

Data-driven charts

NewBeta

Try early support for turning data from CSV or JSON into a static chart with Observable Plot.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

Tables and text formatting

Add tables, columns, lists, quotes, links, footnotes, and inline text styles with Markdown.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide
02 Design and layout Change the look without rebuilding your slides

Pick a built-in theme or adjust one to suit the presentation. Deckset applies the theme throughout.

Built-in themes

Switch themes without rewriting the presentation. Each theme includes coordinated fonts, colors, and layouts.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

Custom themes

Adjust fonts, colors, text styles, and backgrounds, then move theme files between Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide

Style individual slides

Change colors, alignment, spacing, scale, code colors, graph colors, and other theme settings on a single slide.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide

Slides that fit the screen

Choose 16:10, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, or 4:5. If the screen changes, Deckset adjusts each slide for the new shape.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

Columns and image layouts

Use columns, place text beside media, arrange images in a grid, and let Deckset scale the content to fit.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide

Footers and slide numbers

Add persistent footers, logos, current slide numbers, and a total slide count. Override them when individual slides need less detail.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide
03 Presenting Stay in control while you present

Keep your notes and the next slide in view, watch the time, reveal content step by step, and pause the audience screen.

Notes and next-slide preview

See your notes, the current slide, and what comes next while the audience sees only the presentation.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide

Practice with a timer

Set a target duration, then use color cues to see whether the presentation is on pace.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

Reveal content step by step

Show list items one at a time or highlight selected lines of code. Step backward through them when needed.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide

Slide transitions

Choose fades, pushes, wipes, flips, zooms, and other transitions. Set their duration and direction for the whole presentation or one slide.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide

Full-screen or windowed presenting

Present full-screen on Mac, iPhone, or iPad. On Mac, use a resizable presentation window for calls and hybrid meetings.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

Pause the audience screen

Switch the audience screen to black, or prepare a white screen with an image and text such as a QR code or Wi-Fi details.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

Choose the audience display

Select which screen shows the presentation and switch the presenter view without restarting.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

Apple Pencil controls

Advance the presentation from iPad with an Apple Pencil tap or squeeze.

  • iPad
04 Exporting and sharing Share in a browser, as a PDF, or as images

Save a browser presentation, a handout, or a set of slide images without rebuilding anything.

Accessible PDFs

Create a PDF/UA-2 file that keeps the reading order, headings, lists, tables, links, formula text, and media descriptions.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

Full-size or smaller PDFs

Keep the original slide dimensions, or create a smaller file that is easier to send.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

One, two, or four slides per page

Export one slide at full size, or place two or four slides on portrait A4 pages for compact handouts.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

Include notes and build steps

Include your presenter notes, every step in a build, or both when they help the reader.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

PNG and JPEG

Export every slide as an image at regular, double, or quadruple resolution.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

Browser presentations

Beta

Export an HTML presentation that works with a keyboard and keeps headings, lists, tables, links, media descriptions, and supporting files together.

  • Mac

Check before you export

Deckset points out accessibility issues before you save a PDF. On Mac, it also checks for missing descriptions, fonts, links, files, and content that may not work in a browser.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
05 Files and tools Keep working with the same source file

Open the source file in your preferred editor, store it wherever you like, track changes with Git, or give it to an AI tool.

Your preferred editor on Mac

Write in any Markdown editor. Save the source file and Deckset updates the slides automatically.

  • Mac

Built-in editor on iPhone and iPad

Write and preview in the same app, including a side-by-side editing layout on iPad.

  • iPhone & iPad

Text Bundle files

Keep Markdown, images, GIFs, video, audio, and presentation settings together when moving between devices.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

Obsidian-style links

New

Link to local images, audio, and video with Obsidian-style wikilinks. Deckset still handles the layout, playback, and accessibility options.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

Track and restore changes

Review changes to the Markdown file in Git. The iOS app also keeps recent versions you can restore.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad

Create presentations with AI

Install the Deckset skill in a compatible AI coding tool. Give it notes or an outline, and it can create or revise a Markdown presentation.

  • Mac
  • iPhone & iPad
Read the guide

Control Deckset with AppleScript

Use AppleScript to start or move through a presentation, or let another Mac app read the slide content and presenter notes.

  • Mac

Get started

Create your next presentation with Deckset