Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Glassboard – Draw over everything on your Mac, Khan-academy style
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…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hey all! I'm happy to announce we've finally released our 2nd macOS app, Draw Over It, a tiny desktop app that enables drawing, highlighting, or annotating directly on top of anything on your Mac. I've always wanted something like this for instant and unobtrusive sketching and annotation for pair programming and demos. I always found the standard web-based diagram and drawing tools a bit too cumbersome. So we built a simple overlay that could appear over any window or app with one shortcut. It doesn't collect any user data and doesn't require any system permissions - it's sandboxed. It all…
Oct 2025 · draw.wrobele.com · its alternatives →
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Glaze by Raycast▲647Create your own Mac apps by chatting with AI
Jul 2026 · glaze.app · its alternatives →
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Simply Draw▲789AI feedback meets art - anyone can learn to draw
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Annotate▲193Menubar app to draw on any app or screen on macOS
2024 · getannotate.com · its alternatives →
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Turn your screen into an inspiring mood board
2015 · getfleck.com · its alternatives →
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I'm a iOS and Mac developer and the thing that mostly bothered me when I first started learning Cocoa programming was the lack of full featured sample code. Now things have changed and more projects have been released, but I still want to do my part. I've already released Color Picker Pro for Mac: https://raw.github.com/oscardelben/Color-Picker-Pro This time I built a copy of the iPhone Calculator which (I hope) will be simple to follow for beginners: https://github.com/oscardelben/iPhoneCalculator I hope this will be useful to people who are learning Cocoa. Feedbacks are very appreciated.
2011 · raw.github.com · its alternatives →
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Mixboard▲218Now w/ Nano Banana Pro, new file types & multi-board project
2025 · labs.google.com · its alternatives →
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The most detailed and accurate macOS UI Kit for Sketch 💎
2021 · macos-uikit.xyz · its alternatives →
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PencilCase▲187Transform your designs into native iOS apps in a heartbeat.
2015 · emojiguide.com · its alternatives →
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ScreenMark▲79Menu bar app for live annotations, whiteboard overlay + more
Aug 2026 · ceritmustafa.github.io · its alternatives →
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Wisbox.ai▲119Draw on screen, get instant AI guidance in any Mac app
2025 · wisbox.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’m Simone. We re-built Breadboard, a visual app builder that mixes Figma-style UI design with Shortcuts-style logic so you can build, preview, and publish interactive web apps directly from the canvas. What it does Design UIs visually with a flexible canvas –like Figma–. Define app logic with a visual, instruction-stacked editor inspired by Shortcuts. Live preview apps directly on the canvas –no separate preview window–. Publish working web apps with one click. Why we made it Modernize the HyperCard idea: combine layout, behavior, and instant sharing in one place. Reduce friction…
Feb 2026 · breadboards.io · its alternatives →
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A blackboard for your laptop lid
2015 · drawattention.co · its alternatives →
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Framed▲110Turn screenshots, videos, and code into polished visuals
May 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Refbox▲171Collect, organize and float your references. Refbox is a fast reference board app for Mac, Windows and iPad.
Nov 2025 · ref.box · its alternatives →
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Snap Deck HQ▲77Everything you need in one native macOS command bar
Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Download Pins for Pinboard by Quang Anh Do on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Pins for Pinboard.
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Around 3 weeks ago, I came across a reddit post from someone who was looking to see if anyone was interested in taking over a 12-14 year old objective c app which hadn't been on the app store for many years. I responded and decided to do it. The app is called Painteresque. It lets you turn photos to charcoal drawings, paintings etc while doing all the processing locally on device: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/painteresque-photo-to-sketch/i... The app is entirely free to use, has no ads, third party analytics, trackers, subscriptions or other junk. It does offer…
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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