Feature category
Keep your work tidy
Work fast and stay organised: select in bulk, group and lock elements, copy a look from one to the next, and keep your canvas focused.
- Multi-select with marquee
- Shift-drag to duplicate
- Group elements together
Everything in this category
Select, group & lock
Multi-select with marquee
Switch to the Select tool, drag a box, and act on everything inside at once: move, duplicate, or delete in one step, one Cmd-Z. Or grab the eraser and wipe out whatever you drag across, the whole sweep undone in a single step.
Shift-drag to duplicate
Hold Shift and drag any element, or a whole selection, to peel off a copy: the original stays put, a translucent ghost follows your cursor, and the copy lands where you release, arrows and all.
Group elements together
Bundle shapes into a group so they move, lock, and delete as one. Ungroup any time to work on a single piece again.
Lock anything in place
Lock an element, or a whole tab, and it turns read-only, so a finished part of the diagram cannot be nudged or edited by accident.
Photoshop-style layers
Split a tab into stacking layers with live previews: hide a slice, lock it, dim it, or merge it down, and keep review notes out of the export. Bring to Front quietly does the layering for you.
Format painter
Copy one element's look, its size, colours, text style, opacity, and padding, then brush it onto the next. Consistent diagrams without re-picking every option.
Your workspace
Light or dark, your call
Flip the whole editor to a dark theme with one toggle. Toolbars, panels, dialogs, and menus all come along, and the choice sticks per device. The canvas stays crisp either way.
Panels your way
Prefer floating side panels or a clean canvas? Switch on the minimal layout and the palette and tools collapse into a compact dock with pop-out panels, the same tidy chrome you get on mobile. The choice sticks per device.
Zen mode for focus
Hit Z, or the zen button by the laser pointer, and every toolbar, panel, and tab bar drops away, leaving just your canvas. Only the zoom controls stay, with an exit button right beside them. Press Z or Esc to bring it all back.
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