Re: Incubation Request - Drawy

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
>
>