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

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.