wayscriber 0.9.24 - with Input HUD now
Wayscriber now shows an Input HUD, plus a big pile of 0.9.23/0.9.24 features and improvements.
Code is open source: https://github.com/devmobasa/wayscriber
Wayscriber is live annotation/demo/presentation tool, my goal is for it to become the best and most complete live annotation and presentation tool.
It runs on Linux/Wayland: draw on your screen, drop notes, use any drawing tool you can think of, spotlight things, use zoom, and present without any browser extension or companion overlay app.
Has additional boards (default transparent, whiteboard, blackboard, etc) and multiple pages per board.
One of my goals is for it to have simple defaults (still polishing this one) but have tons of useful features, and fully customizable.
Btw, Wayscriber has a passthrough mode: draw around happily, then press F6 (or any key you like) and you get mouse and keyboard control back while the annotations stay on screen.
Then you can continue presenting, and when you want go back to annotating just press F6 again. This is super useful during demos or presentations.
It's also fully customizable: keybindings/shortcuts for everything, UI parts, and plenty of other things. You can decide what you want and how you want.
New: Input HUD
Turn it on and everyone can see the keys you press and the clicks you make, live. Place it wherever you like (top or bottom, left, center, or right), and it's built right into Wayscriber. Great for tutorials, screen recordings, and pair sessions where "wait, what did you just press?" is a constant.
Other highlights from 0.9.23
- Blur & spotlight tools: redact sensitive stuff or draw the eye to one spot.
- Real text editing: caret editing, selection, and copy/paste in notes.
- Wayland IME + key repeat: type properly in any language.
- Focus Mode: hide all the UI while you annotate, recover it when you need it.
- Tapered arrows: arrows look better now.
- Configurable status bar: show only what you care about.
- Color picker with eyedropper, RGBA + recents: pick any color from anywhere on the screen, and your recent colors are saved.
- Tons of perf improvements: snappier toolbar, clipboard, and capture, with fewer stalls.
Other highlights from 0.9.24
- Copy text from screen (OCR): drag over any region and grab the text to your clipboard.
- Native GTK4 / libadwaita configurator: the settings app now feels like a real GTK app.
- One unified top toolbar: the old side palette is gone; everything lives up top.
- More portable screen freeze: uses compositor-native capture with a portal fallback.
- Less Wayland flicker: overlay buffer handling fixed for smoother drawing.
- Better tablet sizing: pressure only changes Pen thickness; marker/step sizes stay put.
- Report a problem from About: copies diagnostics and opens the report form (nothing sent automatically).
- Onboarding tips that stay dismissed: say "Got it" once and they don't come back.
GitHub: https://github.com/devmobasa/wayscriber
Stars help more people discover the project, so if you like it, I'd appreciate one. And if you know someone who presents, teaches, or records their screen, please spread the word. Thank you!
Full release notes:
- 0.9.23: https://github.com/devmobasa/wayscriber/releases/tag/v0.9.23
- 0.9.24: https://github.com/devmobasa/wayscriber/releases/tag/v0.9.24