Screen annotation that lives in your menu bar.
Hit ⌘⇧P and a palette appears. Everything you draw sits in a transparent layer above your other apps — so you can circle a bug mid-standup, mark up a slide while you present it, or teach over a live demo. Undo, clear, and it's gone.
Every tool is one click away in a palette you can dock to any edge of the screen. Hover any of them and Inkora tells you what it does.
Sketch a rough circle and it becomes a circle. A wobbly box becomes a rectangle. Draw a diagram at speaking speed and it still looks deliberate. Hold ⌥ to keep a stroke exactly as you drew it.
Rectangle, square, circle, ellipse, triangle and diamond — each as an outline, filled, rounded, or filled-with-a-border. Hold ⇧ to lock to a perfect circle or square.
Line, arrow, double-headed arrow, curved arrow and a dimension line for measuring a gap. Hold ⇧ and they snap to 45°.
Plain labels, filled text boxes and callout bubbles. Step markers number themselves as you place them — and restart at 1 when you switch colour, so each colour is its own sequence.
Drop a clean surface over everything when the desktop behind you is a distraction — or when you just want somewhere to think out loud. Blur is there too, for hiding what shouldn't be on the recording.
A semi-transparent marker for emphasising text and UI, and a plain pencil for when you want the line exactly where you put it. One stroke-width control keeps every tool consistent.
A live magnifier for the small print, and a ring that follows your pointer so a room full of people can actually see where you're clicking.
Drag a box around something and it pulses — a way to point at a button mid-sentence without drawing an arrow to it.
A duster that wipes as you drag, an area erase for clearing a region in one go, and area move for shifting what you've already drawn somewhere better.
Inkora puts a canvas on each screen. Undo, redo and clear apply to whichever screen your pointer is on, so clearing the slide doesn't wipe your notes on the other monitor.
Turn it on and the canvas grows past the edge of the screen. Scroll to keep going, and ⌘⇧R brings you back to where you started.
No window to arrange, no document to save. Inkora is a menu bar app — with "Open at Login" on, it doesn't even take a Dock slot.
Press ⌘⇧P, or click the menu bar icon. The same shortcut puts it away.
Choose from the palette and pick a colour. Drag it to whichever screen edge suits you — Inkora remembers.
The overlay only intercepts clicks while a drawing tool is selected, so the app underneath keeps working.
⌘⇧K clears the screen — and that itself can be undone. ⌘C copies the canvas to the clipboard first.
These are the defaults. Every one can be changed in Settings → Shortcuts.
Every drawing tool, shape, arrow, text tool and eraser is free forever. Pro adds the three that took the most work to build.
The pencil, highlighter, all shapes and their variants, lines and arrows, text, callouts, numbered steps, both erasers, area move, pulse highlight, blur, infinite canvas and every keyboard shortcut.
Adds the Whiteboard backdrop, Smart Pen shape recognition and the Mouse Highlighter. Buy it once or subscribe — the lifetime purchase never expires.
Yes. The overlay only intercepts clicks while a drawing tool is selected. Deselect the tool and your clicks pass straight through to whatever is behind it, with your annotations still on screen.
macOS treats anything that draws a layer over other applications as screen capture, so the permission is what makes the overlay possible at all. Inkora shows you its own explanation before it sends you to System Settings. It does not need Accessibility permission, and never asks for it.
Press ⌘C and the canvas goes to your clipboard, ready to paste into Slack, Mail, Keynote or an image editor. There's no Save command — the app is sandboxed and has no access to your filesystem, which is also why it can't quietly read anything else on your Mac.
Each display gets its own canvas. Undo, redo and clear apply to whichever screen your pointer is on, so wiping the presentation doesn't take your notes with it.
It watches the stroke you just drew and, if it recognises the shape, replaces it with a clean version — a rough oval becomes a real ellipse, a scrawled box becomes a rectangle. Hold ⌥ while drawing to keep the stroke exactly as-is. It's one of the three Pro tools.
Every shortcut in the app is rebindable in Settings → Shortcuts, including the one that shows the palette.
Inkora is free, lives in your menu bar, and is one keystroke away whenever you need to point at something.
