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Glassboard – Draw over everything on your Mac, Khan-academy style

Glassboard – Draw over everything on your Mac, Khan-academy style

by stemps23·Jun 18, 2026·5 points·3 comments
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AI Analysis

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Ink fades on release—genuinely different from Epic Pen's manual clearing workflow.

Strengths
  • •Temporary-by-design fading eliminates workflow interruption of clearing annotations manually.
  • •Radial menu and keyboard shortcuts keep UI out of the way during presentations.
  • •Free, signed, and notarized app works across all macOS applications without focus stealing.
Weaknesses
  • •Screen annotation tools already exist (Epic Pen, gInk, Zoom annotations) with established users.
Category
Productivity
Target Audience

Content creators, presenters, and educators doing screen shares

Similar To

Epic Pen · gInk · Zoom Annotations

Post Description

I built and released a Mac app I always wanted to exist:

Glassboard let's you draw over anything on your Mac, across every app and every screen, Khan-academy style!

Hold a keybind and draw. Release and it fades away. That's all! (well, except colors, shapes, a radial menu switcher and keybinds galore). But the basic concept is simple hold, draw, release, continue presenting without losing flow.

Made for frequent screensharers and content creators.

No more wiggling my mouse pointer at what I want to highlight while screensharing.

Try it at https://stem.ps/glassboard. It's completely free and will stay that.

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