Boardfish

Boardfish is an infinite canvas for fast, non-destructive ideation. Designed for Windows and macOS, it provides a lightweight environment for visual research, moodboarding, and snippets.

Download

Grab the latest Windows and macOS installers from the Releases page.

• Windows — download the .exe, run the installer
• macOS — download the .dmg, drag Boardfish to Applications

macOS: If you see "damaged and can't be opened", run this in Terminal after dragging to Applications:

xattr -cr /Applications/Boardfish.app

Features

• An infinite canvas free from formatting rules
• Lag-free navigation across massive boards supporting 1 GB+ of images and text
• Multi-select, translate, scale, flip, rotate, copy, paste, and duplicate
• Sample colors with the eyedropper's zoomed preview and HEX/RGB readout
• Losslessly add images and text via clipboard, drag and drop, or the file picker
• Losslessly copy images back to your clipboard
• Export one image, selected images, all images, or all text
• Save everything locally as a portable .bf file

Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Mac	Windows
New board	Cmd+N	Ctrl+N
Open board	Cmd+O	Ctrl+O
Save	Cmd+S	Ctrl+S
Save As	Cmd+Shift+S	Ctrl+Shift+S
Add text	Cmd+T	Ctrl+T
Add images	Cmd+I	Ctrl+I
Select all objects	Cmd+A	Ctrl+A
Copy	Cmd+C	Ctrl+C
Cut	Cmd+X	Ctrl+X
Paste	Cmd+V	Ctrl+V
Duplicate selected	Cmd+D	Ctrl+D
Undo	Cmd+Z	Ctrl+Z
Redo	Cmd+Shift+Z	Ctrl+Shift+Z / Ctrl+Y
Delete selected	Backspace / Delete	Backspace / Delete
Toggle eyedropper	I	I
Pan canvas	Space + drag	Space + drag
Pan with wheel / trackpad	Scroll	Scroll
Zoom around cursor	Cmd+scroll	Ctrl+scroll
Deselect / exit edit / close menus	Esc	Esc
Quit / close	Cmd+Q / Cmd+W	Ctrl+Q / Ctrl+W

Building from Source

Prerequisites: Node.js 18+ and Rust

git clone https://github.com/Indominater/Boardfish.git
cd Boardfish
npm install
npm run tauri dev

To build a release installer:

npm run tauri build

License

Boardfish is source-available under the Boardfish Source-Available License.

The source code is available for personal, educational, research, evaluation, and other non-commercial use. Commercial use, resale, redistribution as part of a paid product or service, and business/studio/enterprise use require prior written permission.