Screen Draw

Screen Draw is a real-time annotation layer for your stream canvas. It includes a highlighter marker, freehand drawing, and one-click stamps for arrows, circles, squares, and X marks, all rendered live.

It works as a layer inside Meld Studio, and because it also runs as a browser source, it works in OBS Studio. On Meld Pro and Meld Max, you can share drawing access with trusted viewers so they can annotate your canvas from a browser tab.

Screen Draw ships with three tools, all available from the toolbar in the upper-left corner of the canvas.

• Highlighter marker: semi-transparent strokes for calling attention to something without covering it up.
• Pen and calligraphy: freehand drawing for sketching plays, routes, and diagrams.
• Stamps: one-click shapes you can drop anywhere on the canvas, including arrows, circles, squares, and X marks.

Everything renders instantly, so what you draw is what your audience sees.

1. Open the Screen Draw page and click Add.
2. Meld Studio adds the Screen Draw layer to your current scene.
3. Select the layer, then click the Reaction mouse icon above the canvas to activate it.
4. Move your pointer to the upper-left corner of the canvas to open the drawing toolbar.
5. Pick the highlighter, pen, or a stamp and start drawing.

Screen Draw behaves like any other layer in your scene, so you can reorder it, hide it, or move it between scenes.

Screen Draw runs as a browser source in OBS, so there is no plugin to install.

1. Copy the Screen Draw link from Meld Studio.
2. In OBS, add a new Browser Source to your scene.
3. Paste the link into the URL field.
4. Set the resolution to 1920x1080.
5. Select the browser source layer, then click Interact.
6. Move your pointer to the upper-left corner to open the toolbar, and draw.

On Meld Pro and Meld Max, you can generate a session link and share it with trusted viewers so they can draw on your canvas in real time, alongside you.

1. Open the Screen Draw page and sign in with a Meld Pro or Meld Max account.
2. Copy the guest link from the session panel.
3. Click Add to Meld Studio to put the session overlay in your scene. This overlay is what goes on stream.
4. Send the guest link to the viewers you want to draw with.

Guests open the link in a browser and sign in with a free Meld account. Only the streamer needs a paid plan. There is nothing to download on the guest's side.

Circle a rotation, draw a passing lane, or mark up a replay the moment it happens. This is the same kind of live telestrator work used in broadcast sports coverage, built into your stream. It suits any game or sport where you break down plays on screen, such as VALORANT and CS2 round reviews, League of Legends map calls, or football and basketball film review.

Hand a viewer the drawing link and play tic-tac-toe on screen, or run a round of Pictionary where chat guesses what a viewer is sketching. Drawing happens directly on the stream canvas, so everyone watching sees the game unfold live with no separate app and no screen sharing.

Let a subscriber doodle a mustache on your camera feed, draw a hat on your head, or leave a stamp trail across the screen during a raid. It is a lightweight way to make chat feel like part of the broadcast.

Screen Draw covers the same core job as the OBS Draw plugin, real-time annotation on your canvas, with a few practical differences.

If your current OBS Draw setup works for you, there is no need to switch. Screen Draw is the option to reach for when you want annotation without a plugin, when you use both Meld Studio and OBS, or when you want viewers to draw with you.

Add Screen Draw to your scene in Meld Studio, or add it as a 1920x1080 browser source in OBS. Move your pointer to the upper-left corner of the canvas to open the toolbar, then use the highlighter, pen, or stamp tools.

Yes. Add the Screen Draw link as a browser source set to 1920x1080, select the source, click Interact, and the toolbar becomes available from the upper-left corner of the canvas.

Select the browser source layer and click Interact first. Without that, OBS does not route your mouse input to the Screen Draw canvas.

Yes, on Meld Pro and Meld Max. Generate a Screen Draw session link and share it with trusted viewers. They draw from their own browser after signing in with a free Meld account.

A highlighter marker, a freehand pen with a calligraphy option, and a stamp tool with preset arrow, circle, square, and X shapes.

No. Screen Draw is a web-based widget. It is added as a scene layer in Meld Studio, or as a browser source in OBS, with nothing to install or keep updated.

Set the browser source to 1920x1080 to match a standard full HD canvas.