Keynote → PPTX gets a Mac presentation into PowerPoint with every slide and its text still editable, but theme artwork, colour fills and builds are the parts to check before anyone presents it.
From real runs
| Element | Result | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Slides and slide size | Kept | Every deck we could count kept its slides, from one-slide quotes to six-slide templates, and both 4:3 decks (1024 × 768) and 16:9 decks (1920 × 1080) kept their shape. |
| Text | Kept | Titles, bullets and captions arrive as editable PowerPoint text boxes, not pictures of text. |
| Tables | Kept | A Keynote table with nine cells, including the date 5/5/1985, became a real PowerPoint table you can type into. |
| Presenter notes | Kept | Both test decks that carried a presenter note, one from Keynote '09 and one from Keynote for iPad, had it in PowerPoint's notes pane after conversion. |
| Theme sample text | Changed | On a Keynote 11 quotation slide, the theme's prompt text 'Type a quote here' and 'Johnny Appleseed' appeared on top of the real quote; delete those boxes by hand. |
| Backgrounds and colour fills | Lost | A parchment photo behind a quote was dropped, leaving flat olive, and the coloured bands of an infographic light bulb turned black. |
| Fonts | Changed | The PPTX keeps Apple font names such as Helvetica Neue, Gill Sans and Didot. PowerPoint on a Mac shows them; on Windows it substitutes, and titles can wrap. |
| Builds and animations | Lost | None of the 17 converted decks had any animation steps in PowerPoint; objects that built in one by one are simply on the slide. |
Every deck we could count kept its slides, from one-slide quotes to six-slide templates, and both 4:3 decks (1024 × 768) and 16:9 decks (1920 × 1080) kept their shape.
Titles, bullets and captions arrive as editable PowerPoint text boxes, not pictures of text.
A Keynote table with nine cells, including the date 5/5/1985, became a real PowerPoint table you can type into.
Both test decks that carried a presenter note, one from Keynote '09 and one from Keynote for iPad, had it in PowerPoint's notes pane after conversion.
On a Keynote 11 quotation slide, the theme's prompt text 'Type a quote here' and 'Johnny Appleseed' appeared on top of the real quote; delete those boxes by hand.
A parchment photo behind a quote was dropped, leaving flat olive, and the coloured bands of an infographic light bulb turned black.
The PPTX keeps Apple font names such as Helvetica Neue, Gill Sans and Didot. PowerPoint on a Mac shows them; on Windows it substitutes, and titles can wrap.
None of the 17 converted decks had any animation steps in PowerPoint; objects that built in one by one are simply on the slide.
We converted our Apple Keynote sample (268 KB) with Office engine on 2026-10-20. It took 1.1 s and produced a 47 KB PowerPoint PPTX file, 83% smaller than the input. The engine raised 2 warnings, listed below.
Input · sample.key · 268 KB
ZIP with 62 parts
Output · sample.pptx · 47 KB
Presentation with 3 slides, 2 notes pages, 0 media files
LibreOffice
soffice --headless --convert-to pptx --outdir out deck.keyLibreOffice Impress reads Keynote '09 and current files. Expect the same theme problems: check backgrounds and delete stray sample text.
Keynote (Mac, iPad or iCloud.com)
File → Export To → PowerPoint (iCloud.com: Download a Copy → PowerPoint)Made by the app that wrote the deck, so themes and builds are handled by Apple; use it when the deck will be presented, not just edited.
The HTTP API and the MCP server run the exact engine this page uses (Office engine); the response carries the same warnings the web converter shows. Check support first with GET /api/v1/pairs?from=key&to=pptx.
curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
-F "file=@input.key" -F "from=key" -F "to=pptx" \
--output output.pptxNo. PowerPoint on Windows and Mac does not import Keynote files, so the deck has to be exported by Keynote or rebuilt as PPTX by a converter like this one.
Keynote themes carry sample text for empty placeholders that Keynote hides once you type. Our office engine sometimes writes that sample text as a visible box next to yours; click it in PowerPoint and delete it.
Builds do not: no converted deck kept any animation steps. Everything that built in appears on the slide from the start, so re-add the animations you need in PowerPoint.
Yes. The test set included decks last saved by Keynote for iPad and by Keynote on iCloud.com alongside Mac decks from Keynote '09 to 14.5, and all of them opened.