Hi Prayag, It sounds like a interesting.
I had a quick question regarding its intended use cases: Is Drawy currently focused only on freehand drawing and sketching, or can it also be used effectively for creating diagrams, flowcharts, and mind maps? Hamed On Thu, 4 Dec 2025, 20:32 Prayag Jain, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm Prayag Jain, the developer of Drawy, a free and open source > whiteboard app written in C++ and Qt6, featuring an infinite canvas. I'm > willing to make Drawy a part of KDE by following the KDE incubation process > mentioned here <https://develop.kde.org/docs/getting-started/add-project/>. > At the moment, KDE is missing a good whiteboard app, which is an essential > tool many people expect their operating systems to already have. For > example, Microsoft Whiteboard is a tool used by millions of people on > Windows 11. I believe Drawy can fill this gap and provide the KDE Community > with a stable and fast whiteboard app which can fulfill their brainstorming > needs. > > I'm writing this mail in order to request a sponsor for the incubation > process of Drawy. The relevant incubation request issue can be found here > <https://invent.kde.org/prayag/drawy/-/issues/79> on KDE Invent. > > > *The following are some details about Drawy and its future plans:*Drawy > is a free and open source whiteboard app written in Qt/C++. It aims to be a > desktop native alternative to the web-based Excalidraw. It features an > infinite canvas with a relatively simple and easy to use interface. Its > main features are: > > 1. An infinite canvas with infinite zoom > 2. Essential tools: Pen, shapes, selection, move, eraser, and text > tool. > 3. Undo and redo > 4. Save and load files > 5. Group/ungroup multiple items > 6. Drawing tablet support with pressure sensitivity > 7. Dark/Light mode > > We also plan to document the entire code-base using Doxygen style comments > to make it easier for new contributors to get started. > > I hope the KDE Community will be able to benefit by adopting Drawy as an > official whiteboard app. > > Regards, > Prayag Jain > >
