DemoPro - Screen Annotation 4+

AMAZING

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.

Developer Response ,

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.

Needed tool for people that collaborate on a mac

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!

Developer Response ,

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.

Great for presenting internally & externally

This has been a game changer for me, both in terms of drawing my audience's attention to the right areas of my screen but also helping me have more discipline to not move my mouse around so much. It works very seamlessly and it's 1000% better than zoom's native annotation skills. Def worth a purchase.

The only minor downside is that annotations only show up on the share if you share your entire screen. This means that I have to be very careful not to share sensitive screens, but if it could show the annotation even when you share a certain app or tab, that woudl be amazing.