Drawboard Projects11.6.1 - App Store

Your collaborative and real-time workspace for design review. Drawboard Projects helps architecture, engineering and construction teams globally save valuable project time by streamlining workflows in the design review lifecycle.

- Mark up on the move: Forget pen and paper with fast and accurate markups
- Cloud collaboration: Collaborate with your team in one location and from any location, with markups synced within seconds.
- Best-in-class ink: With Apple Pencil compatibility, write your notes and feel the tactility of a pen pressed to paper with pressure-sensitive ink
- Instant co-ordination: Manage and mitigate issues with real-time drawing coordination
- Fits your flow: App integrations to connect and improve your existing design workflow.
- Discuss changes: Keep all discussions right on the drawing so that everyone can see the context behind the decisions that were made.

A Projects account is required to use this application.

Version History - Bug Fixes
• Erasing over a page with a lot of markup no longer freezes the app.
• Visual fixes for iOS 26 and iOS 27.
• Long editing sessions and drawings with many photos use much less memory, so the app is far less likely to close unexpectedly.
• Adding photos is faster and uses less memory.
• Fixed a crash when adding a large photo from the camera or photo library.
• Fixed a crash when deleting the last point of a line or shape.
• Less battery and data use when browsing a workspace you've been invited to. 11.6.1 Oct 2 - Bug Fixes
• Erasing over a page with a lot of markup no longer freezes the app.
• Visual fixes for iOS 26 and iOS 27. 11.6.0 Sep 21 What's New
• Text markup — highlight, underline and strikethrough text directly on your drawings. Placed one over the wrong words? Drag its grippers to adjust the
range.
• Images in the Markup Library — save an image as a markup symbol and reuse it across your projects. Symbols keep their images when exported and imported.

Improved
• A cleaner annotations list with clearer sort and filter controls.
• Fixes to the canvas toolbar and to deleting annotations. 11.5.0 Sep 11 What's New
• Integrations — see what a connected provider says about your documents, and run what it offers, without leaving the app.
• Export the annotations list to CSV.

Bug Fixes
• Measurement captions no longer show only their first line.
• Snapping, resize handles and comment pins behave in more cases.
• A crash in the canvas selection bar. 11.4.0 Sep 8 # What's New
• Download a PDF of any drawing or document, complete with your markups, straight to your device — ready to save, email, or share.
• Take a photo with the camera in one tap, anywhere you can add an image.
• A cleaner, more consistent look for the canvas, especially in dark mode.
• Improved memory and battery usage.

# Bug Fixes
• Fixed two crashes that could occur when opening certain documents.
• Fixed layout issues on iPad, including list rows overflowing and overlapping indicators.
• Fixed a crash during upload.
• Fixed a crash when accessing the Photos tab.
• Fixed a crash using the overlays feature. 11.3.3 Aug 25 # What's New
• Download a PDF of any drawing or document, complete with your markups, straight to your device — ready to save, email, or share.
• Take a photo with the camera in one tap, anywhere you can add an image.
• A cleaner, more consistent look for the canvas, especially in dark mode.
• Improved memory and battery usage.

# Bug Fixes
• Fixed two crashes that could occur when opening certain documents.
• Fixed layout issues on iPad, including list rows overflowing and overlapping indicators.
• Fixed a crash during upload.
• Fixed a crash when accessing the Photos tab. 11.3.2 Aug 22 # What's New
• Download a PDF of any drawing or document, complete with your markups, straight to your device — ready to save, email, or share.
• Take a photo with the camera in one tap, anywhere you can add an image.
• A cleaner, more consistent look for the canvas, especially in dark mode.
• Improved memory and battery usage.

# Bug Fixes
• Fixed two crashes that could occur when opening certain documents.
• Fixed layout issues on iPad, including list rows overflowing and overlapping indicators.
• Fixed a crash during upload. 11.3.1 Aug 21 # What's New
• Download a PDF of any drawing or document, complete with your markups, straight to your device — ready to save, email, or share.
• Take a photo with the camera in one tap, anywhere you can add an image.
• A cleaner, more consistent look for the canvas, especially in dark mode.
• Improved memory and battery usage.

