Launching today
Scribble Party
A local-first whiteboard studio for teachers and creators
134 followers
A local-first whiteboard studio for teachers and creators
134 followers
Most lesson recorders send your video to someone's cloud and want an account first. Scribble Party runs entirely in your browser. Draw on an infinite canvas, drop a live camera bubble of yourself on the board (it cuts out your background), and record the whole thing with your voice. Recordings save to your device as you go, so a crashed tab doesn't lose a take. Works offline as an installed app. No signup, no install, nothing ever uploaded!
Most browser recording tools give up on privacy the moment you hit record, so keeping this fully local, no account, nothing uploaded, is a real choice. You frame it for teachers and creators: which of the two is showing up so far? Congratulations on the launch :)
local-first is a good call for a classroom tool honestly, school wifi is never reliable enough to trust a cloud whiteboard mid-lesson. does local-first mean no real-time collab between students at all or is there a sync layer that just doesn't require constant connectivity
@ghostscientist pretty impressed by the in-browser background cutout on the camera bubble given everything runs client side. Curious though, how does it hold up in a 45 to 60 minute lesson recording on a mid-range laptop without draining the battery or spiking CPU?
The background cutout on the camera bubble actually held up when I moved around, and seeing the file write to disk as I recorded took a real weight off. Big fan of anything that skips the account step.
Really simple and intuitive - I like this a lot. The interface is clean and the ease of set up is the real win here, being ready to go immediately. My only question is how to swap the camera input on a scribble. I accidentally selected the wrong camera and couldn't easily see how I could go back and swap it for the correct one. But this feels like a minor issue in a great piece of kit. The obvious question, of course, is what commercialisation of this looks like down the line.
Local-first is the right instinct for classroom and creator tools. Whiteboards become valuable when the file still opens years later, exports cleanly, and does not depend on a SaaS account behaving perfectly during a live teaching moment.
Really simple and clean interface. I like the fact that this is going to sit locally and can be offline.