Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your KEY file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert KEY to another file type
The converter easily converts your KEY presentations to various formats - free and online. No Apple Keynote or or other Page Layout software needed.
KEY to PPT
KEY to PDF
KEY to PPTX
KEY to CSV
KEY to XML
KEY to PDB
KEY to ODB
KEY to UOP
KEY to SXC
KEY to SYLK
KEY to FODP
KEY to PSW
Convert a file to KEY
To convert other file formats to the "Presentation and Security File" file type, you need software like Apple Keynote or a similar tool.
About KEY files
A .KEY file is most commonly an Apple Keynote presentation document, functioning as Apple's proprietary alternative to PPTX. Under the hood, modern .KEY files are compressed ZIP archives containing XML data, images, and other media used in the slideshow. Alternatively, the .KEY extension frequently denotes a cryptographic key used by GnuPG or PuTTYgen for secure protocols, or a plain-text software license file for applications like WinRAR. The biggest disadvantage of the Keynote format is its severe ecosystem lock-in. You cannot natively open a .KEY presentation on Windows, Android, or standard web browsers without an Apple iCloud account or a Mac. Trying to share a .KEY file with PC users often leads to frustration because the file appears as an unreadable archive or a broken directory. To solve this, you need to convert it. For universal sharing and archiving, convert .KEY to PDF, which locks the layout perfectly but strips away animations. For collaborative editing with Windows users, convert to PPTX. If you only need to share specific slides on the web, converting to JPG or PNG is the best choice. Drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it on convert.guru - free, online, and without installing software.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your KEY file.
If you want to convert KEY file to PEM, PPK, JSON, YAML, YML, TOML or INI, you can use Apple Keynote or similar software from the "Presentation Document" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to KEY, try Apple Keynote or another comparable tool in the "Presentation Document" category.
The KEY Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our KEY converter.