# Whiteboard - Widget Messaging — Pics & Drawings On Your Widget

> Send visual messages and drawings to friends' home screen widgets. (iPhone/iPad app by Ample Software LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/whiteboard-widget-messaging/id1544528796 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Ample Software LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/921349096)
- Category: Social Networking, Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.20/5 from 465 App Store ratings · 46 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 29 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2020-12-17
- Data updated: 2026-08-23
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/whiteboard-widget-messaging/id1544528796/reviews.md

## What is Whiteboard?

Send doodles, drawings, messages, and more directly to your friends’ widgets!

Whiteboard makes staying connected fun and creative. Share quick sketches, notes, photos, and even group messages that appear right on your friends’ home screens.

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Drawing

Choose from different pen styles, thicknesses, and colors—or create your own custom colors and save them as presets. Add backgrounds, photos from your library or camera, text, and more. Save drafts to finish your creations later.

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Friends

Your account starts as private so only friends can send you messages. Switch to public if you’d like anyone in the app to connect with you. Finding friends is simple—search nearby, sync your contacts, or share your invite code.

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Groups

Create groups to share doodles and messages between multiple friends all in one widget. Think of it as group chat, but more fun and visual.

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Widgets

Add multiple widgets to keep up with all your messages. Choose from:
- Recent Messages: See the latest updates from friends and groups.
- Friend Widget: View the most recent message from a specific friend.
- Group Widget: View the most recent message from a group.

## Key features

- Send doodles, drawings, and photos to widgets
- Customizable drawing tools with saved presets
- Add photos from library or camera
- Create and message in groups
- Multiple widget options for different views
- Private by default friend connections

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remove Ads | $0.99 | one-time |
| Doodle - 1 Day Boost | $0.99 | one-time |
| Huge Tip | $9.99 | one-time |
| Mountainous Tip | $19.99 | one-time |
| Large Tip | $4.99 | one-time |
| Medium Tip | $2.99 | one-time |
| Small Tip | $0.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Whiteboard?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 💡 Fun and creative drawing app for couples and friends
- 📱 Widget feature for home screen display
- ✉️ Easy message sharing between contacts
- 🎨 Drawing tools and color wheel functionality
- 📧 Email-based authentication (no phone number required)
- 🏆 Drawing contest feature
- 👥 Multi-user support for groups and friends

**Cons**

- 🐛 Widget consistently fails to display messages
- 🐛 App crashes frequently, especially after recent updates
- 🐛 Drawing features broken (undo, zoom, color selection)
- ⚠️ Recent update significantly degraded functionality
- 💸 Hidden charges not clearly disclosed
- 🐛 Messages and drawings fail to send
- ⚠️ App appears abandoned with no active maintenance
- 🐛 Bucket tool erases drawings instead of filling
- 🐛 Zoom feature causes glitches and data loss
- ⚠️ Widget requires app to be open to update

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Widget displays blank or grey, doesn't show messages
- App freezes and crashes when zooming in on drawings
- Undo function causes drawings to disappear or app to crash
- Color selection doesn't apply to drawings
- Zoom feature removed in recent update, breaking functionality
- Eyedropper tool doesn't work properly after update
- Erase option missing after update
- Messages fail to send to friends and groups
- Drawings get deleted when attempting to send
- Group chat rooms don't appear on widget
- Bucket tool erases entire drawing instead of filling
- Recent chats won't load
- Widget impossible to add on some devices
- Drafts significantly lower drawing quality with white line artifacts
- Zoom glitch makes zoomed section become full drawing
- Loading popup gets stuck and won't stop
- Doodles display as blank white space

**Most requested features**

- Zoom in/out functionality for detailed drawing
- Eyedropper/color picker tool
- Layer support for complex drawings
- Ability to delete drawings from profile
- Ability to delete groups
- Custom color saving
- Nicknames for contacts (like Snapchat)
- Better bucket fill tool (non-destructive)
- Multiple widgets for different contacts
- Separate tabs for friends vs recommendations when sending
- Widget dark line removal/redesign
- More brush textures and colors
- Automatic widget updates without opening app
- Color code input option
- Better color wheel functionality

