Wayscriber
Live overlay for drawing, annotating, hiding text, and capturing screenshots on Linux. Can be used as whiteboard or blackboard. Highly customisable.
Features
- Pressure Sensitivity
- Annotate Screenshot
- Drawing Tablet Support
- Full-page Screenshot
- Wayland Support
- Annotations
- Drawing Board
- Tablet support
Tags
- scribble
- screenshots
- zoomit
- Linux
- blackboard
Wayscriber News & Activities
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It's super snappy and easy to toggle on and off for quick annotations.
Very useful for live demonstrations and reference markup. But it also doubles as a full-fledged screenshot tool! I'm mostly using this instead of Flameshot since Wayscriber is much quicker to use: toggle, draw, Ctrl-Shift-P ... done!
It can be as advanced or simple as you prefer, sporting 3 different UI complexity modes. There's in-app help via F1. You can toggle the toolbar with F2. All very simple.
Also very...
- hced added Wayscriber
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hced added Wayscriber as alternative to Gromit-MPX, ZoomIt, gInk and Epic Pen
Wayscriber information
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devmobasa Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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- English
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What is Wayscriber?
A ZoomIt-like screen annotation tool for Linux, written in Rust.
Works on GNOME, KDE, Hyprland, Sway, River, and other compositors with wlr-layer-shell
wayscriber is a powerful screen annotation tool designed for Linux desktops (Wayland compositors). Perfect for live presentations, classroom sessions, and screenshares, it lets you toggle drawing mode with a single key and annotate your screen instantly without breaking your flow.
Drawing Tools
? Freehand pen ? Straight lines ? Rectangles ? Ellipses & circles ? Arrows ? Multi-line text annotations ? Highlight brush (Ctrl+Alt+H) ? Marker tool ? Eraser tool
Board Modes
? Whiteboard mode ? Blackboard mode ? Auto pen contrast ? Isolated frames ? Transparent overlay
Customization
? Quick color palette (8 colors) ? Adjustable line thickness ? Custom fonts (Pango) ? Scroll wheel adjustments ? TOML configuration file
User Experience
? Status bar with live feedback ? In-app help overlay (F10) ? Native configurator (F11) ? Freeze mode (Ctrl+Shift+F or --freeze argument at start) ? Session persistence between launches (opt-in) ? Background daemon mode ? System tray integration
Comments and Reviews
It's super snappy and easy to toggle on and off for quick annotations.
Very useful for live demonstrations and reference markup. But it also doubles as a full-fledged screenshot tool! I'm mostly using this instead of Flameshot since Wayscriber is much quicker to use: toggle, draw, Ctrl-Shift-P ... done!
It can be as advanced or simple as you prefer, sporting 3 different UI complexity modes. There's in-app help via F1. You can toggle the toolbar with F2. All very simple.
Also very customizable. To edit the the app's preferences you either manually edit the config file or (recommended) install the companion `wayscriber-configurator` and then use F11 to edit prefs in a GUI.
A few tips:
To toggle the tool, I've mapped Super/Command + D for Draw, which is easy to remember and feels pretty natural. I also recommend changing a few keys: E for Eraser and C for Clear all.