Keynote 2.0 for iOS review: Updated presentation app adds power, flexibility
Compared to Keynote 6 for OS X, which suffers from significant missing features even as it adds new capabilities, the upgrade to Keynote for iOS 2.0 is more clearly a win. The new mobile Keynote drops only a few transitions and builds (mostly the same ones removed from the desktop Keynote), while adding new animations, more than doubling the number of preinstalled themes, and including several useful new features.
Keynote for iOS version 2 adopts the new iOS 7 design language and rearranges a few features, but otherwise looks and acts very much like its predecessor. If you liked Keynote for iOS before, you'll almost certainly like this version better. And if (by choice or necessity) you've moved to Keynote 6 on the Mac, you'll find that sharing presentations between platforms is far smoother than before, with no loss of formatting (fonts not present in iOS being a notable exception). The OS X, iOS, and iCloud.com Web app versions of Keynote now use exactly the same file format, so you can start a presentation on any platform and edit it on another without messages telling you that you'll lose formatting unless you work on a copy.
Keynote for iOS 2 looks much like its predecessor, except for iOS 7 styling and a few new and rearranged features.
This is not to say the iOS version of Keynote now has all the features of the OS X version. On an iOS device, you still can't edit master slides, change a paragraph's before/after spacing, or use custom bullet characters, for instance. Although you can apply user-defined paragraph and graphic styles created on a Mac, you can't create new styles or edit existing styles. Nor can you access the new character or list styles of the OS X version. But these are mostly fiddly things that won't prevent you from making (or updating) high-quality presentations on your iOS device.
You can apply existing paragraph styles to your text, but not create or edit styles. Character and list styles are absent altogether.
However, a few interesting new features have appeared. You can now (on any platform) create interactive charts, which let you step through your data during a presentation one row or column at a time and watch as the chart updates dynamically. The iOS version of Keynote also inherits Instant Alpha from its OS X sibling, enabling you to make all or part of an image's background transparent. (It's not as precise using a fingertip on an iPhone as with a trackpad or mouse on a Mac, but it works.) And, as on a Mac, you can now add one or more tracks from your iTunes library to create a soundtrack from your presentation.
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