Pick where the arrow points, how it's drawn and what it says, and download it drawing itself in as a 1080p MP4, ready to lay over your video. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.
How it works
Four steps, about a minute, and nothing to install.
1
Arrow draws itself toward a spot, Circle loops around it, and Click brings in a mouse pointer that clicks. Pick Hand-drawn or Clean, the shape, the color and the line weight.
2
Choose one of nine spots in the frame, which way the arrow points (or Auto), and a size from 50% to 150%.
3
Type a short label of up to 28 characters, or leave it empty. Set how long it takes to draw, from 0.3 to 2.5 seconds, and how long it stays, up to 10 seconds.
4
Press Download. The video is rendered in your browser at 1080p and saved to your device, usually in a few seconds. No account, no watermark.
Ready-made versions
Each one opens its own maker with the settings filled in. Change anything, then download.
When a callout animation isn’t enough
Here you get one callout on a background, to line up yourself. In Rescroll you describe what you want in plain English, such as “circle the price on my screen recording when I say it, then draw an arrow to the Buy button”, and it's designed from scratch on your own video, placed around you and timed to the exact word you say. Not right yet? Ask for the change in the chat.
Free callout animation
Rescroll
One arrow, circle or click, in your color
Any graphic you can describe, matched to screenshots, logos or fonts you attach
You key it out and position it yourself
Designed on your own video and placed around you
You line it up with your words in your editor
Timed to the exact word you say
Change it with the settings here
Change anything by asking in the chat
Part of the Pro, Ultimate and Scale plans.
Both built in Rescroll from a description.
The basics
An arrow animation is a short clip of an arrow drawing itself onto the screen to point at something: a product in your hand, a button in a screen recording, a face in a crowd, a line of small print. Editors lay it over footage so the viewer looks exactly where they should.
This maker draws the arrow the way a person would. Hand-drawn arrows have a marker's pressure, thin where the pen lands and full in the middle, with a slight wobble and a head flicked on in two strokes. Clean arrows shoot in with the head leading and land with a small overshoot. Either one can be curved or straight, and once it lands it can keep nudging at the spot.
Choose the spot in the Points at grid that's nearest to what you're pointing at, then fine-tune the position in your editor. Leave Direction on Auto and the arrow comes in from the open side of the frame, with the label tucked behind its tail.
In your editor
An MP4 has no transparent background, so the callout animation comes ready to key. Set the background to green and remove it with chroma key, or to black and use a Screen blend.
Download the callout animation on a green background. In CapCut, drag it onto the track above your video so it sits on top as an overlay. Select it, open Video → Remove BG → Chroma key, pick the green with the color picker and raise Strength until the background is gone. Menu names move a little between CapCut versions; look for Chroma key. If you made it on black instead, set the clip's blend mode to Screen.
Put the callout animation on a video track above your footage. From the Effects panel, drag Ultra Key onto it and click the Key Color eyedropper on the green. For a version on black, skip the key: in Effect Controls, set Opacity → Blend Mode to Screen.
Place the callout animation on the track above your footage. On the Edit page, open Effects → Open FX, find 3D Keyer under Resolve FX Key and drag it onto the clip, then sample the green in the viewer with the Open FX overlay switched on. For a version on black, set Composite Mode to Screen in the Inspector instead.
Connect the callout animation above your footage in the timeline. From the Effects browser, drag the Keyer effect onto it; it finds and removes the green by itself. For a version on black, set Blend Mode to Screen in the Video inspector.
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