visualOS
A local-first infinite canvas for visual thinkers — boards are real folders on your disk, documents are Markdown files. Works fully offline, no account needed.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Online
- iPhone
- iPad
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
- Local-First
Features
- Subtasks
- Dark Mode
- Automatic Backup
- Support for MarkDown
- Live Preview
- No Coding Required
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- Hierarchical Structure
- File Versioning
- Cloud Sync
- No Tracking
- Works Offline
- Offline
- Moodboard
- Infinite canvas
- Mind Mapping
- Visual Organization
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visualOS information
Developed by
Dorweiler & Reimertz GbR Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $13 + free version with limited functionality.Alternatives
7 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- German
- Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Spanish
- Polish
- Swedish
- French
What is visualOS?
visualOS is an infinite, zoomable canvas for notes, rich text, Markdown documents, to-do lists, images, PDFs, freehand drawings and arrows — with boards nested inside boards to any depth.
Its defining idea is local-first data ownership: connect a folder on your disk and the canvas hierarchy mirrors onto it as real files. Every board becomes an actual folder, documents become plain Markdown files, images stay ordinary images. There is no server and no account — sync and backup happen through the user's own cloud folder (e.g. iCloud Drive or Dropbox). If you decide to use another app, your data would still be folders, Markdown and readable JSON.
Automatic rolling version history protects against sync conflicts: before anything substantial is replaced, the previous state is snapshotted (~30 states) and can be restored with one click.
The browser app is free and full-featured with no account and no note or board limits (connect-a-folder requires Chrome, Edge or Brave). A native app for iPhone, iPad and Mac (Apple Silicon) is available as a one-time purchase — no subscription. visualOS is single-user by design: a personal thinking space, not a team whiteboard.
Made by Sarah Dorweiler and Gerald Reimertz, a husband-and-wife team in Berlin.
