Desktop Board Alternatives

Desktop Board is described as 'Allows you to draw on your desktop. Just click Turn On and you are ready to draw. Its the perfect app to do sketches or you can leave your kids to have some fun drawing' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Desktop Board for Windows, Linux, Mac, Python and Ubuntu. The best Desktop Board alternative is Epic Pen, which is free. Other great apps like Desktop Board are Screen Marker and Recorder, Crealesson, ScreenBrush and Wayscriber.

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Alternatives list

  1. Epic Pen icon
     20 likes

    Turn your desktop into a workspace with Epic pen's intuitive drawing tools, enabling free-hand annotation over any app. Supports Windows platform with lightweight features, offline usability, screenshot capture, and comprehensive hotkey functionalities for seamless interaction.

    24 Epic Pen alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. This app allows you live drawing and taking notes over desktop applications. There are also tools for screen recording and making screenshots. It is great tool for creating presentations, tutorials, manuals, animations, video or streaming.

    25 Screen Marker and Recorder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Crealesson icon
     5 likes

    Multiboard Draw On Screen, Marker, Mouse & Keyboard On Screen Display. All inclusive Kit for video tutors, Youtubers, Digital Video Teachers, Educators serving for Kindergartens, Universities.

    A must be app for digital teachers.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Wayscriber icon
     1 like

    Live overlay for drawing, annotating, hiding text, and capturing screenshots on Linux. Can be used as whiteboard or blackboard. Highly customisable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Pointofix icon
     2 likes

    Every screen content can be made available as a digital drawing area so that you can mark and highlight important things. Thus Pointofix is ideal for you as a teacher or IT trainer to support your lectures, training courses and presentations.

    18 Pointofix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Gromit-MPX icon
     12 likes

    Gromit-MPX is an on-screen annotation tool that works with any Unix desktop environment under X11 as well as Wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
     
  7. Ardesia icon
     6 likes

    Ardesia is an usefull software for use your desktop as a Sketchpad. You can write, markup and erase, also, of course, you can use your desktop as normal desktop.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8.  4 likes

    Pylote is a software making it possible to draw on the screen of the computer, like handling various instruments of geometry.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  9. Ultimate Pen icon
     2 likes

    Ultimate Pen is a software only solution which creates a full screen, transparent window, allowing you to draw on top of most applications. Think of Ultimate Pen as an incredibly easy way to doodle on your computer screen.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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