# Bug Fixes
• Fixed two crashes that could occur when opening certain documents.
• Fixed layout issues on iPad, including list rows overflowing and overlapping indicators. 11.3.0 Aug 19 New features:
• Mark up photos directly from an Issue or Task, without going to the Photos tab
• Step through issues one by one with new Previous and Next buttons in the issue details sheet
• See at a glance which issues and tasks have photos attached, and filter your list by attachments and links
• Section headers now show how many items they hold, and how many of those match your current search or filter
• Open the layers and issues on earlier revisions of a drawing

Improvements:
• Page scales you set in Projects are now read correctly by other PDF apps
• Measurements in feet and inches now display properly when your drawings are opened elsewhere
• Imperial areas and volumes now always use square and cubic feet, so units stay consistent across a page
• Smoother, faster zooming and panning on large drawings
• Panning near the edge of a zoomed-in drawing no longer switches you to the next drawing by accident
• When a tool isn't available, tapping it now explains why

Bug fixes:
• Fixed a crash that could occur when zooming a long way into a drawing
• Fixed colours appearing incorrectly in night mode and the other colour modes
• Fixed tools becoming unusable after switching to a revision added on the web
• Fixed missing resize handles on rectangles, polygons and area measurements
• Fixed a callout's outline not updating when you changed its text colour
• Fixed uploads failing for files with a quotation mark in the name
• Fixed duplicate entries appearing in the Recent scales list 11.2.1 Aug 10 New features:
• Mark up photos directly from an Issue or Task, without going to the Photos tab
• Step through issues one by one with new Previous and Next buttons in the issue details sheet
• See at a glance which issues and tasks have photos attached, and filter your list by attachments and links
• Section headers now show how many items they hold, and how many of those match your current search or filter
• Open the layers and issues on earlier revisions of a drawing

Improvements:
• Page scales you set in Projects are now read correctly by other PDF apps
• Measurements in feet and inches now display properly when your drawings are opened elsewhere
• Imperial areas and volumes now always use square and cubic feet, so units stay consistent across a page
• Smoother, faster zooming and panning on large drawings
• Panning near the edge of a zoomed-in drawing no longer switches you to the next drawing by accident
• When a tool isn't available, tapping it now explains why

Bug fixes:
• Fixed a crash that could occur when zooming a long way into a drawing
• Fixed colours appearing incorrectly in night mode and the other colour modes
• Fixed tools becoming unusable after switching to a revision added on the web
• Fixed missing resize handles on rectangles, polygons and area measurements
• Fixed a callout's outline not updating when you changed its text colour
• Fixed uploads failing for files with a quotation mark in the name
• Fixed duplicate entries appearing in the Recent scales list 11.2.0 Aug 5 What's New

- Page scales — Set a scale once per page, from ISO/imperial presets, a custom ratio, or by calibrating against a known length. Every measurement on the page uses it automatically, and scales sync with your team and work offline. The current scale is always visible in the corner of the canvas.
- Volume tool — Add a depth to area measurements to take off volumes and wall areas.
- More measurement options — Line endings for length measurements, caption placement above or on the line, adjustable leader lengths, and imperial scales shown the natural way (1″ = 20′).
- Markup List — Review every markup in a drawing from a new docked list, with columns and totals for each measurement type, plus search, sorting, and filters.
- Markup Library — Measurements can now be saved and reused from your Markup Library.

Improvements & Fixes

- View titles now show the project name when the sidebar is hidden.
- Task and issue filters stay open while you apply several at once, and deleting an attachment asks for confirmation first.
- Fixed links from a drawing to a document not opening.
- Fixed some PDFs incorrectly asking for a password when opening.
- Fixed keyboard focus, layout, and stability issues.
- Fix a compatibility issue with iOS 17. 11.1.1 Jul 30 What's New

- Page scales — Set a scale once per page, from ISO/imperial presets, a custom ratio, or by calibrating against a known length. Every measurement on the page uses it automatically, and scales sync with your team and work offline. The current scale is always visible in the corner of the canvas.
- Volume tool — Add a depth to area measurements to take off volumes and wall areas.
- More measurement options — Line endings for length measurements, caption placement above or on the line, adjustable leader lengths, and imperial scales shown the natural way (1″ = 20′).
- Markup List — Review every markup in a drawing from a new docked list, with columns and totals for each measurement type, plus search, sorting, and filters.
- Markup Library — Measurements can now be saved and reused from your Markup Library.

Improvements & Fixes

- View titles now show the project name when the sidebar is hidden.
- Task and issue filters stay open while you apply several at once, and deleting an attachment asks for confirmation first.
- Fixed links from a drawing to a document not opening.
- Fixed some PDFs incorrectly asking for a password when opening.
- Fixed keyboard focus, layout, and stability issues. 11.1.0 Jul 28 # New Features

- Measurement Overhaul — A completely refreshed measurement experience, including a new Perimeter tool and a unified Area tool, with updated icons and default colors.
- Customizable Measurement Captions — Show or hide the label, length, perimeter, area, and angle independently. Drag captions to reposition them, rotate them, and connect them back to the annotation with a leader line.
- Custom Measurement Labels — Add your own text label above any measurement.
- Annotation Subjects — Every annotation now has a Subject field that you can edit from the toolbar, the properties editor, or the selection popover, with sensible defaults for each tool.
- Cleaner Presence List — Your own avatar is no longer shown alongside collaborators in the presence list.

