Questions and answers

Yes. There is no trial, no subscription and no account. You download it, install it and use all of it for free.

Yes, on purpose. The shortcuts sit on the same keys (well, kind of), so what your fingers already know from Windows works here too. The difference is that Slideturbo is free (and available on Mac).

You need macOS 13 Ventura or later, on Apple silicon or Intel. PowerPoint for Mac from Office 2024 or Microsoft 365 is required. Version 1.0.0 of Slideturbo was tested with PowerPoint 16.113.

No. Slideturbo is for PowerPoint on the Mac only, for now. If you’d use a Windows version, write to hello@slideturbo.com. That’s how we’ll know whether to build one.

Not out of the box. Aligning, distributing and matching sizes are in PowerPoint’s menus, with no key for them. Slideturbo puts them on keys: select some shapes and press ⌃⌘← to line up their left edges, ⌃⌘↑ to line up their tops, ⌃⌘H to space them evenly from left to right and ⌃Z to give them all the size of the first one you selected. The shortcut list has all 26.

With Slideturbo, press ⌃⌘Y, pick a Harvey ball and press Return. It lands in the middle of your selection, in your theme’s colors. Press ⌃T to fill it by another quarter. Check marks, arrows and trackers work the same way. See them all on the elements page.

Yes, of course. Shortcuts are defined in keymap.json in the Slideturbo folder. Change a line’s keys in any text editor, then press Reload shortcuts in Slideturbo’s settings. Updates keep your changes. The shortcut list explains the details step by step.

Harvey balls and symbols take their colors from the deck’s theme, so in your firm’s template they come out in its colors, and they follow if the theme changes. Where one of Slideturbo’s keys is also one of PowerPoint’s own shortcuts, Slideturbo’s wins, and PowerPoint doesn’t show a conflict. Conflicts may arise if other add-ins also use the same keys.

At the end, the installer asks PowerPoint to add Slideturbo to its add-ins and to load it at every start. It does that with PowerPoint’s own commands, the same steps you’d take in Tools › Add-ins. The macOS pop-up just checks with you once before one app gives another instructions.

If you click Don’t Allow, nothing’s broken. PowerPoint opens Slideturbo once and asks whether to enable its macros. Enable them and Slideturbo adds itself. After that PowerPoint loads it at every start without a macro warning.

No. Slideturbo is ready and safe for even your most sensitive and confidential work. There is no analytics, no telemetry, and no crash reports. It goes online only when you press Check for updates in its settings, and that request transfers no information about you or your slides. The privacy notice has the details.

Click the Slideturbo button on PowerPoint’s Home tab, go to Settings and press Check for updates. If there’s a newer version, Slideturbo downloads it and opens the installer. Your shortcuts stay as they are, and the new version starts with PowerPoint’s next start. The changelog gives you all the details.

In Finder, choose Go › Go to Folder, enter ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Slideturbo and double-click Uninstall Slideturbo.command. It takes Slideturbo out of PowerPoint’s add-ins and deletes exactly the files it installed. Quit and reopen PowerPoint to finish.