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patat	sent
Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0-or-later license.	Free Free software from the suckless project.
macOS, Linux, Command line	Linux
Reads Markdown and several other document formats Supports incremental slides and speaker notes	Slides are plain text files Automatically scales content to fit the window
Presentations run in a terminal Image support is experimental	Requires X11, Xlib, and Xft No animations or export function
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0-or-later	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 8, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 8, 2026

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