Launching today
Annotate
Screen recording as prompts
44 followers
Screen recording as prompts
44 followers
Record your screen, point by drawing and speak, and hand it off to AI agent. Video prompts for Cursor, Claude, and Codex or any AI coding agent — local-only and free.
Annotate
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m the maker of Annotate.
The short version: it’s a Free, local-only macOS app that turns screen recordings into agent-ready prompts for Cursor, Claude, Codex, or any AI agent. Think of it as sharing your screen and annotating your thoughts to talk a developer through what to build.
I wrote long, detailed prompts to get better results, but the agent still guessed wrong. Screenshots didn't fix it either—they’re too static to capture movement, form input flows, or real-time UI feedback.
So I built the exact solution I wanted, I use it on my daily tasks now, and it’s been a game-changer. It saves me so much time—I explain a task once, and it’s done.
How it works:
1. Start Recording: Press Ctrl + Shift + R or click record button.
2. Annotate Your Screen: Press Ctrl + 1 or 2 ... to toggle drawing tools. Standard drawings clears automatically,
but holding Shift while drawing keeps them permanently on screen—perfect for sketching layouts or UI flows.
3. Stop Recording: Press Ctrl + Shift + R again or click the Stop button.
4. Open in Cursor, or copy the session prompt into your preferred AI agent and let it cook.
No cloud upload. No login. Recordings stays on your Mac.
Features
Consumes fewer tokens: The agent reads recordings via Local MCP using keyframes and speech—not a giant video dump.
Multi-monitor support: Point or draw across different screens, switch context seamlessly, and let the AI understand what you mean.
Secure - Recordings stays in your device, we don't upload your recordings. Speech transcripts and frames are stored in your device locally.
Agent-agnostic: Works with any AI coding assistant (Cursor, Claude, Codex, and more).
Annotation tools: Easy-to-use drawing and highlighting tools so you can explain your idea clearly to the AI.
If you already vibe with AI coding agents and hate writing long prompts, I’d love for you to try it and tell me where it breaks.
Happy to answer anything — let me know how you can use it on your daily work flow,
Thanks for being here.
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I think that this is the future and also outputs (answers by AI) that will show you on the video what to do.
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@busmark_w_nika Yes, you're right. First we typed prompts, then we used speech-to-text (voice as prompts), and now we have video as prompts. I think we're moving toward a much more natural way of communicating to AI—just like how we talk to humans. An AI that can also respond with a video showing what to do would be a great idea. 🤔
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@kim_ben_g TBH, I would need a video showing, as I do not understand some text-based steps.
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@busmark_w_nika Absolutely, a screenshot is worth a thousand words but a screen video is worth more, I would say. 😂