## Recent user reviews (10 of 46)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/whiteboard-widget-messaging/id1544528796/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Horrible

*2026-02-08, version 3.0.7*

This app sucks it won't show my messages on my widget and everytime it starts loading and won't stop

### 1/5 — App is broken

*2025-12-04, version 3.0.7*

The apps been abandoned for a while now. Now it’s completely unusable. None of the tools work :(

### 1/5 — Update made it worse

*2024-12-25*

This new update made a perfectly good app unusable. My boyfriend and I use this app for goodnight doodles and it was working fine until they updated it. It has the following issues: if you press undo it makes it so your doodle doesn’t show up 2. Sometimes when you press undo the app crashes 3. when you select a color it doesn’t show up half the time 4. You cannot zoom in anymore 5. The erase option is gone. This “update” destroyed the app and we will be using another one

### 1/5 — Does not update on bf’s iphone 15 pro max

*2024-12-23*

It kinda defeats the purpose of the app to not have the notes show on his home screen. We did try deleting the widget itself and reinstalling but it didn’t work. Please advise how to update it!

### 1/5 — New update

*2024-11-11*

The new update basically made it 10x harder to make a nice drawing by removing the ability to zoom in on the drawing and the eyedropper not being being applied to the drawing itself. Makes it much harder to make anything of use.

### 2/5 — Recent update is terrible

*2024-11-11*

I can’t zoom in on my drawings anymore so drawing details is impossible. And I can’t seem to figure out how you’re supposed to use the dropper tool now? It doesn’t let me leave the colour selection tab with the dropper. I can’t select anything from the drawing because it doesn’t let me go back to the drawing when i equip the dropper so it’s basically rendered useless. The app was fine before this update.

### 4/5 — Don't know

*2024-03-23, version 2.4.16*

Yea

### 1/5 — Widget Feature Doesn't Work

*2023-07-13*

Widget is consistently blank and never displays and drawings despite being connected to a group and/or friend.

### 2/5 — Cool if it worked.

*2023-07-03*

Got this app because the premis was cool but i could not get the widget to work. It would just be grey and would not show the message i was sent despite me following the directions in app of how to set up the friends widget.

### 3/5 — Cant delete groups

*2023-05-26*

i cant delete thw groups that i messed up making

## Frequently asked questions about Whiteboard

### What does the Whiteboard widget messaging app do?

This app allows you to send doodles, drawings, photos, and messages directly to your friends' home screen widgets. It makes staying connected more fun and visual by displaying these creations on their devices.

### What are the key features of this app?

Key features include a robust drawing tool with custom colors and pen styles, the ability to add photos and text to your creations, group messaging for multiple friends, and various widget options to view recent messages or specific friend/group updates.

### Is this app free to use?

The app is free to download and use, but it offers in-app purchases. These purchases likely enhance the user experience or provide additional customization options beyond the core free features.

### How do I add friends or create groups?

You can add friends by searching nearby, syncing your contacts, or sharing an invite code. The app's account is private by default, ensuring only approved friends can send messages. You can also create groups to share visual messages with multiple friends simultaneously.

### What kind of widgets are available?

The app offers several widget types: 'Recent Messages' to see the latest updates from all friends and groups, 'Friend Widget' to view the most recent message from a specific friend, and 'Group Widget' to see the latest message from a particular group.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.0.10 — 2026-05-11

Bug fixes

### 3.0.9 — 2026-02-17

Bug fixes and enhancements

### 3.0.7 — 2025-11-10

Bug fixes and enhancements

### 3.0.6 — 2025-10-21

- Bug Fixes and Enhancements
- Added Eraser to Drawing screen

### 3.0.4 — 2025-10-07

Bug fixes and enhancements

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