How canvas-browser works
The short version
- You enter a domain and pick a country.
- A browser starts in that country and opens the site.
- The page appears in a tile. Move it, resize it, put others next to it.
- Close the tile and that browser is destroyed, with everything in it.
The site talks to the remote browser, not to this computer. Nothing to install, no extension, no account.
Six tiles can be live at once, because each one is a browser we pay to run. A tile that goes off screen is released after a moment and shows a resume button.
Boards
A board is a list of sites and the country each one opens from. Open it and you get the same tiles in the same places every time. The board is stored in the link, so sending someone a board sends them the layout, not your browsers. They get their own.
| Board | Sites it opens | Tiles |
|---|---|---|
| News front pages in four countries | bbc.co.uk, spiegel.de, lemonde.fr, news.ycombinator.com | 4 |
| Amazon in three countries | amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de | 3 |
| Stock markets in four countries | finviz.com, londonstockexchange.com, boerse-frankfurt.de, aastocks.com | 4 |
| Websites that never changed | berkshirehathaway.com, cameronsworld.net, lingscars.com, arngren.net | 4 |
| Netflix in three countries | netflix.com, netflix.com, netflix.com | 3 |
Keyboard
| drag | move the paper |
| wheel | scroll the board |
| ctrl+wheel | zoom the board |
| arrows | pan, hold shift to go further |
| n | add a site |
| f | fit every tile on screen |
| t | tidy the tiles into the grid that fits them best |
| 1 2 3 4 | lay the tiles out in that many columns, so 2 is a 2 x 2 |
| b | show or hide the boards panel |
| + - 0 | zoom the board, 0 returns to 100% |
| tab | select the next tile |
| m | maximise or restore the selected tile |
| r | reload the selected tile |
| w | close the selected tile |
| [ ] | zoom the page inside the selected tile |
| esc | deselect, or leave a maximised tile |
Privacy
Sites you open do not reach this machine, so they cannot read its cookies, storage or fingerprint. They see the remote browser, and it is discarded when the tile closes.
We do not record which addresses you open. Everything we collect, and everything we do not.
Questions
- I used Wikiboard. Is this the same thing?
- No. Wikiboard drew your Wikipedia click path as a graph of connected article nodes, and wikiboard.org has been returning a suspended-service error since before 20 August 2026. This is a board of live websites you arrange yourself, Wikipedia included. Every Wikiboard alternative, compared
- Is it free?
- Yes, no account. Six tiles can be live at once, because each one is a browser we pay to run.
- Why did a tile freeze?
- It went off screen, or it was the oldest one over the limit. Its browser was released. Press resume.
- Can I log into sites?
- Yes. The login goes with the browser when the tile closes, so you would do it again next time.
- Can other people see my board?
- No. A board link carries the layout. Whoever opens it gets their own browsers.
- Is this a VPN?
- No. A VPN routes this computer through another country. Here the browser is in the other country and this computer receives a picture of it.