Chrome side panel

Annotate without leaving the page.

Capture selected text, screenshot regions, YouTube moments and audio commentary, then publish them to your Annotated profile.

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The Chrome Web Store submission is being prepared. Until Google approves it, trusted MVP testers can install this release build manually using the steps below.

Install the tester build

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Step 1

Download the test build

Download the ZIP below and extract it to a folder you can keep. Chrome needs that folder to remain on your computer.

Step 2

Open Chrome extensions

Open chrome://extensions in Chrome and switch on Developer mode in the top-right corner.

Step 3

Load the extracted folder

Choose Load unpacked, then select the extracted folder containing manifest.json. Pin Annotated and open its side panel.

Step 4

Sign in and make a capture

Use the same Google or X account as the web app. Open a normal website, select text, and click the Annotated toolbar icon.

Tester installation uses Chrome Developer mode. Chrome may show a developer-mode warning, and this build does not update automatically. Download and reload a new build when an update is announced. Public one-click installation starts after Chrome Web Store approval.

Prefer not to install anything?

The web composer supports text, uploaded screenshots, YouTube and Spotify annotations.

Use web composer