AnnotateCast

I make videos where I pull apart people’s websites. The problem was every screen-recorder put its own clutter all over the shot — toolbars, buttons, my ugly mug — when all I wanted was the website and my scribbles on top of it.

So I built my own. It loads a live site on a tablet, lets me mark it up with a stylus while I talk, click and scroll about like a normal person, then spits out a clean MP4 with just the page and the ink. None of the app itself.

The Android one’s mine. The iPad one’s being built by Rich Keys — my partner in crime at Genius Division (officially Technical Director, but partner in crime is closer to the truth). Neither’s public yet — it’s ours, for now.

Here it is in action:

• Watch on YouTube →
• And again here →