ZoomIt — The Complete Guide: Zoom and Draw on Screen During Presentations and Design Reviews
ZoomIt from Microsoft Sysinternals is a small tool that sits in the system tray and works with hotkeys. One keystroke zooms into part of the screen, and you can draw arrows and rectangles and add text — exactly what you need when presenting a drawing or a model and want everyone looking at the same detail.
ZoomIt
Microsoft Sysinternals
Zoom, draw and record on screen during a presentation — to highlight details in a drawing or model during a design review.
Get it from the vendorWhat you get
- Zoom — magnify an area of the screen to show a small detail.
- Drawing on screen — lines, arrows, rectangles and text.
- Break timer — an on-screen timer for breaks in a training or meeting.
- Capture and recording — capture a screen region and record screen video.
- Text extraction — copy text from a region of the screen.
In a design review
On a video call it is hard to point at a small detail in a drawing with the mouse. With ZoomIt you magnify the detail, circle it and add a note, then return to the normal view. It is free, closed-source software under the Sysinternals licence terms: you may install and use any number of copies, including at work, but you may not redistribute it, rent it out or use it for commercial software hosting services. The macOS version is separate and more limited.
Related tools
For screenshots with annotations and sharing — ShareX. For recording and streaming training sessions — OBS Studio. For recording a short clip as a GIF — ScreenToGif.
ShareX
ShareX team
Screenshots and screen recording for Windows — annotate with arrows and labels, and extract text with OCR.
Get it from the vendorOBS Studio
OBS Project
Screen recording and streaming — software tutorials, model walkthroughs and recorded lectures in high quality.
Get it from the vendorScreenToGif
Nicke Manarin
Record short screen clips as GIF or video — to show software steps in tutorials and emails.
Get it from the vendorMicrosoft PowerToys
Microsoft
A set of Windows utilities — on-screen OCR, screen ruler, bulk rename, window layouts and colour picker.
Get it from the vendorThe bottom line
ZoomIt is a small tool that makes any presentation or design review clearer — free and with no complicated setup.