Create
Touch with one finger and ink appears immediately. Two fingers navigate.
Native macOS · Open source · No account
Your trackpad isthe canvas.
Sketch a breakdown with your fingers. Snap it into a clean system diagram. Paste it straight into your next deck.
v0.1.0-beta.2 · macOS 13+ · Apple silicon & Intel
1. move your fingers
2. watch the structure emerge
meet your new thinking surface
Say hi to Trackpad Canvas
It starts like a sketchbook and ends like a diagramming tool. Everything stays local on your Mac.
One continuous flow
From messy thought to meeting-ready.
No switching apps. No wrestling with tiny PowerPoint handles.
Refine
Bind connectors, snap to an 8 pt grid, lock layers, or auto-layout a selection.
Present
Copy crisp vectors into PowerPoint, or export PNG, SVG and multi-page PDF.
no black box here
A focused Mac tool, built in the open.
Your documents are versioned .tpa files. The Mac app has no login, cloud sync, app telemetry, or hidden AI service.
{
"schemaVersion": 1,
"pages": [{
"name": "Data platform",
"layers": ["Diagram", "Notes"]
}]
}Beta installation
On your trackpad in four steps.
- 1Download the DMG
Universal build for macOS 13 and later.
- 2Drag it to Applications
The disk image includes a shortcut.
- 3Run one command in Terminal
Open Terminal, paste
xattr -cr "/Applications/Trackpad Canvas.app", then press Return. - 4Open Trackpad Canvas
This beta is open source but not yet notarized by Apple, so the one-time command lets macOS open the app normally.
Download beta DMG
SHA-256 checksum is published with every GitHub release.
less clicking, more thinking