Launch price: Solo £49 and Studio £129, one-off, until 31 January 2027. See pricing
Built by designers, for designers · for architects, interior designers & archviz studios

The whole project. All on one board.

The all-in-one workspace for design practices. Renders, drawings, client markups, the QA list, the to-do board and the project timeline live together in one file, so you spend less time chasing and more time designing.

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One workspace for every project

Everything about the job, in one file

Most projects end up spread across a moodboard app, a markup tool, a QA spreadsheet, a programme and a separate to-do app. ARQAboard keeps the lot together in one project file on your PC, so nothing slips through the gaps.

Moodboard appMarkup toolQA spreadsheetProgrammeTo-do app
One ARQAboard project
5 → 1

Five apps, one file

References, client markups, the QA list, the timeline and the to-do board live together. Nothing to copy between tools and nothing lost in an email thread.

10 hrs

Back every month

Comments become the QA list by themselves and client markups come back in one drop. Save just 30 minutes a working day and that’s around 10 hours a month back for design work.

£99

Once, not every month

A three-person studio saves about £1,260 over three years compared with a typical £15-a-month-per-person subscription. See what your studio saves.

References and drawings

Images, renders, PDF drawing sets and Excel viewpoint lists, laid out on named boards.

Markups and QA

Client comments, sketches and stamps, gathered into a live QA table of every fix on the drawings.

Tasks and timeline

A to-do board for everything else on the job, plus a timeline of work stages and deliverables that fills in as you tick them off.

Sign-off

Client approvals recorded against each board and image, ready to export as a PDF for the project file.

Built by designers, for designers

Every tool a design practice needs to plan, review and sign off work, in one app. Each one is shown here in a few seconds. The app also shows one on its home screen every time it opens, so you pick them up as you go.

Plan the whole project

Press Shift L for the project timeline. Set a start date and deadline, add work stages and deliverables, and watch progress fill in as you tick them off.

Plan the job with Tasks

Press Shift K for a to-do board that saves inside the project. Drag cards between lists, add checklists, due dates, labels and owners, and link a task to the drawing it’s about. Start blank or from the RIBA stages.

Sketch in isometric

Turn on isometric mode with Shift I or the cube button. Lines follow the iso axes, and Tab switches the plane for rectangles and circles.

Drop anything in

Drag images, PDFs or Excel files onto the board, paste with Ctrl V, or drag pictures straight from a web page.

Before / after slider

Select the existing view and the proposed one and press Shift C. Swipe the line to show what changes, or double-click for a full-screen swipe view. It works in presentations, and clients can swipe it in review files too.

Drop in a whole drawing set

Drop several PDFs at once. Every page lands on the board in order, captioned and grouped by document, even password-protected files.

Bring in your viewpoint list

Drop an Excel or CSV file onto the board and each sheet appears as a clear table. Right-click it to turn the rows into a live QA table.

Sticky notes

Press Y and click to add a sticky note. Pick a colour in the toolbar, and drag notes between boards as work moves on.

Get around fast

Scroll to zoom, hold Space and drag to pan, and press F to fit everything on screen.

Group work into boards

Press B to draw a named board, or select images and press Alt B to wrap them in one.

Start from a template

Concept boards, material schedules, design reviews, planning packs and a workload planner, laid out with labelled boards waiting for your images.

Mark up like a drawing

Pen P, arrow A and revision cloud K. Every mark carries your name, so it’s clear who drew what.

Stamps and revision clouds

Ring an area with a revision cloud K, or stamp APPROVED, REVISE, CHECK MATERIAL, QUERY or HOLD on any image in one click.

Comment on anything

Drop a comment pin N anywhere. Each one logs who wrote it and when, takes its own colour, and has threaded replies. Each reviewer gets their own layer.

Revisions A, B, C

Drop a new render over the old one and it becomes Rev B, with the old version kept underneath. Compare any two with a before/after slider.

Measure from a plan

Draw a Measure line D over a door or gridline to set the scale, then measure in m or mm and outline rooms with Area U to get m².

Colour palettes from any image

Pull a palette of swatches from a render, material sample or photo in one click. The eyedropper has a magnifier for exact colours.

Check the composition

For archviz: lay rule of thirds, golden ratio, diagonal or centre guides over a render, and use greyscale and squint views to check the tones.

Send it for review

Menu → Share for review makes one password-protected file your client opens in any browser. Import their markups when they reply.

Client sign-off record

Clients mark each board or image Approved, Approved with comments or Changes needed. Names and dates are kept, and the record exports as a PDF.

Track every comment

Press Shift T for a live QA table with a snapshot of every comment. Sort by category, assign with due dates, tick fixes off, let clients accept them, and export to PDF or Excel.

