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. Pros Exceedingly rich with features and tools. Lovely animated data module. Can export to Apple's file format, Microsoft PowerPoint, or PDF. Lets you open presentations in other apps.
Cons Pricey for those who have to pay for it; not three-in-one office suite, as some competing products. Only works in landscape orientation. Integration with non-Apple storage solutions could be much improved. Large install. Bottom Line Apple's Keynote mobile app contains a remarkably long list of features?more than any other presentation mobile app we've seen.
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It's not a three-for-one office app as some competitors offer, but it's more comprehensive in mimicking the desktop experience for creating, editing, and viewing presentations. Not long after Apple released, the company updated iWork, its set of three office apps: for word processing, Numbers for spreadsheets, and Keynote for presentations. The updated mobile versions of these apps for the iPhone show huge improvements in usability and design. I was stunned at how rich they are in features. Behind the scenes, Apple virtually started from scratch to build a unified file format so that documents created in or edited with the mobile apps are the exact same files when you open them on your desktop or laptop Mac, and vice versa. This review focuses on the Keynote iPhone app (free to $9.99), truly impressive presentation software, considering it runs on a device that fits in your pocket.
The app has an incredibly straightforward and navigable interface. Tools and features pop up at every appropriate turn, and they're hidden when not needed. Multi-touch gestures work as you'd expect, although some take a little practice to master. For example, I tried to pinch-zoom while testing the app, and accidentally rotated a text box. Straightening it out took little more than a reverse twist (or a press of an ever-present 'undo' button). Guidelines appear when you drag objects around the page to help you align or center your work. The sheer number of features in Keynote boggles the mind.
You can adjust practically everything, from the color of a border to the delay on a transition. I expect this attention to detail in a desktop app, but I don't at all expect it in mobile apps that can be slowed down by excessive features. Keynote responds in real time. You can preview anything before implementing it, and if you make a mistake, multiple undos are supported. Videos embedded into a presentation played back without a hitch. A new animated graphs-and-charts feature (which, for example, can play through a long table of information showing changes one month at a time) are equally zippy. Tap a text box, photo, object—you name it—and a menu of options becomes available through a small wrench icon.
Dive into those options, and more sub-menus appear. Every time I opened this app to test one feature, I discovered six more to try.