Is this document markup tool free to use?

Yes. It runs entirely in your browser with no account, sign-up, or subscription required. Upload a document, mark it up, and export the result at no cost.

Do I need to install any software?

No. Everything runs on this web page — there's nothing to download or install, and it works on Windows, Mac, Chromebook, or any device with a modern browser.

What file types can I mark up?

You can upload a PDF, JPEG, or PNG. Multi-page PDFs are supported, and you can also start from a blank canvas in common sizes like Letter, A4, or Tabloid — or a larger ISO (A3/A2/A1) or ANSI (A–E) drawing sheet with a border and title block pre-placed.

Is my document uploaded to a server?

No. Your file is opened and rendered locally in your browser — it's never uploaded or transmitted anywhere. All markup, editing, and exporting happens on your own device.

What markup tools are available?

Text boxes, callouts, rectangles, ellipses, lines, arrows, connectors, polygons, revision clouds, freehand drawing, a highlighter, measurements, title blocks, instrument tags, and labels — along with a searchable library of stamps and engineering symbols.

What are the engineering symbol libraries for?

The symbol picker includes categories for P&ID, electrical, HVAC, hydraulic, piping, process, architectural, instrumentation, flowcharts, org charts, and signage/safety — useful for engineers, drafters, and technical reviewers marking up drawings.

Can I add approval stamps like "Approved" or "Rejected"?

Yes. The Stamps category includes a full set of review stamps — Approved, Not Approved, Reviewed, Draft, Final, Void, Confidential, Revise and Resubmit, Issued for Construction, and more — each with authentic colors and styling.

Can I use this on a phone or tablet?

Yes. The tool supports touch input, including long-press for right-click-style menus and pinch-to-zoom, so you can mark up documents on mobile and tablet devices as well as desktop.

How do I save or export my marked-up document?

Use the Export panel to download the current page as a PNG or export all pages as a single annotated PDF, with every markup you've added baked into the file.

Can I draw piping isometric sketches?

Yes. Click New isometric canvas for a page with a true 3-axis isometric grid, a pre-placed title block, and a north arrow. The Wall/Pipe/Duct/Poly Line tool's Pipe kind snaps every segment to the nearest isometric axis, offers short- or long-radius elbows at bends, and valve symbols snap onto pipe vertices auto-rotated to match the run.

Can I mark a drawing as "Not to Scale"?

Yes. The General symbol category includes ready-made "To Scale" and "Not to Scale" stamps, alongside a Revision Triangle and North Arrow — pick one from the Symbol Stamps panel and click to place it on the drawing.

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1. Start a drawing

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Upload an existing document — click Upload document and choose a PDF, JPEG, or PNG. Multi-page PDFs load in full; use the page navigator under the canvas to move between pages.

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…or start from a blank sheet — pick a size (Letter/A4 portrait or landscape, Tabloid 11×17, Square, Business Card, Line Card, a multi-page Catalog, or a larger ISO/ANSI drawing sheet) and click New blank canvas. Pick an ISO size (A3/A2/A1) or an ANSI size (A through E) and the page comes with a drawing border baked in and a title block already placed bottom-right, ready to fill in. For piping isometric sketches, click New isometric canvas instead — it bakes in a light triangular grid along the true isometric axes and pre-places a title block and north arrow, ready to sketch onto.

3

Add pages as you go — on a blank document, a + Page button appears in the canvas toolbar to append more sheets.

4

Dim or remove the background — once a page is loaded, the 🖼️ slider in the canvas toolbar fades the background image so it's easier to trace over; Remove image permanently clears it (your markups stay, but this can't be undone with Ctrl+Z).

🔒 Nothing leaves your browser — files are rendered and edited locally, with no server upload step.

2. The workspace

Three panels: symbol stamps & style on the left, the canvas in the center, tools & export on the right.

−+

Zoom

− / ↺ / + in the canvas toolbar, or scroll to zoom.

✋

Pan

Drag the view around instead of drawing.

xy

Coordinate readout

Top-right readout tracks cursor x/y.

▤

Page navigator

Jump to a page or step with ‹ ›.

↖

Select tool

Click to select, drag to move; corner handles resize, top handle rotates.

⌁

Snap to lines & symbols

On by default — endpoints click into place near existing geometry.

3. Markup tools

Nineteen tools in the right-hand panel. Pick one, draw on the canvas — it switches back to Select afterward.

▭

Rectangle

Drag to draw.

◯

Ellipse

Drag to draw. Set Shape to Circle for an equal-sided drag, and check Draw as partial arc (with Start angle/Sweep sliders) for a swing/arc instead of a full shape.

╱

Line

Direction lock + snapping.

