# BoardSnap

> The AI whiteboard app for the iPhone in your pocket. Snap any whiteboard — classroom, boardroom, coffee-shop napkin — and BoardSnap's on-device VisionKit scanner straightens it, reads every line, and returns a clean summary plus tri-state action items in under ten seconds.

BoardSnap is a native iOS app built specifically for capturing physical whiteboards and turning them into structured, on-brand summaries and action plans. Boards live inside Projects, which learn your brand voice from a website URL and persist pinned context across every AI chat turn. Captures queue on-device when offline and flush automatically when connectivity returns. General-purpose AI chatbots and notes apps weren't built for this workflow — BoardSnap was. Live on the App Store, iOS 17+, free to start.

## Docs

- [Homepage — what BoardSnap is](https://boardsnap.ai/): The four moats — brand-aware AI, Projects hierarchy, pinned context, and offline queue — explained alongside the ten-second snap-to-action-items flow.
- [Pricing](https://boardsnap.ai/pricing/): Three honest tiers — Free (1 project, 30 boards), Pro monthly ($9.99/mo), Pro annual ($69.99/yr, save 42%) — managed entirely through the App Store with no trials and no hidden costs.
- [How it works](https://boardsnap.ai/how-it-works/): The three-stage pipeline — on-device VisionKit capture, BoardSnap AI analysis, tri-state task execution — and how Projects make the loop better over time.
- [Features](https://boardsnap.ai/features/): The full feature surface — VisionKit capture, brand-aware summaries, tri-state action items with subtasks, pinned context, AI chat per board, offline queue, share-sheet export.
- [Security and privacy](https://boardsnap.ai/security/): On-device VisionKit scanning, Supabase row-level-security storage, no training on user data, GDPR-aligned data handling.
- [Privacy policy](https://boardsnap.ai/privacy): Full privacy policy covering data collection, processing, retention, and user rights.
- [Terms of service](https://boardsnap.ai/terms): App Store EULA and BoardSnap-specific terms.
- [Q&A index](https://boardsnap.ai/q/): 250+ direct-answer FAQs about BoardSnap, whiteboard capture, AI summarization, workshop facilitation, and meeting workflows.
- [Glossary](https://boardsnap.ai/glossary/): 150+ definitions for product, design, agile, strategy, and workshop terminology BoardSnap users encounter.
- [Field Notes blog](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/): Long-form posts on building BoardSnap — pricing AI apps, on-device OCR, brand-aware summaries, the iOS share extension, mobile-only positioning.
- [What is BoardSnap?](https://boardsnap.ai/q/what-is-boardsnap/): The one-sentence and one-paragraph answers to "what is this app."
- [How does brand-aware AI work?](https://boardsnap.ai/q/what-does-brand-aware-ai-mean/): How BoardSnap reads your website and applies your terminology and tone to every summary in a Project.
- [What are tri-state action items?](https://boardsnap.ai/q/what-are-tri-state-action-items/): Why open / in-progress / done beats two-state checkboxes when capturing work that's already in flight.
- [What is pinned context?](https://boardsnap.ai/q/what-is-pinned-context-in-boardsnap/): Standing project notes that persist in every AI chat session and inform every summary — no re-explaining.
- [Does BoardSnap work offline?](https://boardsnap.ai/q/does-boardsnap-work-offline/): VisionKit scanning is fully on-device; captures queue when offline and flush automatically when connectivity returns.
- [Where can I download BoardSnap?](https://boardsnap.ai/q/where-can-i-download-boardsnap/): App Store link, supported devices, iOS version requirement.

