Notes & rich text
Quick notes with real typography — sizes, colour, alignment, lists that just appear as you type.
visualOS is an infinite canvas for people who think visually. It works fully offline, saves to real files in a folder you own, and stays instant with thousands of items on the board.
No account. No install. Nothing to unlock.
Everything happens on your machine. The network is optional — always. No server ever sees your work.
Boards are folders. Documents are Markdown. Images are images. Open them with anything, forever.
Open it and work. There is nothing to sign up for, nothing to verify, and nothing to cancel.
Offline
On a flight, on the train, in a studio with no signal — visualOS doesn’t care. There is no server to reach, so there is no spinner, no sync wheel, no login wall. Your canvas opens instantly because everything is already here.
Ownership
Connect any folder on your disk and visualOS mirrors your boards into it — every sub-board a sub-folder, every document a Markdown file, every image an image. Put the folder in iCloud or Dropbox and it syncs through your cloud, not ours. If you ever leave, everything stays readable. Forever.
Performance
Big boards are where most canvas tools quietly give up. visualOS renders only what you see, straight to the metal — about 5 ms per frame with 3,000 notes on screen. Pan, zoom and rearrange without your tool ever falling behind your thinking.
Structure
Any board can hold more boards. A project becomes a world: moodboards inside client boards inside your studio. Drag elements into a board to file them away; breadcrumbs keep you oriented; a double-click takes you deeper.
Trust
visualOS quietly keeps rolling versions of your work, right in your folder. Restore any earlier state with one click — the current state is backed up first, so you can’t break anything. Your data is never overwritten while your cloud folder is still waking up.
iPhone, iPad & Mac
The native app is the real thing — the full canvas, not a stripped-down list of your cards. Pan, zoom, edit and rearrange with your fingers, fully offline, on the train or at a client’s. Point it at the same iCloud folder and every board follows you — no sync service in between, just your files.
Everything else
Quick notes with real typography — sizes, colour, alignment, lists that just appear as you type.
Long-form writing in a focused editor, stored as plain .md files next to your boards.
Interactive checklists on the canvas. Add, check, reorder — right where the work lives.
Drag them in, paste them, or drop files straight into the folder — they appear on the board.
Sketch directly on the canvas with pen, colour and eraser. Scale drawings like any element.
Connect anything to anything. Anchors snap as you approach; curves bend to your will.
One shortcut searches every board at once — notes, documents, links, all of it.
Group elements, lock what’s final, toggle the grid, tune background and shadows.
Export any view as a crisp 2× PNG. Undo and redo absolutely everything.
The full app, in your browser, at no cost. Not free-until-a-hundred-cards. Free. No invite mechanics, no seat surprises, no wall between you and your own work.
Works in Chrome, Edge, Brave & more. Native app for iPhone, iPad & Mac.