Online Drawing Pad

Online drawing pad & collaborative whiteboard — sketch shapes and diagrams, draw live with others (E2E encrypted), side panel.

Online Drawing Pad is a drawing pad and collaborative whiteboard that lives in your browser — a full drawing board you can open in a tab or right beside any webpage in Chrome's side panel. Sketch shapes and diagrams, write notes, doodle freehand, and when you want company, start an end-to-end encrypted live session and draw together in real time. No account, no sign-up. Your drawings stay on your device, and even during collaboration the relay server only ever sees encrypted data. 🎨 A Complete Drawing Board ➡️ Rectangles, diamonds and ellipses — with clean hand-drawn styling ➡️ Arrows that bind to shapes and follow them when you move things around ➡️ Lines, freehand pen drawing, and a proper eraser ➡️ Text anywhere, or text bound inside shapes ➡️ Sticky notes in four pastel colors — drop one on the board and type straight into it ➡️ Insert images onto the canvas ➡️ Laser pointer for presenting, tool lock for repeating shapes ➡️ Snap to objects, grid mode, zen mode and view-only mode ➡️ Light, dark and system theme + canvas background colors ➡️ Undo/redo, zoom controls, and keyboard shortcuts for every tool 🤝 Live Collaboration, End-to-End Encrypted ➡️ Start a session and get room credentials to share ➡️ Friends paste the credentials (or open your link) and draw with you live ➡️ Everyone's cursor shows up with a fun name like "Advanced Wombat" ➡️ The whiteboard is encrypted in your browser before anything is sent — the key stays in the credentials, so the server can never read your drawing ➡️ Stop the session anytime; your drawing stays with you 📌 Side Panel Mode — Draw Alongside Any Webpage Turn on Side panel in the extension popup and the whole whiteboard opens beside the page you are reading — sketch notes while you research, diagram what you are learning, or doodle on a call. The side panel and the full-tab app share the same autosaved canvas, so you can start small and continue full-screen. 👥 Who Finds This Online Drawing Pad Useful 1️⃣ Teams sketching ideas together on a shared whiteboard in real time 2️⃣ Students diagramming next to their study material in the side panel 3️⃣ Developers and designers roughing out wireframes, flows and architecture 4️⃣ Teachers drawing live explanations while screen-sharing 5️⃣ Remote workers who need a quick "let me draw it" board in every call 6️⃣ Note-takers who think in boxes and arrows, not bullet points 7️⃣ Anyone who wants a fast sketch pad that is always one click away ✨ Why People Like This Drawing Board 🔹 Opens instantly — in a tab, a popup menu, or the Chrome side panel 🔹 Real whiteboard features: shapes, binding arrows, text, images 🔹 Live collaboration without accounts — just share the room credentials 🔹 Privacy by design: end-to-end encryption, local-first storage 🔹 The canvas autosaves as you draw and is restored when you come back 🔹 Save your work as a .excalidraw file and open it again anytime 🔹 Export your drawing as an image to share it anywhere 🔹 Works offline — everything except live collaboration runs locally ⚙️ Handy Details ⭐ "New canvas" for a fresh start, "Last canvas" to continue where you left off ⭐ "Join a room" right in the popup — paste credentials and go ⭐ Hand tool and pinch/scroll zoom for moving around big boards ⭐ Grid toggle and snapping for tidy diagrams ⭐ Dark mode that follows your system, or set it yourself 🔧 Behind-the-Scenes Tech (Explained Simply) 🎯 The canvas is powered by the open-source Excalidraw engine (MIT licensed) — the same beloved whiteboard technology used by millions 🎯 Live sessions use WebSocket relay + AES-GCM encryption performed in your browser 🎯 Everything is bundled inside the extension — fonts included, no remote code 🎯 Autosave uses Chrome Storage on your device; nothing is uploaded 🎯 Manifest V3 — the current Chrome extension standard 💡 Helpful Tips ✅ Hold the tool key (or use tool lock) to place many shapes in a row ✅ Arrows bind to shapes — move the shape and the arrow follows ✅ Use the laser pointer when presenting over a call ✅ Sticky notes are regular elements — move, resize, recolor and undo them like anything else ✅ Turn on Side panel mode to sketch while you read — same canvas, same autosave ✅ Save bigger projects to a .excalidraw file so you can version them ❓ FAQ ► Do I need an account? No — no sign-up and no login, for any feature. Install it and start drawing; live collaboration works the same way. ► How do collaboration rooms work? Click Share → Start session. You get a "roomId,key" credentials string. Anyone who pastes it into "Join a room" (or opens your link) draws on the same whiteboard live. The key part never reaches the server, so only room members can decrypt the drawing. ► Is my drawing private? Yes. Drawings are stored locally in your browser. During live sessions the data is end-to-end encrypted before it leaves your device — the relay only forwards ciphertext. ► Does it work offline? Yes — drawing, autosave, files and export all work offline. Only live collaboration needs a connection. ► Can I use it as a simple sketch pad? Of course. Open it, grab the pen, doodle. The whiteboard features are there when you need them. 🚀 How to Get Started 1️⃣ Install the extension and click the icon in your Chrome toolbar 2️⃣ Choose "New canvas" — the drawing board opens in a tab 3️⃣ Draw with shapes, arrows, pen and text; everything autosaves 4️⃣ Want it beside a webpage? Turn on "Side panel" in the popup 5️⃣ Want company? Click Share → Start session and send the credentials 6️⃣ Export an image or save a .excalidraw file whenever you like A fast, friendly online drawing pad that grows into a full collaborative whiteboard the moment you need one. Happy drawing! 🎨