A whiteboard that lets you draw
before it asks you anything.
Because it never asks you anything. Infinite canvas, sticky notes, shapes — auto-saved to your device on every stroke, exported as files you own. No account exists to create.
no login, ever
boards are files
works offline
Why this board exists: I run workshops. One Tuesday, mid-session, the big-name whiteboard app decided our "workspace had reached its member limit" and locked the board — twelve sticky notes of a team's actual thinking, held hostage behind an upgrade dialog, while everyone watched me click. We finished on a flip chart. That evening I started building the whiteboard I actually need: opens instantly, saves locally, exports to a file nobody can put a member limit on. The flip chart is retired but remembered fondly.
— the facilitator. still can't draw a straight line without the shift key.
What's under the marker tray
- Infinite canvas — pan with space-drag or two fingers, zoom with scroll or pinch, 20% to 400%. Think big, literally.
- Sticky notes and text that re-edit — double-click any note with the move tool and keep typing. Notes are for moving; that's their whole personality.
- The object eraser — taps remove whole strokes and shapes, not pixel-scrubbing. Drew a bad arrow? One tap, gone.
- Connectors that hold on — the ↳ link tool ties an arrow to the shape you start on and the one you end on. Shove either box and the arrow's end rides along the edge to keep touching it. Straight for tidy, elbow for org-chart corners. Delete a box and its arrows let go and stay put.
- Templates you can gut — stamp kanban lanes, a retro grid, a weekly planner, or a mind-map (centre plus four wired branches) and then rename, move or bin any piece. They're starting points, not cages.
- SVG as well as PNG — export the board (or just what you've selected) as a real vector file: strokes as paths, text still editable text. Open it in Inkscape or Figma and keep going.
- Boards as files — the .board export is the entire board in a file: back it up, email it, drop it in the team chat. Import continues exactly where it left off. Collaboration without a server, at the speed of attachment.
- Auto-crop PNG export — however far your thinking sprawled, the image crops to the content at 2× sharpness.
- Full-screen work mode — the ⛶ button gives the canvas the whole display with the tray still in reach. On an iPad this is the app; add it to the home screen and it opens this way inclined.
- Presentation mode — interface gone, board fullscreen, tray fading politely. Drag and your pointer leaves a red laser trail that fades behind it — for pointing at things across a room. Built for smartboards and screen-shares.
The honest trade
Live multi-cursor collaboration — five people drawing at once — genuinely requires a server relaying every stroke, and this site deliberately has none. If your work needs that, the big apps earn their login walls. What most whiteboard moments actually are, though: one person thinking, sketching on a call while screen-sharing, teaching a room. For those, the private board is strictly better — instant, offline-proof, and nobody's product. The marker notes make the longer case.
Wiped clean and rewritten (version notes)
- v1.3 things line up now: drag an object and it snaps to the edges and centres of its neighbours, with a red guide line showing why (hold alt to move it free). the ⌂ button zooms to fit everything you've drawn, and in presentation mode your pointer leaves a fading laser trail for pointing across a room
- v1.2 nothing you draw is final anymore: select a thing and a small panel floats over it to recolour, set stroke width, fill a shape, resize text, or flip a connector straight-to-elbow. copy, paste and duplicate (ctrl/cmd+c/v/d), send things front or back, and a right-click menu that gathers it all in one place. on a phone the tray became one scrolling row with a ⋯ more drawer for exports and templates, and ? (or the ? keys link) opens the whole shortcut list
- v1.1 connectors that latch onto shapes and trail them across the board (straight or elbow), four stampable templates, and a real SVG export that keeps text as text
- v1.0 infinite canvas, seven tools, notes, boards-as-files, presentation mode, auto-save on every stroke
- v0.9 workshop beta. a facilitator colleague filled a board with 200 sticky notes to break it. it held. she was disappointed and impressed
Asked at the board
I closed the tab by accident — is my board gone?
No — every stroke auto-saves to your browser's storage moments after you make it. Reopen the page and the last board loads itself. The genuine danger is clearing browser data: that wipes boards, which is why the .board export exists for anything you'd mourn.
How do I share a board with someone?
Two ways, both honest: export the PNG when they just need to see it, or the .board file when they need to edit — they import it here and continue. What you can't do is send a link that opens your board, because your board isn't on the internet. That's the feature.
Can I move, resize, rotate or recolour things after drawing them?
All of it. The move tool (or v) selects the object under your click — drag it, grab a corner to resize, or use the round handle above it to rotate. And a small panel floats over whatever you've selected: change its colour, stroke width, fill, note colour or text size, or swap a connector between straight and elbow. Duplicate with ctrl/cmd+d, send things front or back, or right-click for the same menu. Drag an empty patch to marquee-select several at once. Hit delete to remove; double-click notes and text to re-edit.
Can I add an image to the board?
Yes — paste an image from your clipboard (ctrl/cmd+v) or drag an image file straight onto the canvas. It drops in as an object you can move, resize and rotate like anything else, and it stays on your device with the rest of the board.
Is there a dark mode?
Not for the board itself — it's a whiteboard, and white is load-bearing (exports need to read as documents, markers need contrast). The day someone makes the case for a blackboard mode, the version notes will show it.