Present it

Choose and reorder the slides, then press F5 to present full screen in the meeting. No separate deck to keep up to date.

Straight from your model

The SketchUp, Blender and 3ds Max add-ons send your scenes or cameras to ARQAboard as a ready-made board.

Pick up where you left off

ARQAboard opens on a home screen with your recent projects, templates and a new tip each time, so you’re back in the work in one click.

Stays on your PC

Projects are files in your own folders. Nothing goes to a cloud unless you share it, and shared files are encrypted. Good news for NDA work.

Also included: a sketch layer that always sits above your images, named boards with grid, collage and masonry layouts, image cropping and optimising, and export to PNG, JPG or PDF up to 8192 px, with one click to attach it to a new Outlook email.
Key feature

See the whole project, start to finish

Set a start date and a deadline, lay out the work stages and list what you need to deliver in each. Tick deliverables off as you go and the timeline fills in, so you can see at a glance whether the job is on track.

Stages and deliverables

Start from the RIBA Plan of Work, five simple stages or a blank page. Rename stages, move their dates and add your own deliverables, each with a due date.

Progress you can see

Every tick moves the project on. Each stage shows its own progress, the chart marks today and the deadline, and anything overdue turns red before it becomes a problem.

Saved with the project

The timeline lives in the same file as your boards, tasks and QA table. It stays private, is never included in review files you send to clients, and exports as a CSV when you need it.

Tasks

A to-do board for everything else on the job

Chasing consultants, ordering samples, booking site visits. Keep the jobs that aren’t markups on a simple board inside the same project, so the whole team can see what’s moving and what’s stuck.

Client review without the email chaos

Send one file. Get everyone’s comments back as a tidy layer you can show, hide and resolve.

Build the board

Collect images and PDFs, group them into boards, and sketch your own notes on top.

Share with a password

Create an encrypted review file and email it (one click opens Outlook with it attached) or share it as a web link. Send the password separately.

Clients open and mark up

They enter the password in any browser, then pin comments and draw over your images. They can’t change your board.

Import, sign off and fix

They send back a tiny file. Each person appears as their own layer, their sign-off is recorded, and every comment joins your live QA table to tick off.

See exactly what your client seesOpen a real review file in your browser, exactly as a client gets it. It’s a markup-only copy of your board: clients can comment, mark up and sign off, but can’t change your work. A short walkthrough shows them how, and they email one small file back. Nothing to install.
Try a review file
New in 3.0

Know exactly where every render was taken from

Drop a viewpoint cone on the plan to show where the camera stands and what it sees, then link it to the render. Click the cone to jump to the render, and click the badge on the render to jump back. Clients can follow them in review files too.

Chargeable changes

Mark a client comment as a chargeable change with a fee and hours. The QA table totals them, ready for the variation letter. Amounts stay private unless you choose to show them.

Your studio’s branding

Your logo, name and colour on client review files and on exported PDFs and images, so every file looks like it came from your studio.

Automatic backups

Every board is backed up as you work. Version history lets you open any earlier copy in a new tab, so a bad edit or a crash never costs you the job.

Studio licence · arriving in the next update

Shared boards for your whole team

Put a project board on your studio’s server and up to five of you can work in it at the same time. Everyone sees the same references, markups, QA list, tasks and timeline, so there’s one version of the job, not five.

One board, the whole team

The visualiser adds renders, the architect pins comments and the project lead ticks off the QA list, all in the same board.

Nothing gets overwritten

Changes are merged piece by piece, so two people can work at once without wiping out each other’s work. Version history keeps every earlier copy.

Your server, no extra cost

Boards stay on your own server or shared drive. No cloud account and no monthly fee. It’s included in the Studio licence.

Save to the shared drive

Save the project board to your studio server, NAS or shared folder, like any other project file.

Teammates open it

Up to five people on your Studio licence open the same file from their own PCs.

Work side by side

The top bar shows who else is in the board. Everyone’s changes appear on the others’ screens within seconds.

Always one version

Each save adds only what changed. If two people edit the same item, the latest wins and the earlier copy stays in version history.

Stop renting your tools

Miro and the review platforms bill every person, every month, for as long as you use them. ARQAboard is paid for once, and your whole studio keeps it.

No monthly bill

One payment, not another subscription on the studio card. Nothing to cancel, and no price rises every year.

Yours to keep

Twelve months of updates are included. Renew for new features if you want them; if you don’t, the app keeps working for good.

Clients review for free

Send review files to as many clients and consultants as you like. Nobody needs a paid seat or an account to mark up your work.

Competitor prices are for the paid plans named above, taken from their own pricing pages in October 2026 and billed yearly, converted from US dollars at about £0.75 to $1. ARQAboard is shown at full price with updates renewed every year.

