Hi everyone! For those of you who use a stylus, I'd like to share a simple drawing app I just posted to itch:
Sketches is a super minimal, free sketchbook app that instantly opens with a system hot key. There's no tool palettes, just the empty page (with optional grids), so you can focus 100% on sketching. It is vector-based, so you can copy/paste your sketches across applications w/o losing detail. There's also no file management to think about. It is just a series of pages. It supports Wacom and other tablets. There are basic keyboard controls like color and line weight that you can map to tablet/stylus inputs.
I created Sketches because I really wanted a quick-access sketchbook app without a tool palette or complicated UI. Like a physical sketchbook, but with the added benefit of being digitally archived, easily exportable, and screen-sharable. I often need to quickly sketch out ideas, visually problem solve, take temporary visual notes, sketch a quick explanation while screen sharing – all of these use cases felt too cumbersome with larger drawing applications. I couldn't find anything like it, so I made it!
If this sounds useful for your workflow, I'd love for you to try it and hear any feedback you have. Right now it (almost) perfectly suites my needs, but I want to get ideas from the community to improve it, without straying away from the minimal nature.