Content at true scale
A schematic can be metres wide next to a headline centimetres tall. Nothing is shrunk to fit a slide — the canvas is as large as the idea needs.
In development · v0.1.0
Your presentation isn’t a stack of slides. It’s one big idea.
ZoomCanvas is a desktop presentation application built on an infinite canvas. Content lives at true scale, and a cinematic camera flies between the parts you want to talk about — so structure becomes something your audience can see, instead of something they have to remember.
The idea
Zoom is the argument, not the transition.
Slide decks flatten everything to the same size. A one-line takeaway and a dense schematic get the same rectangle, and the relationship between them lives only in your narration. On a canvas, scale carries meaning: the whole system is one object, and the detail you zoom into is visibly part of it.
Frames, not slides
A frame is a saved camera position. Reorder them to change the route through your material without moving a single object.
Non-linear by default
Take a question out of order, fly straight to the relevant detail, then fly back. The canvas does not care what order you planned.
The hard part
Animated GIFs that never stop animating.
Most canvas tools freeze animated content the moment you zoom out, because decoding dozens of GIFs per frame is expensive. ZoomCanvas runs them all at once, while the camera is moving — on WebGL2, with decoding pushed into web workers and a tiering system that swaps distant items for lightweight impostors before they cost you a frame.
60.0fps, 20 live GIFs
3draw calls
50×zoom, no shimmer
1e9world coordinate
Measured on the project’s own performance gate, not estimated — the GIF stress scenario is a release blocker, so these numbers are re-checked at every milestone.
Sharp at any magnification
Zooming to 50× on a one-pixel detail placed a billion units from the origin holds steady — no shimmer, no drift. Vector artwork re-renders at the new scale rather than blurring.
One clock for everything
Every time-dependent system reads a single injected clock, so what you rehearse is exactly what plays back. Animation timing is never re-derived in a second code path.
What it does today
Built to take the work you already have.
Nothing here asks you to start from a blank canvas or abandon the material you have already made.
PowerPoint — without PowerPoint
Bring a .pptx straight in, with no copy of Office installed and no round trip through a converter. Slides can land stacked, ready to be spread across the canvas.
Vector that stays vector
SVG, PDF and Illustrator files import as real vector artwork and stay sharp at any zoom — which matters when the whole point is flying into the detail.
Video and GIF on the canvas
Embed video directly, or give it a frame of its own so the camera settles before it plays. Animated GIFs keep running through every zoom and pan.
Click-triggered reveals
Make elements appear and disappear on click, name each animation, and see which frame it belongs to — so a complex build stays legible weeks later.
One self-contained HTML file
Export the whole presentation as a single portable HTML file with fonts and assets embedded. Send it, open it in a browser, present it — no installer, no account.
A real application
Recent files, save-before-close, restored window state, light and dark themes, a navigation rail and right-click menus. It behaves like software, not a web page.
Where it sits
Why not just use what you have?
An honest comparison. If your deck is genuinely a sequence of independent points, PowerPoint is the right tool and you should keep using it.
| Slide tools | ZoomCanvas | |
|---|---|---|
| Structure | A linear sequence. Relationships live in your narration. | A spatial map. Relationships are visible, because scale and position mean something. |
| Big diagrams | Shrunk to fit, split across slides, then re-explained. | Placed once at full size. You fly into the part you are discussing. |
| Going off-script | Hunt through the deck, or jump and lose your place. | Fly anywhere on the canvas and back. Position keeps the context. |
| Animated content | Often pauses or drops frames during transitions. | Keeps animating through zoom, pan and camera flight. |
| Runs as | Varies — often a browser tab or a subscription. | A native Windows application that works offline. |
Straight answers
Where ZoomCanvas actually is.
It is version 0.1.0 and it is not finished. Rather than describe a product that does not exist yet, here is exactly what works and what does not.
✓ The engine is real
Canvas, camera, GIF pipeline, import and export are built and tested, with performance gates enforced at every milestone.
✓ A Windows installer builds
An installer is produced from the same build that runs the automated end-to-end suite.
• Video export is not built
Exporting a presentation as a video file is planned but not implemented. Portable HTML export works today.
• Windows only, for now
macOS is not in development yet. The stack is cross-platform, so it is a question of when, not whether.
• Not yet priced
Licensing and pricing are undecided. Waitlist members hear first, and get asked what would make it worth paying for.
• No public build yet
The installer has not been through clean-machine testing or code signing, so it is not being handed out yet.
Waitlist
Be told the day it ships.
No newsletter, no drip sequence. One email when there is a build worth installing — and, if you want it, an earlier one when the beta opens.