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Typedeck

Beautiful presentations, fast<br>Only for Mac<br>Free · In‑App Purchases<br>Share

Age Rating

4+ Years

Category

Productivity

Developer

Testify LLC

Language

EN English

Size

14.5 MB

Mac

New: Diagram Studio - flowcharts, timelines, org charts, sequences, and more.

Great presentations begin with clear thinking.

Other tools bury you in menus and formatting decisions before you've figured out what to say. Typedeck is different. You start with your message. The slides take care of themselves.

Type your content. Choose a theme. Present. That's it.

HOW IT WORKS

Start with what you want to say. Add a title, or just start with the content. Typedeck gives you a focused, single-slide editor where you build one slide at a time.

Pick a content type. Text, code, tables, charts, quotes, photos, diagrams, drawings, shapes, or PDF documents. Each has its own dedicated editor — no freeform canvas, no dragging boxes around.

The layout appears automatically. Typedeck reads your content — how much text, what type of media, how dense the information — and composes the slide. Typography, spacing, and layout are handled for you. Change the theme and every slide in the deck updates together.

Present with confidence. Full-screen presentation with speaker notes, next-slide preview, timer, and slide navigation.

WHAT YOU CAN CREATE

- Title slides, section breaks, and body slides with bullets<br>- Syntax-highlighted code in 50+ languages<br>- Data tables with styled headers and banded rows<br>- Bar, line, pie, and area charts<br>- Pull quotes with attribution<br>- Full-bleed photography and captioned images<br>- Mermaid diagrams that draw themselves<br>- Split layouts combining any two content types<br>- PDF documents embedded directly in slides

THEMES

18 built-in themes from Swiss minimal to cyberpunk terminal. Light, dark, and bold. Serif and sans-serif. Every theme controls typography, color, spacing, and decorative elements. Build your own with the custom theme editor.

IMPORT AND EXPORT EASILY

Export to PowerPoint (editable), Google Slides, PDF, HTML, or images. Import from Notion, Obsidian, or any Markdown file. Your work goes where you need it because it was never locked in.

YOUR FILES, YOUR MAC

Typedeck is a native macOS app. No account. No cloud dependency. Your presentations live on your Mac in an open format — Markdown and images you can read without Typedeck. Fast, private, and yours.

PRICING

Free for 7 days with full access. Then $29.99 — one-time purchase, yours forever.<br>more

Ratings & Reviews

This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.

Focus on the presentation, not the formatting

May 7 mikechampion

What I like most about Typedeck is it lets me stay focused while building a presentation. Instead of fussing about fonts and alignment I can just focus on the content. Typedeck feels genuinely smart about picking the right format for each slide. The presentations I've made so far look professional with less effort. Design isn’t my strength so I appreciate the theme gallery provides a solid options.I’ve liked to draft my outline in Obsidian and then import the markdown to turn it into a presentation. The export to PDF or Google Slides has worked well when sharing with others.

Focus on the presentation, not the formatting

May 7 mikechampion

What I like most about Typedeck is it lets me stay focused while building a presentation. Instead of fussing about fonts and alignment I can just focus on the content. Typedeck feels genuinely smart about picking the right format for each slide. The presentations I've made so far look professional with less effort. Design isn’t my strength so I appreciate the theme gallery provides a solid options.I’ve liked to draft my outline in Obsidian and then import the markdown to turn it into a presentation. The export to PDF or Google Slides has worked well when sharing with others.

What’s New

Version History

Introducing Diagram Studio. Say what you want to show - a process, a timeline, a hierarchy, a sequence, a decision, a plan - and build it in a structured editor made for that diagram. No syntax, no fiddling.

Also in this release: refined Mermaid theming, smoother Markdown imports, and interface polish throughout.<br>1.0.5 22m ago

Typedeck 1.0.4 improves Markdown imports, Recent Presentations, and Mermaid diagrams.

- Opening a Markdown file now creates a Typedeck presentation package, so it appears correctly in Recent Presentations.<br>- Mermaid diagrams now follow the active theme background and use more reliable label contrast.<br>- Mermaid timelines now use Typedeck theme colors.<br>- Recent Presentations hides stale Markdown source entries and shows friendlier iCloud folder paths.<br>- Help now includes guidance for Mermaid timelines.<br>1.0.4 May 9

Typedeck now handles dense and text-heavy slides more reliably.

- Long titles, subtitles, bullets, and tables wrap and fit more predictably.<br>- Oversized text and table regions scroll...

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