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Sketch it, then design it.

A native canvas for the Mac. Frames, components and vectors for the details, hand-drawn shapes and sticky notes for the rough ideas, all saved on your computer.

Download for Mac

Version 0.1.0 · Apple Silicon and Intel · Free and open source

paper-rs in light mode: a phone screen design with its button selected, next to a hand-drawn flow chart and sticky notes paper-rs in dark mode: the same board with dark sidebars around the canvas

Frames and components

Auto layout and constraints keep frames in order. Components update every instance and keep your overrides. Smart guides snap to edges, centers and equal spacing.

Vectors and paint

A pen tool with editable points, plus union, subtract, intersect and exclude. Linear and radial gradients, image fills and rich text.

A whiteboard, too

Hand-drawn shapes, arrows that stay attached when you move things, sticky notes, smoothed ink and a laser pointer for walkthroughs.

Keyboard first

⌘K finds any command, tool, layer or page. Over 100 shortcuts, and ? lists them all.

Yours

Each project is a plain folder in Documents on your Mac. Changes save about a second after you make them. No account, no cloud.

In and out

Export PNG, SVG and vector PDF. Import Excalidraw scenes and libraries, and SVG files. Copy and paste works between projects and other apps.