Online Whiteboard
The canvas is ready. Draw, add a sticky or an arrow, then save a PNG, an SVG, or a local board file. Nothing is uploaded.
0 items · 100% zoom. Scroll to zoom, space to pan. The board stays in this browser.
The board is ready when the tab is
Search for an online whiteboard and the first screen is often a sign-in wall. Sometimes it's a team plan. Sometimes the canvas stays locked until you pick a workspace. I wanted a page that draws as soon as it loads.
This tab opens an infinite canvas. There's no account. After the JavaScript has loaded you can unplug the cable and keep going. The pointer starts as a pen. A first visit puts a sticky that says stand-up on the board, plus a rectangle and a short stroke, so you can pan and export before you draw anything of your own. Clear board empties it. Undo brings the last change back.
Zoom does not smear the ink
A bitmap canvas looks fine at 100 percent and turns into mush when you zoom in to write in a corner. Here every pen stroke is an outline stored as points in world space. The camera is a pan and a zoom on top of that. Wheel or pinch to move the view. The stroke stays a path.
The outline comes from perfect-freehand 1.2.3, which is MIT. Zoom clamps at 0.25 and 4. 0.25 is far enough to see a whole sketch. 4 is close enough to write in a margin. The grid is 48 world units. It's a location hint, not a snap. Shapes do not glue to it.
The eraser hits strokes, not stickies. Wipe a line and the note stays. Space pans for as long as you hold it. Two fingers pan and pinch on a phone. V selects. P is the pen. N drops a sticky. E is the eraser. R draws a rectangle. O an ellipse. A an arrow. T places or edits text. C connects boxes at the dots. H pans. Click a sticky in Text or Select to type on it. Drag a corner to resize.
Take a PNG of the part you care about
Select a sticky or an arrow, or leave the selection empty, then Download SVG or Download PNG. With a selection, only that part goes into the file. With nothing selected, the whole board does. The PNG is drawn from the SVG string onto a canvas in this tab. The long side caps at 2048 pixels. If this browser will not rasterize the SVG, the page says so and leaves the SVG download in place.
The downloads are named whiteboard.svg and whiteboard.png. Save board writes whiteboard.json you can Open later. A PDF dropped on Open is refused. It's already a document. Join those on Merge PDF. Photos of a form belong on Images to PDF. Notes that are already Markdown belong on Markdown to PDF. Rename the file after you have it.
The board comes back on this computer
Items live under softery.online-whiteboard.board in this browser. Pen size and color sit next to them. Close the tab and open it tomorrow: the same strokes are there. Clear board writes an empty list and remembers you have been here, so the sample does not come back and overwrite a blank you meant to keep. Clear the site data and the sample sticky returns.
Undo goes back up to 80 steps. After that the oldest change falls off. If you need a copy from last week, that's what Save board is for. The JSON is version 1. A future version is refused rather than guessed at.
There is no live multiplayer on this page. A shared cursor is a different job and a different bill. The job here is a board you can draw on without an account, and a file you can take with you.
Common questions
Does this page upload the board?
No. Strokes, stickies and the JSON file stay in this tab. After the page has loaded you can unplug the cable and keep drawing. Softery.io does load Mixpanel and Google Analytics on every page, including this one. Those calls never get the ink or the sticky text. They get the tool name, a setting you moved, and whether a download happened.
Can two people edit this board at once?
No. There is no live cursor and no room link. A shared session is a different product. This page is a board you can draw on without an account, then take away as PNG, SVG or a local JSON file.
Does zoom smear the pen?
No. The pen is a vector outline. Points live in world coordinates and the camera is stored separately, so a wheel zoom or a pinch scales the view and leaves the stroke as a path. Export SVG if you want that path in another app. Select a box and drag a corner to resize it.
Where does the board go when I close the tab?
It stays in this browser under softery.online-whiteboard.board. Pen size and color sit next to it. Clear board empties the items and leaves the blank page for next time. Clear the site data and the sample sticky comes back. Save board writes whiteboard.json so you can Open it later on this machine.
I wrote up why the first stroke should not sit behind a modal, and why the PNG has to come from the board and not a screenshot of the window, in Sign In to Use the Pen.
Nearby tools
If the sketch is already photos, start on Images to PDF. If it's Markdown, Markdown to PDF prints the pages. The rest of the free tools run the useful bit here.