Record your screen, point by drawing and speak, and hand it off to AI agent. Video prompts for Cursor, Claude, and Codex or any AI coding agent — local-only and free.
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Annotate is a free, local-only macOS app that replaces written prompts for AI coding agents with a screen recording you narrate and annotate. Instead of typing a long brief, you record your screen, draw directly on the UI to point at the exact element, and speak the change you want. The session is then handed off to Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex, which reads the recording via MCP — frames and speech, not a giant video dump. It runs entirely on Apple Silicon, requires no login, and nothing ever leaves your device.
Capture one window or every display in a single session. While recording, you can draw with a pen, rectangle, or text tool directly over the UI — so the agent knows which button you mean, not which one you vaguely gestured at.
Your speech is transcribed and aligned with what was on screen at the moment you said it. If you say “make this button match the sidebar colour,” the agent sees the exact frame where you pointed and hears the words in context — no guesswork.
The session opens directly in Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex. The agent reads the recording through MCP, which means it processes frames and speech transcripts rather than a massive video file. This keeps token usage low and intent clear.
Everything — frames, transcripts, and annotations — stays on your Mac. There’s no upload, no cloud dependency, and no account required. It’s free for macOS Apple Silicon and designed to respect your privacy by design.
A screenshot can’t show what changed — Annotate keeps the motion so your agent sees the full story.
Static screenshots lose clicks, timing, and voice. Annotate preserves all three, syncing frames, gestures, and speech into a coherent walkthrough. That means the agent follows what you meant, not what one frozen frame happened to show. It’s a fundamentally different input method for AI coding agents — one that removes the friction of writing precise prompts and replaces it with showing, pointing, and speaking.
You’re tired of writing detailed prompts for Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex and want a faster, more visual way to communicate changes. It’s especially useful for UI tweaks, multi-step fixes, or any task where a screenshot alone would leave too much to interpretation. If you’re on macOS with Apple Silicon and value local-only, no-login tools, Annotate is a free download worth trying.
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