Terra BoardA Microsoft Whiteboard alternative that works offline on Windows
Terra Board is a free whiteboard app for Windows. It runs on your PC, works without internet, and needs no Microsoft or any other account.
What happened to Microsoft Whiteboard
According to Microsoft's support page, the standalone Microsoft Whiteboard apps for Windows, iOS and Android retired on 16 October 2026. This applies to people with work or school accounts and to people with personal Microsoft accounts.
Apps that are already installed aren't necessarily removed, but after that date they show a retirement notice instead of opening your whiteboards.
Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams and Whiteboard on the web are not part of this retirement. For work or school accounts, Microsoft says Whiteboard continues there.
Source: Microsoft Support: Retirement of the standalone Microsoft Whiteboard apps for Windows, iOS, and Android, checked on 22 October 2026. If anything here differs from that page, the page is right.
So if you used the Whiteboard app on a Windows PC, and especially if you used it with a personal account, you may be looking for a whiteboard that is an app on your PC again.
What Terra Board gives you
- A real desktop app. Installed on Windows, opens from the Start menu, works offline.
- No account. Nothing to sign in to. Cloud sync exists, but it's off until you turn it on.
- Your boards are files on your PC, in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Terra Board\Library. Uninstalling the app doesn't delete them. - Free. No subscription, no board limit, and it updates itself.
- An infinite canvas with sticky notes, text, shapes, frames, arrows, checklists, tables, images, video and PDFs.
- Copy text from images and scanned PDFs with Windows' built-in text recognition, on your computer.
- Share a board over Wi-Fi with people in the same room: they open it in their browser, and you approve each one.
Draw like you did in Whiteboard
- A freehand pen with smooth ink, its own colours and sizes. Press P.
- A highlighter for marking up screenshots, PDFs and notes. Press M.
- Bring your old boards along as images or PDFs: paste or drop them onto a board and draw on top.
- Nothing gets lost: Ctrl+H brings back anything from the last 30 days.
Free · 64-bit installer, about 115 MB · Also for Linux (beta) · More about Terra Board