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Keynotopia is a pretty good mockup alternative for iPhone and iPad apps. It's not an application per se, but it's a set of templates for Keynote (or PowerPoint or Open Office). You export the result as a clickable PDF which works in a variety of viewers like GoodReader.

http://keynotopia.com/

You can get pretty nice results that are somewhat interactive on the device itself.

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Hmm - yeah, that's a really interesting concept.

Seems like the market is really fragmented - everything from traditional photo/vector graphics software (photoshop, illustrator), traditional wireframing (omnigraffle, etc), online wireframing (balsamiq) and even presentation software (keynote and powerpoint!)

Keynotopia seems like a smart move for those who tend to lean to the presentation side of things - though I'd find it hard to believe that a designer who likes (or is used to) working in illustrator or photoshop would want to start using keynote!

Just to give you guys an idea of what I've been thinking of, here's a screencast of a little prototype I've been working on in my spare time:

http://screencast.com/t/tWUPNgGht2

The UI totally sucks and it isn't well designed at all. There's no sense of clickable screens, no sharing, no ipad, no retina, and no concept of a wire (only a mock). But the germ of the idea is there.

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