# Bug Fixes

- Fixed annotations showing "Unknown" as the author in the info panel.
- Various measurement annotation fixes.
- Callout and text-highlight rendering improvements.
- Improved real-time collaboration reliability.
- General stability and performance improvements. 11.0.0 May 21 * What's New
- PDF Bookmarks are now available on the canvas if a file provides them.

* Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with measurement scales calibrated with fractional feet & inches. 10.9.1 Apr 10 * What's New
- PDF Bookmarks are now available on the canvas if a file provides them. 10.9.0 Apr 1 * What's New
- The Polygon Area & Rectangle Area tools have been merged into a unified Area tool.
- A new Polyline Length tool is now available.
- The Drawings & Documents lists now display the avatar of team members currently working on a specific document.
- The canvas will automatically scroll when creating an annotation and getting close to the edge.

* Bug Fixes
- Fix Quick Upload for files stored on a Cloud Storage provider (e.g. iCloud).
- The outline of selected outlines will now remain at a constant thickness while zooming in or out.
- Fixed a problem where using "Open in Projects" in other apps would not do anything.
- Fixes an issue where the text in text boxes would appear cropped. 10.8.2 Mar 25 * What's New
- The Polygon Area & Rectangle Area tools have been merged into a unified Area tool.
- A new Polyline Length tool is now available.
- The Drawings & Documents lists now display the avatar of team members currently working on a specific document.
- The canvas will automatically scroll when creating an annotation and getting close to the edge.

* Bug Fixes
- Fix Quick Upload for files stored on a Cloud Storage provider (e.g. iCloud).
- The outline of selected outlines will now remain at a constant thickness while zooming in or out.
- Fixed a problem where using "Open in Projects" in other apps would not do anything. 10.8.1 Mar 20 * What's New
- The Polygon Area & Rectangle Area tools have been merged into a unified Area tool.
- A new Polyline Length tool is now available.
- The Drawings & Documents lists now display the avatar of team members currently working on a specific document.
- The canvas will automatically scroll when creating an annotation and getting close to the edge.

* Bug Fixes
- Fix Quick Upload for files stored on a Cloud Storage provider (e.g. iCloud).
- The outline of selected outlines will now remain at a constant thickness while zooming in or out. 10.8.0 Mar 19 # What's New
- More elements of the app will now update in real-time as someone makes adjustments on another device.
- The counts of drawings, documents, tasks, and photos are now displayed in a project's sidebar.
- Polygon and polyline annotations can have vertices inserted or deleted at any time.

# Bug Fixes
- The vertices of cloud annotations can be moved again.
- Fixed a problem where past annotations would reappear when annotating under poor network connectivity.
- Fixed a problem where the app might crash on launch. 10.7.2 Mar 4 # What's New
- More elements of the app will now update in real-time as someone makes adjustments on another device.
- The counts of drawings, documents, tasks, and photos are now displayed in a project's sidebar.
- Polygon and polyline annotations can have vertices inserted or deleted at any time.

# Bug Fixes
- The vertices of cloud annotations can be moved again.
- Fixed a problem where past annotations would reappear when annotating under poor network connectivity. 10.7.1 Feb 27 # What's New
- More elements of the app will now update in real-time as someone makes adjustments on another device.
- The counts of drawings, documents, tasks, and photos are now displayed in a project's sidebar.
- Polygon and polyline annotations can have vertices inserted or deleted at any time.

# Bug Fixes
- The vertices of cloud annotations can be moved again. 10.7.0 Feb 20 Bug fixes and improvements. 10.6.0 Feb 5 Various bug fixes & improvements. 10.5.0 Jan 29 What's New:
- Workspace invites can now be accepted by the app.

Bug Fixes:
- Improved the canvas performance while zooming.
- Inserting a Task pin now correctly unhides all the pins for that Task.
- Fixed an issue where tapping a pin would sometimes revert the user to the Projects dashboard.
- Better troubleshooting for potential sync problems. 10.4.0 Jan 13 What's New:
- Comments and Tasks pins are now only draggable when a pin tool is selected. This prevents accidental drags when panning or zooming a document.
- Dynamic Tokens in stamps and markups are now interpreted when inserting an annotation with specific "{{ }}" tags in it.

Bug Fixes:
- Pasted annotations are not automatically grouped.
- Documents can be filtered by discipline.
- When locating a pin on the canvas, the sidebar dismisses. 10.3.0 12/05/2025