Mobile & Desktop

Scriblit is the same editor everywhere, but it presents itself two ways. On a computer you get a familiar menu bar; on a phone or tablet you get touch-friendly action sheets. The manuscript, the spreads, and your preferences are identical. Only the controls around them change.

How Scriblit chooses a layout

The choice is made by pointer type, not by screen width. If your primary pointer is a mouse or trackpad, you get the desktop menu bar, even in a narrow window. If your primary pointer is touch, you get the mobile chrome, even on a large tablet in landscape. A touch tablet paired with a keyboard and trackpad will follow whichever pointer the device reports as primary.

The desktop layout

On a computer, the top of the editor is a menu bar with File, Edit, Format, Share, and Help, plus a standalone Preferences button. Menus open as dropdowns, submenus open on hover, and every action lists its keyboard shortcut. The icon bar sits below the menu bar for one-click access to formatting, illustration notes, spread dividers, and Focus Mode.

File holds New, Open, Close, Save, Save As, and the Focus Mode tiers.
Share holds the export formats and Google Drive delivery.
Preferences is a top-level button rather than a menu item, so it is always one click away.

The desktop Scriblit editor with a picture book manuscript, its menu bar, and the icon bar — The desktop layout: menu bar, icon bar, and the manuscript in spreads.

The mobile and tablet layout

On touch, the menu bar is replaced by a compact row of triggers that open action sheets sliding up from the bottom. Each sheet lists its actions as large tap rows with no hover flyouts and no keyboard-shortcut hints. Opening one sheet closes any other, and tapping an open trigger again closes its sheet.

Document is the touch counterpart to the File menu: New, Open, Close, Save, Save As, and the Focus Mode tiers.
Edit and Format appear only when the icon bar is hidden. When the icon bar is showing, it already owns those actions, so the triggers step aside to save room.
Share opens the export and delivery options.
Help opens Documentation and the Tutorial.
Preferences opens the same tabbed dialog as on the desktop.

The toolbar and the spreads reflow to fit a small screen, so a manuscript that fills a laptop still reads comfortably on a phone.

Scriblit on a phone-sized screen with the toolbar and spreads reflowed to fit — Scriblit on a phone-sized screen.

Saving and sharing differences

The actions are the same, but the way a file leaves your device depends on the platform.

On a computer that supports direct file access, Save writes back to the file you opened. In browsers without that access, such as Firefox and Safari, Save becomes Download Save Copy and the project file downloads instead of saving in place.
On a phone or tablet, sharing an export hands the file to your device’s native share sheet, so you can send it to Mail, Messages, Files, or any app you already use, rather than downloading to a folder.
Saving to Google Drive and opening from Google Drive work the same on every platform, because the file travels directly between your browser and your Google account.

For the full picture of project files and exports, see Saving & Exporting.

Keyboard and pointer

Keyboard shortcuts are a desktop feature. On a computer you can insert a spread with a keystroke, toggle formatting, and save without reaching for a menu. On touch, the sheets present the same actions as tap rows and leave the shortcut hints out, since there is usually no keyboard to press them on. Dragging a spread divider by its page-range label works with either a mouse or a finger.

Preferences that stay on one device

Almost every preference follows your account across devices. Two do not, by design: the recovery toggle and the Clear stored data action in the Offline & Storage tab always affect only the browser in front of you, because they concern data physically held on that machine. See Preferences for the full list.