To sketch privately, open Zro7 Whiteboard — a Canvas-based drawing surface with pen, eraser, shapes, and text. Everything renders locally; export as PNG or SVG when you're done.
Why not just use Excalidraw?
Excalidraw is excellent — and open source — but the hosted excalidraw.com stores your board on their servers when you share, and any collaboration flows through their backend. Zro7 is single-player and 100% client-side; use it when the diagram itself is sensitive (architecture whiteboards, incident sketches, product roadmaps).
Features
- Freehand pen with pressure smoothing.
- Shapes: rectangle, ellipse, line, arrow.
- Text with basic font size and color.
- Undo / redo (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z).
- Export PNG (raster) or SVG (vector, editable in Illustrator/Inkscape).
Rendering approach
Strokes are stored as a list of points with time-domain smoothing; on redraw, they're rendered to a <canvas>. Because the source data is a small JSON of primitives, exporting to SVG is straightforward — each shape maps to an SVG element.
Steps
- Open Whiteboard.
- Draw with pen, eraser, or shapes.
- Add text where needed.
- Export as PNG for screenshots or SVG for editing.
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