↗

Arrow

Like Line, with an arrowhead.

☁

Cloud

Drag to draw a revision cloud.

⬠

Polygon

Freehand: click vertices, close with first vertex, double-click, or Enter — Snap 90° locks edges to horizontal/vertical. Or pick a preset shape (triangle, square, parallelogram, trapezoid, pentagon, hexagon, octagon) and drag a box to size it.

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Wall/Pipe/Duct/Poly Line

Click each corner of a wall, pipe, duct, or hatch band; set kind, width & fill below. Close on the first vertex for a filled loop. Pick the Pipe kind for piping isometrics — see §14 for the full isometric drawing/elbow/valve workflow.

✎

Freehand

Drag to draw freehand.

✏️

Pencil

Hard, pressure-sensitive line — press harder (or move slower) for a thicker, darker stroke.

🖌️

Paintbrush

Soft, pressure-sensitive brush — press harder (or move slower) for a thicker, more opaque stroke.

▤

Highlight

Drag over an area.

🖍

Highlighter

Drag over text or a line.

T

Text

Click, then type — wraps automatically.

💬

Callout

Drag from point of interest to text position.

📏

Measure

Calibrates scale, then measures distance — see §7.

⟿

Connector

Direction lock + snapping — see §8.

▦

Title Block

Click, fill in fields — see §6.

⊙

Instrument Tag

ISA bubble with tag + mounting — see §6.

🏷

Label

Click, fill in ID No. & Description — see §6.

✏️ Pencil & Paintbrush use real pressure from a stylus (Apple Pencil, Wacom, Surface Pen) when one's connected; on a finger or mouse, pressure is simulated from how fast you move — slower reads as harder.

4. Style panel

Style applies to the next markup you draw, and live-updates the current selection.

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Color

10 presets + custom picker.

—

Line width

1–20 px.

▨

Fill & opacity

Fill toggle; opacity 5–100% (fill + line).

Aa

Font family & size

9 fonts, 10–48 px, Bold/Italic/Underline.

↻

Rotation

0–359° for shapes, text, symbols.

5. Symbol library

Search across all categories at once, or browse one at a time. Pick a symbol, then click — or drag to size — on the drawing.

StampsFormsEmojisSignage & Safety Process — 33PipingInstrumentElectrical HVACHydraulicArchitecturalFlowchart Org ChartGeneral

Process covers rotating & static equipment (pumps, compressors, turbines, heat exchangers, tanks, distillation columns, furnaces). Piping covers valves, fittings, and flanges. Instrument covers ISA bubbles, tags (PT/TT/FT/LT…), and signal lines — a full P&ID typically draws from all three together.

↻ Your most recently used symbols sit in their own row at the top for quick reuse.

✕ Every symbol has a small ✕ to keep only what you need — on a built-in symbol it just hides it from the palette (bring any of them back with Reset Symbol Library at the bottom of this panel); on one of your own stamps it deletes it for good. Want to clear a whole category in one go? Use Clear category next to the category dropdown — it applies the same hide-or-delete rule to every symbol in the category you're currently viewing.

✏️ Want a symbol that isn't here? Use + Create Custom Stamp at the bottom of this panel — it opens a full workspace with both the Markup Tools and this Symbol Stamps panel available, so you can draw it precisely or combine existing symbols. See section 13 for the full walkthrough and for sharing what you build.

6. Title blocks, instrument tags & labels

These three tools place an object with fields you fill in on the spot.

▦

Title Block

Click to place, complete the fields.

⊙

Instrument Tag

Set tag letters + mounting location.

🏷

Label

Set ID No. and Description.

✎ To edit any of the three later: double-click on desktop, or long-press on touch.

7. Measure & scale calibration

1

Draw one line of known length — drag along a line whose real-world length you already know.

2

That line sets the scale — pixels-per-unit is computed from it, once per drawing.

3

Every line after shows a distance — subsequent Measure lines report real-world length instead.

↺ Use Reset scale in the tool panel to recalibrate from scratch.

8. Connectors, line styles & snapping

⟿

Direction

Any angle, Horizontal, Vertical, 90° elbow.

┅

Line style

Solid, Dashed, Dash-dot, Dotted.

●▸

Start & end caps

Dot, arrow, square, X — set per end.

⌁

Snap

On by default; endpoints click to nearby geometry.

9. Image tools

⎘

Paste / add photo

From clipboard, or a file from disk.

✂

Crop & auto-trim

Drag a crop region, or trim whitespace in one click.

⬡

Lasso cutout

Freehand-select an irregular region to keep.

◐

Opacity, fade & border

Select the image on canvas to reveal these.

10. Markup list & history

☰

Markup list

Color, #, type, page per row; click to select, eye/× to hide/delete.

