Most board software is designed for one person at a desk.
Chalktap is designed for someone standing up, with their back to a room, holding a marker they didn’t get to choose. That single constraint decided almost everything else — and it’s the reason panels running it get switched on tomorrow as well as today.
Design for the audience, not the author.
A whiteboard app has an audience of one. A panel has an audience of thirty, and every hesitation is public: a menu opened by mistake, a tool that needs two taps to find, a spinner nobody can explain. We treat those seconds as design failures, not user error.
- Controls sized for a standing arm, not a mouse: 44px minimum, 56px on the wall.
- One flyout at a time. There is no third level anywhere in the product.
- No spinner exists. When the board is thinking, the mark draws itself.
Five decisions we don’t revisit.
They’re in the code, not a slide. Every screen in the product is checked against them, which is why the thing feels the same in a Year 4 classroom and a Monday board meeting.
No export step, no “save as”. A board is a place you return to, on any device, forever.
The interface recedes; the work is the brightest thing in the room. It never inverts.
The assistant proposes and waits. No auto-tidy, no auto-beautify, no surprise edits.
Seventy-five icons on one grid, one pen in the whole product, fill means state and never style.
No camera, no silent recording, no analytics on what gets written. Ever.
What we left out, on purpose.
Feature lists are easy to lengthen and hard to shorten. These four are the ones we argued about most — and each refusal is why something else works better.
Face sign-in was designed and dropped. A panel with a lens is a panel that needs a policy, a consent form and an argument with a safeguarding lead. A four-character code does the same job in less time.
We can straighten your handwriting. We don’t, unless you ask — because a board that rewrites what a teacher wrote mid-sentence is a board they stop trusting in front of a class.
School and site networks fail at the worst moment. Offline, Chalktap keeps drawing and disables only what can’t be honest; the session never stops because a switch did.
Everything is reachable in two taps from the dock. Where a feature wouldn’t fit that budget, we cut the feature rather than adding a submenu nobody finds while presenting.
Software is what your panel is judged on.
Two panels with the same brightness and the same touch layer are separated by the board that opens on them. And because Chalktap is one closed system — nine colours, four radii, one motion ladder — updates land without re-teaching a room your customer has already trained.
Two taps to anything, no accounts to reset, no network required to write. Most of what a helpdesk hears about board software simply can’t happen here.
No camera, no recordings by default, no data taken from the room. Security and safeguarding reviews get a short document instead of a long one.
Education, enterprise and training run the same software with different defaults — on panels, desktops, browsers and phones — so you carry one stock line into three sectors and every surface around them.
We’re not going to invent a testimonial.
Chalktap is new. When partners ship it at scale, their names and their words go here — and not before. In the meantime, the honest version of proof is a demo on your own hardware, run by the people who built it.
EMPTY UNTIL REAL DEPLOYMENTS EXIST
Judge it standing up.
Bring a panel and a difficult question. Thirty minutes is enough to know whether this is the board you want on your hardware.