Spatial Thinking for Mindmaps, Moodboards, Whiteboards, Research, and Notes.
Kinopio is a note-taking canvas for collecting and connecting your thoughts, ideas, and plans by yourself or collaboratively. Community-funded and built for the long-term.
Free for 100 cards. No sign up required.
Tap anywhere and start typing. Paste URLs to create links and play YouTube videos, add images, colors and more. Connect related ideas by dragging from the connector.
Use Boxes to keep related items together. Lists let you vertically group and easily reorder cards, and are ideal for Kanban-style project management.
Drag from an empty area to paint over items you want to move or edit them together. First-class bulk edits are one of Kinopio's most powerful features.
Also Featuring ● Comments ● Card Frames ● Backlinked [[Tags]] ● Link Between /Spaces ● ```Code Blocks``` ● Works Offline
● Dark Mode ● Add Images, Websites, Pdfs ● Import and Export ● Save as PDF ● Public API ● Freehand Drawing ● Group Workspaces
● Quick Capture Browser Extensions ● Personal Templates ● Snap Align ● Other secret features may be available… (don’t tell anyone)
Changelog Is updated all the time with new features.
Gather notes, and connect them to their source URLs. Drag in files, like PDFs, to keep everything together. Label concepts with backlinked [[tags]].
Invite friends and group members to collaborate together in real-time.
Capture and connect ideas together, build them up into plans, lists, and tasks assigned to team-mates. Planning and progress in the same space keeps everyone aligned.
Collaboration Features ● Real-Time Collaboration ● Private or Public ● Invite to Edit or Read-Only ● Embed ● Groups to Manage Shared Team or Project Spaces ● Assign Cards to @users
Physical whiteboards are so productive because drawing and writing with markers is a naturally messy, chaotic process, which produces novel new ideas and shared understanding.
But the typical software whiteboard is designed around neatness and conformity. Expressiveness and personality is replaced with a maze through endless toolbars and sticky notes in one of five designer-approved pastel shades.
Taking a different approach, Kinopio's just-click-and-type design and visual customizability is designed to encourage creativity and experimentation.
Like a physical whiteboard, the outputs produced this way tend to be lower-fidelity and conceptual – ideal for problem solving, and for turning debates into discussions.
The other major difference is that Kinopio is organic software, paid for by the people who use it, rather than by VC investors looking for an easy exit that leaves users high and dry.
| Company | VC Funding |
| Figjam | $1,400,000,000 Series F |
| Miro | $476,300,000 Series C |
| Mural | $196,600,000 Series C |
| Padlet | $12,700,000 Series A |
| Whimsical | $30,000,000 Series A |
| Kinopio | $0 |
The result? Kinopio is a product that embraces individuality and personality. Made for people, not drones.
To see how this plays out IRL, here's a video by a customer comparing Kinopio vs Milanote.
Because Kinopio is solely supported by the people who love it, I have the insane privilege of being able to only add features that fit into the product and truly help its users.
With whiteboarding, mind-mapping, or mood-boarding, it's the journey of placing ideas and images, making connections, and figuring out what things should be grouped together yourself is vitally important to building up your own spatial memory. This is the magic that makes big ideas easier to recall and reason about.
Yes. Your data belongs to you and will never be sold.
You can import and export spaces in a variety of formats, including as open JSON Canvas files, and you can download a backup of all your spaces together.
There is also a comprehensive public API so that you can build your own custom integrations and tooling.
And if you'd like, you can delete your account at any time.
Hi I'm Piri, a designer, engineer, and tool-maker. I started Kinopio in 2018 to help people understand each other, and themselves.
Previously, I was the co-creator and designer of Glitch.
If you're curious, I wrote How Kinopio is Made. I hope you enjoy using Kinopio and find it invaluable,