⧉

Copy / cut / paste

Duplicate or move the selection.

↶

Undo / redo

Step through edit history.

✕

Delete / clear all

Remove the selection, or every markup at once.

11. Exporting

🖼

Current page — PNG

The page you're viewing, as a flat image.

📄

All pages — PDF

Every page, as one annotated PDF.

✎ Need to keep editing later, or share your stamps/templates with someone? See section 13 — Save Project and Create Package keep everything editable instead of flattening it.

12. Keyboard shortcuts

Action	Shortcut
Undo	Ctrl+Z
Redo	Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+Shift+Z
Copy	Ctrl+C
Cut	Ctrl+X
Paste	Ctrl+V
Delete selection	Delete / Backspace
Finish a polygon or wall/pipe/duct run	Enter
Remove last vertex (polygon / wall-pipe-duct)	Backspace
Cancel polygon or profile line / close menu / deselect	Esc

13. Projects, custom stamps & sharing

Beyond the flattened PNG/PDF export, the right sidebar has two panels for staying editable and for building your own reusable symbol/template library:

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Save Project / Open Project — Save Project writes everything (all pages, their backgrounds, and every markup) to one file that keeps full editability; Open Project reads it back exactly, on this device or any other. This is different from Export, which flattens to a picture/PDF that can no longer be edited.

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+ Create Custom Stamp (top of the Symbol Stamps panel) — opens the Stamp Builder: a full workspace where the Markup Tools panel and the Symbol Stamps panel are both live at once. Draw precisely with Rectangle, Polygon, Wall/Pipe/Duct, Freehand, Text, colors, snapping — anything — or drag in existing built-in/custom symbols to combine them into one new stamp. Select what to keep (or leave nothing selected to capture the whole scratch page), click Save as Stamp, then name it and pick a category. Cancel discards the scratch page and returns you to whatever you had open, untouched.

2b

Quick sketch or upload instead — inside the Stamp Builder, the "Prefer a quick freehand sketch or file upload instead?" link opens a small popup for a fast doodle or an image file, when you don't need the full toolset. Drawn stamps there are recolorable like built-in ones; uploaded images keep their own colors.

2c

+ Save Selection as Stamp (bottom of the Markup Tools panel) — a shortcut for when you already have something drawn on your real document: select it and click this to capture it as a stamp directly, without opening the separate Stamp Builder scratch page.

3

Create Package to Share — bundle your custom stamps and/or the current project into one downloadable file. You must check "I created this or have the right to share it" before the download unlocks. Post the file wherever your team already shares files — a discussion board, Discord, chat, email; there's no built-in hosting or live sync.

4

Import Package — pick a package file someone shared with you (or reopen one via Open Project, which recognizes both file types). A preview shows what's inside — stamp count, project page/markup count, and its version history — before you confirm. You can import just the stamps, just the project, or both.

🔗 Every package automatically records a simple, ordered lineage (created → imported → re-shared, with timestamps) — like a fork history — so derivative work stays traceable with no manual attribution needed.

🔒 Custom stamps are saved in this browser (not uploaded anywhere) until you export them in a package.

14. Isometric piping drawings

A dedicated setup for hand-sketching piping isometrics, with the true 3-axis grid, angle assistance, elbow bends, and in-line valves all working together.

1

New isometric canvas (top toolbar, next to New blank canvas) — starts a page with a light triangular grid baked in along the 3 true isometric axes (30°/90°/150°), plus a pre-placed title block and north arrow so there's a sheet to sketch onto right away.

2

Draw the run — select Wall/Pipe/Duct/Poly Line, set Profile to Pipe. This switches Angle snap to Isometric automatically: every vertex you click locks the segment to the nearest of the 6 true isometric directions, so runs come out axis-true even from a rough click. Click each corner, then finish with Enter, double-click, or by clicking back on the first vertex to close a loop.

3

Elbows — the same panel's Elbow dropdown offers Sharp corner, Short-radius, or Long-radius (SR ≈ 1× pipe width, LR ≈ 1.5×) — pick it before drawing a run to have every bend in that run rendered as a real fillet instead of a sharp miter. Bump up Width if a short-radius bend looks too subtle to see.

4

Drop valves in-line — search "valve" (or pick the Piping category) in Symbol Stamps, then click a valve symbol and place it on — or just near — a vertex of the pipe run you drew. With Snap to lines & symbols on (the default), it snaps exactly onto that vertex and rotates itself to match the run's direction there automatically.

📐 Angle snap, Elbow, and the grid itself are all independent of each other — for example you can turn Angle snap back to Free angle or Orthogonal on a page that still has the isometric grid showing, if you need an off-axis line.

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