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Doodlebay
A free, minimal Windows drawing app built on the open-source Excalidraw editor. Your drawings stay as ordinary .excalidraw files on your disk. No account, no cloud, no subscription.
WindowsFree and open sourceMIT licence
What's inside
The whole Excalidraw editor
Shapes, arrows, freehand, text, images, frames, the library, Mermaid text-to-diagram, export to PNG and SVG. Works offline.
GIFs and videos
A GIF keeps playing on the board. Drop in a video and it plays there too, muted to start.
Search all drawings
Find words in text, frame names and file names across every attached folder.
Version history
Earlier saves of each drawing are kept, so you can look at one and restore it.
Trash
Deleted drawings wait in the Trash for 30 days before they go for good.
Opens from Explorer
Double-click an .excalidraw file and it opens in the window that is already open.
Your folders, your files
- 1Attach a folderIt shows its subfolders and drawings, and nothing in it is moved or changed.
- 2DrawStart on a blank canvas, or press + Add new in any folder.
- 3It saves to the fileEach drawing saves back to its own .excalidraw file a moment after each change, and on Ctrl+S.
Free, today, for Windows.
- Files made here open on excalidraw.com and in any other Excalidraw app, and the other way round.
- The installer is not code-signed: if Windows warns, click More info, then Run anyway.
- MIT licence. Doodlebay is an independent project, not made by, endorsed by or connected to the Excalidraw team.