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Scribble

Take handwritten notes and homework.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

At a glance

All of Scribble is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Scribble is a handwriting canvas for school kids: take notes, do your homework, or work through exercises with a pen on a touchscreen. Write and draw freehand on pages with ruled, squared, music, and other school-paper backgrounds, or import a worksheet as a PDF and write right on it. Hold the pen still after drawing a shape, arrow, or diagram and it turns into a clean version that can be reshaped afterwards, and scribbling over a drawing deletes it. A pen and a highlighter, with your own colors; scribble over a drawing to erase it Select with gestures, then move, resize, and rotate your drawings, with alignment guides Record audio while you write, so you don't miss anything Crop a photo of a whiteboard or paper so it is straight and clear, and make the background white with strong contrast Add stickers, pictures, sticky notes, and coordinate grids An endless zoomable canvas with many pages you can reorder Present your pages step by step, and export everything as a PDF Made for a pen and a touchscreen used together: the pen draws, and your finger pans, zooms, and selects. A touchpad or mouse works to some degree, but drawing with them is difficult. A built-in Help explains the gestures.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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