The notes display
PowerPoint never built.
Presenter Notes Ninja takes long presenter notes, breaks them into readable cue pages, and syncs them with your slides and clicks — on a dedicated monitor, in text the presenter can actually read. No tiny box. No scrolling. No backstage panic.
PowerPoint’s notes box
wasn’t built for a show.
In a laptop demo, tiny presenter notes are fine. In a live show, a 500-word speech on a 6pt notes pane is a disaster waiting to happen. The presenter squints, scrolls, loses the place. The operator can’t help. Presenter Notes Ninja solves this properly — readable pages, on a real screen, following the show.
One slide.
As many pages as it needs.
Long notes are automatically split into pages that fill the presenter monitor at the font size you choose. No word breaks, no cut-off sentences. Each page shows a counter — Slide 12 — Notes 1 of 3 — so the presenter always knows where they are and what’s coming.
Big text.
Right size.
Set a font size that fills the screen comfortably — 24pt, 28pt, 36pt, whatever the presenter needs. Presenter Notes Ninja calculates how much text fits per page and splits accordingly. No truncation, no overflow, no guessing.
During the show, the operator advances notes pages with a keystroke or button. Pages go forward and backward independently of slide changes — so the presenter can revisit a point without moving to the next slide.
The notes follow
the show.
Hidden animation cues are inserted into your PowerPoint deck so the notes display advances automatically with your slides and clicks. No manual coordination between the operator and the notes screen. The show fires — the notes keep up.
Notes cues
in the deck.
Presenter Notes Ninja inserts hidden animation triggers directly into your PowerPoint slides. When the operator fires a click — either to advance the slide or trigger an animation — the notes display responds automatically. One button does both jobs.
The notes also stay in step with slide changes. Move to the next slide and the notes display immediately shows the first page of that slide’s notes. No resync needed, no manual reset between slides.
The operator can also navigate notes pages independently — useful when a presenter needs to go back mid-speech without changing the slide.
Your screen.
Every time.
Choose which monitor shows the notes display. Set the font size. Arrange the layout — notes only, or with current slide and next slide for a familiar presenter-view feel. Settings are remembered between sessions so you don’t rebuild the setup for every show.
Set once.
Shows up right.
Pick the output monitor from a list of detected displays. The notes display opens there — full screen, no overlap with the presentation output. Set the font size to what the presenter needs. Choose a layout that works for the room.
The notes layout supports a familiar presenter-view style: current slide thumbnail on the left, next slide below it, notes text taking the rest of the screen. Or strip it back to notes only for maximum readability.
Everything is saved. Reopen the deck tomorrow and the display comes up the same way it was. No explaining the setup to the next operator on the show.
Four steps to
show-safe notes.
From opening a deck to running the show. The setup takes a few minutes the first time — then it remembers everything.
Open your PowerPoint deck. Presenter Notes Ninja reads all the slide notes automatically. No import, no export, no copy-paste.
Choose your presenter monitor, set a font size, pick a layout. The tool shows you a live preview of how the pages will look at that size.
Notes are paginated and hidden animation cues are inserted into the deck. One click prepares the whole show.
The show starts. Notes pages follow every slide change and animation click — automatically. The presenter reads. You stay in control.
Export Notes produces autocue-ready scripts for shows that run a separate teleprompt screen. Works directly with Cued Up — live-event teleprompting and script writing for conferences and broadcasts.
One annual licence.
All features included.
Annual subscription. 7-day offline grace period — install on your show machine and it stays licensed between events.
The show-safe presenter notes display for live-event PowerPoint. Big text, readable pages, synced to your show.
- ✓ Auto-split long notes into readable cue pages
- ✓ Adjustable font size — reflows and repaginates instantly
- ✓ Slide X — Notes Y of Z counter on display
- ✓ Forward and backward page navigation
- ✓ Hidden animation cues inserted into the deck
- ✓ Syncs with slide changes and animation clicks
- ✓ Output screen selector — choose the presenter monitor
- ✓ Current slide + next slide thumbnail layout
- ✓ Export Notes — Word / PDF / TXT for autocue and print
- ✓ Display settings saved per deck
- ✓ 7-day offline licence grace period
Presenter Notes Ninja plus the full Backstage suite (20+ specialist tools) and Optimise Ninja (show-readiness preflight). One licence, the whole set.
- + Presenter Notes Ninja — everything above
- + Backstage Ninja Tools — 20+ specialist tools
- + Optimise Ninja — preflight scanner
The show-readiness scanner. Checks your deck and machine for show-stopping issues — fonts, media, GPU, RAM, displays — before you go live.
Try Optimise Ninja free →Before you ask.
Not exactly — it runs alongside it on a dedicated presenter monitor. PowerPoint still drives the main display. Presenter Notes Ninja takes over the notes screen and gives the presenter something actually readable, properly paginated, and synced to the show.
The hidden cues are standard PowerPoint animation objects — they exist inside the file like any other element. They won’t affect the presentation on a machine without the add-in. You can also remove them with one click before distributing the deck.
No. Activate once and the licence caches locally with a 7-day offline grace period. Show machines that go dark between events stay covered.
Yes — it detects all connected displays and lets you choose which one to use for notes. It works with any second monitor: a spare HDMI screen, a monitor arm, a TV in the wings, or a separate presenter station.
Windows 10 or later. PowerPoint 2013 or later (Microsoft 365 recommended). .NET Framework 4.8. A second connected monitor for the notes display. Full requirements on the Download page →
Yes. Export Notes doesn’t require the notes display to be running — you can export the deck’s speaker notes to Word, PDF, or plain text at any time. Useful for autocue operators, print scripts, or sending the day’s running order to the client beforehand.