Planning canvas for technical teams
The planning tool that draws itself.
Every other canvas makes you the layout engine — dragging boxes, straightening lines, redoing it all when the plan changes. FloatChart takes the dependencies and computes the arrangement, so the picture is always right and you only think about the work.
No account needed. Opens straight into a working board.
How it works
Three moves, and the board keeps itself tidy.
There is no arrange step. Structure is something you declare, not something you maintain.
Drop a tile into a slot
Tiles land in dotted slots rather than anywhere you please. Name it, press Enter, press Tab to chain the next one. You can build a twenty-step process without touching the mouse again.
Say what depends on what
Drag from a tile's edge to the thing that follows it. That single fact is enough — column position, routing and spacing are all derived from it, and they update the moment you change your mind.
Group it however you think
Swim lanes for who owns the work, named columns for phases or sprints. One set of columns runs across every lane, so “Sprint 2” means the same thing in every row — or switch a board to per-lane columns when an engineering track runs sprints while a design track runs stages.
Why it's different
You didn't hire a layout engine.
A freeform canvas
Infinite space and a box tool. You place every shape, align every edge, and reroute every connector by hand. Then a requirement changes and you rearrange the whole diagram — so eventually you stop updating it, and the picture quietly goes stale.
FloatChart
You describe the dependencies once. Placement, routing and spacing follow from them, and they re-derive whenever the plan moves. The diagram stays accurate because keeping it accurate costs nothing.
Features
Built for planning real work, not drawing pictures.
Everything below is in the product today. Accounts and live collaboration are landing shortly — see the FAQ.
Dependency-driven layout
Column position is computed from the longest path through your graph. Move one thing and everything downstream slides along with it.
Lanes and per-lane columns
Rows for ownership, columns for phase. Each lane names its own columns, so tracks that work in different rhythms don't have to pretend otherwise.
Data-model mode
Entities, typed fields and crow's-foot relationships with orthogonal routing that hops rather than crosses. The flow board and the schema live in the same file.
Status, owners and estimates
Assign a person, an estimate and a state to any tile, then filter the board down to what's blocked, in progress or done.
RAID and MoSCoW labels
Risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies ready out of the box, plus your own. Drag a label onto a tile; click it to highlight everything carrying it.
Open questions, in place
Attach a question thread to any tile and answer it where the decision actually lives, instead of losing it in a comment feed nobody re-reads.
Pricing
Free to use today. Fair when your team grows.
Open a link to anyone and they can read the board for free — no account, no seat. New links ask for sign-in until you turn that off. No per-object limits, and the auto-layout is never gated.
Free
For personal plans and trying the whole thing out.
No card, no account.
Start now- Unlimited private boards
- 3 shared files, 5 boards each
- Flow boards and data models
- AI with your own key — nothing metered
- Full auto-layout — never limited
- Unlimited free viewers
- Version history — every change for a day, then hourly for a week and daily for 90 days · 20 named versions per file
- Export to PNG, SVG and PDF
Pro
For teams planning features, sprints and schemas together.
Billed annually
Join the waitlist- Everything in Free, plus
- Unlimited files and boards
- Live co-editing with cursors
- Version history — every change for a day, then hourly for a week and daily for 90 days · unlimited named versions
- View or edit links, revocable any time
- Password-protected links
- Mermaid import and export
- Schema import — SQL, Salesforce
Business
For organisations that need control and an audit trail.
Billed annually
Talk to us- Everything in Pro, plus
- SAML single sign-on
- SCIM provisioning
- Audit log and domain lockdown
- Priority support and onboarding
Add-on
The assistant, priced near cost.
Describe what you are planning and get a board back; point it at a meeting transcript and get the dependencies out of it. Usage is metered in credits and we charge close to what the model costs us — not a multiple of it. You can see the balance, the burn and what each request cost.
Or bring your own key. Paste an Anthropic or OpenAI key and every AI feature works with nothing metered by us and nothing billed by us — including on the free plan. A business can require its own key and switch personal ones off entirely.
1,000 credits included · top up any time
- 1 credit = $0.01 of usage
- Credits never expire
- Cancel and keep what you bought
Education and non-profit teams get Pro free — just ask.
Built and run in the United States, on US-hosted infrastructure. Invoicing, a signed DPA and security review are available on the Business plan.
FAQ
Straight answers.
Can I use it right now?
Yes. The app is live and free, and it opens straight into a working board with no signup. Your work saves in your own browser, and you can export a file to keep or share it. Accounts, cloud sync and live collaboration are the next thing we're shipping — the paid tiers above open when they land.
Why not just use Lucid, Miro or FigJam?
Use them for whiteboarding — they're good at it. They're freeform canvases, which means arranging the diagram is your job and stays your job every time the plan changes. FloatChart is opinionated on purpose: you describe dependencies and it derives the picture. That's a worse fit for a brainstorm and a much better one for a plan you'll keep editing for a quarter.
What happens to my boards if I stop paying?
Nothing is deleted, ever. A workspace over the free limits goes read-only on the extra files — you keep opening, viewing and exporting everything. Pay again and it unlocks exactly as it was.
Do I pay for people who only look at boards?
No. A link you have opened to anyone can be read without an account, free and unlimited on every plan — new links ask for sign-in until you switch that off, so opening one up is always your decision. Inside a workspace, viewers are free as well — the seat count in the admin console is the members who can edit. A subscription is tied to the account that pays for it today; billing by workspace is coming.
Where are you, and where does my data live?
FloatChart is built and operated in the United States and runs on US-hosted infrastructure. If you bring your own AI key, your prompts go to that provider under your agreement with them and never touch our metering. If you use ours, requests go to Anthropic and are governed by their terms, which we pass through in ours — we do not train on your boards and neither do they on API traffic.
What does the AI cost?
Near what it costs us. Usage is metered in credits at 1 credit = $0.01, the add-on is $10/month with 1,000 credits included, and top-ups are $5 for 500 up to $80 for 10,000. Credits are reserved before a request and settled after, so a request that fails does not burn them, and they do not expire. The alternative is free: paste your own Anthropic or OpenAI key and we meter nothing at all.
Can I get my work out?
Always. Every board exports to a documented JSON file that imports straight back, plus PNG, SVG and vector PDF — the last two are real vectors, not a picture in a wrapper. Mermaid import and export work today, so a diagram written by an AI assistant pastes in and an editable one comes back out. We'd rather you stay because leaving is easy.
Does it do data models as well as process flows?
Yes, and in the same file. Data-model mode gives you entities with typed fields, crow's-foot relationships, orthogonal routing that hops over crossings, and a snapping grid. Importing an existing schema — SQL DDL, Prisma or a Salesforce org — is next on the roadmap.
How do I hear when accounts and collaboration launch?
Email hello@floatchart.com and we'll write to you once — when it's ready, with nothing in between. If you tell us what you're planning with it, that genuinely shapes what gets built first.
Open a board and drag one thing.
You'll know within a minute whether the way it lays itself out suits how you think.