Ultimate Pen Alternatives

Ultimate Pen is described as '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' and is a digital painting tool in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Ultimate Pen for Windows, Linux, Mac, Python and Ubuntu. The best alternative is Epic Pen, which is free. Other great apps like Ultimate Pen are Gromit-MPX, Crealesson, Pointofix and Screen Marker and Recorder.

Ultimate Pen alternatives are mainly Screenshot Capture Tools but may also be Digital Painting Tools or Whiteboards. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Ultimate Pen.

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Ultimate Pen

Paid • Proprietary
Digital Painting Tool
Mac

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Epic Pen
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Freemium • Proprietary
Screenshot Capture Tool
Windows
21 alternatives to Epic Pen
Intuitive desktop overlay and screen marker that lets you write and draw over other desktop apps.
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Epic Pen Features
1. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
Pen Support
Digital Drawing
Support for Hotkeys
Free hand drawing
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Gromit-MPX
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Free • Open Source
Linux
Ubuntu
15 alternatives to Gromit-MPX
Gromit-MPX is an on-screen annotation tool that works with any Unix desktop environment under X11 as well as Wayland.
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Gromit-MPX Features
1. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
Grease Pencil
Crealesson
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Windows
15 alternatives to Crealesson
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.
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Crealesson Features
Visualize Keypresses
Advanced markers
Drawing Board
Pointofix
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Free • Proprietary
Whiteboard
Windows
18 alternatives to Pointofix
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.
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Pointofix Features
Export to JPEG
Freehand Writing
Multiple languages
Digital Drawing
Export to PNG
Highlighter
Screen Marker and Recorder
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Free • Proprietary
Screenshot Capture Tool
Windows
21 alternatives to Screen Marker and Recorder
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.
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Screen Marker and Recorder Features
1. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
Video annotation
Drawing 2D
Edit screenshots
Pylote
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
Python
10 alternatives to Pylote
Pylote is a software making it possible to draw on the screen of the computer, like handling various instruments of geometry.

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ScreenBrush
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Freemium • Proprietary
Mac
21 alternatives to ScreenBrush
Quick and useful way to demonstrate something on the screen by drawing.

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Ardesia
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
10 alternatives to Ardesia
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.
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Ardesia Features
Video Maker
Discontinued
According to website, no new version since 2012, latest issue reported was 2015.Just tested in Ubuntu 18.04, doesn't work. Was also reported to not work in Ubuntu 14.04.
ScreenPen
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Free • Open Source
Digital Painting Tool
Screenshot Capture Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
9 alternatives to ScreenPen
Screen annotation software which allows drawing directly on the screen. It is an open source and multiplatform (all systems that support Python) alternative to tools such as Epic Pen.

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Desktop Board
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Paid • Proprietary
Digital Painting Tool
Mac
10 alternatives to Desktop Board
Desktop Board 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.
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Desktop Board Features
Pencil
Sketch

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Epic Pen Features

Gromit-MPX Features

Crealesson Features

Pointofix Features

Screen Marker and Recorder Features

Ardesia Features

Desktop Board Features