Is it possible to draw freehand on Keynote slides?

This is indeed a good question with a very lame answer, especially after a year of the iPad pencil being out. I have had mine since it first came out and am very disappointed in Apple's lack of intuition and system development to support what should be a basic capability to start with. So now even a year later Apple still has not fixed this.

Wow!! Good thing it has the best and brightest working on things. There is a saying, "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

Apple, I hope someone there reads this, because you need to wake up. There are many things you do well, but there a lot of intuitive things that are sooooo basic and yet not supported it makes me wonder who you test your products on and who is the head of product support.

Hi,

Is there a way to freehand draw with the mouse (or Apple Pencil?)

The Pen tool seems to require control points, and I just want to draw freehand in a similar way as MarkUp on Apple Mail attachments.

Cheers,

Eric

There isn't a brush tool in Keynote, there is a vector pen tool:

Insert > Line > Pen tool

Otherwise create drawings in a dedicated drawing application, there are dozens in the Mac App Store, then import in to Keynote

If you really need to, you could make an image of the slide (screenshot, maybe?) and then edit that with another app that does have freehand, like Pixelmator. But that's a nuisance!

I use Ink2Go from the Mac App Store