Bella Presenter
Native, open-source presenter for PDF slides
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from Typst or LaTeX/Beamer. The presenter window shows the current and next slide, speaker notes, a talk timer and thumbnails; the audience window shows only the slide, fullscreen on the projector. Beamer/Typst notes pages are split automatically. Laser pointer, drawing and zoom mirror live to the room, plus a webcam overlay with local background removal. Instant on 300+ page decks. Free, MIT licensed, for macOS, Windows and Linux.
PH · launched Nov 13, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: ai presentation software · 84 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Productivity
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
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Could you build this?
Yes A dual-window PDF presenter with notes, timers, and thumbnails is a well-scoped desktop app that can rely on existing PDF rendering libraries. The Beamer and Typst notes-splitting logic is a known, bounded parsing task.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 186 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #77 of 187 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 351 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Parallax Slides · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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- OpenBrief · hn · 2026-05-25 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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