Convert Keynote to PDF
Turn a Keynote (.key) file — Apple Keynote's own format — into a PDF, one slide per page.
How it works
- Drag and drop your Keynote (.key) files below.
- Reorder them if needed.
- Click Convert to download as a PDF file.
What this tool does to your file
An Apple Keynote presentation is read and written to a PDF anyone can open, including people with no Apple device — which matters for this format, since almost nothing outside Apple’s own software reads .key at all. It carries the text of the deck rather than a picture of each slide: backgrounds, exact positioning, animations and presenter notes are not reproduced, and no fonts are embedded, so characters outside Latin-1 become question marks. For slides that look as they do on screen, use the Keynote-to-picture tool instead. Apple never registered a media type for .key, so browsers outside macOS report it as a generic zip or as nothing at all and the upload declares the type on your behalf. The package is compressed, so the ceiling that applies is inflation while reading, capped at 200 MB.
What happens to your files
- No account needed — Every tool works as a guest. Signing in raises the limits and keeps your files together, but nothing asks you to register before you get a result.
- It runs in your browser — There is nothing to install and nothing to keep up to date. Files travel to our servers over an encrypted connection, and come back the same way.
- Your files stay yours — Files and results stay in your account until you delete them. Files from a guest session that is never linked to an account are removed automatically after a period of inactivity.
- Size limits, stated up front — Up to 10 MB per file as a guest, and up to 25 MB signed in. You see the limit before you upload, not after.