Draw on
any screen.
The playful overlay canvas for lessons, videos & demos. Circle stuff, highlight ideas, spotlight your cursor — right on top of any app.
Slides
this slide!
Energy Trophic Levels
☀️ Photosynthesis converts sunlight into chemical energy for plants.
🌱 Only 10% of energy moves up to herbivores.
🔥 The rest is lost as metabolic heat. ← point here!
👀 who's it for?
Made for people who point at things
If you explain things on a screen, Annotate is your marker. No OBS plugins, no screen-sharing hacks.
Teachers & tutors
Circle the mitochondria. Underline the thesis. Spotlight the answer — live, over Slides, PDFs & whiteboards.
Video & course creators
Record code walkthroughs and tutorials with buttery overlays that OBS, Zoom & QuickTime capture natively.
Presenters & speakers
Never lose the room again. Point with arrows, dim the noise with the spotlight, and keep eyes on what matters.
Devs & reviewers
Sketch over PRs, dashboards & designs in standup. Hotkeys keep your hands on the keyboard, not the mouse.
🎒 the toolbox
Everything you need to make it click
Hover, poke and play — these cards are live mini-demos of the real app.
🖥️ Multi-monitor flow
Draw wall-to-wall across every display. The overlay stretches with you.
Cursor spotlight
Move your mouse here — dims the room, lights your point.
P — pencil, your daily driver
⌨️ Hotkeys you'll actually remember
One hand on keyboard, eyes on the room. Tap a letter — tool switches instantly.
Smart auto-hide
Toolbar melts away the moment you draw. Zero clutter, all canvas.
💬 Text notes
Click anywhere, type a label. Definitions, steps, pop quizzes.
🎥 Recording friendly
True transparent overlay — OBS, Zoom, Teams & QuickTime capture it with zero lag.
DRM shield
Hide ink from captures, keep it on your screen. Privacy on demand.
stroke weight
🎨 Inks & weights
Five punchy colors, three weights. Match any slide, any vibe.
⚡ stupidly simple
Up & doodling in 30 seconds
Grab the app
One tiny download for Mac or Windows. Lives in your menu bar, sips < 20 MB of RAM.
Tap a hotkey
Press P to draw, F for spotlight, V to vanish. Fully remappable, works over any app.
Draw over anything
Arrows, boxes, highlights & text — captured cleanly by Zoom, OBS, Teams & QuickTime.
💌 wall of love
Presenters keep the marker
“My students finally look at the right part of the slide. The spotlight alone is worth it.”
“I record coding tutorials daily. Annotate is the first overlay OBS captures without flicker.”
“Hotkeys are muscle memory now. P to draw, F to spotlight, V to vanish. Audiences love it.”
💸 pay once, doodle forever
One price. No subscription.
Cheaper than a clicker remote. Yours forever, updates included.
Solo
For teachers, creators & presenters
$29one-time
- ✓Mac + Windows, 2 devices
- ✓All tools: pen, shapes, text, spotlight
- ✓Free v1.x updates forever
- ✓Local-first, works offline
Team & Classroom 🏫
For schools, studios & companies
$79one-time / 5 seats
- ✓Everything in Solo
- ✓5 seats, mix Mac & Windows
- ✓Priority support
- ✓Invoice & PO friendly
🛡️ 14-day money-back guarantee • Need 20+ seats? talk to us
🚀 get the app
Start drawing in 30 seconds
Tiny download, lives in your menu bar, ready before your coffee cools.
🤔 good questions
Asked all the time
A tiny menu-bar app that lets you draw over anything on your screen — slides, code, videos, PDFs. Pick a tool with a hotkey, doodle live, and clear with one tap. Your audience sees the ink; you keep the flow.
macOS 12+ (Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows 10/11 (64-bit). It's a native build per platform, sips under 20 MB of RAM, and works fully offline.
Yes! Annotate is a true transparent overlay. OBS, Zoom, Teams, QuickTime and ScreenFlow record the ink natively — no plugins, no flicker, no lag.
Yep. The canvas stretches across every display, so you can circle a chart on screen 2 while your notes live on screen 1.
Everything has a one-letter shortcut out of the box: V cursor, P pen, H highlighter, A arrow, F spotlight… and you can remap all of them in Settings to whatever your fingers like.
Never. Annotate is local-first: strokes, shortcuts and settings stay on your machine. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking pixels watching you present.
Still curious? We answer fast. 💬
support@annotate.app →