Overview

With my Tablet Tester browser-based tool you can test out the basic features of your tablet. This is useful for troubleshooting.

Try out the tool now

Go here to launch the tool: SevenPens Tablet Tester. Then start drawing in the blue box.

Safety and privacy

This tool:

• Does not collect any data about you, your computer, etc.

• Does not uses no cookies.

• Does not track your behavior.

• Does not record what you draw.

Features

• Can draw with pen, mouse, and touch (if your tablet supports touch)

• Control the size by

  • Enable Use pressure to allow tilt to affect brush size

  • Enable Use tilt to allow pen tilt angle to affect brush size

• Information about pen is shown

  • Position

  • Pressure - as a percentage

  • Tilt

  • Current dynamic brush

• Multiple ways to erase the canvas:

  • Press Clear button

  • Press BACKSPACE key

  • Press DELETE key

• Press Save button to download canvas as PNG file

OS & Browser compatibility

Windows

• Pen API:

  • Needs Windows Ink to be enabled in the tablet driver.

  • If you tablet driver is using only WinTab, no pressure is supported.

• Chrome - WORKS

• Firefox - WORKS

MacOS

• Safari - yet to be tested

• Chrome - WORKS

Linux

• Chrome - WORKS

• Firefox

  • Wayland - WORKS

  • X11 -

    • use env MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 firefox to make it work

    • more info on what's going on with the X11 issue:

      • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78073830/pen-pointer-events-in-linux-chrome-and-firefox-not-working-as-intended/78764151#78764151

      • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1207700

iPadOS

• Safari - WORKS

Android

• Chrome - WORKS

Open source

The entire source code is on the github repo (https://github.com/TheSevenPens/HtmlTabletTester). I encourage you to look through it and fork and modify it for your needs.

This online tool helps you see understand of force proportions

https://thesevenpens.github.io/ForceProportionsSim/

Overview

I maintain a list of Wacom drivers stretching back about 20 years.

The list contains links to download the drivers and the release notes.

You can browse the list here: https://thesevenpens.github.io/Wacom-Driver-List/

About the downloads

For drivers: there may be multiple download links: one to the wacom site and one to archive.org.

Wacom deleted old versions of drivers from their site, so archive.org may be your only option.

Also some links may not work, again because Wacom removes old versions.

Where are the downloads hosted

I DO NOT host the binaries or the release notes. They are all kept at either wacom.com or archive.org

Source code and data

The source code for the viewer and the raw JSON are available in this repo: https://github.com/TheSevenPens/Wacom-Driver-List

Kuuube (pronounced "cube") is a drawing tablet expert. He does methodical and careful research on drawing tablets. He's a contributor to OpenTabletDriver. I review my content with him and a few others to help ensure accuracy.

You can find him on GitHub: https://github.com/Kuuuube

Here are some Kuuube resources I refer to frequently:

• Wacom information

  • Kuuube's Wacom tablet mastersheet

  • Kuuube's Wacom nib compatibility mastersheet

  • Kuuube's Wacom pen compatibility mastersheet

• Non-Wacom information

  • Kuuube's non-Wacom tablet mastersheet

• osu! information

  • Kuuube's tablet buying guide for playing osu!

Sites

List of Wacom tablet models

• The Seven Pens (https://www.youtube.com/@thesevenpens)

• Create Now Sleep Later (https://www.youtube.com/c/Createnowsleeplater)

• Brad Colbow (https://www.youtube.com/c/thebradcolbow)

• Aaron Rutten (https://www.youtube.com/c/aaronrutten)

• Teoh on Tech (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk-UHW1Q5EBJIHB4jHkVTbA)

• EyeKooDrawsStuff (https://www.youtube.com/@EyekooDrawsStuff)

  • https://drawyourweapon.com/

Overview

Community plays an important part in the overall experience of using a drawing tablet. Because the vast majority of people will get help and get their answers from other members of the community instead of the manufacturer. To that end it's useful to familiarize yourself with what communities exist.

Reddit

Reddit for many years now has been the home of many very active communities of drawing tablet users. Some of those community subreddits are listed below.

