slides

Presentations, kept private

Write decks in a focused slide editor and present full-screen when it counts. Your slides live on your device and sync end-to-end encrypted only when you choose. And when a deck is due, Pax can compose it with you.

Free license includes the full local app. No credit card required.

a slide deck open in the blackbear desktop app

What you can do

A focused slide editor

Headings, lists, code, and images on clean slides. Add, reorder, and duplicate slides as the story takes shape.

Presenter mode

Present full-screen from the app with keyboard navigation. What you rehearse is exactly what the room sees.

Images on your slides

Drop images straight onto slides. They travel with the deck, offline and encrypted like everything else.

Build decks together

Share a deck and edit it live with presence and cursors, end-to-end encrypted, with roles for who can edit and who can only view.

Decks beside your notes

Slides live in the same private workspace as your notes, docs, and sheets: outline in a note, then turn the thinking into a deck without switching apps.

Private by architecture

Local-first: decks are yours, on your device, with no account required. Cloud sync is optional and end-to-end encrypted.

With Pax

Ask Pax for a deck and you get real slides, not a wall of text: Pax composes presentations from a prompt or from your notes, adds and rewrites slides in place while keeping the deck's structure intact, and previews its slides right in the conversation.

You stay in control of what Pax sees: mark any file, folder, or tag as read-only or hidden, and review every restriction in Settings.

How blackbear compares

vs PowerPoint

blackbear is free, with no subscription. Decks live beside your notes, docs, and sheets in one encrypted workspace instead of a separate Office silo.

vs Google Slides

blackbear works offline and keeps decks on your device, encrypted end-to-end in the cloud. No Google account, and your slides never feed an ad business.

vs Gamma

AI deck-building without the upload: Pax composes slides inside a workspace that stays yours, instead of on someone else's server.

Build your next deck in private

A free presentation maker with presenter mode, live co-editing, and Pax to compose slides with you. Free. Private. Yours.

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