The whiteboard AI summary app.
BoardSnap generates an AI summary of any whiteboard — structured by topic, written in plain language, ready to share. Snap the board with your iPhone and the summary arrives in seconds. No transcription, no cleanup, no second step.
What makes a whiteboard summary good
The bar for a good whiteboard summary is higher than it looks. It needs to:
- Capture what the session decided, not just what was written
- Use language the team recognizes and will act on
- Be short enough to skim and complete enough to replace the original board
- Arrive fast enough to matter — not the next day
BoardSnap AI is optimized for all four. The output isn't a list of words it found on the board. It's a structured document that answers "what happened in this session and what needs to happen next."
Summary in ten seconds — how that's possible
Speed comes from parallelism. The moment you tap the shutter:
On-device: Apple VisionKit corrects perspective and runs OCR — character and word recognition on the iPhone's Neural Engine. This step happens before the image uploads.
In the cloud: The recognized text with spatial metadata goes to BoardSnap AI. The model identifies structure, extracts decisions and tasks, and generates the summary in a few seconds.
Back to your phone: The summary appears in your Project, linked to the board, with the original image attached.
The whole sequence completes before you've put the phone back in your pocket.
Project context makes every summary better
A summary written without context is generic. A summary written with project context is specific, actionable, and sounds like it came from someone who knows the work.
Boards in a BoardSnap Project inherit the Project's brand voice, pinned notes, and prior board history. When BoardSnap AI summarizes board twelve of a sprint, it knows what the sprint is, what was decided on board one, and what's been in-progress since board seven.
For founders and consultants, this means summaries that use your client's terminology. For product teams, it means summaries that reference your actual sprint goals and technical constraints.
After the summary: AI chat about the board
Pro users can open a chat window on any board and ask questions directly. "What was the reasoning behind the auth decision?" "Which items from this board were marked done?" "Summarize only the items related to the API."
BoardSnap AI answers from the board's content. The chat is scoped — it knows the board you're looking at, the Project it belongs to, and the pinned context notes you've attached to the Project.
This is different from asking ChatGPT with a photo pasted in. The context is persistent. The history is preserved. The conversation builds on itself.
Share the summary, not the photo
A photo of a whiteboard is not documentation. It's a raw artifact — useful only to people who were in the room and can decode what the arrows mean.
A BoardSnap summary is documentation. It stands on its own. Share it with someone who wasn't in the meeting and they understand what happened, what was decided, and what needs to happen next.
Copy as text. Paste into Slack, Notion, email, or Linear. Two taps, clean output, no reformatting.
Frequently asked
How does BoardSnap AI know what to include in the summary?
BoardSnap AI analyzes the full board content and identifies the key themes, decisions, and action items. It's trained to distinguish signal from noise — completed items, crossed-out ideas, and margin notes are weighted differently from primary content.
Can I regenerate a summary if the first one isn't right?
Yes. You can regenerate the summary with additional context or instructions. You can also edit the summary directly — every field is editable inline.
What's the difference between the summary and the action items?
The summary is a prose description of the session's content and decisions. The action items are a structured, tri-state task list extracted from the board. Both are generated together from the same snap.
How long is the summary?
BoardSnap calibrates summary length to board complexity. Simple boards produce concise summaries — one or two paragraphs. Complex planning boards produce longer, sectioned summaries. You can always trim or expand in editing.
Does BoardSnap summarize digital whiteboard screenshots?
Yes. BoardSnap can analyze any whiteboard image — physical boards, digital whiteboard screenshots (Miro, FigJam, Jamboard exports), and notebook pages. The scanning workflow is optimized for physical boards, but the AI reads any image.
Your whiteboard summary, in ten seconds.
Download BoardSnap. The first 30 boards are free — summaries and action items included.