Text stays text.
Every phone draws the page fresh, so words and numbers are sharp at any size, from any seat.
Present Tense sends your actual page — or your deck — to every screen in the room, not a video of it. Text stays sharp on any phone, everyone stays on the same moment, and you can point at exactly the thing you mean.
In sync
Checkout latency, Q3The presenter is pointing here. Pinch to zoom; the text stays sharp.On a screen share, the label is too soft to read, however far you zoom.
Follow presenter
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For as long as we've shown things to a room, we've sent a picture of them.
Slides became light on a wall. Then video. Then a screen share, streamed to every seat.
But a picture of a page isn't a page.
From row thirty-one, the numbers turn to mush. The wifi stalls, and the room falls behind.
You end up saying, "top left… the second box." And somebody retypes a link, one character at a time.
So we stopped sending the picture.
Present Tense sends your actual page to every screen in the room.
You share a tab with the extension. Your audience types a short code, or scans it. And they follow you as you move.
Every phone draws the page fresh, so text stays sharp at any size. Late arrivals land on what's showing now.
Only what changed crosses the network, so it's light enough for crowded wifi.
Point at the exact thing you mean, and every screen marks it. Copy the code. Translate the page. Zoom in, and nothing blurs.
Conference talks. Lectures. Code walkthroughs. Incident reviews. Anywhere people look at one screen together.
Present Tense. Present the page, not a video of it.
Join the beta, at present-tense.io.
Your audience gets the page itself, so it behaves like one.
Everyone is on the same moment.
Late arrivals and dropped connections land on what's showing now. Nothing they missed plays back.
Light enough for venue wifi.
A change sends what changed, not a new picture of the screen, so it asks far less of a crowded network.
Three steps, no installs for the room.
We send the structure of your page, not its pixels. Each screen's browser draws it fresh. Only the presenter installs the extension.
You share
Create a session in the console, then present any tab with the Present Tense extension — or import a deck and present that.
They join
Your audience types a short code or scans it. A browser is all they need.
They follow
They see what you see as you move. They can step away to read, and one tap brings them back to now.
Presenter highlightAudience suggestion (planned), until the presenter shows it
What a real page lets you do.
Point at the exact thing
Highlight a heading, a table cell or a line of code. Every screen marks the same element.
Let the room point back
PlannedThe audience suggests an element. You see it, and one tap shows it to everyone.
Read at their own size
The audience pinches and zooms the real page. Nothing turns to mush.
Copy what's on screen
Links, code and numbers are text, so people select and copy them instead of retyping.
Read it in their language
Because it's text, not video, each person's browser can translate the page on their own screen.
Present from your browser
Slides, docs, dashboards and live products, from the tab they're already open in — with the Present Tense extension.
Wherever people look at one screen together.
Conference talks
Every seat gets a sharp copy on their own phone, however far they are from the projector.
Lectures and classes
Students keep the page in front of them, copy from it, and rejoin on the current slide after a dropout.
Workshops and code walkthroughs
Code arrives as text. People copy it instead of squinting at the screen and retyping.
Product demos
Your product shows up crisp, and you point at the feature that matters.
Team reviews
Everyone looks at the same element while you discuss it, on whatever screen they have.
Multilingual audiences
Each person's browser translates the page, so a talk in one language reads in many.
Code review and PR walkthroughs
Everyone has the diff on their own screen, and the line under discussion is marked for all.
Incident reviews and ops standups
The live dashboard arrives sharp, and you mark the exact panel you mean.
Compared to sharing your screen.
| Screen sharing | Present Tense | |
|---|---|---|
| Text on a phone | Compressed video, hard to read | Sharp at any zoom |
| Weak venue wifi | Freezes, then blurs | Keeps the page and catches up to now |
| A link or code on screen | Retype it by hand | Select and copy |
| Pointing at something | “Top left, the second box” | The exact element, marked for everyone |
| Audience reads another language | Pixels can't be translated | Their browser translates the page |
| What the audience needs | Often an app or a plugin | A browser and a short code |
Nothing to hijack.
Your audience sees a read-only copy of your page. There's no logged-in session underneath it, so no one can click, type or act as you.
How we keep sessions safeJoin the beta.
We're letting people in by email while we test in real venues. Access links come from beta@send.present-tense.io; replies reach feedback@present-tense.io.