Keep your Keynote animations when you share the deck
You built the deck around timing: a Magic Move here, a video that starts on the transition, a line that appears when you say it. A PDF keeps none of that. The HTML export keeps almost all of it.
What a PDF throws away
PDF export flattens each slide to one image. Builds collapse into their final state, transitions vanish, video becomes a poster frame, and audio disappears. It is fine for printing and wrong for anything you designed to move.
What the HTML export preserves
Apple's HTML export writes a folder with index.html and an assets folder, and plays the deck with Keynote's own web player. Per Apple's documentation, animations, builds, transitions, hyperlinks, and embedded audio and video are included.
What Linkdeck adds on top
The export is a folder on your Mac. Linkdeck turns it into something you can send.
- Hosting on a CDN with a link that opens in any browser, no Keynote and no Apple ID for the viewer.
- A mobile player: landscape, full screen, tap to advance, video playing inside the slide on iPhone and Android.
- Audio held until the first tap, since browsers block sound before a user interaction.
- On Pro: per-slide analytics, password, email gate, comments, replace in place, and your studio on the end card.
What still does not come across
Presenter notes and the presenter display are part of the Keynote app, not the export. Fonts that are not embedded by Keynote may render with a fallback in some browsers. Anything relying on a Keynote Remote or live camera feed will not work in a browser.
Test before you send
Open index.html from the export folder in Safari and step through the deck. If a build looks different from Keynote, adjust it and export again. What you see locally is what the viewer sees at the link.
Step by step
- File → Export To → HTML… in Keynote for Mac.
- Right-click the export folder → Compress.
- Upload the .zip on linkdeck.me and send the link.
Questions
Do Magic Move and build order survive?
Keynote exports its animations and transitions to the HTML player, including the order you set. Anything unusual is worth a local test: open index.html in Safari before uploading.
Does the music start automatically?
Not until the viewer taps. Browsers block audio before the first interaction, so Linkdeck queues it and starts it on the first tap.
Does this work for PowerPoint animations?
No. This is a Keynote feature and Linkdeck hosts Keynote HTML exports only.
Send the version that moves
Export to HTML, zip it, upload it free, and open the link on your phone to watch the builds run.