Paste your thinking together.
Tabula is an infinite whiteboard for teams. It works offline in your browser and syncs live the moment everyone is in the room.
Open source. Self-host for free, or use a hosted workspace.
In this issue.
Eight things Tabula does, one page each. Jump to any of them.
- 01The boardNotes, shapes, frames, connectors, smart guides.
- 02SessionsTimed steps, private writing, dot voting.
- 03TogetherPolls, focus requests, comments, stickers.
- 04TemplatesFourteen exercises, plus your own.
- 05Offline and historyLocal-first boards and named versions.
- 06AI toolsAccess tokens over the open MCP.
- 07ExportPNG, SVG, Markdown, Mermaid and more.
- 08WorkspacesTeams, roles, themes, self-hosting.
One board, no edges.
Sticky notes, text and shapes snap to a grid. Connectors stay attached when you move things, and smart guides show equal spacing while you drag.
- Frames, a pen and text
- UML and flowchart shapes, icons
- Alignment and spacing guides
Run the room, not the tool.
Timed steps that everyone sees together, so every voice counts the same.
- WriteIn private. Notes stay hidden until the facilitator reveals them.
- GroupCluster the revealed notes into themes.
- VoteDot voting shows what matters most.
- DiscussTalk through the top notes before the timer runs out.
Small tools for a full room.
Four ways to ask, point and react without leaving the board.
- Quick polls
Ask one question
A single-question poll on the board, with results everyone sees.
- Focus requests
Point, don’t pull
Ask everyone to look at your view. Nobody’s screen moves without consent.
- Comments
Talk on the board
Threads pinned to the board, with replies. Commenters can talk without editing.
- Stickers
React in colour
Colour emoji stickers, three sets to choose from, stored in the board so they work offline.
Fourteen ways to start.
Pick an exercise and the frames, columns and prompts are already on the board.
Or save any board as a custom template and share it with your team.
- Start / Stop / Continue
- 4Ls
- Mad / Sad / Glad
- Sailboat
- Crazy 8s
- Brainstorm + affinity map
- Lean Coffee
- Impact / Effort matrix
- MoSCoW
- User story map
- Customer journey map
- Empathy map
- SWOT
- Pre-mortem
Yours first. Then everyone’s.
Every board lives in your browser and works with no connection. When a relay is reachable, cursors and changes sync live, and offline edits merge later.
- Auto09:12
- Auto09:40
- NamedBefore the workshopPreview
- Auto11:05
- Now11:32
- Versions are saved automatically while people edit
- Name the ones that matter
- Preview without changing anything, restore in one click
Let an AI tool read the board.
With an access token, a tool such as Claude Code can read a board, comment, or, if you allow it, edit live while everyone watches.
- A token never gets more access than you have
- Private session notes stay hidden from it
- Built on the open Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Take it anywhere.
Six ways out of a board, and two ways in.
PNG
An image of the board or a selection.
SVG
Sharp vectors for slides and docs.
.drift
A board file that keeps its history.
JSON
A snapshot of everything on the board.
Markdown
A summary with votes and poll results.
Mermaid
Copy a diagram as Mermaid text.
Import: Mermaid diagrams and board files.
Your team, your server.
Hosted workspaces live at your-team.gettabula.app, with sign-in by email link and an admin dashboard. Or run Tabula yourself with Docker, for free.
Desktop app for macOS: coming
Simple, and free to self‑host.
Every hosted workspace includes teams, roles and email sign-in links. Test mode: no real charges yet.
- The whiteboardFreeThe whiteboard is free. Forever. Use it alone, or run it yourself.
- Team, monthly€8per person per month, excl. VAT. Guests are free. Try it for 7 days.
- Two months freeTeam, yearly€80per person per year, excl. VAT. Guests are free.
Backups add-on, coming soon: off-site backups, restorable by the hour. €15 per workspace per month, excl. VAT.
7-day free trial, card up front, minimum 2 seats. Start your workspace.
Start a workspace. Cut the rest.
Start a hosted workspace with a 7-day free trial. Invite the team when you are ready.
