Annotate: Web Annotations with Screen Sharing

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Annotate web pages, PDFs, Google Slides, and Google Docs to improve engagement. Annotate in Google Meet when screen sharing.

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Annotate: Web Annotations with Screen Sharing

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New in v8.53+
• Support for In-Document questions for converting printable paper worksheets into fully digital assignments.

New in v8.32+
• Document camera support

New in v8.22+
• Student note taking on web pages, Google Slides, and PDFs
• Student note taking during LiveStreams for Google Slides and PDFs
• Livestream student work (Google Slides and PDFs) to student devices and to a classroom display using Chrome Client Lite.
• Review student work and provide feedback in real time

New in v8.19+
• Livestream support for PDFs and Google Slides
• More robust export for web page annotations
• General bug fixes

New in v8.17+
• Create Google Classroom assignments using web pages

Freely annotate web pages, PDF documents, Google Slides and Google Docs content when presenting. Keep your audience engaged with live annotations during your remote learning and Google Meet sessions.

New! Annotate PDFs on your Google Drive or on the web by selecting “Open with Annotate”. Annotations are sticky and remain in place as you zoom, scroll, and navigate. The same user interface and annotation tools now work across PDFs, Google Slides, Google Docs, and web pages.

With improved compatibility with Google Slides and Google Docs, we track annotations for every slide/ page so your annotations remain in sync as you navigate across slides/ pages. Tight integration with Google Slides and Google Docs also enables switching between app controls/ menus and our annotation tools seamlessly. Our annotations are smooth, fast, and anchored in place as you zoom and navigate, making your content look professional and engaging.
Save your annotations in your account for review later. Share them with others or come back and continue working from where you left off. Capture screenshots of marked up pages and insert them directly into your Annotate notebook. All this as you share¹ your entire screen, an application, or just a single Chrome tab with a projector² and multiple student devices.

The plugin works seamlessly with your Annotate.net instructor account to enable annotations over web pages and screen sharing¹ during LiveStreams. When installed on classroom devices, you can empower students to take an active role in their learning by giving them the ability to annotate web pages and share their screens using the "Pass Control" feature.

Teachers, students, and Google Meet users shall be able to:
• Freely annotate web pages, PDFs, Google Slides, and Google Docs using the pen and highlighter tools³.
• Annotate PDFs on their Google Drive or on the web by selecting “Open with Annotate”.
• Annotate Google Slides in both edit and present modes. Google slides annotations are tracked and saved for every slide.
• Save annotations directly into their Annotate web account⁴.
• Share their annotations with others⁴.
• Capture screenshots of web pages with annotations and add them directly into an Annotate notebook.
• Insert images from the web, including image searches, directly into their Annotate notebook with just a click.
• Use the laser pointer tool to point out details and draw attention.
• Stream their entire desktop screen, a single application, or just a Chrome tab¹.
• Stream speaker and microphone audio¹ from their computer to a projector² and student devices.
• Select a monitor for sharing if they have multiple screens/monitors connected to their computer¹.

Create an account at https://annotate.net to access these awesome features.

¹The extension provides screen sharing and audio streaming support in your Annotate web account in older versions of Chrome.
²Requires the Annotate Mirror Client v11.0+ or the Annotate Chrome Client Lite running on the PC/ Mac/ Chromebox connected to your projector.
³Feature limitations may apply depending on your account type. Please review https://annotate.net/pricing for the list of features available in different accounts.
⁴Some features are not available in student accounts.

Version History
New in v8.16+
• Export annotated web pages as PDFs

New in v8.13+
• Bookmarks in PDFs
• Hide/unhide PDF pages

New in v7.22+
• Page rotation in PDFs
• Blank document/ Infinite canvas support for PDFs and web pages

New in v7.20+
• Google Classroom support

New in v7.00+
• Bug fixes and general improvements

Tools and features added in versions prior to 7.0
• Screen Shade tool with Spotlight support
• Comments in web pages
• Improved compatibility with Canva
• Drawing support when toolbar is minimized
• Export Google Slides with annotations and media³
• View, add, edit, and reply to comments in PDFs
• Export PDFs with annotations and media³
• Add Media (images and videos)
• Timer and Stopwatch
• Voice notes
• Screen + Camera recording
• Multi-line Equation Editor
• Line, Rectangle (Box), and Ellipse

