How to use the drawing tool while recording your screen
Who Can Use This Feature?
Free Starter
Teams Enterprise
You can use our built-in drawing tool to guide viewers through your recording and highlight important information on the screen. That, and it's also fun to doodle! 🖍️
Draw on your screen
- Start a new Screen recording
- Select the the pen icon from the recording controls
- Adjust the color and thickness of drawing tool accordingly
When the drawing tool is enabled, your cursor will change to + icon. Click and drag on the screen to draw anywhere within the browser window.
Your drawings will disappear after 3 seconds to keep the screen free of clutter.
What Vidyard apps can I use to draw on my screen?
Currently, the drawing tool is available to use with the following Vidyard apps while recording your screen:
- ✅ the browser extension (for Chrome & Edge)
- ✅ Vidyard for Gmail, Outlook
- ❌ the desktop app
- ❌ Vidyard's built-in recording tool (from your video library)
- ❌ the mobile app