Rustic WhiteboardThe whiteboard that lives
on your desktop.
Draw, sketch, and stick notes on an infinite canvas. Free and open-source. No account. No cloud. Works offline. Opens in under a second.
Everything a whiteboard should do
Pen & highlighter
Smooth freehand ink with any color and width, plus a translucent highlighter.
Sticky notes & text
Drop notes in six pastel colors, type anywhere, move and resize freely.
Shapes & arrows
Nine shapes — rectangles to hexagons, arrows and double arrows, filled or outlined.
Images
Paste screenshots with Ctrl+V or drag & drop photos straight onto the board.
Export anywhere
One click to PNG, SVG, PDF, or a self-contained web page you can share.
Private by design
Boards are files on your computer. No account, no telemetry, works fully offline.
First-launch tips
🪟 Windows
Run the .msi. If SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC”, click
More info → Run anyway — the app is open-source and unsigned, that's all.
You'll get a desktop and Start-menu shortcut.
🍎 macOS
Open the .dmg and drag Rustic Whiteboard into Applications. First launch:
right-click the app → Open → Open (needed once for unsigned apps).
🐧 Linux
AppImage: make it executable (chmod +x or Properties → “Allow executing”)
and double-click. Ubuntu/Debian users can install the .deb instead.