Latest reviews

Kayleigh Keller 2025-10-13: My go-to tool for online teaching, however spending an hour trying to log in again after updates is absolutely ridiculous. I keep authorising Chrome to give access to my Google Drive, and the screen loads endlessly and will not allow me to open my textbooks in the Annotate program. I have tried more than 5 different accounts and none of them will successfully log in and grant Annotate access to my Drive :((
Komal Aurangzeb 2025-10-04: not opening
Gustavo Ladeira 2025-09-19: The extension doesn't activate when I click on it. :(
Hassan Pardesi 2025-09-17: doesn't work. hate it.
Trung 2025-07-13: it works great, u can swipe during u write and it won't be delete
Kayleigh Keller 2025-05-26: Please undo the recent update. The change to the pen tool when writing is really off putting.
Laptev walrus 2025-04-24: Supports pinned comments with different font sizes. Ideal for me
Udish Agrawal 2025-04-18: i love it
Crystal Identity 2025-03-05: Requires way too much personal info in order to sign up for the Annotate.net account (mandatory to use the extension)! Why do you need to know my salutation, first name, last name, and birth date? For that reason, I AM OUT!!!
Ace Mamun 2024-12-30: 12 annotations on a free plan with a lackluster 1990s interface.
xinghe 2024-12-04: Thank you to the developers for their efforts Can you add a few shortcuts to common functions? This is more convenient
Allen Sears 2024-10-30: Exporting annotations back into Google Drive often ends up with a frozen screen that says "Loading" forever. You can reload the page and eventually get it to work, but it's totally annoying. Otherwise it's pretty good.
Benny Peng 2024-08-10: "Need to upgrade to premium". If you want a working extension without needing to pay lots of money this is not the right extension. Everything costs money on this.
Arvinder Kaur 2024-06-13: It is good annotator. Please help me add a new feature where I can annotate on the pdf too and colours should be more for free users too.
David Kendalo 2024-05-09: This new update freaking messed it up. Revert back to what it was. My pen does not always register when I am writing and it is so annoying. Literally was the best extension ever now it sucks, revert it back please.
Hargan 2024-04-08: This app is cool and powerful. However, the current pen cursor is hiding the line, which makes us feel hard to annotate. Can you please change the pen cursor to a dot ?
Cintia Pitrez 2024-03-04: Why it doesn't work on Canva presentation mode? I love the extension. Use it very often on my google docs presentation , but I would like to use it on Canva presentation as well..
Louis Keal 2024-01-27: DOES NOT WORK For an app that does a simple job, it still requires registration to use at all. Try to register and you're greeted with "cannot process the registration" or something. Wasting my time on repeating attempts, and no way to make it work without registering. Ridiculous.
Ricardo R 2024-01-17: I do like. It works well on both Edge and Chrome. My only concern is that, when I zoom in the screen, the tool bar gets expanded too, and so do all the writing features. It would be better if, regarless of our expanding or reducing the screen size, the took bar and all its features remained the same.
Luise Grice 2023-11-16: Would be better if it had shortcuts I can use with my left hand and draw etc with my right hand. An arrow (to point with) would also be handy. Thank you!
Anmol Limbu 2023-11-12: it's useless if you don't have any codes.
Anmol Limbu 2023-11-12: it's useless if you don't have any codes.
Emma Zuo 2023-11-05: The best online teaching tools for teachers!
Emma Zuo 2023-11-05: The best online teaching tools for teachers!
jithin raj 2023-06-09: Super useful! Well done Annotate team! Suggestion: Please reposition snapshot tool (camera icon) on top row (as it was in previous version) of toolbar, so that it can be accessed fast.
jithin raj 2023-06-09: Super useful! Well done Annotate team! Suggestion: Please reposition snapshot tool (camera icon) on top row (as it was in previous version) of toolbar, so that it can be accessed fast.
Rishi Agarwal 2023-05-31: Every time I press the delete annotation, it asks for confirmation. This is quite annoying when i am teaching in class and need to clear annotations on Slides to make space. Please add a setting that can disable this popup every time.
Rishi Agarwal 2023-05-31: Every time I press the delete annotation, it asks for confirmation. This is quite annoying when i am teaching in class and need to clear annotations on Slides to make space. Please add a setting that can disable this popup every time.
Anja Winter 2022-12-15: Very nice and better than expected!!! A few things I would like to see improved: 1) Text size - we should be able to make the text bigger otherwise can't be used for presenting. Edit: It actually it possible to make the text bigger, but very hidden... You have to scroll right to get more font sizes and often, the scrolling doesn't work. Also typing in the text size doesn't always work. 2) Short cut for "add text" .. would be super useful to quickly add text when presenting :) 3) Custom short cuts would be amazing! 4) It would be nice to be able to save "favorites" or "last used", so for example if I always use a red arrow to point: It would be nice if it's always saved in the main toolbar without me having to go to the 3 dots for "more", choosing the line, adding an arrow and changing the color each time I restart Chrome. Thanks!
