DrawSplat is a free browser-based toolkit for creating, teaching, explaining, organizing, visualizing, and playing. Its collaborative whiteboard supports lessons, explanations, media, and activities, with diagramming, guest collaboration, and voting tools. Tool groups cover drawing and visuals, charts and data, idea organization, audio and video, teaching and assessment, and games and puzzles. SplatWorks adds browser spreadsheets, presentations, word processing, and classroom database apps. DrawSplat can run as a hosted browser app or be self-hosted on services such as Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, Netlify, S3, or a district web server. Storage choices include browser-only work, Google Apps Script with Drive and Sheets, or a portable MySQL Save/Open API. The Apps Script option stores data in a district’s Google Workspace tenant. The static app does not require student accounts, and browser-only work remains in the browser unless exported or sent to a configured backend. DrawSplat says it does not sell student data or use it for targeted advertising, AI model training, behavioral profiling, or cross-context advertising. The project uses AGPL-3.0-or-later, while SplatWorks code uses GPL-3.0-only.
Who it is for
DrawSplat suits educators and districts needing free browser tools, collaborative whiteboarding, classroom activities, or self-hosted deployment. Its storage and privacy options may also fit organizations using Google Workspace or their own infrastructure.
What is good
- Free browser whiteboard and tool collection
- Includes diagramming, guest collaboration, and voting
- Offers hosted and self-hosted deployment
- Provides browser, Google, and MySQL storage options
- Does not require student accounts for the static app
What to know first
- MySQL deployment requires Docker or Node.js 22+
- MySQL deployment requires MySQL 8 and public HTTPS API
- Provider hosting costs are separate
- Pointer input is required for whiteboard drawing
Verdict
DrawSplat offers a broad, free toolkit with flexible hosting and storage choices for education. Districts should review the technical requirements and the whiteboard accessibility limitations before deployment.
DrawSplat plans and pricing
All plansCompared on online whiteboard tools
- Free plan
- Yes
- Diagramming tools
- Yes
- Guest collaboration
- Yes
- Voting tools
- Yes