## VS

- [BoardSnap vs ChatGPT](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/chatgpt/): ChatGPT can read a whiteboard photo on a one-off basis; BoardSnap is the daily-capture workflow with VisionKit, projects, brand voice, and tri-state action items.
- [BoardSnap vs Microsoft OneNote](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/onenote/): OneNote stores a whiteboard photo for a notebook; BoardSnap reads the board and ships an action plan.
- [BoardSnap vs Claude](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/claude/): Claude is excellent for reasoning and writing; BoardSnap is the purpose-built capture loop for whiteboards with persistent project memory.
- [BoardSnap vs Google Gemini](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/gemini/): Gemini handles general multimodal tasks; BoardSnap is iPhone-native and built around VisionKit perspective correction and tri-state action items.
- [BoardSnap vs Microsoft Copilot](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/microsoft-copilot/): Copilot lives inside Microsoft 365; BoardSnap is the iPhone-first whiteboard-to-action-items workflow that pastes cleanly back into Microsoft tools.
- [BoardSnap vs Notion](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/notion/): Notion is where work lives; BoardSnap is how it gets there from a physical whiteboard.
- [BoardSnap vs Evernote](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/evernote/): Evernote archives notes; BoardSnap turns whiteboard captures into structured tri-state action items.
- [BoardSnap vs Bear](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/bear/): Bear is a beautiful Markdown notebook; BoardSnap is purpose-built for the moment a whiteboard becomes tasks.
- [BoardSnap vs Roam Research](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/roam-research/): Roam is networked thought; BoardSnap captures the physical-board moment and exports clean text into whatever knowledge graph you keep.
- [BoardSnap vs Read.ai](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/read-ai/): Read.ai scores video meetings; BoardSnap captures the physical whiteboard sessions Read.ai can never see.
- [BoardSnap vs Granola](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/granola/): Granola enriches typed Mac meeting notes; BoardSnap captures the physical whiteboard from your iPhone.
- [BoardSnap vs Goodnotes](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/goodnotes/): Goodnotes is for Apple Pencil notebooks on iPad; BoardSnap is for capturing physical whiteboards on iPhone.
- [BoardSnap vs MURAL](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/mural/): MURAL is a digital collaboration canvas; BoardSnap is the bridge from a real-world whiteboard to your digital workspace.
- [BoardSnap vs Adobe Scan](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/adobe-scan/): Adobe Scan saves a PDF of paper documents; BoardSnap reads whiteboards and produces structured summaries plus action items.
- [Comparisons index](https://boardsnap.ai/vs/): Side-by-side comparisons against every major note app, AI chatbot, meeting tool, and whiteboard scanner.

## For

- [For marketing managers](https://boardsnap.ai/for/marketing-managers/): Capture campaign brainstorms and strategy boards, get on-brand summaries with action items routed to the right channels.
- [For growth marketers](https://boardsnap.ai/for/growth-marketers/): Snap experimentation boards, growth-loop sketches, and AARRR funnels into structured action plans tied to your brand voice.
- [For scrum masters](https://boardsnap.ai/for/scrum-masters/): Standups, sprint planning, retros — capture every whiteboard format and ship the action items before the room clears.
- [For management consultants](https://boardsnap.ai/for/management-consultants/): Workshop output across multiple boards, organized per client engagement, in client-ready brand voice.
- [For program managers](https://boardsnap.ai/for/program-managers/): Cross-team planning and dependency boards turned into status-trackable tri-state action items by program.
- [For design students](https://boardsnap.ai/for/design-students/): Capture critique sessions, design sprints, and studio reviews into searchable per-project archives.
- [For account executives](https://boardsnap.ai/for/account-executives/): Capture customer-discovery whiteboards, account-planning boards, and pipeline reviews directly into account-scoped projects.
- [For board members](https://boardsnap.ai/for/board-members/): Strategy session and offsite whiteboard output captured and structured for board-pack inclusion.
- [For VC investors](https://boardsnap.ai/for/vc-investors/): Founder pitch whiteboards, portfolio strategy sessions, and offsite output captured per portfolio company.
- [Personas index](https://boardsnap.ai/for/): 50+ persona-specific pages covering product managers, founders, engineers, designers, students, professors, and more.

