When words aren’t enough, draw it.
An infinite canvas for the ideas that don’t fit in a doc — sketches, diagrams, and flows, right next to your work. Powered by Excalidraw, so it has that friendly, hand-drawn look.
Your best thinking gets stranded in another app
You sketch in a separate whiteboard app, screenshot it into the project doc, and the screenshot is stale by the next meeting. The “real” version lives in someone’s tab, and nobody else can find it. And it’s yet another subscription, yet another login.
dotby keeps the canvas where the work is. The board lives in the same workspace as the project it belongs to, updates live for everyone, and sits in folders right alongside your docs — so the sketch and the work stay together.
A canvas for visual thinkers
A real infinite canvas
Shapes, arrows, text, freehand drawing, sticky-note-style notes, and pasted images on a boundless pan/zoom canvas. The hand-drawn aesthetic feels approachable, not corporate.
A canvas people actually enjoy using — so they actually use it.
Live, without the chaos
Changes show up for everyone in about a second. And it’s careful: if two people work at once, you get a clear “someone else edited this” instead of one person silently erasing the other’s work.
Real-time collaboration you can trust, not a data-loss roulette.
Autosave you don’t think about
Boards save as you go — debounced, on blur, and with a guard if you try to leave with unsaved changes. The status line tells you plainly: “Saving…” → “Saved.”
No save button, no lost work, no anxiety.
Images that just work
Paste or drop an image and it’s there. Behind the scenes it’s stored properly, so boards stay fast and images reload every time. Delete a shape and the storage is reclaimed automatically.
A moodboard or screenshot annotation works without bloating the board.
Organized like the rest of your workspace
Group boards into folders, drag-and-drop to reorganize, give each board a color and an icon, and favorite the ones you live in. Per-board public/private access, just like docs.
Ten boards in a folder beats fifty in a flat list nobody can navigate.
Native to dotby
The canvas follows your app’s dark/light theme, speaks your language, and carries zero “made with X” watermark on your team’s boards.
It’s your whiteboard, not an ad for someone else’s tool.
Everyone on the same board, in about a second
Open a board with your team and changes appear for everyone almost instantly. It’s honest about collaboration, too: if two people edit at once, dotby tells you — instead of silently clobbering someone’s work.
- Near-instant updates — passive viewers see new shapes within ~1 second.
- Conflict-aware — a clear “someone else edited this” beats a silent overwrite.
- Autosave & guard — debounced saves, save-on-blur, and a heads-up before you leave.
5 people on this board. Beto is drawing in the top-right.
More than a place to doodle
Right next to the projects it’s about
Boards live in folders alongside your docs and schemas — one login, one bill, one source of truth. Native dark and light theming, your language, and zero third-party watermark on your team’s work.