Compared to other apps

PureRef is great for collecting images. Miro is great for workshops. Neither was built for taking a design through client review to sign-off.

ARQAboardPureRefMiro
Plug-ins for SketchUp, Blender & 3ds MaxEvery scene or camera lands on the board as an image in one click✓——
Import a whole set of PDFsEvery page, in order, grouped per document✓—Online only
Scale ruler and area take-offMeasure plans, elevations and renders in m, mm and m²✓—Add-on app
Revisions on the same imageRev A, B and C, with a before/after slider✓——
Revision clouds & review stampsAPPROVED, REVISE, CHECK MATERIAL…✓—Emoji stamps
QA table built from your commentsLive status, snapshots, assignees, due dates, PDF and Excel export✓—Manual tables
Project to-do board in the same fileLists, checklists, due dates and assignees, saved with the drawings✓—Online kanban
Project timeline with deliverablesStages, deadline and progress, saved with the drawings✓—Timeline templates
Client sign-off recordApproved or changes needed per image, saved as a PDF✓——
Clients review without an accountEncrypted file opens in any browser, nothing uploaded✓—Online board link
Works offline, files on your PCNothing leaves your PC unless you share it✓✓—
How you pay£99 onceOne-off or monthlyPer person, monthly
Based on each product’s own features as of October 2026, without third-party add-ons unless stated.

Plug-ins for SketchUp, Blender and 3ds Max

No more exporting views one by one and dragging them in. Free plug-ins send every scene or camera straight onto your board, named and in order, ready to mark up and share.

SketchUp

Every saved scene is exported at the size you choose and opens on your board, captioned with the model and scene name.

Blender

Send all cameras or just the selected ones as quick viewport captures, or send your finished render straight from the render window.

3ds Max

Every camera as a fast viewport grab or a full render with V-Ray, Corona, Arnold or whichever renderer you use.

Download the plug-in for SketchUp · Blender · 3ds Max

A whole drawing set on the board in one drop

Reference-board apps make you screenshot PDFs page by page. ARQAboard reads them for you, offline.

Drop several PDFs at once

Plans, sections, elevations, the client brief and the planning drawings. Select them all and drag them in together.

Every page, in order

Each page arrives as a sharp image, laid out in page order and captioned with its file name and page number.

Grouped per document

Every PDF gets its own named board with a page count, so a 40-page tender pack stays tidy next to your references.

Works with locked files

Password-protected PDFs ask for the password and import as normal. Nothing is uploaded; it all happens on your PC.

Big renders, small project files

Full-size renders and photos add up fast. Optimise images shrinks what’s stored in the project to a size you choose, so files stay quick to open, save and send, and still look sharp on screen.

Riverside House.arqaboard60 renders and photos
Before
486 MB
After
72 MB
Example using the Web / review setting (up to 2048 px). ARQAboard shows an estimate before you start.

Shrink what’s already there

Optimise every image on the canvas, just the ones you’ve selected, or a single board, all in one go.

Pick the quality

High quality (up to 4096 px), Web / review (2048 px) or Small (1600 px). Changed your mind? Undo straight afterwards.

Stay small from the start

ARQAboard can ask when you drop in a very large image, or always add images at the size you prefer.

Lighter review files too

Files you share with clients are optimised for the screen, so they’re easy to email and quick to open.

Our promise to you

ARQAboard is made by a designer who uses it on real jobs, and it keeps getting better.

Regular updates

New tools and improvements arrive regularly to keep your workflow as efficient as possible. They install themselves in the background, and every licence includes 12 months of them.

All we ask

Download the free trial and try it on a live job. Seven days, every feature, no card needed. If it doesn’t earn its place in your studio, you don’t pay a penny.

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Pay once. Own it.

Review platforms charge every person, every month. ARQAboard is a one-off licence with a year of updates included. Renew for updates if you want them; if you don’t, it keeps working.

Launch price: £49 for Solo or £129 for Studio until 31 January 2027. The discount is applied automatically at checkout.

7-day free trial

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For freelancers

Solo

One licence for one PC.
£99£99
One-off payment · 12 months of updates
  • Unlimited projects
  • Everything in the app
  • 12 months of updates included
  • Optional updates renewal: £29 a year
  • Keeps working if you don’t renew
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Studio

One licence for up to 5 PCs in your studio.
£199£199
One-off payment · 12 months of updates
  • Unlimited projects
  • Use on up to 5 PCs
  • Shared boards for up to 5 people at once
  • 12 months of updates included
  • Optional updates renewal: £79 a year
  • Keeps working if you don’t renew
Buy Studio
More than 5 people? Email hello@arqaboard.co.uk with how many PCs you need and we’ll send a practice quote.
A three-person studio on Miro Business pays about £1,600 over three years. ARQAboard Studio is £199.
Prices in GBP. VAT may be added at checkout depending on where you are.

