Oqiva
A shared whiteboard for Frappe

Think together on one canvas.

Oqiva is a shared whiteboard for diagrams, flows and ideas. Draw, map and plan with your team in real time, and keep every board on a server you control.

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Open source (MIT) on GitHubRuns on your own serverNo tracking

An Oqiva board with a product roadmap. A second person's pointer and name tag are on one of the cards, and their avatar is in the top bar.

Make anything you would sketch on a wall:

  • Roadmaps
  • Sprint planning
  • Retrospectives
  • Customer journeys
  • Mind maps
  • Flowcharts
  • Architecture maps
  • Wireframes
  • Org charts
  • SWOT analyses
  • Process maps
  • Brainstorms

One canvas, three ways to think

Free-form drawing, mind maps and flowcharts live on the same board, so a plan, its reasoning and its process never get separated.

01

Map your ideas

Type the central idea, press Tab for a branch and Enter for the next one. Branches pick up their own colours and icons, the map arranges itself, and you can fold away whole branches when the conversation moves on.

  • Built for the keyboard, with an outline view of the same map
  • Drag a branch to move it; paste a list and it becomes a map

All about mind maps

A colourful mind map with the central question in the middle and branches for ideas, risks, questions, quick wins and next steps
02

Draw the process

Add a step after the selected one with a single key. Decisions get Yes and No branches, arrows route themselves around other steps, and Tidy up lays the whole chart out again in one move you can undo.

  • Start, process, decision and input or output steps
  • Top to bottom or left to right, with optional step numbers

All about flowcharts

A flowchart of a sign-up process with decisions for valid details and a confirmed email, and a failure path that loops back
03

Lay it all out

Shapes, text, sticky notes, tables, icons and pictures on an infinite canvas. Lines stay attached when you move things, frames name the sections, and a small map in the corner keeps you oriented on a big board.

  • A shape library for architecture, flows and wireframes
  • Snapping guides, grouping, alignment and undo that works

All about the canvas

A product roadmap board with Now, Next and Later columns of coloured cards, and two boxes for what is not being done and open questions

Don’t start from a blank page

About forty ready-made templates for planning, retros, journeys, org charts, architecture and more. Each one becomes your own copy to change however you like.

The Product roadmap template on an Oqiva board
Product roadmapPlanning
The Sprint planning template on an Oqiva board
Sprint planningPlanning
The Customer journey map template on an Oqiva board
Customer journey mapProduct and design
The SWOT analysis template on an Oqiva board
SWOT analysisStrategy
The Web app architecture template on an Oqiva board
Web app architectureEngineering
The Team retrospective template on an Oqiva board
Team retrospectiveTeams
The User story map template on an Oqiva board
User story mapProduct and design
The OKR tree template on an Oqiva board
OKR treePlanning
Scroll sideways to see more.See the kinds of template

Better together, and not in each other’s way

Everyone sees the same board at the same moment, and nobody overwrites anyone.

A board with a comment thread open beside the card it is about, and another person's avatar in the top bar
See who is herePointers, selections and names in each person’s own colour.
Talk on the workPin a comment to a card, mention a teammate with @, resolve it when done.
Go back in timeVersions are kept as you work. Name one, restore one, undo the restore.
Share exactly enoughView, comment or edit, by person or by link, and take it back instantly.

Describe it. Get a first draft.

Write what you want in plain words and Oqiva draws a flowchart, an architecture diagram or a mind map in free space on your board.

  • It arrives as one step, so Undo takes it away
  • Only the text you type is sent. Nothing else on your board is
  • Off until your administrator turns it on

How AI diagrams work

An architecture diagram of an online shop, with lanes for Clients, Services and Data, drawn from a one-sentence description
How Oqiva fits into your own server Browsers talk to your Frappe server, which holds Oqiva, your users, the database and the files. An optional dashed line goes out to an AI provider, carrying only the text someone types. BrowserBrowserBrowser Your Frappe server OqivaUsers and roles DatabaseFiles Boards, comments, versions AI provider (optional) People only the typed text

Yours to run

Oqiva is a Frappe app. It installs next to your other apps and uses the users, roles and backups you already have.

  • Boards live in your database, on your server
  • Every permission is checked on the server, never only in the browser
  • MIT licensed: read it, change it, run it

How to install it

~40ready-made templates
10people tested editing one board at once
6ways to take your work out: PNG, JPEG, SVG, PDF, print and board file
0cookies or trackers on this website
Blog

Case studies, tips and news are on the way

We are preparing business case studies, practical tips, product news and software suggestions for teams that like to think visually.

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Bring your team’s thinking onto one canvas.

Tell us about your setup at contact@oqiva.in and we will help you get started, whether you already run Frappe or not.

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