ThingLink: Create media rich tags, or touch points, to any image or video (video and VR/360° images are premium). ThingLink is one of our Featured Tools, so see a demo in our blog post, How to Annotate Images with ThingLink. Educator accounts are available. FREE/Premium
SocialBook: Annotate text, images, or video. Create private or public discussions around a text. FREE
Kami: a browser-based platform that offers a wide range of annotation tools and features integration with Google Drive. Available online, as a Google Chrome extension, and as a Google Drive application for full integration. FREE/Premium.
Vibby: Upload videos from YouTube and add comments to highlighted segments. Open it up to the public for their input. Annotated “vibs” are shareable and include analytics when you create one while logged in. FREE
Scalar: open-source, media-rich scholarly publishing platform ideal for creating non-linear narratives. Requiring minimal technical expertise, this platform offers its authors a robust database system for to catalogue their work, which can be experienced by the public through different pathways, and from different access points. It supports collaborative authoring, reader comments, and offers a wide range of annotating tools. FREE.
NowComment: Free web app for digitally annotating online documents in a “social context,” that is, allowing other students to read and add to each other’s annotations. Inline annotations on NowComment appear on a 2-pane interface, alongside the respectively annotated parts of the text, enabling contextualized reading and analysis. NowComment annotates html and Microsoft Word documents, but PDF upload …
Tropy: research photo management software that allows you to organize your digital images in collections and boxes, tag, annotate them, and export your research files. FREE.
Loom: This is a screen recording platform offering both a desktop client and Google Chrome extension. Users can select how they want to record to suit their needs with the desktop client having a few additional annotation tools. When the recording is done, it automatically uploads to the user’s Loom account where they can change …
Kaltura Capture: This is a screen-recording software native to NYU Stream. Using this software requires the user to download a desktop application that they can use to record their screen, themselves, or both simultaneously. Videos captured with the software are hosted in the user’s private NYU Stream Library. This screen recording software has the added …
