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.
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,
Love the local-first approach! Are there plans to support Windows or Linux in the future?
Love it Kim! Prompting is the new Management and screen recording gets under this field. So feel you're helping a lot on it and many founders will take the most of it. All the best here!
Love that it stays completely local — no upload step means the friction between recording an idea and getting a usable prompt basically disappears.
Honestly, being able to sketch a feature on screen while explaining it sounds so much better than writing text! That would really feel like showing an idea to a colleague sitting right next to you. Congrats on the launch! :)
Congrats on the launch! Describing a UI problem in text is usually the slowest step when I work with a coding agent, so sending keyframes and a transcript rather than the video is the part that makes this practical. On a multi step flow, does the transcript stay tied to the frames in order?
I think that this is the future and also outputs (answers by AI) that will show you on the video what to do.
About Annotate on Product Hunt
“Screen recording as prompts”
Annotate launched on Product Hunt on August 6th, 2026 and earned 177 upvotes and 17 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. 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 was featured in Design Tools (261.7k followers), Developer Tools (517.1k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (475.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 232k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Annotate?
Annotate was hunted by Kim Benedict. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Kim Benedict
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.