OVERLAID
Your screen is the canvas.
A screen annotation app for Mac. Draw, circle and highlight right on your screen while you talk, in any app, on any call. No more “sorry, which one?”
or try it free for 7 days// 01 · ZOOM
FREEZE THE SCREEN. DRAW AT ANY SCALE.
Pinch, or hold ⌘ and scroll with a mouse, to freeze and magnify up to 8×. Scroll to pan. Esc to go live again.
// 02 · CUSTOMIZE THE TOOLBAR
KEEP WHAT YOU USE. HIDE THE REST.
Hide what you don't use and the bar shrinks to fit. Everything's one tap away in the overflow menu.
// 03 · CURSOR EFFECTS
MAKE YOUR CURSOR IMPOSSIBLE TO LOSE.
Ripples, halo, spotlight, trail, or a live magnifier. Pick one from the toolbar. Your audience sees it too.
+ALL 9 TOOLS
01
Pen & Highlighter
Jitter-smoothed ink, multiply-blend highlighter.
02
Shapes & Arrows
Line, curved arrow, rectangle, ellipse. ⇧ to constrain.
03
Ruler
Measure anything on screen, live, in px and pt.
04
Eraser
Click one mark, or drag a marquee to clear an area.
05
Text & Select
Drop a label anywhere, then grab and resize it.
06
Blur & Hide
Blur, pixelate or cover keys and emails, live, before they show.
07
Zoom
Pinch or ⌘ + scroll to freeze and magnify the screen.
08
Cursor Effects
Ripples, halo, spotlight, comet trail or a live lens.
09
Keystroke Overlay
Raised keycaps show every shortcut you press, live.
New to drawing on screen? How to draw on your Mac screen while presenting
+ AUTO-ERASE
INK THAT CLEANS UP AFTER ITSELF.
Set marks to fade after 2, 5 or 10 seconds. Keep pointing, never hit clear.
// 04 · KEYSTROKE OVERLAY
EVERY KEYBOARD SHORTCUT, RIGHT WHERE THEY CAN SEE IT.
Viewers can never tell what you pressed. Overlaid shows it as a raised keycap, live.
- ·Combos-only by default, lone keys optional
- ·Colour themes per key type, secure input never shown
- ·Nine anchor points, any display, or drag it anywhere
const marks = draw(slide);if (marks.length) {overlay.show(marks, { fade: 5 });}
A SHORTCUT FOR EVERYTHING. ALL REBINDABLE.
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// FAQ
BEFORE YOU ASK.
Yes. The overlay stays on top even when an app (or you) goes full screen, and follows you across Space switches without losing the ability to draw.
Yes. Every Space, including each full-screen app, keeps its own drawings and its own undo history. Circle something in a full-screen slide deck, swipe to a full-screen browser and draw an arrow there, then swipe back and the circle is exactly where you left it. Apps sharing one desktop share a Space, so they share drawings. If you would rather see the same drawings everywhere, turn it off in Settings. Drawings last until you quit Overlaid.
Yes. Every connected display gets its own overlay automatically. Draw on whichever screen your cursor is on, no setup required.
Accessibility for the keystroke overlay, and Screen Recording for the magnifier, Zoom, and blur or pixelate. Drawing itself needs neither, and neither does the solid cover.
Yes. The Blur & Hide tool (press D) lets you drag a box over anything sensitive, like an API key, an email address or a customer name, and blur it, pixelate it or cover it with a solid block. Blur and pixelate keep refreshing, so they follow whatever is under the box. Everyone on a whole-screen share sees the box, not what's beneath it. Draw it before you open the sensitive window.
No. Everything renders locally, in memory, for as long as you're drawing. Nothing is written to disk, uploaded, or sent anywhere.
Under 2 MB to download. No bundled runtime, no bloat. It downloads and opens before your call even starts.
There's a 7-day free trial with every feature, no card needed. After that it's a one-time purchase, not a subscription: $4.99. No account, just a license key.
macOS Sonoma (14) or later.
Yes. Share your entire screen as usual and everything you draw, highlight or spotlight shows up for everyone on the call. A single-window share won't include it, because the drawings sit in their own layer on top.
Yes. In draw mode, pinch on a trackpad or hold ⌘ and scroll with any mouse to freeze and zoom up to 8x. Esc takes you back to the live screen.
Yes. A 5-slot palette plus a custom picker, every shortcut rebindable, and per-key-type themes for the keystroke overlay.
OVERLAID LICENSE
One-time payment. No subscription, no account.
BUY OVERLAID · $4.99Not sure yet? Try it free for 7 days- ·Every drawing tool: pen, shapes, ruler, eraser, text, zoom
- ·Cursor spotlight and keystroke overlay
- ·Every shortcut rebindable
- ·Every display, even over a full-screen app
- ·Drawings stay on each Space and full-screen app
- ·Under 2 MB download, installs in seconds
- ·Free updates
- ·One-time payment, no subscription
RUNS ON YOUR MAC. NOTHING ELSE.
No account, no cloud, no telemetry, no network calls. Under 2 MB to download, so it arrives and opens before your call even starts. Screen Recording is asked for only when Zoom or the magnifier need it. Never before. macOS Sonoma (14) and later.