v1.8.0

Screen Annotations 1.8.0 brings the whiteboard to iPad and keeps your boards in sync between Mac and iPad through iCloud. The iPad app is part of the same App Store purchase, so one purchase covers both.

Screen Annotations for iPad

The whiteboard, rebuilt for touch and Apple Pencil.

• Write and sketch with Apple Pencil or your finger: pen, marker, arrows, lines, shapes, text, LaTeX math, images, eraser, and a laser pointer
• 100+ shapes in a searchable catalog, from flowcharts to math, physics, lab science, and computer science
• LaTeX, typeset live — type a formula and see it rendered as you go; formulas stay editable on the board
• One draggable tool bubble instead of toolbars: Draw, Shapes, Style, Edit, and Board open as cards beside it
• Present in scenes — save scenes from the current view or a selection, then present full screen with smooth camera transitions
• Boards gallery with thumbnails, favorites, categories, search, history snapshots, import, and export

Built for Touch

• Pinch to zoom and drag with two fingers to pan; a flick keeps gliding
• Two fingers on a selection resize, rotate, and move it in one undo step
• Two-finger tap to undo, three-finger tap to redo, or swipe with three fingers
• Apple Pencil double-tap and squeeze follow your system setting, hover previews the tip, and an optional Pencil-only mode lets fingers pan and select
• Drag and drop images and text onto the board, touch and hold for more actions, and use hardware keyboard shortcuts

iCloud Sync

Boards now follow you between Mac and iPad.

• Private by design — boards sync through your own private iCloud database; no account to create, nothing on our servers
• Everything comes along — drawings, scenes, snapshot history, and gallery thumbnails; deleting a board deletes it everywhere
• Nothing gets lost — if the same board changes on both devices, the other version is saved in the board's History
• Settings → Whiteboard → iCloud Sync on Mac: turn sync on or off, see its status, or sync now

Fixes

• Undo could bring back a faded laser pointer stroke as a permanent mark. Laser strokes no longer take an undo step, and boards affected by this clean up when opened.

Requirements

• macOS 15 or later on Mac; iPadOS 18 or later on iPad
• iCloud sync needs both devices signed in to the same Apple Account with iCloud turned on