Software · Photo & graphics

Gromit-MPX

Make annotations on the screen.

Completely free
Linux
Open source

At a glance

All of Gromit-MPX is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-2.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

Gromit-MPX is an on-screen annotation tool that works with any Unix desktop environment under X11 as well as Wayland. Its main use is for making presentations of some application. Normally, you would have to move the mouse pointer around the point of interest until hopefully everybody noticed it. With Gromit-MPX, you can draw everywhere onto the screen, highlighting some button or area. Key features include: Desktop-independent. Gromit-MPX works with GNOME, KDE, XFCE, ... under X11 as well as with a Wayland session using XWayland (most desktop environments). Hotkey-based. Does not get into your way of doing things by sticking some UI widget on your desktop Configurable. You are free to change key bindings as well as drawing tool configuration Multi-Pointer. Under X11, it enables graphical annotations with several pointers at once Fast. Where available, Gromit-MPX makes use of Compositing

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Last technical check: 7 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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