Draw, Highlight, and Present on Any Screen ✨
The ultimate overlay canvas for educators, content creators, and keynote speakers. Draw over presentations, highlight key metrics, and engage your audience in real-time. Try the demo below!
Energy Trophic Levels
• Photosynthesis converts solar radiation directly into organic chemical energy to fuel plant growth.
• During transmission to herbivores, only 10% of energy is successfully retained.
• The remaining energy is lost as metabolic heat during transfer.
Built for Teachers, Creators, and Presenters
Engage your audience with smooth overlays, custom focus spotlight rings, and distraction-free menus.
Multi-Monitor Flow
Draw across all screens seamlessly. The active overlay context automatically stretches across multiple displays.
Cursor Spotlight
Highlight details on screen. Dims background frames and centers circular spotlights on mouse focus.
Configurable Keys
Switch states and control tools instantly without touching the mouse. Bind global system-wide shortcuts.
Smart Auto-Hide
Keep your canvas overlay screen clutter-free. The toolbar retracts automatically when drawing.
Text Annotations
Type instructions anywhere. Click screen points to add quick labels and notes in matching colors.
Screen Recording Friendly
Annotate on top of presentations smoothly. Seamless overlays work with OBS, Zoom, Teams, and Slack captures.
DRM Shield
Hide drawings from recordings or captures instantly while keeping them visible on your presenter screen.
Visual Styles
Tweak color palettes and adjust brush sizing weights dynamically to match your screen backdrop elements.
Get Annotate for Desktop
Fast, lightweight, and lives right in your menu bar or system tray. Start presenting and annotating on top of any screen instantly.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions about how Annotate works? Here are answers to some of the most common questions.
Annotate is a professional screen drawing utility designed for presenter, recorder, designer, and developer teams. It runs natively in your menu bar or system tray, allowing you to overlay drawing tools directly on top of active screen displays, applications, or presentation windows.
We support macOS 12.0 or later (both Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3 and Intel chips) as well as Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit systems). The app compiles into an optimized native application for each platform, minimizing CPU and RAM overhead.
Yes! Annotate operates as a transparent system overlay layer. Screen recording software (like OBS Studio, QuickTime, Zoom, ScreenFlow, and Microsoft Teams) records the drawings on top of your app window natively without flickering or lag.
Yes, the overlay canvas spans seamlessly across all active displays, letting you move your drawing tools and draw shapes on any screen target without losing context.
You can define global system-wide hotkeys to instantly show/hide the drawing toolbar, trigger drawing states (V for cursor, P for pen, etc.), clear annotations, or activate the cursor spotlight spotlight focus ring. These keyboard shortcuts can be configured inside the settings panel.