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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.