Keynote Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience61.7% of reviews
Neutral7.5% of reviews
Negative experience30.8% of reviews

~ Based on 3,936 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Keynote

Is Keynote Safe?

Keynote: Design Presentations appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Keynote is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 83,242 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

83.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
10.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 83,242 App Store ratings for Keynote.

Is Keynote Legit?

Keynote: Design Presentations appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Keynote is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Too Hard

How Can I Make Presentations???

We used this in Year 4; moreover, I love it!🍒✨😛

We used this for our stop motion animation lessons and now, I use it for my iPad documentaries! Thanks Apple for making this app! I love it alongside with GarageBand, iMovie, Numbers and Apple Music. 🐞🦋😛🧈🍒😊🤭🪷🦄✨

What the HELL!

I was renaming a presentation when it asked me if I wanted to remove “key”. I THOUGHT IT MEANT IN THE TITLE! now I lost it forever!

Unintuitive and buggy

Multiple issues like can’t select color of text and then type, cannot see the top of a slide when zoomed in, animation issues …

Collaborations is broken

Most people’s negative reviews seem to focus on the new subscription model but that’s really a non-issue as you can just ignore it to continue to use the same features as always. People are just knee jerking there. The actual problem with Numbers/Pages/Keynote is that a major feature is supposed to be the ability to collaborate on documents with other people in iCloud, yet seemingly every single app version roll-out and now even macOS version roll-out suddenly disables that collaboration until everyone updates. This kind of volatility makes reliable day-to-day collaboration in any working group unreliable and not practical. Especially given that OS updates are far from trivial to perform. In the end these apps remain toys, crippled by the inability to grasp priorities in design and features that has plagued Apple since Jobs died. Despite all owning Macs we have no choice but to stumble forward with Google’s online offerings.
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BAD AI and BUGS GALORE

Keynote is far superior to PowerPoint, but the newest release of this app has so many graphical bugs that are infuriating. And the AI features are half cocked and unnecessary.

Upgrade… then constant crashing!

Every time I hit the “edit slide master” the application quits. I have recreated one presentation 3x now. And still it does this. I now just need to create it in PowerPoint. I no longer trust this application.

Keynote

It’s really good because you can make presentations and the quality of the presentation is so good.

Super Buggy

Crashes whenever slide templates are opened.

This app is great for school, work or just for fun!

The app has fun features and it’s perfect for kids and adults :D

Un bug avec airdrop

Quand je reçois des fichier Key sur mon iPhone, Keynote les ouvrent tous directement d'affilés. Après c'est le dernier qui est ouvert qui sera transferer. Les autres ont tous disparus. Du coup je dois envoyer les fichiers un à un pour que ça marche et c'est très agaçant quand je dois recevoymes cours👎👎
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Bugs

Really? This app crush after button «
Edit slide layout»

Worse than last year,

There are important features that were removed from previous versions of Keynote that now make drawing sketches worse, the drawn line and Filler color isolation options were removed now when you select both, there’s only one color swatch that affects both. The App is more stiff and has been an unnecessary hassle to work with.
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A Tainted Brand: When Apple Prioritizes Upsells Over Ecosystem Trust

I get the business rationale. SaaS keeps recurring revenue high, but at what true cost? This isn’t a complaint about a monthly fee for Creator Studio; it’s a critique of Apple’s shift away from a hardware-first philosophy.

For years, the strength of the Apple ecosystem was the uncompromised out-of-the-box experience. Bundling premium pro tools into a separate standalone suite—the way Adobe or any third-party developer operates—would have been clean and respectable. Instead, Apple injected SaaS upsells directly into native iWork apps like Pages, forcing daily users to navigate constant reminders of paywalled features.

It splits the user base and deliberately manufactures artificial FOMO inside basic core utilities. The issue isn't affordability—it's intention. By blurring the line between essential operating tools and persistent monetized upsells, Apple has compromised its core brand identity and reduced its premium, integrated user experience to feel like just another nickel-and-diming platform.
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Don’t care for this business model

I’m not really excited about paying rent for the same application I have been using for free. Apple, you’re going to have to choose between over-charging for electronics or over-charging on software; you don’t get to do both.

I prefer PowerPoint to this

Unusable. Can’t change fonts of text size. Try again.

My friends got premium for free. How is that fair?

No

77

I like it

Creative Studio UI

I am not currently paying for Creative Studio subscription but I don’t like seeing all the CS features highlighted in purple and all the other ads in the app. I feel like I am being shamed for not subscribing.

Horrible

Idk what to do on this app it killed my dog and my cat it also likes to ask me “do you want to turn live feed off?” And I’m like no I put it there for a good reason if you agree write one for me.