# Beamer Notes — Beamer Slide with Notes & ink

> Beamer Slide with Notes & ink (iPhone/iPad app by Wei Chen.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beamer-notes/id6810103112 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Wei Chen](https://appshunter.io/developer/6810103114)
- Category: Productivity, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-09-16
- Data updated: 2026-09-27
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beamer-notes/id6810103112/reviews.md

## What is Beamer Notes?

Beamer Notes is a two-screen presenter for slide decks made with LaTeX Beamer and “show notes on second screen”. Your iPad shows the current slide, your private speaker notes, and a preview of what’s next — while the projector shows only the slide, cleanly letterboxed on black.

Draw with Apple Pencil and every stroke appears on the projector in real time, in exactly the right place. Fingers are free to turn pages, so your palm never leaves a mark.

YOUR IPHONE AS A REMOTE
Step away from the lectern. Your iPhone shows your speaker notes, the next slide and the timer, turns pages, and aims the laser pointer on the projector. It pairs straight to your iPad — no shared Wi-Fi, no account, nothing to set up.

AND A MAC FOR THE TIDYING UP
Beamer Notes on the Mac keeps your library in order between talks — folders, colours, renaming, sorting, on a big screen with a keyboard. Everything stays in step with your iPad over iCloud. Presenting remains the iPad’s job.

FEATURES
• Dual screen over HDMI or AirPlay — the audience sees only the slide, never your notes or controls.
• Apple Pencil ink with live mirroring, through the system drawing palette: pen, monoline, fountain pen, pencil and marker; a pixel eraser and an object eraser; lasso to move what you have already drawn; a ruler for straight lines; any colour, any width. Plus a laser pointer with an optional comet trail.
• Tabs — keep several decks open at once, drag to reorder, and they reopen where you left off.
• Speaker notes shown full-width with pinch-to-zoom, plus a next-slide preview.
• Automatic layout detection for notes on the right, left, top, or bottom — 16:9 and 4:3 — with a manual override when you need it.
• Count-up timer and an adjustable countdown with an on-screen “time’s up” alert only you can see.
• Navigate by tap, swipe, on-screen arrows, hardware keyboard, USB or Bluetooth presenter clickers, or your iPhone.
• Tappable table-of-contents and \hyperlink jumps inside the PDF.
• Thumbnail overview that marks the pages you’ve annotated.
• An in-app library with coloured folders, synced through iCloud and organisable on your Mac; import via Files, AirDrop, or the share sheet. Plain PDFs work too.
• Decks are fetched to the device in the background, so they open with no network at all — and anything not yet downloaded is marked in the library.
• Your ink is saved automatically and survives quitting the app.

Built for lecture-hall reliability. No account, no tracking, no data collection.

Free to try with three of your own PDFs. The built-in tutorials are always free, and reopening a deck you have already used never counts again. Need more? Add ten or thirty decks whenever you like, or unlock unlimited decks forever with a single purchase.

TIP FOR PROJECTORS
Connect the display before you begin and stay in Beamer Notes for the talk. On iPadOS 26 and 27 the system sometimes does not hand the external screen back to an app that has been in the background; if the projector starts mirroring your iPad, quit Beamer Notes and open it again with the display connected.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Full Version | $9.99 | one-time |
| Add 10 Decks | $1.99 | one-time |
| Add 30 Decks | $4.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.20 — 2026-09-19

• Beamer Notes now runs on the Mac. Organise your library on the big screen — folders, colours, renaming, sorting — and it stays in step with your iPad over iCloud. Presenting is still the iPad's job.

• Folders. Group decks by course or semester, give each folder a colour, and move decks between them. Folders now sync through iCloud properly, including on a slow connection.

• Your decks open offline. Newly added PDFs are fetched to the iPad in the background as soon as the app launches, so a lecture hall with no signal is no longer a problem. Anything not yet on the device is clearly marked in the library.

• Full Traditional Chinese. The whole app, including the iPhone remote.

• Settings is now one tap from the presenter — a gear in the top bar, next to the eye.

• Clearer wording throughout: a Beamer frame is now called a slide, and a page a page, in both languages.

### 1.11 — 2026-09-18

What’s New in 1.11

• Ink edits now stay synchronized across every overlay in the same Beamer frame—including erasing and clearing.

### 1.1 — 2026-09-17

• Your iPhone is now a remote. See your speaker notes, the next slide and the timer in your hand, turn pages, and aim the laser on the projector — paired straight to your iPad, with no shared Wi-Fi and nothing to set up.
• Tabs: keep several decks open at once, drag to reorder, and they reopen where you left off.
• The drawing tools are now the system PencilKit palette. Monoline, fountain pen and pencil join the pen and marker, and you also get an object eraser, a lasso to move ink you have already drawn, a ruler, the full colour picker and a continuous width slider. It floats over the slide, so the notes and next-slide preview got more room.
• Credit packs: add 10 or 30 more decks whenever you need them, alongside the existing unlimited unlock.
• Sharper slides on 4K projectors, better 4:3 handling, and a faster, steadier presenter.
• Many reliability fixes for external displays on iPadOS 27, for switching between decks, and for saved ink.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-16

No release notes.

## More apps by Wei Chen

- [Acadenda](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/acadenda/id6812816802)

All apps by Wei Chen: https://appshunter.io/developer/6810103114

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