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A free online whiteboard for teams and ideas
A whiteboard is not a document. A document forces an order on your thinking before you have any \u2014 first paragraph, second paragraph, and a cursor demanding a sentence. A canvas lets you put things down where they fall and work out the arrangement afterwards, which is much closer to how ideas actually arrive. That is the whole argument for this page.
Pixpoo\u2019s whiteboard gives you an endless surface with no edge to hit, sticky notes, shapes that stay connected as you drag them, a pen, images and text. It opens in your browser with nothing to install and no account to create, and your boards are stored on your own machine rather than on ours.
What is on the toolbar
| Tool | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Sticky notes | One thought per note, in six colours \u2014 the unit of a brainstorm |
| Shapes and connectors | Eight shapes with lines that stay attached when you move a box |
| Pen and highlighter | Freehand marks, annotation, circling the thing that matters |
| Text and images | Labels, headings and pictures dropped in from your machine |
| Frames | Named regions that hold their contents together \u2014 also your slides |
| Draw to shape | A rough sketched box or circle is tidied into a clean one |
| Lasso and bucket | Select an irregular group; recolour without opening a panel |
| Laser pointer | A fading trail for pointing while you talk, leaving no marks |
Single letters switch tools without a trip to the toolbar \u2014 V to select, P for the pen, T for text, S for a sticky note, A for an arrow, F for a frame \u2014 and the last sixty steps are undoable, so nothing you try is expensive.
Sixty-one templates, and when a blank canvas is better
A template is worth taking when the structure is the hard part and you would otherwise spend the first ten minutes drawing columns. The library covers thinking tools like , affinity diagrams and six thinking hats; diagramming with , swimlanes, org charts, ERDs and sequence diagrams; strategy work such as SWOT, business model canvas, PESTEL and OKR planning; product and research boards including , story maps, empathy maps and personas; delivery boards like , sprint planning, retrospectives and bug triage; plus teaching, planning and personal boards. or start from .
Take the blank canvas when you do not yet know the shape of the problem. A template answers the question “how should this be laid out?” before you have decided whether that layout fits, and a you rearrange later is often the more honest starting point.
Frames turn a board into a presentation
Draw a frame around anything you want to show and it becomes a slide. Presentation mode plays the frames in reading order \u2014 down the board, then across \u2014 zooming to fit each one, with arrow keys or the space bar to advance and Escape to come back out. The same frames export as a multi-page PDF, one page each, at twice the on-screen resolution.
It is a genuinely different way to build a talk. Instead of writing slides and hoping the argument holds, you lay the argument out in full, see the connections between its parts, and then draw frames around the pieces you want to walk people through. The audience gets slides; you keep the map.
Working with other people
Starting a share produces a room and a link. Anyone who opens it lands on the same board, edits alongside you with a visible cursor and can leave comments in a side thread. It is quick and needs no invitation system.
Two things about it are worth stating plainly rather than burying. The synchronisation runs over a public relay operated by the Yjs project rather than through Pixpoo, so board content does travel to a third party while a session is live. And a room is identified by a short random name with no password on it \u2014 anyone holding the link can join. That makes it a good fit for a working session with people you have just messaged, and a poor fit for anything confidential. When you are not sharing, nothing leaves your machine.
Where your boards live
Boards save themselves into your browser\u2019s storage about a second after each change, on the device you are working on. There is no account because there is no server holding your work, which is the reason this is private by default \u2014 and also the reason to know the limits. A board does not follow you to another computer, and clearing your browsing data will take it with everything else.
The answer is the JSON export. It writes the entire board to a file that re-imports exactly as it was, so anything you would be annoyed to lose belongs in a file somewhere, not only in a browser. Alongside JSON you can export PNG, JPG, WebP, SVG, PDF or a standalone HTML page, capturing the whole board, just the current view or only what you have selected, at a resolution multiplier of your choosing and on a white or transparent background.
Alongside the rest of Pixpoo
A board exported as a PNG is an image like any other, so the compressor will get it under an attachment limit and crop will trim it to the region you want. Slide decks exported as PDFs can be joined to other documents with Merge PDF, made smaller with Compress PDF, or watermarked as drafts with Watermark PDF before they circulate.
Frequently asked questions
Is the whiteboard free?
Yes, all of it. No account, no seat count, no board limit, no watermark on anything you export, and no feature waiting behind an upgrade. The canvas, the 61 templates, presentation mode, collaboration and every export format are open from the start.
Where are my boards saved?
In your browser’s own storage on the device you are using, saved automatically about a second after each change. Nothing is sent to Pixpoo, which is why there is no sign-in — there is no account holding your work. The trade-off is worth understanding: boards live in that one browser, so they do not follow you to another computer, and clearing your browsing data removes them. Export a board as JSON whenever it matters; the file re-imports exactly as it was.
Can several people work on the same board?
Yes. Starting a share generates a room and a link, and anyone who opens it sees the same board with live cursors and a comment thread. Be aware of how it is plumbed: the synchronisation runs through a public relay operated by the Yjs project, not through Pixpoo, and a room is protected only by a short random name with no password. It is well suited to a quick working session with people you have sent the link to, and not to anything confidential.
What can I put on the canvas?
Sticky notes, text, freehand pen and highlighter strokes, straight lines and arrows, eight shapes with connectors that stay attached as you move things, images from your machine, and frames that group a region together. There is also a lasso for irregular selections, a paint bucket for recolouring, a laser pointer for talking through a board, and a draw-to-shape mode that tidies a rough sketch into a clean shape.
How do I turn a board into a presentation?
Draw a frame around each thing you want to show, then start presentation mode. Frames become slides in reading order, top to bottom and left to right, and arrow keys or the space bar move between them while Escape leaves. The same frames export as a multi-page PDF, one page per frame, so a board can become a deck without rebuilding it in slide software.
What formats can I export?
PNG, JPG, WebP, SVG, PDF, HTML and the board’s own JSON. You choose whether to capture the whole board, just what is on screen or only the current selection, set a resolution multiplier for print-quality output, and pick a white or transparent background. SVG stays sharp at any size, JSON is the one to keep if you want to reopen the board later.
Is there a limit to the canvas size?
No. The canvas has no edges — pan and zoom as far as you like, and the board grows to hold whatever you add. A minimap tracks where you are, and frames give you named regions to jump between when a board gets large enough to lose your place in.
Can I undo a mistake?
Yes, with the usual keyboard shortcuts, and the last 60 steps are kept. Single-letter shortcuts also switch tools without going to the toolbar — V for select, P for pen, T for text, S for sticky note, A for arrow, F for frame and so on.
Does it work on a tablet or phone?
It runs in any modern mobile browser, and a tablet with a stylus is a good match for the pen and highlighter. A phone screen is tight for arranging a large board, but fine for reading one, adding notes, or following along while somebody else presents.
Do I need to be online?
Only to load the page. After that the board runs on your own machine and keeps saving locally even if the connection drops. Two things do need the network: starting a shared session, and exporting a PDF, because the PDF library is fetched when you first ask for one.