Full-Screen Whiteboard
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Full-Screen Whiteboard

A free full-screen online whiteboard that fills your screen edge to edge. Draw, present and teach distraction-free — runs in your browser, nothing uploaded.

Whiteboard & Drawing

Open the whiteboard full-screen, edge to edge. Start drawing instantly — your board is saved in your browser.

⛶ Launch full-screen

Opens as a distraction-free app. Prefer the guided version? Online Whiteboard

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How to use

1

Open the board, then press the fullscreen button (or launch the dedicated /board app) to expand the canvas edge to edge with the pen ready to draw.

2

Sketch freehand with the pen or highlighter, or drop in an auto-shape — rectangle, ellipse, arrow, elbow connector, block arrow, triangle, diamond — plus text and sticky notes.

3

Present or teach live: zoom with the mouse wheel, pan with the space bar or a middle-drag, and use align, distribute and z-order to keep a busy board readable on the big screen.

4

Everything autosaves to your browser as you go, so leaving fullscreen or closing the tab never loses the board — bookmark the /board app and it reopens exactly where you left off.

5

Export the result as PNG, SVG, PDF or a re-editable JSON scene, or copy straight to the clipboard as a PNG to paste into your slides, chat or lesson notes.

Features

True Edge-to-Edge Fullscreen

One button uses the browser Fullscreen API to hide every tab, toolbar and notification, so the canvas becomes the whole screen. Ideal for projectors, shared screens and touch displays where every pixel counts.

Instant, Bookmarkable Board App

A dedicated full-screen workspace opens straight into the canvas with the pen already selected — no menus, no setup. Bookmark it and your autosaved board is restored the moment it loads.

Vector Drawing Built for the Big Screen

Freehand strokes, arrows, elbow connectors, sticky notes and text are all smooth vector objects you can move, rotate, align and re-color — so a diagram stays crisp whether it is on a phone or a wall-sized display.

Present, Teach & Export Without Uploads

Zoom, pan and reveal ideas live, then export to PNG, SVG, PDF or JSON, or copy a PNG to the clipboard. Every action happens in your browser — nothing about your board is ever sent to a server.

Why Choose This Tool?

Your Board Stays on Your Screen, and Only Your Screen

Fullscreen makes a whiteboard feel public — it is often on a projector or a shared call — but the data behind it never leaves your machine. Every stroke, shape and export is produced locally on the HTML canvas, with nothing uploaded and no account attached. What the room sees is only what you choose to show; the file itself is yours alone, autosaved on your own device.

Zero Friction Between You and a Full Canvas

The dedicated board app opens directly into an edge-to-edge canvas with the pen ready, so there is no dashboard to cross and no document to name before you can draw. That instant start matters most in the moments a fullscreen board is for — a class about to begin, a point to make mid-meeting, an idea to catch before it fades. Bookmark it once and a full screen of blank canvas is always one click away.

Focus, Presenting and Teaching in One Tool

The same board serves a solo thinker who wants no distractions, a presenter annotating live on a shared screen, and a teacher working through a problem for a remote class. Large touch targets suit interactive displays and kiosks, smooth vector strokes read cleanly when projected, and zoom and pan let you move around a big idea without shrinking it. It adapts to the screen instead of forcing the screen to adapt to it.

Continuity You Can Rely On

Because the board autosaves to your browser after every change, leaving fullscreen, switching monitors or closing the tab never costs you the work. Return to the bookmarked app and the board is exactly as you left it. When something is worth keeping beyond this device, export a JSON scene to reopen later, or a PNG, SVG or PDF to share — the board is never trapped inside one session.

The Full-Screen Whiteboard: Presenting, Teaching and Focused Work Without Distractions

A whiteboard changes character the moment it fills the screen. Shrunk into a window beside a dozen tabs, it is a note-taking corner; expanded edge to edge, it becomes a stage — the surface everyone in the room, or on the call, is looking at. This page is about that second mode: how a browser turns a drawing canvas into a full-screen workspace, why an instant-start board matters for presenting and teaching, and how your work survives across sessions and screens without ever being uploaded. If you want the deeper mechanics of the drawing engine itself, the general online whiteboard page covers how shapes, smoothing and exports work; here the focus is the full-screen experience built on top of it.

How Full-Screen Mode Actually Works

Full-screen is not just a maximized window. Browsers expose the Fullscreen API, which lets a page ask the operating system to promote a single element — here, the whiteboard canvas — to occupy the entire display, hiding the address bar, tabs, taskbar and other chrome. When you press the fullscreen button, the tool requests fullscreen on the canvas container; the browser takes over the screen, the canvas resizes to the new viewport, and pressing Escape returns you to the normal page. Because it is a genuine OS-level mode, notifications and window borders step out of the way, which is exactly what you want when the board is on a projector or being shared over a call.

The Instant-Start Board App

Alongside the in-page fullscreen button, there is a dedicated, bookmarkable workspace at /board that opens straight into the canvas with the pen already selected. There is no landing screen, no "create new document" step, and no menu to cross — the page loads and you are drawing. This architecture exists because the value of a whiteboard is highest in the first few seconds of an idea, and a class or a meeting rarely waits. Bookmark the app, put it on a second monitor or a classroom display, and a full screen of blank canvas is permanently one click away. On return, it quietly restores the board you were last working on.

