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Life & fun · July 6, 2026

I Made a Mac Native Excalidraw (Open Sourced)

3.4 MB Excalidraw for MacOS. Swift native light & fast - zpphxd/whitespace

I Made a Mac Native Excalidraw (Open Sourced) launched on July 6, 2026 with 10 votes, #1,657 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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This is a Mac native application based on Excalidraw, an open-source drawing tool. It allows users to create diagrams and sketches with a focus on a hand-drawn aesthetic. The application is available as open-source software, meaning the code is publicly accessible for review and modification. It is designed for Mac users who prefer a native application experience over web-based alternatives for digital drawing and diagramming tasks.

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Turn your macOS desktop into an interactive, Excalidraw-style whiteboard — native, written in Swift. ⬇ Download Whitespace.dmg — signed & notarized, auto-updates, 3.4 MB. Apple Silicon, macOS 13+. git clone https://github.com/zpphxd/whitespace && cd whitespace ./make_app.sh && open Whitespace.app Look for the scribble in the menu bar — ⌥⌘W turns the desktop into the board. Whitespace lives on the desktop layer , above your wallpaper. Toggle drawing mode and the whole desktop becomes a hand-drawn whiteboard with a floating Liquid Glass tool palette; toggle it off and your drawings sit quietly behind your icons. Files and notes can be dropped in as linked nodes, and everything reads/writes…from github.com

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