Presentations that lay themselves out.

Pick a Smart Qard — a timeline, an org chart, a funnel — type what you want to say, and Qards arranges it for you, in any of 64 themes.

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Free and open source. No account. Your work stays on your device.

A Venn diagram qard in the Forest theme A kanban board qard in the Kids theme An organisation chart qard in the Couture theme A project roadmap qard in the Neon theme The title qard of the example presentation, Meet Qards
The Qards editor showing a project roadmap qard, the list of qards and the inspector

Smart Qards do the layout.

123 layouts in 16 categories. Add an item and everything re-flows. Switch to another layout and your words come with you.

Some layouts read your content: timelines put milestones in date order, org charts build themselves from who reports to whom, and kanban boards sort cards into their columns. Charts, tables and KPIs take your numbers — paste them straight from a spreadsheet.

  • Titles and structure
  • Text and content
  • Lists and cards
  • Comparisons
  • Quotes and stories
  • Dates and timelines
  • Processes and workflows
  • Diagrams
  • People and teams
  • Charts and data
  • Tables
  • KPIs and metrics
  • Strategy and planning
  • Pictures and media
  • Maps and locations
  • Closing and next steps
Project roadmap
Milestone tracker
Flowchart
Organisation chart
Kanban board
Funnel
Calendar month
Venn diagram
Arrow process
Quadrant (2×2)
Key date countdown
Pricing comparison
Column chart
KPIs with trends
Progress rings
Dashboard
Price list
SWOT analysis
Locations map
Route map
Countries map
Map with list
The chart data editor, with numbers pasted from a spreadsheet A Locations Map qard with pins on London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and São Paulo

Numbers and places, handled.

Charts, tables, KPIs and maps are Smart Qards too, so they follow your theme and re-flow when you change it.

  • Charts from a spreadsheet

    Columns, bars, lines, areas, pies and donuts. Copy cells from Excel or Google Sheets and paste them in; the colours come from the theme.

  • Tables and KPIs

    Price lists, scorecards, big numbers, trend arrows, progress bars and rings that fill to the number you type.

  • Maps that know the world

    Type a city or a country and the pin goes there — every country and about 400 cities, in nine regions, even offline.

64 themes. One click restyles every qard.

Fonts, colours, cards and artwork change together, and each theme comes with several palettes. Need your brand? The theme maker builds a theme of your own and saves it as a file you can share.

  • Corporate
  • Neon
  • Couture
  • Kids
  • Forest
  • Festival
  • Brutalist
  • Art Deco
  • Blueprint
  • Aurora
  • Annual Report
  • Summit

Make it your own.

Every theme and Smart Qard layout in Qards is built from the same open files you can make yourself — no plug-ins, no code.

  • Theme maker

    Design → Make theme starts from any theme. Pick fonts, colours and palettes, text sizes, card style and background art, with a live preview. Save it to your themes or share it as a .qtheme file.

  • Your own layouts

    A Smart Qard layout is a .qlayout file that says where each part goes and how items repeat. Write one, or ask an AI assistant with the layout prompt below, then add it with Design → Import.

  • Brand kit

    Your logo, colours and fonts on top of any theme. Change theme whenever you like — your brand stays.

Read the format guide →
The Qards theme maker: fonts, palettes, text sizes and a live preview

Made for the moment you present.

Everything you need on stage, from the first click to the last question.

  • Animations and Magic Move

    Bring objects in one click at a time, reveal a list item by item, or let shapes glide from one qard to the next.

  • Presenter view

    Your notes, a timer and the next qard in a second window while the audience sees only your slides.

  • Rehearse with a clock

    Practise once, keep the timings, and let the show move on by itself.

  • Laser pointer and pen

    Point at what matters, or draw on a qard while you talk.

  • Diagrams that stay connected

    Join two shapes with a connector and it follows them wherever you move them.

  • Private by default

    No sign-up and no cloud. Presentations are saved in your browser and work offline.

  • Open file formats

    Presentations, themes and layouts are plain files that anyone can read, write and share.

  • Export anywhere

    Save as PDF, PowerPoint with editable text and charts, pictures, or a video of your presentation.

  • Opens PowerPoint

    Bring your .pptx files across — text, pictures, tables, charts and notes come with them.

  • Works offline

    Install Qards as an app and keep presenting with no connection, on a plane or on stage.

  • Starter decks

    Pitch deck, project update, quarterly review, lesson, launch and more — replace the words and go.

  • Version history

    Qards keeps earlier versions as you work. Go back to any of them in two clicks.

  • Any size

    Widescreen, 4:3, square, portrait and vertical for social posts — layouts adapt to each.

Bring your own AI.

Qards has no AI built in and never sends your work anywhere. Its files are open instead, so ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other assistant can write a whole presentation, theme or layout for you.

Or connect it directly with MCP

AI apps that support the Model Context Protocol, such as Claude Desktop and Claude Code, can use the free Qards MCP server to create and edit presentations on your computer: add qards, rewrite them, change the theme. Open the file in Qards with File → Link file and watch the changes arrive as the AI works.

Set up the MCP server →

  1. Copy a prompt

    Pick one below — they’re also in the app under File → AI prompts.

  2. Describe what you need

    Paste it into your assistant and fill in your topic, audience and length.

  3. Open the result

    Save the reply as a file and open it with File → Import. Every qard is editable.


          

        

      


      

        

          

            
Free and open source.

            
Qards is MIT-licensed and built in the open by Lee Wen Yang (Mike). Read the code, report a problem, or contribute a theme or a layout.

            

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123
Smart Qard layouts

            
64
themes with 256 palettes

            
196
fonts that work offline

            
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now and later

          

        

      


      

        

          
Your next presentation starts here.

           Launch Qards
          
Opens an example presentation the first time — or start from a starter deck, or a blank qard.