AnkiWeb addon 1868980340
Fork of Touch Screen - draw and write on your cards
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Enables freehand drawing and writing on Anki cards with mouse or pressure-sensitive stylus, including smoothing, calligrapher modes, color and background options, and adjustable canvas/toolbar controls.
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.1 | 2.1.49 | 2023-09-29 |
| 2.1.50 | 24.11+ | 2026-09-19 |
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The original addon and its forks. The best value in each column is in bold.
| Version | Works on Anki 26.09.3 | Maintenance | Last activity | Votes | Approval | GitHub stars | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Touch Screen - draw and write on your cards original | unknown | abandoned | 23 Dec 2023 | π 70 Β· π 22 | 66% | 27 | |
| β³ AnkiDraw - Draw and write using mouse and stylus with pressure support this addon | likely | active | 19 Sep 2026 | π 95 Β· π 2 | 93% | 73 | |
| β³ annotate : writing, rectangles, highlight,lines, eraser (AI-detected; may be wrong) | likely | active | 26 Jul 2026 | π 6 Β· π 0 | 61% | β | |
| β³ AnkiDraw - Draw and write using mouse and stylus with pressure supportfixed lisi (AI-detected; may be wrong) | supported | stale | 11 Dec 2024 | π 1 Β· π 0 | 21% | β | |
| β³ ε‘ηε±εΉδΉ¦ε | Write on your screen (AI-detected; may be wrong) | likely | abandoned | 4 Feb 2024 | π 6 Β· π 2 | 41% | 1 |
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Changes the default keybindings for drawing and writing with mouse or stylus pressure support, including write, clear, and undo shortcuts.
Enables drawing and writing on cards during review, similar to AnkiDroid, with a temporary on-screen board, settings menu, Ctrl+R toggle, and hide/clean icons, currently supported on Linux.
Adds a lightweight drawing and handwriting scratchpad to card review, supporting mouse, touch, stylus and pen input, colours, thickness levels, erasers, Surface Pen erasing, and auto-clearing between cards.
Enables drawing, writing, highlighting, and stroke-based erasing directly on cards using two customizable pens, a highlighter, and eraser, with undo/redo, repositionable toolbar, and tool-aware cursors.
Adds handwriting annotation to Anki with an eraser, line and rectangle-highlight tools, text boxes, handwriting saving, and a resizable window.
Adds a resizable scratchpad to the review screen for typing or drawing answers, with pen pressure support, a clear button, night mode, and automatic clearing on each new card.
Initially based on the Anki-TouchScreen addon, updated ui and added pressure pen/stylus capabilities, perfect freehand(line smoothing) and calligrapher functionality.
If this addon was useful, please leave a star at the top right of the GitHub page
Website to test the drawing functionality: https://rytisgit.github.io/Anki-StylusDraw/
Changes
Hardware
Tested to work with a Huion H1161, Windows Pen enabled.
For best experience:
https://docs.ankiweb.net/platform/windows/display-issues.html
Run echo auto > %APPDATA%\Anki2\gldriver6 in windows cmd for Qt6:
Or echo auto > ~/.local/share/Anki2/gldriver6 in linux for Qt6:
Change rendering in settings for Qt5:
Turn On Follow when scrolling or small canvas if drawing is slow on very big cards:
For developers
You are more than welcome to contribute! While I may not be able to support every user of this addon, I will do my best to help any developer willing to open PR implementing new features or fixing bugs.
Initially based on the Anki-TouchScreen addon, updated ui and added pressure pen/stylus capabilities, perfect freehand(line smoothing) and calligrapher functionality.
Website to test the drawing functionality: https://rytisgit.github.io/Anki-StylusDraw/
Tested to work with a Huion H1161, Windows Pen enabled.
https://docs.ankiweb.net/platform/windows/display-issues.html
echo auto > %APPDATA%\Anki2\gldriver6 in cmd for Qt6
Qt5 rendering change  |
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Implements same drawing/writing mechanism as in AnkiDroid. Your writing is NOT intended to remain on the cards after review - same as in AnkiDroid.
Use the menu View β TouchScreen to activate/change settings.
Use Ctrl + R to toggle the touchscreen.
Use icons which will show up in the top right corner of the review screen to temporarily hide/clean the board. Enjoy!
Warning: the version for Anki 2.0 has limited functionality, and may sometimes not work as expected; since the release of Anki 2.1, the old version is not supported.
Important parts of Javascript code were inspired by creativejs tutorial. I recommend you check out the resource if you are interested in learning JS.
This add-on works well with Anki Night Mode.
You are more than welcome to contribute! While I may not be able to support every user of this addon, I will do my best to help any developer willing to open PR implementing new features or fixing bugs.