List of markdown presentation tools

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Electron apps

• Marp: Markdown presentation ecosystem.

• muryoimpl/slippr: markdown presentation app by Electron

• joe-re/cafe-pitch Markdown-driven presentation tool built on Electron.

Slide deck frameworks supporting Markdown source

• hakimel/reveal.js: The HTML Presentation Framework

• jxnblk/mdx-deck: React MDX-based presentation decks

• gnab/remark: A simple, in-browser, markdown-driven slideshow tool.

• FormidableLabs/spectacle: ReactJS based Presentation Library

• deckjs/deck: Deck is a markdown driven content presentation system

Hosted services

• Slides.com: Online UI for creating RevealJS decks (no markdown support yet, but maybe someday)

• Platon.io: Simple markdown presentations, right in the browser, using remarkjs

• Swipe: Create Interactive Online Presentations On Any Device

• HackMD: The best way to share knowledge in markdown

• Presenta: Make slides fast!

macOS apps

• Slidium: Beautiful and Easy Markdown Presentation - Neomobili

• Deckset: Presentations from Markdown in No Time

• Quiver: Developer notebook, with a presentation mode

• Slideas: Slideas is the easiest way to create a beautiful Markdown Presentation, with all the features you need.

• Obsidian: Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

CLI markdown ⇒ slides conversion tools

• Pandoc

• Fusuma: A tool to create slides easily for you

• present: A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects.

• backslide: CLI tool for making HTML presentations with Remark.js using Markdown

• patat: (Presentations Atop The ANSI Terminal) is a small tool that allows you to show presentations using only an ANSI terminal. It does not require ncurses

• markdown-slides: Using markdown, write simple but beautiful presentations with math, animations and media, which can be visualized in a web browser even without an internet connection, or exported to PDF.

• S9: Write Your Slides in Plain Text w/ Markdown Formatting Conventions - Free Web Alternative to PowerPoint and Keynote

• Cleaver: 30-second Slideshows for Hackers

GitPitch is shutting down

"GitPitch is shutting down on March 1, 2021. The trial software is no longer available for download."

Found this one today : https://sli.dev/

Markdown Preview Enhanced it's a VSCode extension with a lot of Markdown features, and it comes with a Presentation mode
https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/#/presentation

I've been using Cleaver for years https://github.com/jdan/cleaver

Hmmm, Slideas dies? No web, no activity ...

For CLI: https://github.com/maaslalani/slides

Awesome just what I'm looking for!

There is a template to make reveal.js work work with mkdocs as well.

https://github.com/dhondta/mkdocs-revealjs-template

I've tried some of the above, recommend adding https://github.com/ksky521/nodeppt to the list.
It's currently my favorite markdown-to-ppt tool.
It supports so many features that at least the {.build.moveIn} and the speaker mode are vital to a slide show.

Recommend everybody try that.

Other intersting tools to note:

• https://github.com/googleworkspace/md2googleslides
• https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape
• https://github.com/maaslalani/slides
• https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/present
• https://gitpitch.github.io/gitpitch/#/
• https://github.com/ionelmc/python-darkslide
• https://github.com/anthonywritescode/markdown-to-presentation

• https://github.com/slidevjs/slidev

Swipe shut down https://www.swipe.to/

May I recommend the tool Rusty Slider, available as a native application for Windows/Mac/Linux as well as on the web.
https://ollej.github.io/rusty-slider/

I have been working on a little side project: https://mdslides.app/

It is built using Reveal.js and Ace, and is a simple markdown presentation tool right in the browser.

Found this one today : https://sli.dev/

Shout out to this one! Very nice DX, good documentation and fully customizable 👏

Thanks for this presentation and you are truly an inspiration 👏
https://gist.github.com/easyjobber

Slideas unfortunately appear defunct now. :/

Platon does not seem to be working anymore

iA Presenter has an opinionated take on the markdown → slides workflow.

It recently hit 1.0. Note that it's Mac only, commercial, and apparently not (yet) scriptable from the CLI.

MarkSlides is a tool that allows you to create slides using Markdown.
It is created based on Marp, so any Marp syntax can be rendered to the slide.
In addition, it also supports Generating Slides using AI like ChatGPT.

lookatme seems to be an interesting terminal-based markdown presentation tool.

Found this one today : https://sli.dev/

Awesome

Native macOS app: https://showdown.tinybird.se

Created this for the live notebook platform Observable: https://observablehq.com/@jerryjappinen/slides

MkDocs but for slides based on Reveal.js: https://martenbe.github.io/mkslides/

05/2025: Still sli.dev, great features and very well maintained

Quarto is also an awesome project to present markdown files (And do a lot more)