Deep Canvas

Fast, offline infinite canvas for sketching, whiteboarding, and motion-style doodles. Privacy-first desktop app — no accounts, no cloud, everything saved locally.

https://github.com/ZENTCH-Q/Deep-Canvas

Animation Showcase:

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Extreme Zoom:

Features

• Fast renderer — spatial index + smart simplification
• Infinite pan & zoom — zoom around cursor, smooth panning
• Brush — pen; eraser
• Shapes — line, rectangle, ellipse; optional fill
• Selection HUD — resize/rotate handles, live style/animation layers
• Gallery — create “+”, rename (double‑click title), delete, thumbnail from last view
• Autosave + history — undo/redo, background save
• Export — save current viewport to PNG
• Offline — no accounts, no network

Performance & Zoom

• Auto‑tuned for your device at first run (and when display changes)
• Advanced… (right‑click) lets you pick:
  • Rendering Mode: Performance / Balanced / Quality
  • Unlock extreme zoom (may be slow and buggy)
• Reset View always returns to your starting view for the canvas

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Install

Windows (recommended)

Grab the latest Deep Canvas x.y.z.exe from Releases and install. If SmartScreen warns, click More info → Run anyway (unsigned builds).

Quick start & hotkeys

• Tools: Draw, Erase, Delete, Pan, Line/Rect/Ellipse, Select
• Pan: hold Space, drag
• Zoom: mouse wheel / trackpad (zooms around cursor)
• Undo / Redo: Ctrl/Cmd+Z, Ctrl+Y or Shift+Cmd+Z
• Fill: drag a color swatch (or the color chip) onto the canvas to fill shapes/background with a radial reveal
• Right‑click on canvas: Reset View, Save PNG, Advanced…
• Gallery:
  • Click + to create
  • Double‑click card image to open canvas
  • Double‑click title to rename
  • … menu → Delete =======
• Tools: Draw, Erase, Delete, Pan, Line/Rect/Ellipse, Select
• Pan: hold Space, drag
• Zoom: mouse wheel / trackpad (zooms around cursor)
• Undo / Redo: Ctrl/win + Z, Ctrl+Y or Shift+win + Z
• Fill: drag a color swatch (or the color chip) onto the canvas to fill shapes/background with a radial reveal
• Right-click on canvas: context menu (Reset View, Save PNG, Delete Selected)
• Space-Bar to stop any animation that was playing
• Gallery:
  • Click + to create
  • Double-click card image to open canvas
  • Double-click title to rename
  • ⋯ menu → Delete
  • Thumbnails show the last camera view you left the canvas in

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Build from source

Prereqs: Node 18+ (or 20+)

# clone
git clone https://github.com/ZENTCH-Q/Deep-Canvas.git
cd Deep-Canvas

# dev
npm install
npm run dev

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I accept any new ideas That can make Deep Canvas Better and Will Try my best to Fulfill any idea that you given :)