Tinypen 1.1.1

After an update, Tinypen's menu says so.

Updated, and you can tell. Updates still install without a word, so nothing comes up over your slides. Now the menu bar menu on a Mac, and the tray menu on Windows, starts with "Updated to Tinypen X" for the rest of that day.

Copies of 1.1.0 update to this by themselves within a week. Copies of 1.0.0 cannot update themselves: download this one by hand.

Mac (macOS 14 or later): download Tinypen-mac.zip below, open it and drag Tinypen into Applications. The first time, macOS says it cannot check it for malware: open System Settings, Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway.

Windows (10 or 11): download Tinypen-win-x64.exe below, or Tinypen-win-arm64.exe on an ARM PC, and put it in a folder of your own. If SmartScreen warns about an unknown publisher, click More info, then Run anyway.

Tinypen 1.1.0

Tinypen now keeps itself up to date, on Mac and Windows.

Updates install themselves. Once a week Tinypen asks GitHub whether a newer version is out, with nothing about you or your drawings in the question. It downloads the new version, checks it (on a Mac, that it is signed exactly as itself; on Windows, against the checksum GitHub gives), and installs it the first moment nothing is drawn or showing. It starts again quietly, so no message ever comes up over your slides.

Keep it where it can change itself. On a Mac that is Applications: a copy opened straight from Downloads offers to move itself there. On Windows, any folder of your own. Anywhere else, the menu names the new version to download.

Copies of 1.0.0 have no updater, so this one download is by hand. From here on, it happens by itself.

Mac (macOS 14 or later): download Tinypen-mac.zip below, open it and drag Tinypen into Applications in place of the old one. The first time, macOS says it cannot check it for malware: open System Settings, Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway.

Windows (10 or 11): download Tinypen-win-x64.exe below, or Tinypen-win-arm64.exe on an ARM PC, quit Tinypen from the tray, and put the new file in place of the old one. If SmartScreen warns about an unknown publisher, click More info, then Run anyway.

Tinypen 1.0.0

The first release: draw on your screen while you present, teach or share it, on Mac and Windows.

Draw on anything. Press Option+Shift+D on a Mac, or Ctrl+Shift+D on Windows, and the pen is in your hand over whatever is on screen. P pen, H highlighter, A arrow, R box, W a white or black board, 1 to 6 for colours, [ and ] for size. Strokes come out smooth, and Shift keeps an arrow to 45 degrees or a box square.

Point without drawing. L for a laser that fades behind the pointer, S for a spotlight, Z for a zoom lens. Clicks go through to the app underneath, and holding Option, or Alt, while you scroll sizes the spotlight or the lens.

Esc does what you expect. The first press erases everything drawn, and undo brings it back. The next switches every tool off. Scrolling while you draw scrolls the page underneath.

Nothing is collected and Tinypen makes no network request. On a Mac only zoom asks for Screen Recording; on Windows it asks for nothing.

Mac (macOS 14 or later): download Tinypen-mac.zip below, open it and drag Tinypen into Applications. The first time, macOS says it cannot check it for malware: open System Settings, Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway.

Windows (10 or 11): download Tinypen-win-x64.exe below, or Tinypen-win-arm64.exe on an ARM PC, put it where it can stay and run it. If SmartScreen warns about an unknown publisher, click More info, then Run anyway.