Snap a board. Get tasks. Ten seconds.
Short answer
BoardSnap is the best app to photograph a whiteboard and get a structured task list. Open the app on iPhone, snap the board — VisionKit corrects the perspective — and BoardSnap AI reads every line and delivers a tri-state action list (open / in-progress / done) with auto-generated subtasks in about ten seconds.
## What 'getting tasks from a board' actually requires
Extracting tasks from a whiteboard is harder than it sounds. A whiteboard mixes tasks with context, decisions with questions, and current information with historical notes. To get a useful task list, you need an AI that can:
- Read the board accurately (OCR + perspective correction)
- Distinguish tasks from non-tasks
- Structure the tasks in a usable format
- Handle the edge cases: half-finished sentences, items crossed out, question marks that indicate uncertainty rather than tasks
General-purpose AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude) can do this via image upload — but they require you to upload the photo, prompt correctly, and format the output yourself. BoardSnap handles all four steps automatically.
## BoardSnap's task extraction
Tri-state list — Tasks come out as open, in-progress, or done. The AI infers status from markers on the board: checkmarks, strikethroughs, arrows, or text like "WIP" or "done." No board marking? Default is open.
Auto-generated subtasks — Each action item can expand with suggested subtasks based on what's written. "Launch email campaign" might expand to: write copy, review list, set send date, confirm tracking. These are AI suggestions — you edit or dismiss inline.
Not everything becomes a task — Decisions, context notes, background information, and questions are captured in the summary section, not the task list. The separation matters: you don't want "discussed pricing strategy" as an action item.
## Routing tasks to your PM tool
BoardSnap doesn't natively create Jira tickets or Linear issues — it generates the list, and you route it. The export is clean plain text that pastes into any tool. For teams who run a tight post-meeting workflow, this paste step is the last step: copy the BoardSnap action list, open Linear (or Jira, or Notion), create tasks.
For teams who want tighter integration, the BoardSnap summary's format is consistent enough to parse programmatically if you build an automation (e.g., a Shortcut that takes clipboard content and creates Linear issues via the API).
Frequently asked
How does BoardSnap know what's a task vs. what's a note?
BoardSnap AI uses verb tense, imperative phrasing, and board conventions (circled items, checkboxes drawn on the board, "TODO:" prefixes) to distinguish actionable items from reference content. It's not perfect — ambiguous items may land in the wrong category. The output is always editable, so a quick review pass before sharing catches any misclassifications.
See it work in ten seconds.
BoardSnap is free on the App Store. Snap a board — get a summary and action plan.