The local-first canvas for creatives
Space to think.Yours to keep.
A visual canvas that lives on your machine and follows you between them. Your boards export as files you keep — they open instantly, work offline, and the canvas understands what’s on them.
Three boards free, forever · Synced across your devices · Works in your browser
Imports from the tools you already use
- Milanote
- Miro
- Figma
- Dropbox
- Notion
Built different
Numbers cloud boards can’t match.
1,000+
cards on one board
A GPU-accelerated canvas that stays smooth long past the point cloud boards give up.
100%
yours, as local files
Every board is a file on your machine. Back it up, version it, move it — no lock-in.
60fps
online or offline
Native rendering keeps panning, zooming, and dragging fluid — with zero connection.
Made for the way creatives work
Why Gladeboard
Built for things cloud boards can’t do.
Local-first
Your boards, your files, on your machine. They open instantly, work offline, and sync only if you want them to.
A canvas that reads itself
An assistant that understands every card — summarize, cluster loose ideas, and answer questions. On-device where possible.
Search by meaning
Find a reference by describing it — or by its color. Semantic and color search across every board.
Performance at scale
A GPU-accelerated canvas that stays smooth past a thousand cards. No slowdowns, no ceilings, no card limits.
Boards
A canvas for every kind of thinking.
Spring campaign
38 cards · moodboard
Type & tone
21 cards · reference
Product shots
54 cards · library
Search & AI — try it
“Show me everything teal.”
Nobody else has color search. Gladeboard reads every card on every board — so you can find a reference by its color, or just by describing it. Click a swatch or type a color below.
Lagoon reference
Image
Forest palette
Palette
Poster draft v3
Image
Type specimen
Note
Tile mockup
Image
Autumn moodboard
Board
Fern close-up
Image
Brand sketch
Note
Sea glass photo
Image
Clay swatch
Palette
Studio shelf
Image
Moss study
Image
Features
The small things, done right.
Canvas feel
It should feel like a tool, not a tab.
- Snap & smart alignment guides, Figma-style
- One-click auto-arrange into a clean grid
- Instant recolor from a tasteful preset palette
- Connectors that follow cards; infinite undo
- Zoom to fit, zoom to selection, minimap
Capture & import
Everything you find becomes a card.
- Paste anything — URL → link, image → image, text → note
- Drag a file from Finder; it lands where you drop it
- Web clipper — save from any page
- Palette extraction — swatches from any image
- Live embeds for YouTube and Figma links
A canvas that thinks
Your boards, understood.
- Summarize this board
- Auto-cluster loose cards into groups
- Ask a question about your board
- Auto-tagging on import
- On-device where possible — private by default
Share & export
Your work travels well.
- Export a board as a poster PNG
- Export to PDF and Markdown
- Read-only share links
- Import from Milanote and Miro
- Boards are portable files — back up anywhere
Command palette
Every action, three keystrokes away.
The honest comparison
Great tools. Different priorities.
Milanote and Miro are cloud products with cloud trade-offs. Gladeboard starts from a different premise: your work belongs on your machine.
| Feature | Gladeboard | Milanote | Miro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Works offline, boards as local files | Yes | Cloud-only | Cloud-only |
| Canvas assistant that reads your cards | Yes | No | Partial |
| Semantic + color search | Yes | Keyword only | Keyword only |
| Smooth past 1,000 cards | Yes | Degrades ~500 | Yes |
| Full export, no lock-in | Boards are files | Paid plans only | Yes |
Pricing
Three boards free. Pay when you outgrow them.
The free plan is a real plan, not a trial: three boards, synced, no clock. Boards you already have never stop being yours to open and edit.
Free
$0forever
Three boards, synced, on us.
- 3 boards, synced across your devices
- Every card type
- Works offline
- On-device search & tagging
Cloud
$8/month
Your boards, everywhere you are.
- Everything in Free
- Multi-device sync
- Automatic backup
- Shareable links
Cloud + AI
Most popular$16/month
The canvas that reads itself, at full power.
- Everything in Cloud
- Canvas assistant
- Summarize & auto-cluster
- Auto-tagging on import
Team
$25/seat/month
from $75/month · minimum 3 seats
For the whole studio, billed per seat.
- Everything in Cloud + AI
- Shared workspaces
- One invoice for the whole team
- Multiplayer (coming later)
Prices are directional while we’re pre-launch. Three boards stay free, always.
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