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With Tuple, all participants in a pairing session can draw on the shared screen.If you’re viewing a screen, make sure you’re using the “Paint” cursor mode by selecting it from the Guest Toolbar.If you’re sharing your screen, you can configure a hotkey in your preferences to enable Paint mode, or click the icon in the menu bar:Tuple menu bar menu with Paint mode enabledPress the hotkey again, press “Esc”, or click the Tuple icon in your menu bar to return to normal.In either role, just click and drag to paint, and use right-click to clear your paint. Hold Shift while drawing to constrain your stroke to a straight line. In your Preferences, you can choose between waiting until a right-click to clear the paint, or if you want it to clear after a few seconds automatically.

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Paint colors

Your paint strokes, text annotations, and highlight clicks all use a single color so everyone can tell who drew what.By default, Tuple assigns each participant a free color when they join a call, choosing colors with good contrast so everyone is easy to tell apart. That means your color may change between calls.To keep the same color every time, pick one under Cursor color in your Screen Share preferences, or from the Cursor Color swatches in the settings menu of the shared screen window. Your pick applies right away, including on a call already in progress. Switch back to Automatic to hand the choice back to the call.Changing your color does not recolor text annotations you have already committed; those keep the color they were drawn in.