Keynote

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Keynote, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 10 complaints

Exporting and importing vector graphics is cumbersome, only possible via PDF2025-06-01
Paste without formatting drops styling when copying individual elements in Keynote2023-11-04
Right arrow key presses are ignored when advancing slides too quickly2022-08-19
Collaborating on Keynote in the browser with custom fonts is not a great experience2022-02-19
Collaborative editing crashes constantly, forcing file sharing with version numbers and notes2020-10-27
Upgrade locked user out of their own presentation files, forcing a repurchase2015-11-13
Old presentations cannot be opened, forcing purchase of obsolete hardware or a workaround2014-03-17
Round-tripping slides to desktop takes many steps and produces slide differences that are hard to fix2013-08-02
Keynote iPad app was hard to use; getting images in right order was a pain2012-10-09
Hard to find the option to set exact pixel dimensions2011-05-07