Whiteboard room
Infinite canvas, whole team, live
An infinite multiplayer canvas with sticky notes, shapes, connectors, freehand pen, and frames. Eleven templates get workshops started fast, and everyone draws on the same board in real time.
Whiteboard is where messy thinking happens together. The canvas is infinite and multiplayer: sticky notes for ideas, shapes and connectors for structure, a freehand pen for everything in between. Frames keep sections organized so a sprawling session still reads as a story afterwards.
Eleven templates, including mind map, SWOT, customer journey, and story map, give workshops a running start. Because it's a room in your space, the board from Tuesday's session lives next to the tasks it produced, not in a separate app nobody reopens.
What you get
Everything inside Whiteboard
Infinite canvas
Never run out of room. Zoom out for the big picture, zoom in to work, and let the board grow with the conversation.
Real-time multiplayer
Everyone works on the same canvas at the same time. Remote workshops feel like standing at the same wall.
Sticky notes and shapes
Capture ideas on stickies, then structure them with shapes and connectors as patterns emerge from the noise.
Freehand pen
Sometimes you just need to draw the thing. Sketch flows, circle problems, and annotate directly on the canvas.
Frames
Group sections of the board into frames so agendas, exercises, and outcomes stay organized on one canvas.
Eleven templates
Mind map, SWOT, customer journey, story map, and more. Start the session with structure instead of a blank void.
Made for moments like these
- Run a remote brainstorm where everyone adds stickies at once
- Map the customer journey with the product and support teams together
- Sketch architecture options with the pen during a design discussion
- Build a story map that sits one click from the sprint board
One less tool to pay for
Teams typically use Whiteboard to replace:
See how Openbook stacks up in our comparison guides.
FAQ
Common questions
Can multiple people draw at the same time?+
Yes. The canvas is multiplayer and real-time, so the whole team works on the same board simultaneously. It's built for live workshops as much as solo thinking.
What can we put on the canvas?+
Sticky notes, shapes, connectors, freehand pen drawing, and frames to organize sections. That covers brainstorms, diagrams, journey maps, and everything a physical whiteboard does, without the photo of the wall afterwards.
Do we have to start from a blank board?+
No. Eleven templates cover common formats like mind maps, SWOT analyses, customer journeys, and story maps. Pick one and the structure is laid out; the team fills it in.
Why not just keep using a separate whiteboard app?+
Because the board ends up next to the work. A story-mapping session in Openbook lives in the same space as the kanban board and chat that follow from it, findable by the same people with the same permissions. One less app, one less license.
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