DemoPro - Screen Annotation 4+

This app is extremely useful for me and it exceeded my expectations in every way but one! I highly recommend it.

I have one feature request, which would make it easily worth 5 stars in my opinion. I don't think the "Hold hotkey down" activation option makes much sense. In order to draw, you have to hold down the hotkey and the mouse button at the same time, which is annoying on a touchpad. Why do I have to click and hold at the same time? On the touchpad, it would be a lot easier to draw if I only had to hold the ^S hotkey while drawing. I'd suggest either modifying the "Hold hotkey down" activation to not require a mouse button or to add another activation option for this behavior.

Thanks for the feedback. If you don't want to hold the hotkey down, just set the activation mode to "press to start & stop". With that mode, one click on ^S activates annotation mode. A second click or ^X exits the annotation mode. This is especially useful if you are using a tablet or a stream deck.

The tool is easy enough to use but it does require both hands to operate (left pressing two buttons like Control-S) while the right clicking and dragging the mouse -- not sure you can improve on that. The one thing that I didn't see documented was how to change the colour -- the help didn't reference it but trial and error found pressing the Option key while clicking the colour box brought up the colour pallet. Still a useful tool!

Thanks for the feedback. I added a new one-handed activation option per your suggestion. With this new mode you just need to press the hotkey once to activate the annotation mode. After you are done drawing, press the same hotkey again, or press the “clear all” hotkey to exit.
The color selection was a bug on macOS Mojave that has been fixed. Hope this helps.

Its ok. Similar to other tools available. The hotkeys are too cumbersome to use. I have to hold two keys with one hand and then use the other hand to draw. Also, I have to press down hard on the track pad to draw. Every other drawing program does the same without having to hold the hot keys. Since I am already holding down the hot keys, it means I want to draw. It would made lot more user friendly if it used the trackpad touch movements to draw (not press and hold). Having press and drag to draw make this tool no different from others. If it was touch style drawing, it would approach a stylus and that would have been much more convenient.

Hi. DemoPro has two activation modes, so you can choose what works best for you.

“Hold hotkey down” is the default. It requires two hands but it is the fastest if you need to make a quick annotation.

“Press to start & stop” is a one handed mode, more convenient if you need to do lots of annotations or if you are using a tablet or iPad with Sidecar to draw. It sounds like this is the mode that would work best for you.

Feel free to contact me at support@demoproapp.com if you need help or have additional feedback.