Scrivix Tool Guide

Saves a clean screenshot of the current canvas or presentation area to your iPad Photos library. Toolbar controls are not included in the saved image.

Quickly switch between preset colors or choose a custom color. Long-press a preset color to save your current color for future sessions.

Tap the display icon to toggle the current overlay. Press and hold to choose whiteboard options including white, black, graph paper, lined paper, or a photo from your iPad.

Draw smooth, pressure-sensitive ink with Apple Pencil. Brush size is remembered when switching between Brush and Highlighter.

Adds translucent markup for emphasizing text, slides, diagrams, or documents without fully covering what is underneath.

Fill Smart Shapes or messy closed hand-drawn shapes with your selected color. Great for quick diagrams, emphasis boxes, and visual callouts.

Draw temporary laser marks that fade away automatically, perfect for pointing something out without leaving permanent ink behind.

Erase part of a stroke by drawing over it, while leaving the rest of your annotation intact.

Remove an entire stroke by swiping over it with your Apple Pencil or finger.

Clears your current annotations while keeping the active overlay or whiteboard background in place.

Control your Mac from your iPad. Use Apple Pencil hover to move the Mac cursor, tap to click, double tap to double-click, tap and hold for right-click, tap-hold-drag to move windows or items, two fingers to scroll, and pinch or expand to zoom the active Mac window when supported.

Limit drawing input to Apple Pencil to help prevent accidental marks from your hand or finger while writing.

Step backward through recent annotation actions.

Restore a stroke or action that was removed with Undo.

Adjust the active tool size. Size options are disabled for tools that do not need them, such as Fill and Control Mode.

Ends the session with your Mac and returns to the pairing screen.

Tap anywhere on the iPad screen with two fingers to instantly undo your last stroke without using the toolbar.

Tap anywhere on the iPad screen with three fingers to redo your last undone action.

Scroll documents, webpages, slides, and other Mac content naturally. Two-finger scrolling also works while using drawing tools.

In Control Mode, pinch inward to zoom out or expand outward to zoom in on the active Mac window. Scrivix sends the zoom command to the Mac app rather than zooming the iPad video itself, so your iPad view stays stable while the active document, slide, page, or canvas changes size on the Mac.

Draw rough rectangles, triangles, arrows, lines, or circles, then briefly hold your Apple Pencil down to snap the drawing into a cleaner shape.

The Fill Tool can also fill many closed hand-drawn shapes, even if they are not converted into Smart Shapes.

Your iPad is connected to the Mac companion app and the live video stream is active.

Scrivix is trying to restore the Mac connection or video feed. Keep both devices on the same local network.

The Mac app displays a secure 4-digit code. Enter this code on your iPad to start a local Scrivix session.

The Mac app shows whether Screen Recording and Computer Control permissions are enabled, with quick access to macOS Settings.

Scrivix connects over your local network. Your drawings, screen stream, and controls are not sent to cloud servers.

After pairing, Scrivix becomes a transparent full-screen overlay so you can annotate over presentations, documents, browsers, videos, and other Mac apps.