Built for hundreds of refs
Images decode and downsample on background threads, so the canvas stays smooth no matter how much you throw at it. Your board scales without your RAM paying for it.
For creatives
Motherboard is a desktop reference board built for real production work: an infinite canvas that stays fast with hundreds of images, plays video inline, and keeps every ref one search away.
Windows · macOS · Linux. Local-first, always-on-top, one-time license.
Why Motherboard
Images decode and downsample on background threads, so the canvas stays smooth no matter how much you throw at it. Your board scales without your RAM paying for it.
Drop in MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV and play it right on the canvas. Paste a YouTube link and it just plays. No browser, no tab-switching.
One global tag pool across boards, groups and notes. Type # anywhere, search from the sidebar, and jump straight to the reference you need.
Sticky notes anywhere on the canvas, a drawing layer for annotations, and a board notes panel for project metadata. Feedback lives next to the work.
Local-first with continuous saving. Boards can also live as files inside your project folder: portable, Git-friendly, watched for external changes.
Bundle a board into a single self-contained file, or share a live board with view or edit access. Recipients can fork it and make it their own.
Simple pricing
A perpetual license for local use, with an optional low-cost cloud tier for shared boards. Early-bird lifetime pricing during the beta.