EOV Board v1.0.2
your own Miro-like board: pictures, videos, sound and a server for your team
// About
EOV Board is a calm whiteboard in the spirit of Miro that lives on your own computer and works without the internet. An endless canvas for moodboards, references, plans and diagrams: pictures, YouTube videos, video, sound, stickies, shapes and arrows. And when a team needs it - a shared folder or your own server, with the boards in the app, in the browser and on a phone.
A board is your file
Every board is a plain .eovb file on your disk. As many boards as you like, no internet, no subscription, no limits. Open one with a double click, send it as a file or keep it in a synced folder.
Everything a moodboard needs
Stickies in sixteen colours, text, 27 shapes from a plain box to flowchart symbols, straight, curved and right-angled connectors with captions and bends, frames for sections. The format bar shows up over what you select: font, size, colours, line style.
Pictures, video, sound and links
Paste a picture with Ctrl+V - the picture itself or its address, and the program downloads it into the board's folder. Video shows a frame and its length, sound plays right inside its card. A YouTube link becomes a card with a preview and the length, any other page - a card with its title and description.
No Save button
A board saves itself a second after each change, and Ctrl+Z undoes anything. Next to every board the program keeps its backup copies.
Working together
Three ways, from simple to powerful. Send the board as a file. Put it into a shared Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or Syncthing folder - one person edits, the others see it read-only and get every save. Or run your own server.
Your own team server
The EOV Board server goes onto a VPS with a single deploy.bat run from your Windows PC - nothing to type on the server itself. People join by one-time invitations and pick their own login and password. A board is either for everyone on the server or private. The server keeps old versions of every board and makes nightly backups, and its admin page shows people, computers, boards and disk use. The manual has a step-by-step lesson with pictures: from renting a VPS to the first shared board.
The web board
The same server boards open in any browser and on a phone: look, edit, add pictures and links, invite a colleague with a link. Nothing to install.
Import from Miro
Bring your Miro boards over with their pictures: stickies, shapes, text, connectors and frames.
What it does not do
It is not a cloud service: without your own server, boards do not sync by themselves except through a shared folder. Two people do not edit one board at the same time - one edits, the others watch. Video and sound cannot be uploaded from the browser - they go onto a board from the app. The app is Windows-only; the server runs on Linux or Docker.
At a glance
- System: Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit; server - Ubuntu / Debian or Docker
- Install: none, unpack the archive and run EOVBoard.exe
- Archive size: 73.4 MB
- Languages: English and Russian
- Manual: English and Russian, opens with F1, includes the "Server on a VPS" lesson
- License: free, open source, MIT
// Specs
// Download & versions
Free for personal and commercial use. No registration, no limits, no ads. Every release stays available, so you can always go back to an older build.
From your feedback:
- A frame is selected by a click on any empty spot inside it, as in Miro
- A drag from an empty spot inside a frame still draws a selection box, and moves the frame with its contents when the frame is selected
- A frame title in a large font is no longer cut off
- The web board in the browser has all of this too; the manual (F1) is updated
From the first feedback:
- The window comes back at its size and place
- A board opens where you left it: the same part and zoom (can be turned off in Settings)
- The sticky note and shape tools start at once with the last color and shape, the choice open beside them
- A frame carries what is in it, as in Miro, and is copied with it
- Bring to front and send to back: PgUp / PgDn, panel buttons and a right-click menu
- Connector thickness, from 1 to 12
- ffmpeg goes on with one command or as a folder next to the program, no PATH editing; a step-by-step page in the manual (F1)
- The web board in the browser has all of this too
First release. A Miro-like board for Windows that works offline, plus your own team server with a web board in the browser; the manual (F1) has a step-by-step "Server on a VPS" lesson.