List of markdown presentation tools

markdown-for-slide-decks.md

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

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)

Try https://slidepicker.com

Use a long time ago and still efficient :

sent : https://tools.suckless.org/sent/

Thanks for keeping this list alive. Since a few of the hosted ones like are dead, I figured I'd share the one I've been building:

https://typedeck.io

it’s Markdown -> slides with a bunch of themes, layouts, PowerPoint and pdf export, etc. I’m still working on it, but thought it might fit the 'Hosted Services' category. I’d be grateful for feedback or feature requests!

for CLI: https://github.com/zenomt/mdslides (sample presentation: https://zenomt.github.io/mdslides/mdslides.html )

it generates pure HTML+CSS presentations (no JavaScript). it's just a CSS stylesheet and an 8 line Awk script to replace slide delimiters with HTML to work with the stylesheet. bring your own (CommonMark) Markdown formatter (i like MD4C's md2html).

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

sli.dev is flexible and feature-reach but bloated anti-minimalist solution. It serves full-blown local Nuxt website.

Tried example https://github.com/loftkun/slidev-example.

node_modules occupies 400 MB.

• @iconfify: 128MB
  • noto.json: 24MB, emojione-v1.json: 22MB...
• monaco-editor: 83MB
• pdf-lib: 22MB
• . . . . .

export to pdf uses PlayWright with chromium browser to render! This approach is bloated and slow.

Couldn't configure proxy for external assets download during render: the solution didn't work for me.

On the other hand https://github.com/yhatt/marp-cli-example:

• Just do npm i and edit PITCHME.md.

• node_modules: only 130MB

  • mathjax-full: 43MB
  • chromium-bidi: 14MB
  • puppeteer-core: 12MB
  • . . . . .

• VSCode preview plugin!

• Build to PDF is much faster, no errors with proxy (for proxy just install proxychains, configure it and prefix command with it: proxychains npm run pdf)

  • Build to pdf for marp-cli-example, package.json:

  "scripts": {
    "pdf": "marp --no-stdin PITCHME.md -o public/presentation.pdf",

• If you want to fit long text just write scope CSS rule: <style scoped>section { font-size: 20px; }</style> inside the markdown slide: marp-team/marp-core#128 (comment)

• Disable slides transition effects with transition: false in marp.config.mjs.

MDPR is another Markdown presentation option worth adding: https://github.com/ch040602/MdPr. It is focused on deterministic Markdown-to-editable-PowerPoint output, with HTML/PDF previews and visual validation. There is also an optional Codex companion, mdpr-skill, for semantic review hints and rendered-output critique: https://github.com/ch040602/mdpr-skill.