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 auto-save-to-disk-as-you-record detail is what sells this for a live lesson — a crashed tab not costing a take is huge. Day-one question: what format do the recordings land in (mp4/webm), and can I trim or re-record just one section afterward, or is each take one continuous file? And is the board itself saveable so I can reopen an infinite canvas next week and keep building, or does it reset when I close the tab?
Ran Scribble Party through a scan. Contrast is under threshold in a spot or two, and zooming looks disabled on mobile (the viewport is locked), which affects anyone who needs to pinch-zoom text. Security-wise you're missing a few standard headers (CSP, X-Frame-Options, a Referrer-Policy), and there's no robots.txt or sitemap for search engines to find. Fun little tool though, like the local-first angle.
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.
@grselkalpcztqo agreed on no account needed to use something. It should be the standard
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?
Recordings saving to disk as you go is the detail that would actually make me trust this — I've lost a long take to a crashed tab before and it's genuinely soul-crushing. Coming at it from the audio side: can I pick the input device (my interface rather than the built-in mic), and does it capture system audio as well as voice? That'd decide whether I could use it to talk over something playing on screen.