Overlay for PC

★ ★ ★ Overlay Overview

What is Overlay? The Overlay app is a transparent overlay of an image or document on your screen that you can click through. It is useful for artists, designers, and students as it allows you to make your art or design from or reference photos and screenshots. The app is fully dragged moveable and resizable, and the transparency can be set anywhere from 0% - 100%. The app also has options for autosave size, position, and picture fitting of the overlay window for easy resuming last work.

Software Features and Description

1. It enables you to copy, trace, or compare designs, images, and documents with ease since you can lock the frame and make it undisturbed by mouse gestures.

2. It’s a transparent overlay of an image or document on your screen that you can click through - like a transparent sticker on your screen.

3. Overlay is especially useful for artists, designers, and students as it allows you to make your art or design from or reference photos and screenshots.

4. A frame that allows you to have an image or even PDF displayed semi-transparently in front of everything.

5. - easy lock / unlock control from both the interface and menus.

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Download and install Overlay on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
Overlay	Get App ↲	0 1	Jiulong Zhao

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install Overlay app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using Overlay on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "Overlay"
The search will reveal the Overlay app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once Overlay is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including Overlay.
Now enjoy Overlay on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	Jiulong Zhao	1	v4.32

Get Overlay on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get $9.99 on Mac	Jiulong Zhao	0	1

Download on Android: Download Android

Overlay functions

- Transparent overlay window that is fully dragged moveable and resizable

- Simply drag & drop to change your overlay photo / PDF document

- Transparency can be set anywhere from 0% - 100%

- Easy lock / unlock control from both the interface and menus

- Autosave size, position, and picture fitting of the overlay window for easy resuming last work

- Overlay picture can be easily rotated and resized

- New picture scaling added: Fit Overlay and Zoom to actual picture size (100% pixel to pixel displaying)

- Picture scaling with touchpad gesture and mouse wheel

- Two modes of picture adjustment added: freely hand move and customized center rotation

- Overlay picture's color and effects can be edited by image editor which can be simply reached by double-clicking

- Topmost displaying while the overlay is in lock mode

- Alert for under full-screen mode added

- App quitting confirmation added in case of accidental exit

- Button size and style modified

- "See through" function added according to user's feature request

- Status bar menu added

- Select overlay image from the Open menu

- Overlay image can be simply switched from the Open Recent menu

- Bug fixed for macOS Mojave, red lock ring and green unlock ring can be correctly displayed

- Hide dock icon option added to the Preferences menu

- The overlay window can be fixed to one of your Desktops only

- Very important upgrade: Overlay will work above Full-Screen Apps

✔ Pros:

- Has all the necessary features for an image overlay tool

- Easy to transfer image files from smartphone to computer

- Programmer is knowledgeable and skilled

- Useful for design work

☹ Cons:

- Cannot paste images from clipboard

- Cannot set the color of the frame's outer edge or make it transparent

- Lacks the ability to set the scale of the image being overlaid, which can be a hindrance for some users.

Top Pcmac Reviews

Neat app!

By Guestfyg (Pcmac user)

Needed to this app some content while doing design work and this is just what I was looking for. Some suggestions for improvements: 1.) Would love to be able to set the color of the frame's outer edge. Right now the bright green and red colors are distracting. In particular, it'd be great if we could set the outer edge to be transparent. 2.) Would be great to be able to resize the frame of the window to whatever size I want. Right now there's a minimum height and width, but being able to make that smaller would make the tool more flexible. Thanks!
Thank you!

By Quincy.cs (Pcmac user)

Worth my purchase. Please add "Paste" as another functionality of opening an image. I frequently have an image in my clipboard that I'd like to open in this app.
A super app at a super price

By Gas Creature (Pcmac user)

This programmer really knows his/her chops. The program has ALL the features that you need from an image this app tool. To the reviewer who labeled this a "Mostly pointless app", all I can say is, I'm sorry you misunderstood what you were buying; no, this is not a drawing nor annotating program. To help out other shoppers, let me explain how you use this program. Let's say you want to sketch your dog in a sketching program. You use your smartphone to take a picture of your dog and transfer the image file to your computer. Then your run this program. It has an empty window. From your file mananger (Finder), drag the picture file into the empty window using the mouse. Now, the dog is displayed. You then rotate and resize the image to your need to match the drawing tool (another program) that you're using. Then you move this picture program window over the drawing tool window, and click the "Lock this app" button. Finally, you start drawing your dog in your drawing program. Your picture floats ABOVE your drawing in a semi-transparent way. When you draw, you now have a way to make sure the drawing matches the photo. YAY! I do have two wishes: (1) It would be super-duper if you can run multiple instances of this program. In other words, several windows with several this app images at the same time. For what I do, CAD, I actually need this feature. (2) It would be extremely helpful to be able to save the settings for a particular image. At the very least, if I can save the zoom and rotation so that when that particular image is loaded again, it looks like before, that would save a lot of time. Also, the Jiulong Zhao Web Site and this app Support are blocked in my browser because these try to compose an email when loaded. That is a security risk. The web pages there need to be changed: don't try to compose an email in html/javascript.
So close, just needs ability to control scale/size of overlay image

By J.Y. (Pcmac user)

I thought this was exactly what I was looking for. However, the key feature it is lacking is the ability to set the scale of the image you are overlaying. For example, if I’m testing an iPhone image that’s done at 2x, It would be very helpful to be able to set the source this app image to display at 50% of its original size - in order to this app on top of a 1x target environment. Also, it would be helpful to converslely be able to say ‘view at original size (aka 100%). Any plans to add this level of control on the this app image size?