DRAWY, DRAWY PARTY , DRAWX

Drawy

Effortless, multi-tenant capable, collaborative whiteboards powered by Excalidraw. which is easily selfhostable and serverless ready, and 100% free and opensource.

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Why Drawy?

Excalidraw is an incredible whiteboard tool that needs no introduction. However, self-hosting it often introduces frustrating limitations, such as single-board constraints, paid collaboration tiers, or the overhead of managing complex multi-container setups with reverse proxies and custom networking.

DRAWY solves this by packaging the full Excalidraw experience into lightweight, serverless friendly enviournment so that self hosted excalidraw becomes accessable to all.

Key Highlights

• Multi-Board Support: Create and manage virtually unlimited boards without restrictions.
• Real Time Collaboration: Working with teammates seamlessly using modern crdt engines. drawy is powered by supabase realtime and supabase db.
• Zero-Fuss Deployment: Deploy straight to Vercel, Netlify, with zero DevOps hassle.
• Own Your Data: Complete privacy by hosting on your own backend instances (Supabase / PartyKit / Postgres).
• Full Excalidraw experience: Includes support for the complete Excalidraw canvas and Excalidraw Libraries.

The Lineup

| Project | Description | Realtime backend | Hosting |

| :— | :— | :— | :— |

| Drawy | Web collaboration app | Supabase (Postgres + Realtime) | Vercel / Netlify / Any Nitro host |

| Drawy Party | Lightweight real-time whiteboard | Cloudflare PartyKit + PostgreSQL | Netlify / Vercel / Cloudflare |

| Drawx | Offline desktop application | Local machine (100% offline & private) | Native Desktop App |

1. Drawy (Supabase backend)

A full-featured collaborative drawing web application entirely powered by Supabase.

👉 Try Live Demo

Overview

• Uses Supabase for database persistence, authentication, and real time Web Socket synchronization.
• Built with Nitro for versatile serverless deployments via Nitro Deploy Adapters.
• Frontend powered by TanStack Start and Vite.

Recommended Self-Hosting

Note: The public demo runs entirely on free tier infrastructure and may experience rate limits or downtime due to heavy usage. Plus for privacy and reliability, hosting your own instance on your own Supabase account + Vercel/Netlify is recommended.

2. DrawyParty (Party Kit + Postgres Edition)

A high-performance real time collaborative whiteboard similar to drawy but powered by Cloudflare’s PartyKit and PostgreSQL.

👉 Try Live Demo

Overview

• Uses PartyKit (GitHub) on Cloudflare Workers for ultra-low-latency real-time collaboration.
• Uses PostgreSQL for persistent board storage (which is compatible with any Postgres but with a pooler; see awesome-free-postgres).
• Packaged with Nitro and TanStack Start for easy deployment.

3. Drawx (Desktop App)

A standalone, completely offline desktop version of Drawy. Ideal for personal sketching, note-taking, and diagramming with guaranteed privacy, your canvases never leaves your computer.

📖 Documentation

📦 Releases on GitHub

Downloads

Platform	Download Link
Debian / Ubuntu (.deb)	Download debian-x86_64
Fedora / RHEL (.rpm)	Download rpm-x86_64
AppImage	Download arch-x86_64
macOS	Download macos-x86_64
Windows (Installer)	Download NSIS Installer
Windows (Standalone)	Download windows-x86_64
Flatpak	Download via GitHub Releases

All desktop binaries supports seamless auto updates thanks to CrabNebula Cloud.

Development & Configuration

1. Copy .env.example to .env and fill in your credentials:

cp .env.example .env

2. Using mise to manage your development environment is recommended, as it makes the setup and development process significantly more effortless.

Credits

• Canvas powered by Excalidraw.
• Realtime sync powered by PartyKit and Supabase.
• styling: https://astryx.atmeta.com/