Beautiful presentations, written in Markdown.

A free presentation app for Mac and Windows. Motion graphics and an AI agent are built in. Every presentation is saved as plain Markdown.

The first slide: “This entire presentation was exported from MarkdownPoint.” The presentation plays: MarkdownPoint, its maker, slides as plain text, editing together, publishing, keyframes, smart guides, AI agents, AI pictures and styles, and export. Then it pulls back into the editor that holds it.
  1. This entire presentation was exported from MarkdownPoint
  2. MarkdownPoint: presentations written in Markdown, free for Mac and Windows
  3. From the maker of Notebook Navigator: 1,000,000+ downloads and the #1 Obsidian plugin
  4. Every slide is plain text: presentation.md beside presentation.yaml
  5. Invite people to edit with you: a shared Q3 launch slide
  6. Publish it as a web page: the Q3 launch slide at view.markdownpoint.com, its link copied
  7. Keyframes like in After Effects: keyframes, motion paths, morphs, blur, 3D depth, blend modes, text animators and springs
  8. Smart guides like in Figma: three cards on a slide
  9. Claude Code and Codex can build your slides: a launch deck made from notes.md
  10. “Suggest from slide” writes the picture’s prompt: a tram at the harbor in Göteborg
  11. Give a photo a new style: a cyclist as an editorial poster
  12. Export to PowerPoint: .pptx, .pdf, .png and .mp4 files
  13. Download it free at markdownpoint.com

Your slides are Markdown files

Each presentation is a folder of plain text: the words in Markdown, the layout in YAML. Track every change in Git, edit it in any text editor, and let AI agents work in it like any other repository.

The slide those lines make: “Dieter Rams” over “Good design is as little design as possible.”, with “as little design” in green, beside a drawing of a Braun radio’s grille and dial.

The tools of a design app

MarkdownPoint works like Keynote. Underneath are tools you know from Figma and After Effects.

Motion graphics

Keyframes and motion paths like in After Effects. Magic Move between slides like in Keynote. Blur and 3D depth on any object.

In the editor, the playhead is drawn through the keyframes of Make an entrance in the Timing panel, and its three cards fly in blurred. Then Present plays the slide: the cards swoop in from the camera out of focus and settle into a fan of Keyframes, Blur and Depth as the headline sweeps in.

Snapping

Smart guides like in Figma. Shapes snap to equal spacing, matching sizes and matching angles as you drag, resize and rotate them.

In the editor, a narrow Launch card dragged into a roadmap’s row of cards settles 48 from its neighbor, each 48 gap marked in pink; its right edge pulled out stops at the other cards’ width, 360. Then the dates above a Launch week banner tilted at −12° are turned until they meet its angle.

The Agent

Select a few objects and ask: “Turn these into three bold cards with big numbers.” The Agent changes the slide, using your own API key.

The Agent pane beside a Launch plan slide whose three bullets it turned into three cards with big numbers: 500 teams in the open beta, 3 minutes to finish onboarding and 5 engineers hired.

Pictures from your words

“Suggest from slide” writes an image prompt from the words on your slide. The prompt is saved with the picture, so you can edit it and generate again.

A slide titled “Crayfish on the jetty” in the editor, its picture still empty. Suggest from slide writes the picture’s prompt from the slide’s words, and the generated photograph of neighbors eating crayfish on a jetty at sunset fills the picture, its prompt in the panel beside it.

Everything in one window

Layers like in Figma and presenter notes like in Keynote. The outline, slide list and Agent sit beside the slide.

The editor with a Dieter Rams slide alone; then the slide list, the Outline, the inspector, Layers, presenter notes and the Agent come into view one at a time, each named in a caption.

Edit together live, or take turns

Edit together, free

See everyone’s pointer and comment on any slide, like in Figma. When it’s ready, publish it to the web for free.

A shared workshop presentation in the editor. Felix’s pink pointer, labeled with his name, rests on a yellow note that now reads 45 minutes.

Take turns in a shared folder

Keep a presentation in Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive or iCloud Drive. One person edits while everyone else follows along. Taking turns uses a free account.

A project status presentation in the editor, kept in a shared Dropbox folder. Felix’s mark comes to the Workstreams slide and his request appears: “Felix asks to edit. Handing over in 10 seconds.” Johan presses Hand over and his toolbar turns to Viewing; Felix’s change to 84 of 120 buses arrives, and Viewing shows that Felix is editing.

What’s in the app

Design

  • Smart layouts
  • Figma-style snapping to spacing, sizes and angles
  • Exact position, size and angle
  • Align and distribute
  • Grids, guides and rulers
  • Any slide size, down to the pixel
  • Outline, slide list, layers and presenter notes
  • Code with syntax highlighting

Your own designs

  • Free themes from the gallery
  • Fonts from your computer, embedded in the design
  • Brand colors shared by light and dark
  • Text styles with size, line spacing and tracking
  • InDesign-style grids with columns, gutters, margins and a baseline
  • Layouts you add and name
  • A design you can share as one file

Motion

  • Keyframes, motion paths and morphs
  • Blur, 3D depth and blend modes
  • Text that arrives word by word or line by line
  • Keynote-style Magic Move between slides

AI

  • The Agent beside every slide
  • Pictures generated from a slide’s words
  • Image styles, or a change you describe
  • Background removal
  • Anthropic, OpenAI or Google with your own API key
  • An MCP server and the “mdpoint” command for AI agents

Present

  • A presenter display with notes, the next slide and a timer
  • Rehearsal against a talk length
  • Laser pointer and black or white screens

Share and export

  • Live pointers and comments
  • Publishing to the web, free
  • Taking turns in Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive or iCloud Drive
  • PowerPoint, PDF, images and 4K video

Built by an industry veteran

Johan Sanneblad, PhD

I have a PhD in Software Development and decades of experience building products for companies like Apple, Electronic Arts, Google, Microsoft, LEGO, Sony and Yamaha.

Notebook Navigator is now the most popular file explorer plugin for Obsidian with over a million downloads, but I wrote it for myself. I have always prioritized file over app: I want my notes to outlive the application I write them in. I used Evernote for many years, until its prices rose and its interface changed in ways I didn’t like. I tried Bear, Apple Notes and OneNote, but none of them could export my notes in their raw source format. So I moved to Obsidian. However, I never really got used to its interface. Mixing folders with files scales poorly when you have thousands of notes, and bookmarks, tags, properties and search were all in different windows. And the great things in all the other apps, like image and text previews, were missing completely. So I wrote Notebook Navigator.

MarkdownPoint started the same way. I give two or three presentations a week, and I have never really liked PowerPoint or Keynote. Their compressed, proprietary formats make it hard to work together and to keep track of versions. They are just as hard for an AI agent to work in. Canva is web-only with several limitations, and I don’t own my files there. So I wrote MarkdownPoint for myself, and I’m sharing it with the world for free. Use it if you like it, and please let me know how I can improve it.

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Free for Mac and Windows

For personal and commercial use. No subscription, no in‑app purchases and no account needed to use it.