Scribble Party
A local-first whiteboard studio for teachers and creators
190 followers
A local-first whiteboard studio for teachers and creators
190 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!
the no-upload part is great for privacy but makes me curious about distribution, once the lesson is recorded and saved locally, what's the actual path to getting it in front of the class? does it export a shareable file/link, or is the teacher expected to upload it themselves to whatever LMS they already use
Does it support screen recording? For example, if I want to create a demo video of a website while also showing myself in a small circular webcam overlay in the corner?
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.
This is exactly the kind of tool music teachers need — mine keep asking for a way to record quick tutorials for students but don't want their face uploaded to some random server.
Really simple and clean interface. I like the fact that this is going to sit locally and can be offline.
This feels made for those moments when words just don't land and you need to sketch something out live. Knowing it all stays on my own machine is a lovely touch too. Nicely done, Dakota.