blankpaper
Navigate the idea.
Move between elements, follow their connections and make a change without hunting for a tiny target.
AltNNext element
Your familiar canvas. A faster workflow.
Think in diagrams.
Stay on the keys.
The Excalidraw canvas you love, with a keyboard for everything around it. Find a component by name. Follow a connection. Keep the idea moving.
Free on your device. No account needed.
Built on Excalidraw Familiar drawing tools .excalidraw files Your libraries come too
A drawing tool that keeps up
Less reaching.
More thinking.
You already know how to draw. Blankpaper makes the next action as close as your keyboard.
Build a vocabulary.
Save a component, give it a useful name, then find and insert it on any canvas. Your library becomes part of how you think.
/Find a component
Stay in the flow.
Jump into properties, turn Mermaid into editable shapes, or make every shortcut work the way you do.
AltQEdit properties
Try it, right here
A few keys.
A real diagram.
Create a shape, move through the drawing and follow a connection. This is the real Blankpaper editor.
Create a shapeModEnter
Follow a connectionAltF
Insert from your library/
Focus propertiesAltQ
Mermaid to ExcalidrawModAltShiftT
Mod is ⌘ on Mac, Ctrl on Windows and Linux.
Every shortcut can be remapped.
Recorded, not staged
Watch the keyboard
do the whole job.
Real recordings on the production editor. Every keycap is the default binding, shown for Mac and for Windows, and the pointer never moves.
Familiar, with more room to work
Why choose Blankpaper?
Keep the canvas and file format you know. Add a workflow that feels at home beside your editor and terminal.
THE EXCALIDRAW FOUNDATION
Bring what you already love.
- Hand-drawn shapes, arrows, text and images
- Editable .excalidraw import and export
- Reusable Excalidraw component libraries
- A canvas that stays open and portable
THE BLANKPAPER WORKFLOW
Make it work like you do.
- Navigate elements and connections from the keys
- Name components and insert them with /
- Remap commands with visible conflict warnings
- Organise canvases in tabs, folders and workspaces
Make something. Pass it on.
Great ideas are
better with a starting point.
Explore editable canvases and reusable component libraries. Copy a resource, make it your own, and keep building.
Explore the communityYour next idea starts here
The whole keyboard.
Free, from the first canvas.
Draw locally without an account. Add Pro when you want cloud sync and shared workspaces.