I'm happy to announce we've finally released our 2nd macOS app, Draw Over It, a tiny desktop app that enables drawing, highlighting, or annotating directly on top of anything on your Mac.
I've always wanted something like this for instant and unobtrusive sketching and annotation for pair programming and demos. I always found the standard web-based diagram and drawing tools a bit too cumbersome. So we built a simple overlay that could appear over any window or app with one shortcut.
It doesn't collect any user data and doesn't require any system permissions - it's sandboxed. It all stays on your device. You can export your annotations to a PNG with one click - or just take a screenshot if you need the background too.
It offers a slim but functional toolkit for every day tasks:
- Global hotkeys, hit a shortcut and start drawing over any app
- Multiple tools, pens, shapes, highlighters
- Per-screen canvases, each monitor gets its own space
- Focus mode, temporarily blur the background to emphasize what matters
- Low footprint, no subscriptions, no sign-ups, no data collected
- Localization, the app is translated to 14 languages
These two reasons make it different from other canvas apps, it's simple, lean and keeps your data on-device only.
It’s a one-time purchase ($2.99) on the Mac App Store.
I’d love feedback and suggestions for improvements!
