It’s still weaker than other presentation apps, and I’ve spent hours moving items around to create the right flow-but at least now, it’s feasible. Version 7.1 offered up one of the most significant changes: an Object List that made creating complicated builds vastly easier, as selecting and ordering items in the build was a frustrating process that lead to literal head-to-desk slamming. Version 7.0 added a beta of collaborative real-time editing. Apple continued to push forward development through incremental releases from 7.0 to 7.3, which restored a number of features that we found lacking in 6.5.3.
We haven’t reviewed Keynote since version 6.5.3 in 2015, so it’s worth a look of what’s changed since then. The latest release for Mac brings it up to date with simultaneous releases of Keynote for iOS and Pages ( Mac and iOS) and Numbers. Keynote 8 for Mac hasn’t reached the apex of its perfection, but Apple clearly didn’t have a wishlist of features to push it forward.
