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Pinpoint

Pinpoint is a presentation program, available on Linux: effects and transitions. Old edition (2015).

Completely free
Linux
Open source
Old edition (2015)

Old edition: the latest known version (0.1.8) dates from 22 September 2015. It is no longer recommended as current software; the package date does not mean the software is still maintained.

Overview

Pinpoint is a presentation program, available on Linux.

Old edition: the latest known version (0.1.8) dates from 2015; it is no longer presented as current software.

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: effects and transitions.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Pinpoint a simple presentation tool that hopes to avoid audience death by bullet point and instead encourage presentations containing beautiful images and small amounts of concise text in slides.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
“Transitions, extendable through json” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
“PDF export” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Pinpoint is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (LGPL-2.1+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

Pinpoint a simple presentation tool that hopes to avoid audience death by bullet point and instead encourage presentations containing beautiful images and small amounts of concise text in slides. Some of pinpoints core features are: Text position. Styling of font, text-color, contrast background and text positioning for global default and per slide overrides. Image backgrounds Video backgrounds Pango markup inside slides Transitions, extendable through json PDF export Embedding commands to run for demos in slides, with editable commandline during presentation. Monitoring of source file with live updates of changed slide for authoring

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Last technical check: 9 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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