For anyone presenting from a whiteboard
Online Whiteboard for Presentations
Presenting from a whiteboard means taking the board you already worked on and walking a room through it in an order you chose. The usual answer is to rebuild it as a slide deck, which leaves you maintaining a second artifact that starts drifting from the board the moment either one changes.
More boards drawn for presentations. Pick one to load it above.
What you need for presentations
Slides that are the board, not a copy of it. Rebuilding a working board as slides doubles the work and splits the truth in two: the deck is right on the day you made it and wrong a week later.
A way to start a slide without designing one. An empty frame is a layout decision you did not ask for, and making it five times in a row is how a talk stops getting written.
A show that holds the room on one thing at a time. A whole board shown at once is a spoiler and a maze. People read ahead, or they read the wrong corner while you talk about another one.
Room to draw on it while you are talking. The useful part of presenting from a board is answering the question that was not on the slide, which means drawing on it in front of everyone.
Something to hand over when you are done. The people who could not make it want the content, and half of them will not open a tool to get it.
How Drawdy handles it
Slides that are the board, not a copy of it
A slide is a frame on the board, so the thing you present is the board itself. The presentation drawer lists the slides as thumbnails, and you drag a thumbnail to change the order the show runs in.
A way to start a slide without designing one
The drawer has a Templates button with slide layout presets. Pick one and it creates a new slide already laid out, so you start from a title and a body block instead of an empty frame.
A show that holds the room on one thing at a time
Present goes fullscreen, hides everything that is not the current slide, and flies the camera from slide to slide with previous and next controls. The movement between slides is what tells the room where it just went.
Room to draw on it while you are talking
You can draw on the board during the show, and the laser pointer leaves a fading trail that collaborators in the session see live. When the show ends, a Keep your notes prompt lets you keep what you drew or discard it.
Something to hand over when you are done
Someone who opens the shared board's read-only snapshot gets previous and next presentation controls of their own, so they can walk it at their pace. Export to PNG or SVG for a doc or a ticket, and version history is what gets you back to the clean board after a session drew on it.
When Drawdy is the wrong tool
Some of the work around presentations belongs in another tool. Here is which parts, and where they go.
You need a polished branded deck, or a PDF handout somebody can print. A hand-drawn board is the wrong texture for that, and Drawdy has no deck export at all: boards export to PNG, SVG or open .drawdy JSON, not to PDF or PPTX.
Use Google Slides, Keynote or PowerPoint.
You want presentation export straight out of a whiteboard, so the slides leave as a file rather than a link.
Use Excalidraw Plus.
You need the call itself in the same window as the slides. Drawdy has no built-in video or audio, and no speaker-notes panel to read from either.
Use Zoom or Google Meet alongside the board.
FAQ
Questions people ask
Can I export the slides to PowerPoint or PDF?+
No. There is no deck export: a board exports to PNG, SVG or open .drawdy JSON, and that is the whole list. If the deliverable is a PDF or a PPTX file, build it in Google Slides, Keynote or PowerPoint, or use Excalidraw Plus, which keeps presentation export on its paid tier.
Is presentation mode free?+
Yes. Presentation mode ships as an extension on the canvas and runs on the free tier. Free to start and free to keep using: unlimited boards on your device and one cloud board for syncing and sharing, no card required. The free tier is not a time-limited trial.
Can remote viewers follow the presentation?+
They can open the shared board and step through it themselves: a read-only snapshot comes with its own previous and next presentation controls. Their view does not follow yours automatically. In a live collaborative session they do see your laser trail as you draw it, so pointing at something still works.
Do I have to rebuild my board as slides?+
No. A slide is a frame drawn around part of the board you already have, so making the first slide is a matter of framing the diagram that is already there. Adding a frame does not move or change what is inside it.
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