A shared whiteboard for teams that work in the browser.

Navamu is an infinite canvas for workshops, retros, diagrams and rough thinking. Open a board, send the link, and everyone draws on the same page — guests included, free, with nothing to install.

This is the live editor, not a picture of one. Drop a shape in from the drawer at the top right, draw with the pen, pan with two fingers.

1.6 s
from the board picker to a live, shareable board — p95 of 20 consecutive runs against the staging build
3.3 s
from signing up to drawing on a board of your own — p95 of the same measurement
30
people editing one board at the same time, a ceiling the realtime server enforces
€0
to start: no credit card, and a guest never costs a seat on any plan

Product

Six things that are true today

Every screenshot below is captured from the running application by a script in this repository, so it cannot quietly drift from what ships.

Everyone on the same board, at the same time

Send the link and the drawing updates for everybody as it happens. Up to 30 people can edit one board — a limit the realtime server enforces, not a number on a pricing page.

  • Live cursors, labelled with the name each person typed in
  • Drops its connection, reconnects, and catches up on what it missed
  • No account needed to join — the link is enough
Two people editing the same board, each cursor labelled with a name

Start from a template, not a blank sheet

Eight starting points ship with the product: retro, brainstorm, flowchart, kanban, workshop agenda, an empty canvas, and two A4 sheets for boards that end up on paper.

  • Every template is an ordinary document — edit it, save it, make it yours
  • A4 portrait and landscape, sized for print from the start
  • Or open a board file you already have
A retrospective board opened from the template that ships with the product

A kit of parts, not a palette of colours

Shapes, connectors, frames and callouts — 34 pieces across four drawers, drawn in the same hand as the templates — plus sticky notes, text, and a pen.

  • The arrow tool binds to the shapes it joins and follows them when they move
  • Search every drawer by name
  • Bring your own images too: PNG, JPEG or SVG
The connectors drawer, open, showing twelve arrow styles

Pen, finger, tablet

Strokes follow pen pressure, and the canvas ignores your palm for as long as the pen is down. Two fingers pan and zoom.

  • Pressure-sensitive ink, not a uniform stroke
  • Palm rejection while a pen is in use
  • Tablets are a first-class device; phones are too small for a board
A pressure-sensitive pen stroke drawn across the canvas

Your work leaves the tool

Every page exports as a PNG, a whole board prints to a multi-page A4 PDF, and the board itself saves as a file you keep.

  • PNG per page, rendered at 2×
  • Multi-page PDF, A4 landscape
  • Save and reopen the board as a file on your own machine
The file menu open, showing export as image and print to PDF

Share a link. A guest never costs a seat

A board is shared by its address. Whoever has it can edit, with no account and no invitation flow — and guests are free on every plan, including Free.

  • Board addresses are 21 random characters, minted from the browser's CSPRNG
  • Guests edit free on every tier — that is the whole pricing idea
  • Claim a board to an account and it turns up in your board list
The share control on a board, with the link copied

Compatibility

What it runs on, and what goes in and out

Named rather than implied. Where we have not tested something, this says so.

Browsers

  • Chrome and Edge — built and tested here
  • Safari and Firefox — the same standard APIs, not yet in the automated suite

Devices

  • Desktop and laptop
  • Tablets, with a pen or a finger
  • Phones: too small for a board, deliberately

Files out

  • PNG — one per page, at 2×
  • PDF — multi-page, A4 landscape
  • The board file itself

Files in

  • Board files, including ones saved by the older version
  • Images: PNG, JPEG, SVG

Integrations

  • None yet.
  • When one ships it will be named here, not suggested by a logo.

Pricing

Pricing

Simple plans that scale with your team. Upgrade when you are ready.

Free

€0.00

Everything you need to run a real session. No credit card.

  • 3 editable boards
  • Up to 3 team members
  • Unlimited guest editors, free
  • 30 people live on one board
  • PNG and PDF export
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Team

Recommended

€90.00/year

€7.50 / month

For teams that outgrew three boards.

  • Unlimited boards
  • Per-seat, cancel any time
  • Unlimited guest editors, free
  • 30 people live on one board
  • Admin roles and permissions
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Studio

€790.00/year

€65.83 / month

Everything in Team, and your bill stops growing at nine members.

  • Everything in Team
  • Unlimited members
  • Your bill has a maximum
  • Unlimited guest editors, free
  • 30 people live on one board
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Objections

The questions worth asking first

Answered at length, including where the answer is “not yet”.

Who can see my board?

Anyone who has the link. A board’s address is 21 random characters — about 126 bits, drawn from the browser’s cryptographic random source — so it cannot be guessed or walked through. But it is a bearer link: forwarding it is sharing the board. Board contents are stored encrypted at rest on our server, under a key that can be rotated without re-encrypting everything at once. What does not exist yet is per-person permissions — there is no viewer-only role. If that matters to you, it is worth telling us before you start.

Do I need an account to open or join a board?

No. Opening a board, drawing on it and sharing it work with no account at all — that is the path the number at the top of this page measures. An account buys you three things: a board list that survives closing the tab, a workspace you can add teammates to, and the paid tiers’ limits. Signing up takes one form and no credit card.

What is kept, and for how long?

The current state of every board is stored durably and survives restarts and deploys — a board you come back to tomorrow is the board you left. A board you started without an account and never claimed is swept after 30 days of nobody opening it; claim it to an account and it stays. Be clear about what is not there: there is no version history yet. You cannot rewind a board to how it looked yesterday, and no plan sells that today. When it ships, this answer changes.

Does it work offline?

No, and that is a design consequence rather than an oversight: a board is a live shared document, so it needs a connection. If the connection drops mid-session the canvas reconnects on its own and catches up on what it missed, rather than losing the last few minutes. If you need the board somewhere without a network, export it as a PNG or a PDF first — that file is yours and needs nothing from us.

Can I get my work out?

Three ways, all of them local to your machine and none of them gated behind a plan: every page exports as a PNG at twice screen resolution; a whole board prints to a multi-page A4 PDF in landscape; and the board saves as a file you can keep and reopen later. Nothing about leaving is made deliberately difficult — we would rather you could.

Where is my data, and what about GDPR?

The operator is the company named in the Impressum, which is registered in Berlin. Board contents are encrypted at rest. The privacy policy and Impressum currently on this site are the operator’s existing German-language pages and are being rewritten for this product. Until that is done we will not name a hosting region on this page, because we have not verified it here — ask us and you will get the real answer rather than a reassuring one.

What does a guest cost?

Nothing, on every plan, including Free. That is the one structural difference worth naming: the tools people compare us against either charge a full seat for an outside participant or put guest editing behind their business tier. Here a guest opens a link and edits, and your bill does not move. If you run workshops with people outside your company, that is most of the pricing conversation.

What happens if I stop paying?

You keep your boards and you keep being able to open and edit them. What the Free tier limits is what you can create next: three editable boards and three team members. Nothing is deleted, no board is locked behind a paywall, and your exports never stop working. Cancel from the billing page whenever you like; access runs to the end of the period you already paid for.

Open a board and see.

No signup, no credit card, nothing to install. If it is not for you, close the tab — there is nothing to cancel.