Presenting and Screen-Sharing

On a shared screen, a full-screen board becomes a live thinking surface. You can annotate over a diagram as you talk, draw an arrow to the thing you are describing, or build a sketch step by step so the audience follows the reasoning rather than a finished slide. Smooth vector strokes stay crisp when projected or compressed by a video call, and because shapes are real objects you can nudge, rotate, align and re-color them mid-presentation without redrawing. Mouse-wheel zoom and space-bar panning let you move between the big picture and a detail without ever leaving the canvas — a far more fluid way to present an evolving idea than clicking through static slides.

Teaching, Tutoring and the Classroom

For teachers and online tutors, the full-screen canvas is the closest digital equivalent to a physical board. Work a maths problem out line by line, sketch a diagram a textbook only shows finished, or annotate a shared document while a remote class watches. Large, touch-friendly controls make it comfortable on an interactive display or tablet, and the board announces its active tool and state changes to assistive technology through aria-live regions and status roles, so the tool itself does not become a barrier. When the lesson ends, export the board as a PDF or PNG and hand it to students as notes — the exact board they saw, not a reconstruction.

Kiosks, Touchscreens and Second Monitors

Full-screen also fits fixed and multi-screen setups. On a kiosk or a wall-mounted interactive display, hiding the browser chrome turns a web page into what feels like a dedicated app, and the large targets and pointer-event handling make finger drawing natural. In a dual-monitor workflow, the bookmarked board can live permanently full-screen on a second display — a persistent scratch surface you glance at and draw on while your main work stays on the primary monitor. Because it restores from autosave, that second-screen board keeps its contents between sessions without any manual saving.

Continuity: Autosave, Then Export

None of this focus is useful if the work is fragile, so the board debounces a copy of the current scene into your browser's local storage after each change. Entering or leaving fullscreen, moving to another monitor, or closing the tab does not discard anything — the bookmarked board app reopens with your last scene intact. That autosave is device-local and private, so for anything you need beyond this browser you export: a JSON scene to reopen and keep editing, a lossless SVG, a print-ready PNG or PDF at screen, 2× or 300 DPI A4/A3, or a quick copy to the clipboard as a PNG to paste into slides or chat. The board is a place to think in full screen, and the export step is how that thinking travels.

When a Full-Screen Board Is the Right Tool

  • Use fullscreen mode whenever the board is the thing to look at — presenting, teaching, or working without the pull of other tabs.
  • Bookmark the instant board app for the moments that will not wait: a class, a call, a fleeting idea.
  • Reach for zoom and pan to present a large diagram in pieces instead of shrinking it to fit.
  • Lean on autosave for continuity, and export (JSON to keep editing, PDF/PNG to hand out) when the work needs to outlive the session.

Frequently Asked Questions

What makes this different from the regular whiteboard?

It is the same drawing engine, framed for full-screen use. This page and the dedicated /board app are built to fill the screen edge to edge and start instantly, which suits presenting, teaching, kiosks and second-monitor setups. If you mainly want the drawing tools in a normal page, the general online whiteboard covers the same shapes, strokes and exports.

How do I make the whiteboard fill my whole screen?

Press the fullscreen button in the toolbar. It uses the browser's Fullscreen API to expand the canvas over the entire display and hide tabs, the address bar and other chrome. Press Escape to return to the normal page. You can also open the dedicated /board app, which is designed to run full-screen from the moment it loads.

Is the board uploaded or shared to a server when I present it?

No. Even in fullscreen or when screen-sharing, everything is drawn locally in your browser on the HTML canvas. Your audience sees your screen, but the board data itself is never uploaded, never stored on a server, and never tied to an account. The only saved copy is the private autosave in your own browser.

Will my board still be there after I leave fullscreen or close the tab?

Yes. The board autosaves to your browser's local storage after every change, so exiting fullscreen, switching monitors or closing the tab does not lose your work. Reopen the bookmarked /board app and it restores your last scene. For a permanent copy, export a JSON scene, or a PNG, SVG or PDF.

Can I use it on a touchscreen or interactive display?

Yes. The board uses pointer events, so a finger, stylus, mouse or trackpad all work, and the controls are large touch-friendly targets that suit kiosks and wall-mounted displays. Full-screen mode hides the browser chrome, so the page behaves much like a dedicated drawing app on the display.

What can I draw and edit on it?

Freehand pen and highlighter strokes plus a full set of auto-shapes — rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, line, arrow, elbow connector, block arrow, triangle and diamond — as well as text, sticky notes and imported images. Everything is a vector object you can select, move, rotate, resize, align, distribute, re-color and reorder, so a board stays editable while you present.

Does it work well for teaching a live or remote class?

Yes. Full-screen gives you a clean stage to work through problems step by step, and zoom and pan let you move between an overview and a detail without leaving the canvas. It announces its active tool and state changes to screen readers, and you can export the finished board as a PDF or PNG to share with students as notes.

How do I export what I drew during a presentation?

Export to PNG or PDF (at screen, 2×, or 300 DPI A4/A3), to SVG for a lossless vector, or to a JSON scene you can reopen and keep editing. You can also copy the board straight to the clipboard as a PNG to paste into slides, a chat or a document. Exports are generated locally and sized by a memory-safe engine.

Do I need an account or an internet connection?

No account, ever. After the page loads, drawing, presenting and exporting all happen locally, so the board keeps working even if your connection drops mid-class or mid-meeting. Nothing about your board is sent anywhere.

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