Annotate: macOS Screen-Recording App Turns Video and Voice into Prompts Sent Straight to AI Coding Agents
A new app on Product Hunt lets users record their screen, draw annotations, and verbally explain what they want fixed—instead of typing long briefs—then hands it off directly to AI coding tools
An interesting new developer tool has launched on Product Hunt: Annotate (full name: Annotate: Screen recording as prompts), a macOS application supporting Apple Silicon machines. The concept is exactly what the name suggests—using screen recordings instead of typing prompts.
Using it is straightforward. Users simply record their screen while working, draw or point at areas of the UI they want changed, and speak aloud to explain what should be modified. The app then compiles the screen video, a transcription of the voice explanation, and the marked UI regions, and forwards them to popular AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard for connecting data to AI models.
The development team emphasizes that the app is Local-only—everything is processed on the user's own machine with no data sent to a server. It's also free, requires no sign-up or login, and eliminates the need to write lengthy briefs.
That said, all current information comes solely from the Product Hunt launch page, with no broad real-world user testing yet. Its actual effectiveness at handing off information to AI agents remains to be proven in practice.
For Thai developers and AI coding tool users, the 'record and talk' approach could significantly cut down briefing time—especially for UI fixes that are hard to describe in text—while on-device processing helps protect code privacy.