At home
The family plans the move. The floor plan of the new flat is right to the centimetre, the furniture comes from the Floor plan package, and next to it hangs the list of who packs what. Everyone draws along, from the phone too.
WHAT IS NEXCANVAS?
A whiteboard that belongs to you.
nexcanvas is a surface without an edge for everything you would otherwise stick to a wall or sketch on a scrap of paper. You open it in the browser, on your computer as well as on your phone, and whoever works with you sees every change the moment it happens.
Network with VLANs
For the team
The team holds its retro, moves tasks through the Kanban and finally draws the process everyone has been explaining out loud for weeks. Two people type into the same note, and nobody has to wait.
For the homelab
The network plan with VLANs, the rack and the server in the basement, drawn with fitting shapes instead of empty boxes. Through the API, a dashboard can show what changed last.
WHAT NEXCANVAS CAN DO
Everything that fits on a wall.
Draw and write
Notes in seven colours, text, shapes, lines that stay attached to things, pen and highlighter. Photos and PDFs you simply drag onto the board.
Grow it with the plus
A plus on every side adds the next idea and draws the line along with it. With Tab a mind map grows without you reaching for the mouse.
Shapes and templates
Nine packages with 348 shapes of its own, more than 1,600 icons and 33 templates from Kanban to floor plan. Your own shapes and templates come on top.
Live together
Everyone sees every change at once, with pointers and names. Undo only takes back your own steps, never anybody else’s.
Frames and presenting
Frames divide the board into scenes, and at the press of a button nexcanvas shows them one after the other on the whole screen.
Pass it on
As PNG or PDF, as a public read-only page with an end date and a password, or as JSON Canvas for nexlore and Obsidian.
Spring exhibition
YOUR BOARDS BELONG TO YOU
On your server, by your rules.
In your own house
nexcanvas runs as one container on your own machine. Boards, photos and accounts live in a folder you know.
Who may do what
Every board lives in a space, and every member there may read, write or manage. What you may not read does not exist for you.
Backed up every night
nexcanvas backs itself up and checks the backup when you ask. Of every board people are working on, it keeps a version every 30 minutes.
Nothing goes out
Out of the box nexcanvas only asks GitHub once a day for a new version, without names and without boards. Everything else you switch on yourself.
GET STARTED
How to begin
- 01Installwith Docker
You need a machine that runs Docker, for example a small home server or a NAS. With a short Compose file, nexcanvas is up and running in a few minutes.
- 02Set upthe first account
The log of the container shows the setup code. With it you create the first account, and that one is yours as the operator.
- 03Inviteand start drawing
Make a space, invite the others by name or by link and start with a template or an empty board.
FREE AND OPEN SOURCE
Give it a try.
nexcanvas is free software under the AGPL-3.0 and costs nothing. All you need is a machine with Docker, and the guide walks you through every step.
Self-host now Source on GitHub