Choose your path

AfriAnnotate has four kinds of people. Pick the one that sounds like you and jump straight to the pages that matter for your work — no need to read the manual end to end.

I run projects Project owner / researcher Create a project, pick a template, upload your data, invite your team, and export a finished dataset — no code required. Quick start · Create a project · Templates · Import data · Export Start here → I label data Annotator / contributor Label tasks in the browser, on the mobile app, or on desktop — online or fully offline — and track your contributions. How labeling works · Mobile app · Work offline · Join a project Start here → I self-host & build Developer / self-hoster Deploy the platform on your own infrastructure, automate over the API, and connect ML backends for pre-annotation. Self-host · API & SDK · ML backends · Distribution Start here → I govern the platform Platform admin Manage organizations and members, set roles, consent, and security policy, and keep the platform accountable. Organizations · Roles · Policies & consent · Security Start here →

What can you build?

Any kind of African dataset — not just NLP. Language & speech corpora · land-cover & climate imagery · sensor & climate time-series · document & health-record triage · agricultural imagery. See Examples by field to find a starting template for your domain.

Not sure yet?

Start with the Quick start — it walks the whole path from signing up to your first labeled task in five minutes. Or read Why AfriAnnotate for the bigger picture.

Work offline? Get the apps

Nothing to install for the hosted platform — but the desktop app (macOS · Windows) keeps a real local mirror so you can label through a blackout or on a bus and sync later, and the mobile app does the same on Android and iPhone.

Download the desktop app · Install the mobile app