OpenBoard is a cross-platform (Linux / Windows / macOS) interactive whiteboard application. It is currently maintained by the Education Department (DIP) of the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland.




bananotate is described as 'Powerful application that allows you to edit and annotate your screen live. Zoom in, highlight, draw shapes, add text, capture your screen, create mock UI, and much more' and is a presentation maker in the office & productivity category. There are seven alternatives to bananotate for Windows, Mac, Linux and Linux Mobile. The best bananotate alternative is OpenBoard Whiteboard, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like bananotate are Epic Pen, Screen Marker and Recorder, ScreenBrush and Pointofix.
OpenBoard is a cross-platform (Linux / Windows / macOS) interactive whiteboard application. It is currently maintained by the Education Department (DIP) of the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland.




Turn your desktop into a workspace with Epic pen's intuitive drawing tools, enabling free-hand annotation over any app. Supports Windows platform with lightweight features, offline usability, screenshot capture, and comprehensive hotkey functionalities for seamless interaction.



This app allows you live drawing and taking notes over desktop applications. There are also tools for screen recording and making screenshots. It is great tool for creating presentations, tutorials, manuals, animations, video or streaming.








Every screen content can be made available as a digital drawing area so that you can mark and highlight important things. Thus Pointofix is ideal for you as a teacher or IT trainer to support your lectures, training courses and presentations.

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.




Pensela is an screen annotation tool that can also take screenshots available cross-platform.

