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Excalidraw

A whiteboard for sketches & ideas

About

A whiteboard that looks hand-drawn. Sketch ideas, wireframes and diagrams alone or with others, straight in the browser.

Notes

A virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn-like diagrams, wireframes and quick ideas. Local-first: your drawings live in your browser, nothing is stored on the server — so the template is fully stateless.

Single container using the official multi-arch image, pinned by digest.

Alternative to: Miro, Figma whiteboard

Facts

Version
1.0.0
Source
Official
Runtime
Container
Devices
Pi · Linux · Mac
Min. RAM
128 MB
Project
github.com

Install

How to run Excalidraw yourself

  1. 01

    Connect a device

    A Raspberry Pi, a Linux machine or a Mac that is on anyway.

  2. 02

    Install it

    One click in your Obacht account. Your device checks the signature before anything runs.

  3. 03

    Open it from anywhere

    It gets a web address under your-name.obacht.space, with HTTPS. Add your own domain if you have one.

Open-source contribution

Forwarded

A fixed amount per install goes to Excalidraw, forwarded via Open Collective.

Last checked 2026-07-29

Run it on your own hardware.

Obacht is in a closed pilot phase. Put yourself on the list. We let people in a few at a time, so it can take a while.

Self-host Excalidraw