Copresent - Turn your phone into a Google Slides remote
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Copresent turns your phone into a Google Slides remote - swipe to advance, notes on screen. Need to co-present? Share one link and up to 10 people drive the same deck from any device. No app or account for guests.
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A presenter view with a timer and slide thumbnails would be huge. Right now if I lose my place in a 40 slide deck I have to flip back through my phone blind. Maybe a tiny next slide preview strip at the bottom of the notes view?
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@nurcanzalp1zl8 thanks for a valuable feedback. Currently co-presenters can see the current slide preview but I guess the next slide is more valuable 🤔
@PT that's exactly the answer I was hoping for, live sync on notes even mid-presentation is a genuinely useful edge case to have covered rather than punted on. curious what's next on your roadmap - are you thinking about supporting other deck formats beyond Google Slides (PowerPoint online, Keynote) or staying focused on Slides for now?
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@omri_ben_shoham1 for now I'm planning to build more features, specifically for Q&A so presenters on stage can see questions from the audience on their phones inside the clicker. After that will be looking into PowerPoint online and potentially Figma Slides.
Do you see Copresent remaining a lightweight Google Slides companion, or do you envision becoming the collaboration layer for presentations regardless of platform (PowerPoint, Keynote, Canva, Figma, etc.)?
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@tarqiya_forgah thanks for your question! After I add more essential features to Google Slides, I'm planning to expand to other platforms.
the no-account-for-guests part is the right call for friction, but doesn't that cut both ways on the security side? if the link gets forwarded in a group chat or someone screenshots it during a public talk, anyone holding it can jump in and start driving the deck with zero identity attached. is there any way to revoke a specific guest mid-session, or does the host have to kill the whole link and reissue a new one to everyone
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@galdayan good question! Every co-presenter that joins needs to provide their name so the host can identify them in the host controller. I'm adding a new feature soon that will allow hosts to remove co-presenters they didn't invite.
@highlystatic That covers it well - didn't expect removal to already be planned, that's the right fix. One follow-up: when a host removes a co-presenter, does that guest lose write access on the next sync, or do they get force-disconnected right away? Asking because if it's the former there's a small window where a removed guest could still push one more slide change before losing control.
@pt live Q&A from the audience straight into the clicker view is a smart next step, way more useful than just next/prev slide. would that show up as a running list you scroll through mid-talk, or more like a single "next question" prompt so you're not tempted to read a wall of text while presenting
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A tool I didn't know I needed. 🥨 Congrats on the launch!
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@spela_juric thanks 🙏