For Teachers

For teachers who teach at the board and want students to actually learn.

BoardSnap is an iOS app that turns a whiteboard photo into a structured summary in ten seconds. For teachers, that means the lesson you taught on the board becomes a clean set of student notes before the next class walks in — no re-typing, no blurry phone photos, no 'can you send me the notes?' emails.

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

What hurts today

  • Students photograph the board at the end of class — blurry, skewed, and missing the last five minutes of content — and that photo becomes their study material
  • Absent students have no way to get the board content that was actually taught — they get a classmate's notes instead
  • You erase the board between classes and lose the lesson content that should have become a study resource
  • Lesson recaps that would help students study take time to write that you don't have between periods
  • Complex diagrams — science concepts, grammar structures, math proofs — are impossible to reconstruct from a bad photo
  • Students who need accommodations for note-taking struggle with whiteboard-heavy lessons unless there's a reliable capture system

How BoardSnap helps

  • Snap the board at the end of class and students get a clean, structured lesson summary — content organized, key terms highlighted, core concepts readable — before they leave the room
  • Absent students get the same quality lesson capture as students who were there — an actual summary, not a classmate's interpretation
  • Complex diagrams — DNA replication, sentence diagrams, geometric proofs — get described in structured written summaries that students can study from
  • Lesson content accumulates in a project per class or unit — students can search the full course board history at exam time
  • Teachers who use visual teaching heavily build an accessible lesson archive that supports differentiated instruction
  • Brand-aware AI can be calibrated to your school's curriculum language — your unit vocabulary, your subject area's terminology

A day with BoardSnap

  1. Lesson close

    Cap the marker and snap the board before the bell rings. BoardSnap produces a structured lesson summary — key concepts, supporting details, definitions, and any examples used. Share it to your LMS or classroom site before the next class starts.

  2. Complex concept explanation

    You've drawn a detailed diagram — a cell diagram, a supply-demand curve, a narrative arc chart. Snap at the moment it's complete. BoardSnap produces a written description of the concept and the diagram's key components — the kind of explanation that supports visual and verbal learners both.

  3. Review session

    Build the review outline on the board — key terms, concepts, likely exam questions. Snap. BoardSnap produces a structured study guide that students receive before they start studying — organized and complete.

  4. Discussion capture

    Capture the key points, examples, and student contributions from a Socratic discussion that you've been tracking on the board. Snap. Students see a structured discussion summary — the class thinking, not just the teacher's notes.

  5. Exit ticket analysis

    Map the class's exit ticket responses on the board — what they got, what they missed, what needs re-teaching. Snap for your personal planning. The structured summary informs tomorrow's lesson design.

Features that matter for teachers

Diagram and content reading

BoardSnap AI reads complex educational diagrams — labeled diagrams, concept maps, mathematical structures, timeline charts. It produces written descriptions of the visual content that supplement the written text on the board.

Projects per class or unit

One project per course or unit. Every lesson board lives in the project — students have a searchable lesson archive for exam review. Free plan covers one course; Pro unlocks multiple classes.

Brand-aware AI

Paste your curriculum unit page or your course overview URL. BoardSnap AI learns the subject vocabulary, the unit concepts, and the course framing — lesson summaries use the correct subject-area terminology.

Offline queue

School WiFi is famously unreliable. BoardSnap queues the capture on-device and processes when signal returns — the lesson gets documented regardless of the network state at the time of capture.

Accessibility support

The clean written summary supports students who need text-based notes — including students with IEP or 504 accommodations for visual processing, attention, or note-taking support. The board becomes readable content, not just a visual artifact.

Frequently asked

Can students access the BoardSnap summaries directly?

The teacher captures and controls the content. You copy the summary text and share it through your classroom LMS, Google Classroom, Schoology, or a class website — the method you already use for student materials. BoardSnap produces the content; you distribute it through your existing channel.

Does it work for math notation and equations on the whiteboard?

BoardSnap AI reads mathematical notation — equations, variables, geometric figures with labels — reasonably well. For complex derivations, the symbolic content reads best when paired with clear verbal annotations on the board (step labels, 'because' annotations, conclusion markers). Mixed boards with clear text context produce better math output than pure equation boards.

Can it help with IEP and 504 note-taking accommodations?

Yes — the clean written summary from a BoardSnap capture is a reliable text alternative to whiteboard content. Teachers who are required to provide note-taking support can use BoardSnap to systematize the board content capture and make it available to students who need text-based materials.

Is it useful for review and exam prep?

Yes — create a project per unit. Every lesson board accumulates in the project. When exam time comes, the project's board history is the study archive. Students (or teachers) can review the structured summaries from every lesson in the unit in one organized place.

Does BoardSnap work for classes taught in languages other than English?

BoardSnap AI reads whiteboard content in multiple languages. For non-English language classes or bilingual instruction, the AI reads the language on the board and produces summaries in that language.

Built for teachers who ship.

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

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