Li'l Scribbler is a Chrome extension that lets you draw, write, and annotate on top of live web pages. I built it for video calls: turn it on, mark something, turn it off—without a floating palette eating the screen. Almost everything is on the keyboard so you can keep talking.
Current version: 2.0 (see the store listing for the latest).
Features
- Tools — Pen, rectangle, arrow, text, eraser (cycle with the left arrow).
- Colors — Hot pink, lime, blue, yellow, black (right arrow to cycle).
- Size — Up / Down arrows for stroke and shape size.
- Text — Click to place, type, Shift+Enter for new lines, Enter to commit. Cmd/Ctrl + Up/Down to resize text. Cmd + drag to move a text box before you finalize.
- Undo / redo — Cmd/Ctrl+Z, Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z or Y.
- Clear — Delete wipes annotations (when you're not editing text).
- OFF badge — On
chrome://andchrome-extension://pages the icon shows OFF; drawing isn't available there.
How to use it
- Install from the Chrome Web Store (button above).
- Click the extension icon to enter drawing mode; click again to leave.
- Use left/right arrows for tool and color, up/down for size.
- Draw with the mouse; for text, click, type, Enter when done.
- If nothing appears, toggle drawing off and on; make sure you're not on a restricted Chrome URL.
Demo
Privacy
Li'l Scribbler privacy policy — short version: it doesn't phone home.
Help
Stuck? Try disabling and re-enabling the extension. Still stuck: scribblerhelp@bcklg.com.