Draw on top of anything on your screen. Works over games, browsers, videos, presentations — whatever.
Option A — Double-click run.bat (installs deps automatically)
Option B — Manual setup:
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py # must be run as Administrator (for global hotkeys)
⚠️ Run as Administrator so the global hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+D) can intercept keystrokes even when another app is focused. Right-click → Run as administrator
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Ctrl + Alt + D |
Toggle overlay on / off (works anywhere!) |
Esc |
Hide overlay |
Ctrl + Z |
Undo last stroke |
Ctrl + Shift + X |
Clear entire canvas |
The pill-shaped toolbar floats at the top of your screen when the overlay is active. You can drag it anywhere.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Colour swatches | Pick pen colour |
| Size slider | Thin → thick strokes |
| ◻ Eraser | Erase parts of your drawing |
| ↩ Undo | Remove last stroke |
| 🗑 Clear | Wipe the whole canvas |
| ✕ Hide | Close the overlay (drawings are preserved!) |
- Drawings are preserved when you hide and re-show the overlay.
- The overlay is fully click-through when hidden — no performance impact.
- Works on multi-monitor setups (covers the full virtual desktop).
- The app lives in the system tray — right-click for options.
- Windows 10 / 11
- Python 3.10+
- PyQt5, keyboard, pywin32