Anja Winter 2022-12-15: Very nice and better than expected!!! A few things I would like to see improved: 1) Text size - we should be able to make the text bigger otherwise can't be used for presenting. Edit: It actually it possible to make the text bigger, but very hidden... You have to scroll right to get more font sizes and often, the scrolling doesn't work. Also typing in the text size doesn't always work. 2) Short cut for "add text" .. would be super useful to quickly add text when presenting :) 3) Custom short cuts would be amazing! 4) It would be nice to be able to save "favorites" or "last used", so for example if I always use a red arrow to point: It would be nice if it's always saved in the main toolbar without me having to go to the 3 dots for "more", choosing the line, adding an arrow and changing the color each time I restart Chrome. Thanks!
Jeremy Fleming 2022-10-10: Tried to sign up, got "Sorry, we are not able to process your registration. Please try later." Really wish I could just use the extension without having to sign up.
Jeremy Fleming 2022-10-10: Tried to sign up, got "Sorry, we are not able to process your registration. Please try later." Really wish I could just use the extension without having to sign up.
Ulysses Potiguara 2022-08-21: I was looking for an simple whiteboard annotator tool and this jumped out. Better than I expected. The tool works seamlessly with webpages, keeping the annotation right on the place even when you scroll the page. Perfect tool for graphic tablets.
Ulysses Potiguara 2022-08-21: I was looking for an simple whiteboard annotator tool and this jumped out. Better than I expected. The tool works seamlessly with webpages, keeping the annotation right on the place even when you scroll the page. Perfect tool for graphic tablets.
Dila Kirana 2022-08-19: the annotation didn't show on my student side when I shared screen in google meet. I guess its not the extension I'm looking for
Dila Kirana 2022-08-19: the annotation didn't show on my student side when I shared screen in google meet. I guess its not the extension I'm looking for
Agee K. 2022-05-29: Bezpłatną wersję można sobie odpuścić
Madame Minty 2022-04-10: It does exactly what I want: it can add highlights, basic drawings, and text to a website. It does it in the crappiest way possible without outright failing: annotations save very slowly, have to be loaded manually, it's only to servers apparently (instead of local), and it's just 10 pages total for free (not to mention limited editing: "Fixed color, font, size, and thickness"). The limits aren't that bad, but the immense sluggishness is (at least make it asynchronous or something!)
Madame Minty 2022-04-10: It does exactly what I want: it can add highlights, basic drawings, and text to a website. It does it in the crappiest way possible without outright failing: annotations save very slowly, have to be loaded manually, it's only to servers apparently (instead of local), and it's just 10 pages total for free (not to mention limited editing: "Fixed color, font, size, and thickness"). The limits aren't that bad, but the immense sluggishness is (at least make it asynchronous or something!)
Samuel da Silva Nunes Paiva 2022-03-09: Muito bom, mas acho que a paleta de cores salvas poderia ser maior, mesmo que ela não ficasse visível por inteiro, mas poderia expandir com apenas um clique. Outro ponto negativo é a falta de detecção de pressão da caneta.
Fernanda Botello 2022-02-05: Me gustaba mucho y me ayudó en varias ocasiones con mis pdf´s, luego se volvió premium y ahora no puedo usar el marcador de textos, si uso el otro se mueve todo y no funciona, me decepcionó bastante.
Rogerio M. Souza 2022-01-25: Very practical! It is fast in loading the extension and using its tools. CONST; Does not have highLights editing
Jhalak Kapoor 2022-01-13: I love it but is not free Pls make it free if you can not so pls do that we can use 5 pens and 3 hiliters after free trial pls do it
Jhalak Kapoor 2022-01-13: I love it but is not free Pls make it free if you can not so pls do that we can use 5 pens and 3 hiliters after free trial pls do it
Michael Emelyanov 2021-12-16: $17.5/Year for this.
Michael Emelyanov 2021-12-16: $17.5/Year for this.
PAPERHEART 2021-12-02: Loved it. A little suggestion, I find it is inconvenient that the toolbar cannot be maximize. I use undo button a lot but it is not available on the main tool bar. Another way is to use ctrl+z but again, I find it is inconvenient.
PAPERHEART 2021-12-02: Loved it. A little suggestion, I find it is inconvenient that the toolbar cannot be maximize. I use undo button a lot but it is not available on the main tool bar. Another way is to use ctrl+z but again, I find it is inconvenient.
Artyom Kozhemiakin 2021-11-22: Unable to register with the following error: "Sorry, we are not able to process your registration. Please try later."
Artyom Kozhemiakin 2021-11-22: Unable to register with the following error: "Sorry, we are not able to process your registration. Please try later."

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