Presentation Features

Open and present your existing PDF slide decks effortlessly. Import slides via share sheet, or simply drop your files into the magicPresenter directory. Create folders to group slide decks and use the built-in “Slide Decks” view to browse previews.

The start view of our app shows the collection of all folders and slide decks that have been imported. You can easily import further PDF slides or create new folders by just one click. Files are moved into folders by drag and drop. You decide the ordering (name or last usage date). Slide decks can be replace by importing a revised PDF file. AI supports you to align matching pages in order to transfer speaker notes and handwriting.

While presenting, see your current slide with its handwritten annotations, an overview of the upcoming slides below, and your speaker notes and next slide preview to the side — all in one clean interface. A full screen view of the current slide is just one click away. This make handwriting even more convenient.

A connected projector shows the current slide and public annotations to the audience only. Your notes and invisible annotations remain private to you. In case your PDF contains links to webpages or videos, those are opened inside our app and get visible on your iPad and the projector in parallel.

Want to jot personal cues or draw attention? Use magic ink to write hidden presenter-only notes, or switch to visible handwriting to annotate directly on slides during your talk, building on a boundless writing surface.

This is one very special feature of our app! When using your iPad’s pen (or writing with your fingers) you can choose between normal and magic ink, the latter for your personal use only. This way you can annotate your slides to guide your presentation hidden to the audience. Furthermore, writing is not limited to the page size of your slides. magicPresenter has a boundless writing surface that can be used, e.g., to craft an example from scratch in order to answer a question. Or you can pretend to create some content from scratch by using magic ink annotations as starting point.

The example images show handwritten annotations within the presenter and full screen view both making use of space on the borderless writing surface located below the actual slide.

Produce a video of your presentation (projector view and audio) for later use and stream it via rtmp (e.g. to YouTube).

Sometimes it is handy to have a video of a talk given or to stream a presentation because some audience cannot be on site. In this situation magicPresenter does not need any additional software for video grabbing or the like. Build-in functions allow to produce a mp4-video or stream to a freely configured rtmp-service like YouTube (follow this link for details). You can decide whether only the projector view or the view and audio are recorded. In any case, your speaker notes and annotations in magic ink stay private again for they never get displayed to a projector. Of course, presented media like webpages or videos are recorded, too.

Skip ahead, go back, or jump around your slides via tap, thumbnail bar, or slide overview or by using a presenter to navigate slides or control the virtual laser pointer.

The standard way to work with an iPad is to use your fingers or an Apple Pencil. Accordingly, all functions of our magicPresenter can be used either by pen or by gestures (swipe, pan, press, long press, drag and drop). Nevertheless, in some situations it is handy to control the most elementary features remotely like turning slides or highlighting with the virtual laser pointer. Therefore, we have integrated presenter support such that devices like a logitech spotlight can be used for those purposes.

If your PDF contains links or embedded videos, simply long-press them during presentation to open the content inside magicPresenter — ideal for live demonstrations or video inserts. Linked content could address media on the web or be stored locally on your iPad.

The latter is a big advantage for it lets you play imported video without interruption where external sources might include advertisements. Every content that a web browser can play might be embedded in your presentation via hyperlinks in your PDF slides. Since every link is opened inside magicPresenter there is no need to change apps back and forth and recording and streaming of your talk can seamlessly extend to multimedia.

Archive versions of your presentations (including annotations) via the context menu, export your slides and notes in printable formats, reorganise slides or restore snapshots easily.

Our PDF presentation app builds on slides created externally, e.g., using LaTeX, Microsoft Powerpoint or Apple’s Keynote. However, there are some functions included, that allow to modify an imported PDF slide deck. You can change the ordering of pages, delete slides from a deck or insert empty pages. If you have prepared a talk, e.g., by handwritten annotation, you can archive it thus keeping the original form. Of course, changes made during your talk become persistent and annotations as well as speaker notes can be exported to PDF. However, you can easily revert to the original form using the archive.

If extensive changes of your slides become necessary, you carry them out using your original software. Afterwards, replacing the slide deck in magicPresenter allows to keep annotations and notes. An AI supported algorithm computes an alignment of pages among the two versions of your slide deck identifying pages that (probably) have been inserted or left out. You can check and revise that alignment and finally commit the changes.

Use the built-in clock and timer controls (start, pause, reset) to keep on track. Hide or show the slide view with one tap when switching between presenting modes.