BoardSnap is an iOS app that turns the technical thinking happening on your whiteboard — system diagrams, product debates, incident timelines — into a structured action plan before anyone leaves the room.
Technology companies think visually. System designs start as boxes and arrows on a whiteboard. Product strategy gets mapped across swim lanes. Incident postmortems walk through timelines on a six-foot board. The whiteboard is where the technical thinking happens — and losing that output to a photo graveyard is a productivity tax every engineering org pays.
BoardSnap is built for technical content. It reads diagrams, arrows, and annotated flows — not just bullets and text. VisionKit corrects for the perspective distortion you get when you're snapping a large system diagram from the side. And the AI summary doesn't just transcribe: it extracts the structure — the components, the dependencies, the open questions marked with question marks — and returns it as something you can act on.
For technology organizations running multiple squads, Projects keep the output organized. One project per service team, one per product area, one per incident-response tier. Each project builds its own context over time. Pin the architectural principles once and every future board snap runs against them.
Services, queues, databases, and CDNs sketched across a board. Snap it. BoardSnap AI identifies components, relationships, and decision points — producing a written summary of the design that becomes the first draft of your design doc.
During a live incident, the team maps the timeline on a whiteboard: what broke, when, what was tried, what's still unknown. Snap it regularly. The board becomes the incident log — and the postmortem draft writes itself from the final snap.
Quarterly engineering priorities laid out on a board: bets, dependencies, resourcing. Snap it and create a project that tracks how the plan evolves across every subsequent planning session.
List every major tech debt item, vote on priority, draw the dependency arrows. Snap the board. BoardSnap AI reads the prioritization structure and returns an ordered list with the key rationale for each decision.
Draw the proposed architecture, mark the risks, note the alternative considered and rejected. Snap before the review meeting. The summary becomes the pre-read — and a second snap after the review captures what changed.
BoardSnap AI reads system diagrams with boxes, labeled arrows, and annotations — it extracts the described structure in prose and action-item form rather than reproducing the diagram as a vector. Think of it as a written summary of what the diagram shows, not a digital replica.
Snap section by section for complex boards, then use multiple snaps in the same project. The project's pinned context ties them together. Or snap the full board from a distance — VisionKit handles wide captures well as long as the text is reasonably legible.
BoardSnap is purpose-built for physical whiteboards. For Miro or FigJam boards, your best capture path is Miro's own export or screenshot tools. BoardSnap's value is in the physical-to-digital translation step.
Not via a native integration today. The workflow is: snap, copy the summary output, paste into Confluence, Notion, or your doc system of choice. Direct integrations are on the roadmap.
The offline queue means BoardSnap captures the board even with no network. The snap is stored on-device and synced when you're back online — no lost boards because the basement server room has no signal.
Snap a board. Get a clean summary and action plan tied to your team.