What's new in Scribbble

New

• 🎨 A real palette, at your fingertips: ten well-thought colors that read against anything replace the system color picker. 1–9 and 0 switch colors without leaving the canvas; C opens the palette.
• 🖱️ Click the Dock icon to toggle: tap it to summon the overlay, tap again to send it away. Same as your toggle shortcut (⌥Space by default).

New

• 🫧 Auto-fade (F): everything you draw quietly dissolves a few seconds after you lift the pen. Hover the button to pick Quick or 1–10s; Hold ⌃ while drawing to fade just one mark, or, with the mode on, to keep one.

New

• 🧭 Dock the toolbar anywhere - top and bottom join left and right.
• 🖥️ Multi-monitor support - follows your cursor across displays: the overlay now shows up on whichever screen you're actually looking at, not the one it launched on.
• 🥚 A little secret - ⌘-click anywhere on the toolbar and see what happens.

Polished

• 🫧 More polished design for the toolbar and crispier icons!
• ⌨️ The shortcuts overlay got real keycaps and a tidier layout.

Fixed

• 🖥️ Scribbble now works over fullscreen apps.

New

• 🧑‍🏫 Whiteboard Tool (W): blank the screen and draw on a proper board. White or chalkboard green, plain / ruled / grid / dotted. Board doodles stay with the board: dismiss it and your desktop scribbles are exactly where you left them. [Pro only]
• 🧹 Clear annotations on app toggle: new toggle under Tools, on by default. Flip it off to keep your drawing across a hide.

Fixed

• 🖍️ Text and measurements no longer come out ghostly after using the highlighter.
• 📏 Measure stopped stamping duplicates every time your cursor wandered onto the toolbar.
• 💥 No more crash on launch on macOS 13 and earlier.
• 🔶 The Shapes button no longer turns up blank without a license.

• Shows correct version in About dialog

• Scribbble crashed on launch on macOS 13 Ventura and earlier; it now opens normally there. (macOS 12.3 is the minimum supported version.)
• The Shapes toolbar button appeared blank without a Pro license: its icon now shows for everyone.

New

• Magnify tool (Z): a loupe that follows your cursor with live 2x magnified screen content. + / - resize the lens. Pro feature, requires macOS 15.2+.
• Localization: now available in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, German, and Hindi. Auto-detected from your system locale, changeable in Settings → General.
• Update dialog: "Check for updates…" now shows what's happening: checking, up to date, the new version and its notes, or the error.

Changed

• Updates no longer install themselves. Previously a check that found a release relaunched the app unannounced, discarding your drawing. You now choose when to install.
• Settings are organized into General and Tools tabs.

Fixed

• Update checks could stall for days on a sleeping laptop. They now track wall-clock time, so sleeping or restarting doesn't reset the schedule.

• Setting available to hide Scribbble from dock and app switcher
• Performance improvements - lesser CPU, lesser memory usage

• Minimize just the toolbar with \ key
• See all keyboard shortcuts with ? key

• [New] Shape tool - Draw rectangles (R), ellipsis (E) and arrows (A) to make your scribbbles convey better! You can cycle through the shapes using ] key too.

• Snapshot tool (Pro): capture the screen plus your annotations to the clipboard or save to disk (~/Downloads). Region-capture supported via ⌘⇧C / ⌘⇧S or Shift+click the snapshot button. With configurable shutter sound effect. 📸
• Custom cursors for each drawing tool.
• Toolbar position: choose left or right side of the screen from Settings.
• Color and brush size persist across launches (toggle in Settings).

• Improved Text tool experience
• Auto-updates
• "Start on login" support added
• New Feedback forum -> scribbble.fider.io

• [feature] Add new "Highlighter" tool 💄
• Improved tooltips in toolbar
• Improved the system tray icon, as per Apple guidelines
• Minor UX improvements and bug fixes

• Fixed the typo in the keyboard shortcut mentioned in menu bar to toggle the app. Correct shortcut is Option+tab
• Improved the text tool UI

• I have launched! 🚀
• Instructions: Install and use Option + Tab to toggle the app whenever, wherever.