Productivity Tools
Online Whiteboard
A clean drawing board — pen, shapes, eraser, undo, PNG export. Nothing saved.
Updated July 10, 2026
How to use the online whiteboard
- 1Pick a tool — pen, line, rectangle, ellipse, or eraser.
- 2Choose a color and stroke weight.
- 3Draw with mouse, finger, or stylus; undo removes the last stroke.
- 4Export as PNG before leaving — nothing is saved.
Common uses
- Sketching an idea mid-conversation or call
- Quick diagrams while screen-sharing
- Math scratch work and geometry sketches
- Explaining anything that needs three boxes and two arrows
Frequently asked questions
Does my drawing get saved anywhere?
No — deliberately. Strokes live in the page's memory only: nothing uploads, nothing writes to your device, and a refresh clears the board completely. That's the right trade for a quick-thinking surface (no account, no sync, nothing of yours on a server), with one behavioral rule attached: hit the PNG button before closing anything you want to keep. The export is a full-resolution image of exactly what you see, white background included.
How do the shape tools work?
Drag from one corner to the opposite corner: the line tool draws start-to-end, rectangle uses your drag as its bounding box, and ellipse inscribes in that same box (drag a square-ish area for a circle). Shapes preview live while dragging and commit on release, so a misplaced one is a single undo away. Everything is stroke-based — shapes and pen marks all sit in one undo history, newest first.
Why does the pen look smoother than other web whiteboards?
The raw input — a series of points arriving as your pointer moves — gets rendered through quadratic curves between midpoints rather than straight segments, which turns the polygonal jitter of fast strokes into continuous curves. It's the standard technique good drawing apps use. Pressure isn't simulated: a stylus draws at the selected size regardless of force, which keeps behavior identical across mouse, finger, and pen.
Can two people draw together?
Not on this one — real-time collaboration requires a server relaying every stroke, which is precisely the architecture this tool exists to avoid (and the reason collaborative whiteboards need accounts). For working together in person, one screen and a stylus does fine; for remote, screen-sharing this page works surprisingly well since strokes render live. If you need true multi-cursor collaboration, that's a different product category with different privacy trade-offs.
About this tool
The online whiteboard is a drawing surface that opens instantly and does what a whiteboard should: a smoothed pen, straight lines, rectangles and ellipses, an eraser, six colors, three stroke weights, per-stroke undo, and a clean white-background PNG export. It works with mouse, touch, and stylus. Nothing is uploaded or saved — sketches exist only in the page, which is both the privacy point and the honest warning: export before you close the tab. No sign-up, no canvas limits to hit, no collaboration cursors you didn't ask for — just a place to think with your hands.
Like most tools on UtilityBase, the online whiteboard runs entirely in your browser — nothing you enter is uploaded or stored on a server. It's free to use with no account required. Browse more productivity tools here.
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