Slides, without the ribbon.
Frame is a lightweight, native presentation app for Linux and macOS. It opens PowerPoint decks, lets you edit them on the slide or as an outline, shows them full screen, and saves them back without touching what you didn't change.
Download- PowerPoint files.pptx decks, opened as they look, played with F5.
- Fewer stepsA four-slide deck in 15 keys and clicks; PowerPoint's shortest documented way takes 21.
- Only your editsEverything you didn't change is saved as it was.
Install
For your user, no sudo, on Linux or a Mac. Run the command again to update.
curl -fsSL https://this-site/install.sh | sh
On Linux it installs the app, its menu entry, and .pptx files opening with it; start it from your app menu or with frame. It needs GTK 4, which GNOME desktops have; otherwise the installer says how to get it.
On a Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or later, it puts Frame in your Applications folder, with everything it needs inside. PowerPoint presentations list Frame under Open With; to open them with Frame by default, select one in Finder, then File > Get Info > Open with > Change All.
To remove it:
curl -fsSL https://this-site/install.sh | sh -s -- --uninstall
Downloads
- No release published yet
From the DMG: open it and drag Frame to Applications. Frame isn't notarized by Apple yet, so the first time you open it macOS says it can't check it. On macOS 15 or later, open System Settings > Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway beside Frame's name; on macOS 14, Control-click Frame in Applications and choose Open. Or run this once in Terminal:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Frame.app
The install command needs none of this: what curl downloads isn't flagged. Check a download against its sha256 with shasum -a 256 on a Mac or sha256sum on Linux.