A ZoomIt-like real-time screen annotation tool for Linux/Wayland, written in Rust, offering drawing, zoom, and screenshot capture.
Wayscriber is a real-time screen annotation tool for Linux/Wayland that allows users to draw, annotate, zoom, and capture screenshots directly over any application. It solves the need for a lightweight, persistent overlay for presentations, tutorials, and collaborative work without disrupting the underlying workflow.
Linux users on Wayland compositors (e.g., Hyprland, Sway, KDE Plasma) who need professional presentation tools, educators, developers giving demos, and anyone requiring live screen annotation.
Developers choose Wayscriber for its native Wayland performance, ZoomIt-like controls, session persistence, and high customizability—all built in Rust for efficiency and reliability.
Live overlay for drawing, annotating with zoom, hiding text, and capturing screenshots on Linux. Can be used as whiteboard or blackboard. Highly customisable. Written in Rust.
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Uses layer-shell for optimal performance on Wayland compositors like Hyprland and Sway, providing a seamless, non-intrusive overlay without disrupting underlying applications.
Offers opt-in restoration of canvas and tool states across restarts via CLI flags or tray menu, ideal for ongoing presentations or tutorials where context needs to be saved.
Includes ZoomIt-style zoom controls, multi-line text, shapes, arrows with auto-numbering, and presenter tools like click highlights and screen freeze, covering a wide range of annotation needs.
Features floating toolbars, radial menus, a command palette, and extensive keyboard shortcuts configurable via TOML or GUI configurator, allowing users to tailor workflows precisely.
Exclusively supports Linux/Wayland with no X11 compatibility, and GNOME support is partial relying on portal fallbacks, limiting usability on mixed or legacy systems.
As noted in the roadmap, saving annotations directly to images is not yet implemented, forcing users to rely on separate capture tools for complete annotation workflows.
Achieving the preferred daemon mode involves systemd service configuration or compositor autostart, which can be non-trivial for users unfamiliar with Linux system management.
wayscriber is an open-source alternative to the following products: