Overlay Pen
Why drawing works in meetings
A slide shows everything at once. A pen shows the one thing you are talking about right now. When you circle a figure, underline a deadline or draw an arrow between two boxes, people stop scanning and start following. It is the whiteboard you had in the meeting room, back in the video call.
Overlay Pen keeps your hands where they are used to being: on a pen and a sheet of glass. You look at the iPad, draw, and the ink appears on top of your picture. There is no menu to dig through while people wait.
How it reaches Zoom, Teams and Google Meet
Video meeting apps only accept a camera. So the drawing goes through Ecamm Live or OBS Studio first: they combine your camera, your slides and the Overlay Pen layer into one picture and hand it to the meeting as a virtual camera. It takes a few minutes to set up once. After that, starting a meeting is the same as always. The step-by-step guide shows exactly where to click.
What you can do
- Circle, underline, point. Six pen types, from an even fineliner to a highlighter, in colours that never vanish in the key.
- Draw over your slides. Add a photo of a slide or chart and write right on it, or draw over the live screen share in Ecamm or OBS.
- Clean up in one tap. Clear the board, and get it back with Undo if you cleared too soon.
- Keep boards. Save a drawing as a draft and open it again in the next meeting.
Questions
Can Overlay Pen join a Zoom or Teams call on its own?
No. Overlay Pen sends its drawing to Ecamm Live or OBS Studio, and those apps pass the combined picture to Zoom, Teams or Meet as a virtual camera.
Do people in the meeting see my palette?
No. With the wireless web overlay, only the ink is sent. The palette never leaves the iPad.