Keep in mind these are community-supported. And while you might occasionally see someone from the support team of a tablet brand, these subreddits are NOT official support channels.

Discord servers

• The official xp-pen discord https://discord.com/invite/5GDyNgWeuy (run by XP-Pen)

• The drawing tablet discord (I run this one).

Brand-hosted community sites

Tablet brands also host their own community sites. For drawing tablet brands you will typically find these communities are not very large and there aren't many people posting questions or solutions.

• Wacom: https://support.wacom.com/hc/en-us/community/topics

• Huion: https://community.huion.com/

• XP-Pen: https://community.xp-pen.com/

• Xencelabs: https://solutions.xencelabs.com/en/support/discussions

• Samsung: https://community.samsung.com/

• Apple: https://discussions.apple.com/welcome

What you find in online communities

In online communities on reddit you may notice that the vast majority of posts are complaints. Do not necessarily be concerned by this. It is true for any online community discussing any product. Most people only post when they have a problem. The completely satisfied users who don't have problems users rarely post about how good or seamless their experience has been.

However it is also true that online forums can be a great source to help you make choices about brands. For example, if you see a lot of questions/problems about a certain model, that should factor into your purchase decision.

If you are buying a tablet for osu!, then you need a tablet that is specifically good for osu! And most are not.

The easiest way to find such a tablet is Kuuube's tablet buying guide

Link:

This guide is an incredibly well researched by Kuuube. No other tablet guide for osu! will be as helpful as this one.

Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UAFPjGj0ThthPBvOSVVwOm08HW3qWtVoP1iFBwLMyPI/edit?pli=1#gid=1665628484

Introduction

Tablet enthusiast Kuuube maintains a spreadsheet which provides an extensive list of information on Wacom tablets.

This really is an amazing spreadsheet and you won't find some of this information ANYWHERE else.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/125LNzGmidy1gagwYUt12tRhrNdrWFHhWon7kxWY7iWU/edit

Notes

• The top part of the spreadsheet covers consumer tablets

• The bottom part of the spreadsheet covers professional tablets

• The models are listed by model identifier (i.e. model number). If you want to see the model name(s) associated with that model hover over the model identifier and a small tooltip will appear with the model name(s).

• Some pens have information Kuuube has measured about the pressure range. So for some you will get a good idea about the initial activation force.

• Compatible nibs are listed

• Compatible pens are listed

There's an effort to make a Hall effect tablet for playing osu

See https://github.com/pompyboard/pompyboard

Note that this would not make an effective drawing tablet for artistic purposes, since it lacks any pressure sensitivity, but would work well only for osu.

• yukidama - Build your own EMR tablert from scratch 2025/02/01

• Project Patchouli docs - https://patchouli.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

• Project Patchouli source code - https://gitlab.com/yukidama/patchouli

• Project Patchouli discord server: https://discord.gg/EGKbpjMyaB

Tablet kitten's is tablet enthusiast who is highly active on reddit and has built several tablet resources :

• Huion pen compatibility spreadsheet (https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=FE877F3F79694F2A!128&ithint=file%2cxlsx&wdo=2&authkey=!AIk1r64_60lJHxE)

• Tablet resources docs (https://kw0.gitbook.io/tablet-resources/)

General interest

• https://www.reddit.com/r/drawingtablet/ (1.4K members as of Oct 2023)

• https://www.reddit.com/r/stylus/ (5.4K members as of Oct 2023)

• https://www.reddit.com/r/TabTech/ (26 members as of Oct 2023)

Manufacturer-specific

• Wacom - https://www.reddit.com/r/wacom/ (58K members as of Oct 2023)

• Huion - https://www.reddit.com/r/huion/ (16K members as of Oct 2023)

• Xencelabs - https://www.reddit.com/r/Xencelabs/ (273 users as of Oct 2023)

• XP-Pen - https://www.reddit.com/r/XPpen/ (8K members as of Oct 2023)

• UGee - https://www.reddit.com/r/UGEEusers/ (470 members as of OCt 2023)

• Veikk - https://www.reddit.com/r/Veikkofficial/ (222 members as of Oct 2023)