Epic Pen Alternatives

Epic Pen is described as 'Enhance your workspace with epic Pen's screen writing features. Offering annotation tools, hotkey support, and offline access for Windows to mark up anything on your desktop' and is a screenshot capture tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Epic Pen for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Python and PortableApps.com apps. The best Epic Pen alternative is ZoomIt, which is free. Other great apps like Epic Pen are gInk, EpicPencil, RePen and Crealesson.

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Epic Pen alternatives are mainly Digital Painting Tools, but if you're looking for Presentation Makers or Screenshot Capture Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Mac and Windows. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Epic Pen.
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  1. ScreenPen icon
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    Screen annotation software which allows drawing directly on the screen. It is an open source and multiplatform (all systems that support Python) alternative to tools such as Epic Pen.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Pylote is a software making it possible to draw on the screen of the computer, like handling various instruments of geometry.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
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  3. bananotate is a 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  4. Highlights the pointer with a moving ring, animates mouse clicks for emphasis, dims surroundings to focus attention, and enables real-time screen drawing—ideal for teaching, video tutorials, presentations, or demonstrations requiring clear visual cues and explanations.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  5. iScribby icon
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    A neat little application that allows you to draw on your screen. Use it from anywhere you want - be it your desktop, while browsing internet or even while in a video game.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  6. DemoPro icon
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    DemoPro is a simple and unobtrusive screen annotation tool for the Mac ideal for live demonstrations. Just press a customizable hotkey to draw on the screen. Release it to continue your demonstration. DemoPro also includes a countdown timer.

    20 DemoPro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. Cursor Pro icon
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    Highlights your mouse pointer, visualizes clicks and magnifies certain areas of your screen.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  8. Mouseposé icon
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    Mouseposé is the indispensible mouse pointer highlighting tool (aka "virtual laserpointer") for everyone doing demos at tradeshows, presentations and trainings, or those individuals with huge and high resolution displays.

    35 Mouseposé alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. MarkerOn icon
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    MarkerOn is a lightweight, open-source desktop screen annotation app for demos, teaching, meetings, and recordings. Press a global hotkey to draw over any application, use nine annotation tools including a laser pointer, switch to click-through mode while keeping annotations...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  10. FlowInk icon
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    FlowInk is a lightweight, free screen annotation (overlay drawing) tool designed specifically for Windows. It lets you draw, write, or scribble directly on top of any open application, desktop, or screen in real time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  11. Wayscriber icon
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    Live overlay for drawing, annotating, hiding text, and capturing screenshots on Linux. Can be used as whiteboard or blackboard. Highly customisable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
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  12. OmniDazzle icon
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    OmniDazzle is a set of fun and useful enhancements that help you highlight certain areas of your screen, create special effects, and track the location of your mouse pointer. Each plug-in can be configured to suit your own particular preferences: change colors, make objects...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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