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Connectors that follow
Arrows snap to shape edges with magnet points, then automatically re-route when shapes move or resize — straight or elbow.
For iPhone, iPad & Mac
An infinite canvas
for every idea.
Hand-drawn sketchy diagrams, painting with real brushes, and boards that sync through iCloud — all in one native app.
iOS · iPadOS · macOS · Native SwiftUI
SandDraw canvas preview — SandDraw
Why SandDraw
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An infinite canvas
Pan and zoom across a canvas that never runs out. Thousands of elements stay smooth thanks to viewport culling.
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Sketchy by design
Hand-drawn strokes with hachure and cross-hatch fills — every shape looks human-made, and renders the same way every time.
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Diagram + paint in one
Excalidraw-style shapes and connectors live side by side with a Metal painting engine — no app switching.
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Your boards everywhere
.sanddraw documents with autosave and thumbnails, synced through iCloud Drive with conflict resolution built in.
Everything, in one app
Every tool your ideas need
From architecture diagrams to free-form doodles — SandDraw goes from first sketch to final export.
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Metal painting engine
Pen, Marker, Airbrush, and Eraser with size and opacity controls — GPU-rendered strokes on the same canvas as your diagrams.
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A full shape kit
Rectangles, ellipses, diamonds, lines, arrows, frames, text, and freedraw — all in the signature sketchy style.
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Edit without fear
Multi-select, group, reorder z-index, rotate with 15° snap, flip, duplicate — plus up to 100 steps of undo/redo.
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Snapping & guides
Elements click neatly into place with alignment guides that appear exactly when you need them.
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Apple Pencil
Low-latency ink through PencilKit on iPad — drawing feels like paper.
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Text anywhere
Double-click to type inside auto-growing shapes, label your arrows, and attach hyperlinks.
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Component library
Save your favorite selections as reusable components — synced through iCloud to all your devices.
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Laser pointer
Highlight parts of your board while presenting with laser strokes that fade on their own.
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Zen mode & search
Hide every panel with ⌘. for full focus, and find any element with canvas search ⌘F.
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Export PNG · PDF · SVG
Export the whole board or just a selection — bitmap PNG, plus vector PDF and SVG that stay sharp at any size.
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Copy style
Pick up any element's style with the eyedropper — stroke, fill, and opacity carry over instantly.
A closer look
One canvas, many ways to work
Every screen speaks the same design language — floating glass panels over a spacious dot-grid canvas.
Smart connectors
Arrows that understand your diagram
Connectors in SandDraw bind to objects, not just coordinates. Move, resize, or rearrange — your arrows always find their way home.
Attach
Snap to shape edges
Bring an arrow near a shape and magnet points light up — the connector attaches right at the edge, with a tidy gap.
Follow
Automatic re-routing
Move or resize a shape, and every connected arrow recalculates its path instantly.
Tidy up
Elbows & labels
Elbow arrows bend at right angles for clean diagrams, and every arrow can carry its own label.
Tested with 5,000 elements — still responsive under 0.15 seconds.
Entirely yours
Local-first, synced through your iCloud.
There is no SandDraw server and no account. Your boards are .sanddraw files on your device and in your private iCloud Drive — open, portable, and fully yours.
Read the full Privacy Policy →- ✓No accounts, no sign-in
- ✓No analytics or tracking
- ✓Works fully offline
- ✓Syncs through your private iCloud Drive
- ✓Portable vector exports — PDF & SVG
Built for Apple
One native app, three devices
SandDraw is built with SwiftUI and Metal from a single codebase — not a web wrapper. Every platform feels right at home.
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iPhone
Your boards in your pocket — open, sketch, and capture ideas wherever you are.
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iPad
Low-latency Apple Pencil ink through PencilKit — it feels like paper.
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Mac
A full menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, and every board in its own window.
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iCloud
One document format, autosave, and conflict resolution across devices.
Questions
Good to know
SandDraw runs natively on iPhone, iPad, and Mac — built from a single SwiftUI codebase. It requires the latest iOS/iPadOS/macOS.
Yes, fully. Every drawing, painting, and editing tool works without a connection. The internet is only used for iCloud sync.
Your boards are .sanddraw packages stored on your device and in your private iCloud Drive — with autosave and conflict resolution. There is no SandDraw server.
Yes. Export the whole board or just a selection to PNG (bitmap), PDF (vector), or SVG (vector) — your sketchy shapes stay sharp at any size.
Yes. On iPad, the freedraw tool uses PencilKit for low-latency ink with Pencil pressure support.
The canvas is infinite. SandDraw uses viewport culling so boards with thousands of elements stay smooth — tested with 5,000 elements under 0.15 seconds.
Yes. The laser pointer highlights with self-fading strokes, Zen mode (⌘.) hides every panel, and canvas search (⌘F) jumps to any element.
Yes. No accounts, no analytics, no servers. Your files live on your device and in your private iCloud, and vector exports keep your data portable.
Start your first board.
Download SandDraw and pour your ideas out — diagrams, paintings, or both at once.
iOS · iPadOS · macOS · Native SwiftUI