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Larger horizontal scroll bar

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Peter P

The scroll bar at the bottom of the screen, is so tiny and difficult to see, it's nearly impossible to scroll through the timeline horizontally. The Descript scroll bars are for some reason at least half, if not more, smaller than regular websites scroll bars.

April 16, 2026

Gabe Michalski

Built at Telethon — the horizontal scroll bar on the timeline will be larger and much easier to grab. Demo: https://share.descript.com/view/SMhpNEAqLAE

Note: pending QA and subject to change before release.

Gabe Michalski

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Neil Benson

And improve the contrast too please. Extremely light grey scroll slider on a very light grey scroll track.

Julie D

Neil Benson 100% agree

mgistr

Neil Benson OMG This!

Kelly Campbell

Yes! And please add arrows on either side of the scroll bar to allow more precise navigation through the timeline.

This is absolutely essential. It would be awesome if the scroll bar was always visible and always at least a certain width and height - and not require the cursor to be in the scroll bar area for the scroll bar to appear. There is a lot of time wasted searching for that little scroll ball right now.

Jomar Hilario

Wow. I didnt even know that the scroll bars are there. I use an external trackpad to do side scrolling instead. If the trackpad is "unpaired" - I just zoom in and out of the editor. (because...i didn't notice the scroll bars)

Turra Atkinson

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!!!

Rachel Gristock

Oh yeah that's so annoying... I have to zoom in and zoom out to navigate about or use the script instead.