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

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.

There is also Kova for md based presentations. It's available for macOS, Windows and Linux and uses Marp internally IMO. (I might be wrong there.)

It's here on GH: https://github.com/KovaMD/Kova