Board
Draw on an online whiteboard
Sketch boxes, arrows and labels here and download a PNG or SVG, or open the full Board for sticky notes, flowcharts and arrows that stay attached.
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Do not take our word for it: watch the network
On a computer, open your browser tools, switch to the Network tab and use the widget above. What you draw is never sent: there is no upload on this page. You will see two kinds of rows: our own code arriving from this address, and visit statistics for Yandex Metrica, PostHog and nopa’s own counter. The statistics say that the page was opened and the tool used, never what is in it.
- GETmini-bootstrap.jsscript
- GETmini-shared.jsscript
- GETvendor-react.jsscript
- POSTmc.yandex.com/watchping
- POSTus.i.posthog.com/i/v0/eping
- POSThub.n1.team/ingest/v1/batchping
- POSTupload—
Your work never left this device.
What comes off the canvas
The same board, with the whole toolbox
The sketch above is the small version. The full board adds shapes and sticky notes, connectors that stay attached, frames, tables, a minimap and eleven ready-made layouts. Same canvas, still in your browser.
Arrows that stay attached
Bind an arrow to a shape and it re-routes itself: move, resize or nudge the shape and the connector follows. Drag a nub off a shape and the next box arrives already connected.
Frames carry what is inside them
Draw a frame and anything you drop in belongs to it. Move the frame and the whole area travels, fold it away with the caret, or walk through your frames one after another like slides.
What people make on it
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A sprint retro
Start, Stop, Continue: three columns from the template menu and a sticky note for every thought. Download the board for the meeting notes.
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A process on one page
Events, tasks and a yes-or-no gateway: BPMN shapes whose arrows stay attached when a step moves.
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A mind map
One idea in the middle, the branches around it. Drag a branch and its arrow follows.
Also on the canvas
- Paste a list, get one sticky per line
- Tables on the canvas
- Minimap
- Format painter
- Hand-drawn shape style
- Several boards, autosaved
Save and continue on the desktop
Download or copy your result here first. Open the free desktop to save to Files or use more features.
- Sticky notes, diagrams and ready templates
- Save to Files when you continue on the desktop
- Every tool in one place, no new tabs
After you download, continue on the desktop for Files or the full app.
What Board can do
Shapes, not just sticky notes
Sticky notes, rectangles, ellipses, triangles, section frames, cards, text, and a freehand pen, plus flowchart and BPMN shapes (events, tasks, gateways) for process diagrams. Style text with size presets, bold, and alignment.
Templates and alignment
Insert a kanban board, backlog columns, sprint retro, SWOT, mind map, org chart, roadmap, or BPMN flow in one click. Multi-select to align and distribute objects, with snap guides while you drag.
Images on the canvas
Paste a screenshot from the clipboard and it lands on the board; insert PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, or SVG files. Ctrl/⌘+Shift+C copies the whole board back to the clipboard as a PNG, handy for chats and docs.
Everything from the keyboard
One-key tools (V select, S sticky, A arrow, P pen, T text), plus Tab for the next sticky, Ctrl/⌘+D duplicate, undo/redo, arrow-key nudge, and a command palette on Ctrl/⌘+/. Multi-select, group shapes, and send a selection to the front or the back.
How this differs from a cloud whiteboard
Miro deletes a no-account board after 24 hours. nopa keeps yours in your browser.
Miro, FigJam and the rest are deeper tools with real teams behind them. Most ask for an account; Miro lets you start without one, but its own page says that board is deleted after 24 hours unless you sign up and save it. Either way, your board lives on their servers. Here is the honest split.
| How this differs from a cloud whiteboard | Board | Cloud whiteboards |
|---|---|---|
| Account to keep a board | Not needed | Required |
| Where the board lives | In your browser | On their servers |
| Works offline | Yes | No |
| Send someone a link | No | Yes |
| Real-time co-editing | No | Yes |
| Depth of the toolset | Simpler | Deeper |
It stays with you
The board saves itself to this device as you draw. Close the tab, come back next week, and it is where you left it. No link to lose, no invite to accept.
- Saved locally the moment you draw, nothing to press
- Opens offline, on a plane or a bad connection
- Export to PNG, PDF, SVG or JSON whenever you want it elsewhere
Keep drawing on the full board
No account, no invite, nothing to fetch. It opens in this browser, saves to this device, and the sketch you just made comes with you.
Related apps
Questions
Do arrows stick to shapes?
Yes, in the full Board: bind an arrow to a shape and it follows when the shape moves, with a label on the line if you want one. Arrows drawn on this page are separate strokes: move a box and its arrow stays where it was.
Where is my board stored?
In nopa, boards are stored in your browser on your device. Nothing is uploaded to a server.
Can I import a sketch from this page?
Yes. Download the PNG here, or click Open the free desktop: the sketch opens on a new board as an image you can draw over, and a copy is saved to Files.
What happens if I close the tab?
The sketch on this page lives only in the tab. Download it first, or open it in the full Board. The full Board saves every change to this browser as you draw, so closing the tab or the browser loses nothing there.
Can I carry on from another computer?
Not by signing in: there is no account, and no copy of your board on a server to sync with. Export the board as a file (or the whole desktop from Settings → Data) and open it in nopa on the other computer.
What if my laptop is stolen?
Your boards sit in this browser like your other files on the device: whoever can log into your computer can open them, and nobody else. There is no nopa account to break into and nothing of yours on our servers. A board you cannot lose deserves an exported copy wherever you keep backups.
Can I share a board with my team?
Not as a live board: nothing leaves your browser, so there is no server to edit it through together. To show it, send a PNG, SVG or PDF; to hand it on, send the board file, and your colleague opens their own copy in nopa.
What if I clear my browser data?
Clearing nopa's site data deletes the boards stored in this browser, because that is where they live. Export the ones you want to keep first.