Atelier Dazzle vs Noter

Build and present slideshows on iPhone and iPad, and use your Apple Watch as the remote. Dazzle opens and saves PowerPoint presentations (.pptx, .pptm, and .ppsx) in place. Build your slides, add animations, and present on a connected display with your notes and the time in front of you. Slides - Open and save .pptx, .pptm, and .ppsx presentations - A thumbnail for every slide: tap to go to it, drag to reorder, press and hold for more - Find and replace text across the deck - Insert text boxes, shapes, tables, charts, photos, and videos - Column, bar, line, area, pie, doughnut, and scatter charts, with stacked and percent-stacked layouts for column, bar, line, and area - Fills with colors, gradients, or pictures - Links to web pages, to other slides, or to the next, previous, first, and last slides - Comments with replies, and speaker notes - Embedded fonts in a file are used to display it and stay in the file when you save Animation and Timing - Entrance, emphasis, exit, and motion path animations, including fade, fly, wipe, zoom, float, and pulse - Animations play in order as you tap through the slideshow - Advance on click, or after a set number of seconds, for one slide or all of them Presenting - Show the slideshow on a connected display, with the presenter view on your device - The presenter view shows the current and next slide, your notes, and the time - Use Apple Watch to go to the next or previous slide, start or end the show, and blank the screen Export - Export as PDF, as images (PNG or JPEG), or as a video - Export the current slide, all slides, or chosen ones, and include hidden slides if you want them

Share a link, some text, a photo or a PDF to Noter and it becomes a note. The share sheet saves it straight away, without opening the app, and the note shows up on your other devices. A note with a link gets a preview card with the page's title, image and description. GitHub, Reddit, YouTube, Hacker News and X links also get a detail line, like stars, points, comments or the channel. If you add an API key from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google Gemini, Noter writes a title, a short summary and tags for each note you share. The key stays in your keychain and the request goes from your phone straight to that provider. Edit the title or body yourself and Noter leaves your text alone. The rest is a plain notes app: 1. Pinned notes on top, then the most recent. 2. Search over titles, bodies, tags and link previews. 3. Tags that suggest the ones you already use, each with its own color. 4. Pin, archive, share or delete from the note's menu. A delete can be undone for six seconds, or by shaking the phone. 5. Home and lock screen widgets for pinned notes, recent notes, or a new note. Notes sync through your private iCloud database. Noter has no account, no analytics and no server of mine in the middle. Noter for Mac is free and open source at github.com/hex/Noter. It keeps your notes as a row of dots on the edge of the screen, and has a command line and an MCP server, so coding agents can read and write notes too.