Methods, apparatuses and storage medium associated with cooperative annotation and/or recommendation by shared and personal devices. In various embodiments, at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may include a number of instructions configured to enable a personal device (PD) of a user, in response to execution of the instructions by the personal device, to receive a user input selecting performance of a user function in association with a video stream being rendered on a shared video device (SVD) configured for use by multiple users, render an image frame of the video stream rendered on the shared video device at a time proximate to a time of the user input, and facilitate performance of the user function, which may include annotation of video objects. Other embodiments, including recommendation of video content, may be disclosed or claimed.