Academic talks with real references, on Mac, iPhone and iPad

ScholarSlides is an academic presentation app for Mac, iPhone and iPad. It prepares a talk with real references from a topic, your own study or a set of papers: an AI model writes the plan, an image model draws every slide in the style you choose, and speaker notes are added.

A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 13 (Ventura) or later, and iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 17 or later. There is no Windows or Android version for now.

Yes: planning and drawing run at the AI service you choose. One OpenRouter key is enough; an OpenAI or a Gemini key also works on its own, and an Anthropic (Claude) key plans only. Keys are stored in the device’s Keychain, and the Mac can pass its keys to an iPhone or iPad with a QR code.

The AI service charges the key’s owner for what they use, and the app shows the estimated cost and time before every job. For example, by the app’s own estimate the plan, slides and speaker notes of a 20-slide talk come to about US$2 with the default models (Claude Opus 5.5 through OpenRouter, GPT Image 2.5 Flare through OpenAI) and about US$4 with a single OpenRouter key (Nano Banana Pro draws the slides). It is an estimate; the cost depends on the models you choose.

“Find sources” finds the papers in PubMed and Europe PMC, and slides can cite only the papers you selected. Each slide that uses a source gets a short source line in its corner, and a references slide closes the talk. You see and correct the plan before anything is drawn; AI can be wrong, so check the talk before you use it.

Yes: add up to 5 files as PDF, Word (DOCX), TXT or Markdown; a figure or table from a PDF can go on a slide as it is, with its source line. In a case presentation, text and images are scanned on the device for patient data before anything is sent; the scan helps but does not guarantee anonymisation.

Yes, with the editable PowerPoint (beta): titles and key points become real text boxes with the plan’s text, pictures become separate objects, and you can correct a box’s text by hand in the app before you save. In the PowerPoint with notes each slide is a picture; you can also save a PDF, an A4 handout, or a single slide as PNG or JPEG.

Your presentations and keys stay on your device, and there is no account. Content goes only to the services you choose, only when you use a feature; no data comes to us. Details are in the privacy policy.

Planning, drawing and “Find sources” need the internet: that work happens at the AI service, PubMed and Europe PMC. Opening a deck, presenting it and saving it as a PDF or a PowerPoint with notes work offline, and the Wi-Fi sync needs a shared local network, not the internet.

The app’s interface is in Turkish or English. The talk’s language is chosen separately: English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese or Korean.

Coming soon to the App Store; now in closed beta, with the iPhone and iPad app on TestFlight. The app’s own price will be announced with the App Store release; the AI costs go to the service you choose with your own key. Interested? Write to support@scholarslides.app.

In Slides → Notes, “Write missing notes (N)” writes the notes of every slide that has none in one go; “Write missing speaker notes” in the “…” menu does the same. For one slide, press “Write notes” in the same tab, or “Write by hand” to type them yourself.

In Slides → Edit, type what should change in the “Visual edit” box and press “Apply”: only that changes, and the previous version stays in History. To draw it again from scratch, use “Regenerate”; to change only this slide’s look, fill in “Style for this slide” and press “Regenerate with these settings”.

The slides already drawn stay in the deck; “Generate N Missing” in Slides draws only the slides that have no picture yet. On the iPhone and iPad a notice also says the generation stopped halfway; its “Generate the remaining N slides” does the same.

The box’s button opens the service’s page: “Add credit” when the credit ran out, “Raise limit” when a spending limit was reached; the service’s own message is under “Details”. Once it is fixed, “Generate the remaining N slides” carries on where the run stopped.

On the Mac, Settings → Keys → “Send to iPhone or iPad…” shows a QR code. On the iPhone or iPad, point the Camera at it, tap the “ScholarSlides” link and confirm with “Import”; the code carries your keys, so scan it only with your own device.

On the Mac, Settings → iPhone/iPad → “Pair with iPhone or iPad…” shows a QR code; with both devices on the same Wi-Fi, scan it with the Camera and confirm with “Pair”. After that the iPhone or iPad syncs by itself when the app comes to the front and when a job ends; ScholarSlides must be open on the Mac.

In the “Export” menu or in the slide’s own menu (on the Mac, right-click its thumbnail in the slide strip; on the iPhone and iPad, the slide’s “…” menu), choose “Save this slide as an image”, then PNG or JPEG. It is saved at full resolution.

In the Style step, choose “My own image…” to pick a picture; the slides are drawn in that style. For colours, pick one of the “Suggested pairs” under “Colour theme”, or choose five colours yourself with “New palette”; “Save to favourites” keeps a palette for other decks.

In the PPTX step, prepare the slide (“Prepare this slide”), then in the “Editable” preview double-click the box on the Mac, or tap it on the iPhone and iPad; correct the text and press “Done”. The text is fitted to its box, “Restore original text” puts it back as it was, and “Save PowerPoint” writes the file.

The play button in the top bar (▷, “Play deck”; ⌥⌘P on the Mac) opens the talk full screen. The arrow keys, the space bar, a tap or a click move on; the notes button or N shows the speaker notes, and × or Esc leaves the talk.