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Questions

The short answers.

Can I run the whole project from ARQAboard?

That’s the idea. Each project file holds your references, drawings, client markups, the QA table, a Tasks board for everything else on the job and a project timeline. Tasks and the timeline stay private: they’re never included in review files you send to clients.

Can I plan the project programme in ARQAboard?

Yes. Open the Timeline (the button in the top bar, or Shift+L), set a start date and a deadline, and pick the RIBA Plan of Work stages, five simple stages or a blank timeline. Add deliverables to each stage, tick them off as you go, and the progress ring and chart show how the job is tracking against the deadline.

Can I sketch in 3D?

ARQAboard has an isometric mode for quick 3D sketches. Turn it on with the cube button or Shift+I, and the line, rectangle and circle tools snap to an isometric grid. It’s made for sketching ideas over a plan or render, not for full 3D modelling.

Can I share just part of a project with a client?

Yes. When you choose Share for review, pick Everything or Only some boards and tick the ones your client should see. The rest of the project, including your tasks and timeline, stays out of the file.

Will lots of renders make my project files huge?

They don’t have to. Optimise images shrinks the stored images to the quality you choose (High quality, Web / review or Small) and shows an estimate of the saving first. You can also set ARQAboard to add new images at that size from the start.

Can it import a whole set of PDF drawings?

Yes. Select as many PDFs as you like and drag them onto the board. Every page is imported in order, each document gets its own labelled board, and it all works offline. Very large files (over 40 pages) ask before importing.

Does it work with SketchUp, Blender and 3ds Max?

Yes. Install the free plug-in, then click Send to ARQAboard. In SketchUp every scene is saved as an image; in Blender you send viewport captures from each camera or your finished render, and in 3ds Max you choose a fast viewport capture or a full render from each camera. They all open on your board, named and in order. Windows only for now.

Does ARQAboard work offline?

Yes. The desktop app, PDF import and export all work with no internet connection. You only need a connection to send files to clients.

Where are my boards stored?

In files on your own computer (.arqaboard files), so you can keep them in your project folders and back them up like anything else. Double-click a file to open it in ARQAboard.

Can I email exports and review files from Outlook?

Yes. In the Export window, or once a review file is ready, click Email in Outlook. ARQAboard makes the file and opens a new Outlook email with it attached, the subject filled in and a short message for your client. If you don’t use Outlook, your usual mail app opens and the file is shown in its folder, ready to drag in.

What do my clients need?

Just a modern web browser. They open the review file, enter the password and their name, and start commenting. There is nothing to install and no account to create.

How secure are shared boards?

Review files are encrypted with AES-256, using a key derived from your password, so the board is unreadable without it. Use a long or generated password and send it by a different route from the file. Files can’t be revoked once sent.

Which platforms are supported?

Windows today. A Mac version is planned; join the waitlist to hear first. Clients can review on any computer or tablet with a modern browser.

Can I import my existing boards?

ARQAboard opens its own .arqaboard files and imports images and PDFs. Importing other apps’ board formats isn’t supported.

How does the free trial work?

Get a free trial code by email (no card needed), download the app and enter the code when it opens. You can use everything in it for 7 days. To keep going, buy a licence and enter the key under Menu → Licence. Everything you made during the trial carries straight over.

Windows says it protected my PC. Is ARQAboard safe to install?

Yes. Windows shows this blue screen for new apps. That’s normal. Click More info, then Run anyway. In Edge, if the download is held, choose Keep from the … menu. You only need to do this once.

What do I get with a licence?

The ARQAboard desktop app with unlimited projects, plus 12 months of updates. After that you can renew for another year of updates (£29 Solo, £79 Studio), or not renew and keep using the last version you had, for as long as you like.

Will there be online features?

Possibly. If we add online services in future, such as live commenting, they may be a separate paid add-on. The desktop app you buy will never stop working because of them.

Can I move my licence to a new PC?

Yes. Open Menu → Licence on the old PC and choose Deactivate on this PC, then enter your key on the new one. Activating needs an internet connection once; after that the app works offline.

Can I get a refund?

Yes. If ARQAboard isn’t right for you, email us within 30 days of buying for a full refund. See the refund policy.

How does the referral scheme work?

Sign up for a referral link (you don’t need a licence), then share it. When someone buys ARQAboard within 30 days of clicking your link, you earn 25% of what they paid. Our payment partner, Lemon Squeezy, tracks the sales and pays you directly. Their small fee comes out of your commission.

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