Saving Your Work

Autosave — there's nothing to click

DrawBoard saves your drawing automatically, continuously, as you work — to your browser's local storage (specifically, IndexedDB) on this device. There's no save button because there's nothing to remember to click.

Close the tab, close the browser, restart your computer — when you come back to draw.designpav.in, your drawing is exactly as you left it.

What "local" means

Your drawing lives only in this browser, on this device. That's genuinely private (nothing is uploaded anywhere by default — see the FAQ), but it also means:

• Opening DrawBoard in a different browser, or a different device, starts with a blank canvas — it's not synced between them automatically.
• Clearing your browser's site data/storage for draw.designpav.in will erase your saved drawing.

Backing up or moving a drawing

To keep a drawing safe, or move it to another device, export it as a file: open the menu (☰) → Save as .excalidraw (JSON). That downloads a .excalidraw file you can store anywhere (cloud drive, email to yourself, etc.) and re-open later with Open .excalidraw file… — on this device or any other. See Import / Export for the other export formats (PNG, SVG).

If you want sync across devices

DrawBoard's optional real-time collaboration mode (see the Share button, when enabled) keeps a drawing in sync between browsers connected to the same session — that's the closest thing to cross-device sync it currently offers. Otherwise, exporting/importing .excalidraw files is the way to move a drawing between devices.