Draw over your screen on Windows
Paste Pen is a portable app for drawing on your screen, taking screenshots and inserting images with background removal. An extended alternative to Epic Pen and gInk.
no installation
languages
& dark
Everything you need, on screen
A toolkit built around one idea: your screen is your canvas.
Draw over everything
Pen, laser pointer, shapes (line, rectangle, ellipse, arrow), text with font selection, moving, rotating and scaling. Left and right mouse buttons draw in different colors simultaneously.
Smart Cut
Cut out a screen area — the background is automatically filled with the original color. Perfect for design edits and AI tasks.
Screenshots with drawings
Capture a region together with your annotations — to the clipboard or the system image viewer.
Background removal
Insert images from a file or the clipboard and remove the background in one click. The result can be saved back to disk.
Presentations from a folder
Flip through images with the mouse wheel right on your desktop, with automatic background removal for each slide.
Smart vector eraser
The left button erases pixels; the right one deletes an entire line or shape with a single click.
Portable + Open Source
A single .exe file with no installation, MIT license, multi-monitor support, light and dark themes, 12 languages with auto-save.
Built for three scenarios
AI coding
Smart Cut — a tool for adjusting the design of apps and websites right on your desktop and preparing a task for the AI to modify the code.
Presentations
Toggleable laser pointer. A feature to pick a folder with images, scroll through slides with the mouse wheel — with background removal on the fly.
Trading
Overlay charts on top of your terminal: stretch, transform and remove the background of images.
Yaroslav Khmelev, developer of Paste Pen
The idea came from my dissatisfaction with how existing apps insert images over the desktop. I decided to fix this in my own app and add every feature I personally needed — especially inserting charts with stretching and background removal.My GitHub ↗
Try Paste Pen
A single portable file for Windows 10/11. No installation, no sign-up, fully open-source under the MIT license.
⚠️ The program is not digitally signed, so Windows 11 may show a SmartScreen warning — this is a false positive: the source code is fully open and safe.