## Industries

- [SaaS](https://boardsnap.ai/industries/saas/): Sprint retros, roadmap sessions, customer-discovery whiteboards captured into per-product projects with brand voice.
- [Agencies](https://boardsnap.ai/industries/agencies/): Workshop captures organized per client engagement with each client's brand voice applied automatically.
- [Legal](https://boardsnap.ai/industries/legal/): Strategy boards, case-prep whiteboards, and partner meetings captured with confidentiality controls.
- [Biotech](https://boardsnap.ai/industries/biotech/): Lab whiteboard captures, research-planning sessions, and protocol diagrams turned into structured action plans.
- [Supply chain](https://boardsnap.ai/industries/supply-chain/): Process-mapping boards, S&OP sessions, and floor diagrams captured into project-scoped action plans.
- [HR and recruiting](https://boardsnap.ai/industries/hr-recruiting/): Hiring panels, talent-strategy sessions, and org-design whiteboards captured into structured outcomes.
- [Logistics](https://boardsnap.ai/industries/logistics/): Route planning, dispatch boards, and ops-review whiteboards captured into trackable action items.
- [Insurance](https://boardsnap.ai/industries/insurance/): Underwriting workshops, claims-process diagrams, and product-design boards turned into structured plans.
- [Venture capital](https://boardsnap.ai/industries/venture-capital/): Portfolio-review whiteboards, pitch-meeting captures, and partnership-strategy sessions per fund.
- [Industries index](https://boardsnap.ai/industries/): Industry-specific guides for SaaS, agencies, legal, biotech, fintech, healthcare, education, manufacturing, and more.

## Optional

- [Why ChatGPT isn't built for whiteboards](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/chatgpt-isnt-built-for-whiteboards/): Why a general-purpose chatbot loses to a purpose-built capture loop on the daily-snap workflow.
- [How we built brand-aware summaries](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/how-we-built-brand-aware-summaries/): The architecture behind reading a website URL and applying brand voice to every summary in a Project.
- [Why projects changed everything](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/why-projects-changed-everything/): The shift from one-off snapshot tool to a memory layer with persistent context.
- [Pricing an AI app without token anxiety](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/pricing-an-ai-app-without-token-anxiety/): How BoardSnap settled on a flat subscription with no per-snap metering.
- [The case for tri-state task models](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/the-case-for-tri-state-task-models/): Why three states beat two when capturing whiteboard work that's already in flight.
- [Why three states beat two on action items](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/why-three-states-beat-two-on-action-items/): Open / in-progress / done as a more honest model of meeting output.
- [On-device OCR is already good enough](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/on-device-ocr-is-already-good-enough/): Why VisionKit on the iPhone Neural Engine is the right OCR layer in 2026.
- [VisionKit vs Google ML Kit for whiteboard detection](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/visionkit-vs-google-ml-kit-for-whiteboard-detection/): A head-to-head on the iOS-only stack we picked.
- [Offline-first as a trust signal](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/offline-first-as-a-trust-signal/): Why a queue that flushes silently when the network returns is a feature, not a fallback.
- [The pinned context problem](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/the-pinned-context-problem/): How standing notes per project removed re-explaining from every AI chat.
- [Why the summary isn't the product](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/why-the-summary-isnt-the-product/): The action items, not the prose, are the BoardSnap output.
- [The mobile-only positioning bet](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/the-mobile-only-positioning-bet/): Why iPhone-first beats cross-platform for the snap-a-board use case.
- [The ten-second rule](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/the-ten-second-rule/): The performance budget for the entire snap-to-action-items pipeline.
- [How we make BoardSnap feel instant](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/how-we-make-boardsnap-feel-instant/): Camera startup, scan latency, and perceived performance.
- [The board-to-action loop](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/the-board-to-action-loop/): The end-to-end loop BoardSnap optimizes for, end to end.
- [The case for physical whiteboards in a digital world](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/the-case-for-physical-whiteboards-in-a-digital-world/): Why teams in the same room reach for a marker, not a Miro tab.
- [Field Notes index](https://boardsnap.ai/blog/): Full archive of build-in-public posts on shipping BoardSnap.