For Designers

For designers who sketch first and document later — or never.

BoardSnap is an iOS app that turns a whiteboard photo into a structured summary and action plan in ten seconds. For designers, that means design critiques, concept sessions, and art direction discussions stop living only in the room where they happened.

Download on the App Store Free to start. Pro from $9.99/mo or $69.99/yr.

What hurts today

Design critique sessions produce great feedback that evaporates — someone mentions a hierarchy issue and it never makes it into the revision list
Moodboard and art direction sessions on the whiteboard generate ideas nobody captures cleanly enough to act on
Concept sketches on whiteboards disappear before the dev handoff doc gets written
Client feedback sessions involve a lot of drawing on boards — and then a lot of re-describing the same feedback in a follow-up email
Design system decisions made in a room don't become ADRs or design tokens — they become institutional knowledge that walks out when someone quits
The gap between a great ideation session and an actual design brief is where good ideas die

How BoardSnap helps

Snap a design critique board and get a structured list of feedback items with open/in-progress/resolved status — the revision list writes itself
Art direction sessions produce a written brief that captures tone, visual reference categories, and directional decisions — not just a photo of someone's sketches
Concept exploration whiteboards become shareable summaries you can send to developers before the Figma file exists
Client whiteboard sessions produce a clean written summary you can include in the follow-up email — no re-typing required
Design system discussions capture the 'why' behind token and component decisions so future designers understand the rationale
Brand-aware AI writes summaries in your studio's language — your visual vocabulary, your client's brand terms, not generic design-speak

A day with BoardSnap

Design critique
Write the design question on the board. Collect feedback as sketched annotations and written bullets. Snap at the end. BoardSnap produces a categorized feedback list with revision items flagged as open — ready for your Notion or Linear.
Art direction session
Sketch visual directions, reference categories, mood words, and typography choices on the board. Snap. The summary captures the directional decisions and generates a brief-style action list: assets to source, directions to explore, decisions still open.
Client kick-off
Walk the client through the design challenges on the board. Snap before they leave. The clean written summary becomes the project brief baseline — and the client gets a structured record of what they said they wanted.
Design system session
Map component relationships, spacing rules, or token decisions on the board. Snap. BoardSnap captures the rationale as a structured summary — future you (or your replacement) will thank you.
Concept presentation prep
Sketch the three concepts you're about to present. Snap each one separately. Use the summaries to draft the concept presentation narrative before building the slides.

Features that matter for designers

Sketch-aware AI

BoardSnap AI reads rough sketches, annotated layouts, and diagram-style boards — not just clean text lists. It interprets spatial relationships and annotations to produce descriptions that capture design intent, not just words.

Brand-aware AI

Paste your studio site or your client's brand URL. BoardSnap AI learns the visual language, the brand vocabulary, and the project framing — so summaries sound like they were written by someone who actually knows the client.

Projects per client

Each client gets its own project. All their whiteboard sessions, critique notes, and art direction discussions stay scoped — no mixing your enterprise SaaS client's design language with your consumer brand work.

Pinned context

Pin the design brief, the brand guidelines, or the design system principles. Every future board chat already knows the constraints and the goals — so the AI's follow-up answers are grounded in the actual project.

Tri-state action items

Revision items, assets to source, decisions to resolve. Open / in-progress / done. BoardSnap tracks the design work pipeline the same way your PM tool tracks engineering — with subtasks for complex items.

Frequently asked

Can BoardSnap read rough sketches and concept thumbnails?

BoardSnap AI is trained to interpret whiteboard content including rough sketches, annotated layouts, arrows, and diagram-style drawings. It produces a written description of the visual intent and a structured action list — it won't reproduce the sketch, but it captures what the sketch was communicating.

How does it handle a mixed board — some text, some drawings?

Mixed boards are the norm, and BoardSnap handles them well. It reads the text, interprets the sketches, and produces an integrated summary that describes both the written ideas and the visual structure of the board.

Can I keep client boards separate from internal design work?

Yes — use separate Projects. Each project has its own board history, brand context, and pinned notes. Free plan includes one project; Pro unlocks unlimited, which is how most designers running client work use it.

Is BoardSnap useful for remote design teams?

Designers in the room snap the board; remote collaborators get the structured summary immediately. BoardSnap AI chat lets remote designers ask questions against the board content — useful for critique sessions with distributed teams.

Does BoardSnap work for moodboard-style sessions where it's mostly reference images and keywords?

Yes. For sessions heavy on keywords, visual direction language, and reference categories, BoardSnap AI picks up the directional vocabulary and produces a written art direction brief. The richer the verbal content alongside the sketches, the richer the output.

Built for designers who ship.

Snap a whiteboard. Ship the action plan. In ten seconds.

Download on the App Store

Free · 1 project, 30 boards Pro $9.99/mo · everything unlimited Pro $69.99/yr · save 42%