Draw on screen in your streams, tutorials and videos

Annotate live in OBS, on Twitch and YouTube, or in screen recordings, with ink that looks clean on camera.

Download free for Windows

Annotate live and skip the edit

Pointing at things in post costs hours: zooms, arrows and callouts added clip by clip. Epic Pen lets you draw them live while you record or stream, so your explanation lands in one take.

Download free

Made for the camera

Draw over your content live, with ink that reads clearly on camera.

Viewers follow your cursorPRO

A bright halo means nobody loses your mouse on a compressed 1080p stream.

Arrows and boxes, livePRO

Call out UI, settings and details as you talk — no post-production.

Type call-outsPRO

Add labels and notes on screen in any colour and size.

Clean recordingsPRO

Ink fades by itself, so your screen never ends up cluttered mid-take.

Explainer modePRO

Cut to a whiteboard or blackboard for a sketch, then jump back to your screen.

Hotkeys & Ghost Mode — free

Map every tool to hotkeys — or a Stream Deck — and hide the toolbar from your recording.

Set up Epic Pen in OBS

The setup that makes your ink show up in every scene.

  1. Use Display Capture

    In OBS, capture your display (or use Windows Graphics Capture) rather than a single window, so your ink is part of the scene.

  2. Turn on Ghost Mode

    Hide Epic Pen's toolbar and drive everything with hotkeys, so viewers only see your content and your ink.

  3. Bind your hotkeys

    Put draw, clear and hide on keys — or your Stream Deck — you can hit mid-sentence.

  4. Draw live

    Annotate as you talk. Clear with one key and keep rolling.

Works with your recording setup

Stream it, record it or capture it — your ink comes along.

  • OBS Studio
  • Streamlabs
  • Twitch
  • YouTube
  • Camtasia
  • Zoom recordings
  • Any screen recorder

Epic Pen draws on your screen itself, so any capture that records the display records your ink.

Your viewers will ask what tool that is

Creators tell us the same story: draw over your screen in one take, and the first comment is someone asking how you did it. Clean, live annotation stands out — because almost nobody else does it.

Try Pro free for 14 days

Free vs Pro for creators

Basic — freePro
Pen, highlighter & eraser
Hotkeys & Ghost Mode
Screenshot tool
Highlighted cursor
Arrows & boxes
Text call-outs
Fading ink
Whiteboard & blackboard

Basic is free — including monetised channels and commercial work.

Try Pro free for 14 days

Download & pricing

Basic

Free forever — at home, school and work.

FREE

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  • Pen, highlighter & eraser
  • Screenshot tool
  • Hotkeys & Ghost Mode
  • Pen pressure & multi-touch
  • 16 colours
  • Text tool
  • Shapes & arrows
  • Whiteboard & blackboard
  • Fading ink
  • Highlighted cursor

Pro

The tools professionals use every day.

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Charged annually at --- / year

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  • Everything in Basic
  • Text tool
  • Shapes & arrows
  • Whiteboard & blackboard
  • Fading ink
  • Highlighted cursor
  • 24 colours + any custom colour
  • Move your licence between PCs

14-day free trial, then billed yearly. Cancel anytime — Pro stays active until the end of your trial or paid period.

Questions from creators

If you are using screen sharing software or screen recording software such as OBS, Microsoft Teams or Zoom, you may find that Epic Pen ink does not always show up in the screen capture.

If you want to capture Epic Pen ink in this software you need to ensure you choose to record the entire screen. If you are looking to share a PowerPoint window over Zoom, for example, make sure you choose to share the screen that the PowerPoint window is on, and not only the PowerPoint window itself. This is because software like Zoom, Teams and OBS will see the Epic Pen ink and the PowerPoint window as different windows, and if you choose to share the PowerPoint window only, these programs will typically ignore the Epic Pen ink.

Yes. Ghost Mode hides the Epic Pen toolbar completely while you keep drawing with hotkeys, so your viewers see only your content and your ink.

Yes. Every Epic Pen tool and action can be bound to a hotkey, and a Stream Deck key can send that hotkey — so draw, clear and hide are one button press away while you record.

Yes. Epic Pen Basic is free for everyone, including monetised channels and commercial work. Pro adds the highlighted cursor, text, shapes, fading ink and the whiteboard, with a 14-day free trial.