Draw on Any Website
Note Up puts a magic pen in your browser. Sketch hand-drawn arrows over any web page, spotlight the thing you are talking about, and let vanishing ink tidy up after you.
A Pen, an Arrow, and a Spotlight for Any Web Page
Note Up turns any web page into a whiteboard. Three tools cover pointing at things, and none of them need a manual.
Pen
Smooth freehand lines with a subtle white halo, so your ink stays readable on any background, light or dark.
- Draws over articles, dashboards, docs, and web apps
- The halo keeps strokes visible on dark mode pages
- Four ink colors, switchable from the on-page toolbar
Arrow
Draw any curve and the arrowhead follows your pen tip as you go. No rigid straight-line snapping. It looks hand-drawn because it is.
- Curved arrows that bend around page elements
- Made for "click here, then here" walkthroughs
- Vanishing mode clears them away as you talk
Focus spotlight
Dims and blurs the whole page except a soft spotlight that tracks your cursor. The page stays fully clickable underneath.
- A built-in cursor highlighter for presentations
- Your audience looks exactly where you are looking
- Toggle it off with one click or the Esc key
Screen Annotation Built for Live Moments
Most drawing tools are built for editing screenshots afterwards. Note Up is built for the moment you are pointing at a live page and talking.
Vanishing ink
Flip the switch and every stroke fades out about two seconds after you lift the pen. Flip it off and ink stays until you clear it.
A toolbar that follows you
A small floating toolbar changes tool, color, and vanish mode without reopening the popup. Drag it anywhere on the page.
Ink that scrolls with the page
Drawings stick to the content, not the screen, so your arrow still points at the right paragraph after you scroll.
Every tab keeps its drawings
Your selected tool carries between tabs, and each tab holds its own ink until you clear it.
Four ink colors
Enough to separate "look here" from "fix this" without opening a settings page.
Esc puts it away
One key hides the tools whenever you need the page back to normal.
Annotate Any Web Page While You Teach, Present, or Review
Anywhere you would normally wave your cursor and say "this bit here", Note Up gives you actual ink.
Teaching and online tutoring
Circle the sentence you are reading, arrow the button students should click next, and let vanishing ink keep the page clean between examples.
Zoom and Google Meet screen shares
Draw on the browser tab you are sharing and everyone on the call sees your ink live. No separate whiteboard app, no waving the cursor around.
Design and website feedback
Annotate the live site instead of a screenshot. Circle the misaligned card, arrow the button that needs moving, then screenshot the page with your notes on it.
Code reviews and product demos
Point at the exact line in a review, sketch the flow between two panels, and clear the page with one click when you move on.
How to Draw on a Website in Chrome
From the store listing to your first arrow in well under a minute.
Add Note Up to Chrome
Open the Chrome Web Store listing and click "Add to Chrome". At under 20 KB, the whole extension is smaller than most images on this page.
Open any web page
Note Up draws on whatever you are looking at: articles, dashboards, staging sites, docs, web apps.
Pick a tool
Click the Note Up icon in your toolbar and choose pen, arrow, or focus. The floating toolbar keeps color and vanish controls on the page.
Draw straight onto the page
Sketch arrows, circle what matters, spotlight your cursor. Press Esc whenever you want the tools gone.
A Browser-Based Alternative to Epic Pen and Web Paint
Epic Pen and similar screen markers are desktop apps: you install them on Windows and they draw over your whole monitor. Note Up takes a different route. It lives inside Chrome, so it works anywhere Chrome does, including Mac, Linux, and ChromeOS, and it only ever draws on the page you are looking at.
Compared with classic draw-on-page extensions like Web Paint, Note Up is built for talking over a page rather than decorating it. Arrows follow your pen tip instead of snapping into straight lines. Strokes can fade on their own two seconds after you lift the pen. The focus spotlight blurs everything except the spot you are pointing at. And your ink sticks to the page content, so it scrolls with whatever you marked instead of hovering over the screen.
Note Up FAQs
Short answers about drawing and annotating on websites with Note Up.
Install Note Up from the Chrome Web Store, open any web page, click the Note Up icon in your toolbar, and pick the pen or arrow tool. You draw straight onto the page, and you can press Esc whenever you want the tools out of the way.
Yes. Note Up is free to install and use, with no account, no sign-in, and no locked features. If it saves you time, there is an optional Buy Me a Coffee button in the popup, and that is the entire business model.
No. Everything runs on your own machine. Note Up does not collect data, track your browsing, or send anything anywhere.
Yes. Because you are drawing directly on the browser tab you are sharing, everyone on the call sees your ink as you draw it. Vanishing ink works well here: strokes fade a couple of seconds after you lift the pen, so you never have to stop and tidy the screen.
The Focus tool dims and blurs the whole page except a soft spotlight that follows your cursor. It works as a cursor highlighter for walkthroughs and presentations, and the page stays fully clickable while it is on.
Epic Pen is a desktop app you install on Windows, while Note Up lives in Chrome, so it works on any operating system that runs Chrome. Compared with classic draw-on-page extensions like Web Paint, Note Up adds curved hand-drawn arrows, vanishing ink for live calls, a focus spotlight, and strokes that scroll with the page content instead of floating over the screen.
With vanishing ink switched off, strokes stay until you clear them, and they are anchored to the page content, so they scroll along with whatever you marked. Each tab keeps its own drawings, and your selected tool follows you between tabs.
Note Up is built for Chrome and installs from the Chrome Web Store. Most Chromium-based browsers, including Edge and Brave, support Chrome Web Store extensions, so it typically works in those too.
Put a Pen on Every Web Page
Free, under 20 KB, and nothing to configure. Install it now and the next time someone says "where should I look?", draw them an arrow.
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