Productivity

MikroCanvas

Local-first

A local-first visual canvas for fast ad hoc thinking.

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Use: Local-first
Storage: IndexedDB boards with JSON, SVG, and PNG export.
Runtime: Static browser app.

The visual canvas that stays yours.

MikroCanvas is a lightweight local-first visual canvas for fast ad hoc thinking. It keeps boards in browser storage, exports portable JSON, SVG, and PNG files, and runs as a static web app.

Use it when diagrams, workshop notes, planning boards, and quick visual thinking should stay local and easy to export.

What ships

Infinite canvas with pan, zoom, dotted grid, and keyboard shortcuts

Sticky notes, text, shapes, arrows, freehand drawing, and comment pins

Selection, drag, resize, multi-select, duplicate, delete, bring-forward, and send-backward

Board library with create, rename, duplicate, delete, import, export, undo, redo, SVG, and PNG export

Install

Run it

curl -sSL -o mikrocanvas.zip https://releases.mikrosuite.com/mikrocanvas_latest.zip
unzip mikrocanvas.zip -d mikrocanvas
cd mikrocanvas/*
npx http-server . -a 127.0.0.1 -p 8000 -c-1