SKRIBBLOR

An SVG-based sketching/note-taking app

Adam Moore/LÆMEUR <adam@laemeur.com>

INTRO

SKRIBBLOR is an app for creating drawings, sketches, and notes with a stylus on either a desktop computer or a tablet. It is a vector-based program, and specifically it creates SVG documents.

SKRIBBLOR is NOT a full-featured SVG editor, and it is not intended to become one. For precise design work and full control over paths, groups/layers, and all of the many features of SVG, use Inkscape!

FEATURES

Four drawing modes: freehand stroke, freehand shape, straight-line, and polygon
User-adjustable pen parameters with some handy presets
An eraser tool
A selection tool
A free-transform tool (with adjustable scale axis)
Layers, with opacity and the usual blend modes
An underdrawing layer for placing sketches or reference images
Export drawings to SVG, HTML and PNG
Auto-save (the Web version is limited to auto-saving drawings of up to 5MB in size)
X-LINK support for hyperlinks in SVG files

To read more about features planned for future versions, visit the roadmap page.

IMPETUS

I really enjoy vector-based sketching and note-taking apps like Chrome Canvas, Squid, and especially Concepts, which I've been a paying user of for a while now. However, I hate the fact that all of these apps only allow you to export rasterized image files or to use their own proprietary document formats which can't be edited in any other software.

Furthermore, I don't think that any of the existing apps in this space have a pen engine that behaves the way that I want one to – that is, a pen engine that is suitably analogous to the behaviour of a fountain or dip-pen.

I'm making SKRIBBLOR to have what I feel is a good pen engine, and to export SVG files which you can open-up and edit in Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer (maybe?), and... perhaps others? And, importantly, you can stick 'em in a Web page.

GALLERY

Here are some screenshots of the app, as well as some images that were created with SKRIBBLOR. While I use the app almost daily for taking notes and making sketches, I also find that it suits my illustration style and have shipped a few professional pieces that I've made with it.

Click an image to enlarge it; click again to reduce it.

If you use SKRIBBLOR to create a cool drawing and would like it featured here, let me know! My email address is at the bottom of the page.