Simple Draw

Annotate images already on your clipboard with freehand drawing, boxes, ovals, arrows, and text labels — fully on your Mac, with no external app or web service.

Features

• Clipboard-first — paste a screenshot or copied image, run the command, and start annotating immediately
• Draw & text — smooth freehand strokes plus draggable, resizable text badges
• Boxes, ovals & arrows — drag to draw rectangles and ovals (solid, dashed, or dotted) and arrows, each with adjustable line thickness
• Export — copy the result back to the clipboard or save as PNG from the viewer
• Undo & clear — step back through strokes or reset to the original image

Why Simple Draw

• Works offline — annotation runs locally; nothing is uploaded to a third-party website
• No extra apps — does not require a paid screenshot or annotation tool to be installed
• Annotates what you copied — works on an existing clipboard image, not a new screen capture
• Self-contained viewer — Raycast opens a native window (Swift + WebKit) with an HTML5 canvas; no browser tab or account
• Swift bridge — ray build and ray develop compile the macOS helper automatically

Usage

1. Copy an image to your clipboard (screenshot, Copy Image, or a copied image file path).
2. Run Simple Draw from Raycast.
3. Draw, add boxes, ovals, arrows, or text, then use Copy to Clipboard or Save as PNG in the toolbar.

Keyboard shortcuts in the viewer: ⌘Z undo, ⌘S save, D draw tool, B box tool, O oval tool, A arrow tool, T text tool. Hold Shift while dragging to make boxes square, ovals circular, and snap arrows to 45° angles.

How it works

1. The command reads image bytes from the clipboard (file path when available, otherwise PNG/TIFF via Swift).
2. TypeScript generates a single HTML page with your image embedded and an HTML5 canvas UI.
3. A Swift helper opens that page in a native WKWebView window and handles copy/save back to the pasteboard or disk.

Requirements

• macOS only (macOS 12+)
• Xcode or Xcode Command Line Tools (for the Swift package build on first run)

Development

npm install
npm run dev