The best screen annotation app recommended and used by Harvard and MIT professors. Featured by Apple three times.
A macOS menu bar app that helps you give better presentations, online classes, or video tutorials by letting you annotate any screen, highlight your cursor, and more.
You can annotate anything on the screen, be it images, videos, pdfs, code, you name it. Presentify is quite helpful for online teaching, recording video tutorials, giving a demo, working remotely, and the list goes on.
# FEATURES
Annotation
• You can draw on or annotate any screen you wish. Select `Annotate Screen` from the menu bar and start doodling.
• A lot of drawing shapes to choose from. You can even write Text now.
• Draw with random gradient colours instead of just plain colours.
• Auto-erase your annotations. Perfect for emphasising something specific or explaining your thoughts. Also, toggle its behaviour by pressing the Control Key.
• You can draw even when other applications are running in full-screen mode. Great for live presentations and during video calls when working remotely.
• New Interactive Mode: This opens up Presentify in the background letting the user use other apps and allowing them to annotate by pressing and holding the Fn key.
• Now users can interact with the underlying apps when annotating (in default mode) with Presentify. Just press and hold the Fn key to do so. You no longer have to toggle Presentify to advance your presentation slides, play/pause videos, etc.
• Highlighter feature lets you highlight portions of text without obscuring it.
• You get a Straight Line by pressing and holding the Shift Key while Freehand drawing. And, you can fill the Rectangles and Circles with a semi-transparent colour by pressing and holding the Option Key.
• Works on iPad connected to a MacBook via Sidecar, Astropad, or Duet.
• Works with Keynote (even in Presentation mode).
• Compatible with all video calling software like Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, etc.
• Works with drawing tablets like XP-Pen, Wacom, etc.
Whiteboard
• Draw on a whiteboard (and not over other apps) if you wish.
• You can even change the colour of your whiteboard to whatever you feel like.
Annotate Controls
• A handy control panel to switch between different annotate tools and colours.
• Move the control panel anywhere on the screen by dragging it.
• Completely hide the control panel.
Keyboard Shortcuts
• You can start annotating the screen, highlighting your cursor, changing pencil colours and shapes, etc. from any app with simple keyboard shortcuts.
• Customise the key shortcuts as you like.
Cursor Highlight
• Cursor Highlight puts a circle, the famous squircle, or a rhombus around your mouse pointer.
• With this feature you never have to keep moving your cursor to grab the attention of your audience.
• Change your cursor highlight colour, opacity, size, and more.
• You can even choose to highlight only when you move your cursor/mouse.
Spotlight
• Spotlight puts the focus on your cursor, dimming everything else to eliminate distractions.
• You can control both the size of the Spotlight and the opacity of the dimmed area.
Zoom
• Zoom transforms your cursor/mouse into a magnifying glass.
• Change the shape, border, and the zoom level as per your preference.
# PRESS
Featured by Apple multiple times. Also, on Hacker News, Reddit, Product Hunt, and various other blogs like ifun.de, igeeksblog.com, etc. with more than 230 upvotes in each.
# CONTACT
For any questions or concerns, visit presentifyapp.com to view the FAQ page or click the Support link.
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Really close to perfect, just needs more color buttons and keystroke eraser
CharlesThornton
This app is the closest answer I've gotten to my perfect annotator prayers. It's clear that the developer has thought this app through carefully and worked hard on it. It's so incredibly functional, fast, and easily accesible. The hotkeys, in particular, are very well thought out and puts other apps to shame. Please, please consider adding the below 2 items to get this app to top-tier level. I'll gladly rate up to 5 stars.1. Add more color buttons to the tool bar. I use 4 colors on a daily basis and this is sorely needed. 5 would be even better. If toolbar size is a concern, perhaps make it an option to display 3, 4, or 5 color selections at a time.2. Keystroke eraser with eraser size option (like the [ ] function) is needed so that can erase selected items only.
Configure Keymappings and hide mouse cursor
hesed4him
We need to be able to change keymappings and hide mouse cursor.To clear annotations, I'm restricted to the delete button. However, in PowerPoint this causes issues. If I annotation a specific slide, then clear, the annotations clear fine. However, if I annotate a slide, go to the prev/next slide (without first clearing), then try to clear, the delete key returns me to the first slide of the deck (as Presentify has lost focus). Ideally, I need to be able to configure an alternate key combo (like CMD DEL).Additionally, when in annotation mode, please hide the mouse pointer/arrow (the color dot is fine). Having the cursor showing is a bit of a distraction.
Developer Response
Customizable key mappings for all actions is coming soon. But the problem with PowerPoint you mentioned can be easily solved. Just hold down the Fn key and change the slides without closing Presentify. This way Presentify won’t lose focus and you won’t go back to the first slide. You can hold down the Fn key to interact with the underlying apps.Regarding the cursor, I’ll look into it. Best,Ram
Really nice screen drawing app; just missing one thing for me
iamkylesreview
The only thing I find a bit awkward about this app is the Annotate in Interactive Mode key. What I need from this feature is for the key to work like a toggle key, and it would be really nice to be able to bind this key to something else. Currently, the options are fn (which behaves as a tap-and-hold kind of toggle) and caps (which behaves as what I want, a tap toggle). The problem with using caps as the tap toggle is that all my text boxes start showing the capslock is on, and in some cases I get into a state where capslock is stuck on when not annotating.
Pretty good - couple recommendations
wiseachoo
Overall, decent app, and am happy I purchased it. With that being said, here's a couple recommendations for the developer to make this a 5-star application:1. Add the ability to erase under cursor (as opposed to only being able to clear the entire screen or edit undo currently). There are manu scenarios where I want to erase something written down several minutes ago as part of problem solving.2. When using "Interactive Mode", allow us to configure in the preferences whether we want to "hold" the button down as it is today, or instead use said button as a "toggle" to flip between so that we don't need to hold down the button for the duration.3. Add thin, medium, thick (customizable) to the toolbar to allow for quick switching between thicknesses (I frequently need to switch between the thinnest for regular writing, and a super fat thickness when using the highlighter mode).
Developer Response
Thanks for such a detailed review. The latest version of Presentify (5.0.0) has partial eraser. You can simply select items by holding down the Command key and then press the Erase button. This will only delete the selected items.Additionally, just fyi, you can change thickness easily by pressing [ and ] keys. Have you tried it?I hope you’ll reconsider your review after trying the latest version of Presentify.Best,Ram
• Minor bug fix where the tool indicator was shown all the time when it was enabled in the setting
Version 7.2.1
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