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If you run several coding agents a day and own an iPad with a Pencil, you are who it is being built for. The community is where the beta opens up.
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Seven agents running, all of them visible at once, and a Pencil you can draw straight over the top of them. winy is the only AI tool built around the part that comes before the prompt.
One board. Three live sessions, a screenshot, handwriting that runs straight across a running terminal, and a note about the slow bit written where the slow bit is. Nothing here was exported from anywhere.
Every other tool breaks this into three apps and makes you carry the result between them. Here the mess you started with is still sitting next to the thing it turned into.
Handwriting, screenshots, a box with nothing in it yet, an arrow to somewhere you cannot name. You are allowed to be vague here, which is the whole point.
A real Claude Code or Codex session opens as a card right there. You talk to it in the space you were already thinking in, not in a box somewhere else.
A diff, a filed issue, a finished page - it lands back on the board beside the thought that caused it. The next idea starts from all of it, not from an empty box.
Drop a screenshot beside a session and it is context. Circle a paragraph and the agent next to it knows which paragraph you meant. Draw an arrow from a note to a card and you have said where to look, without typing a path.
You stop describing your context. You point at it.
Every AI product makes you go to where the AI lives. winy sends the agent to where the thinking already is.
Hold the Pencil, talk, and your words land as a prompt on the card you are pointing at. No keyboard, no switching hands. It is the fastest way to brief an agent while you are still drawing the thing you want.
A board is not only yours, either. Two people on one canvas, watching the same sessions run, writing around each other in real time. The long version of this product is the best way for two people to think together.
A graph makes you declare every relationship. A canvas lets one stay implicit until you can name it.
winy is being built in the open by one developer who uses it every day. Here is the honest state of it.
On the Mac and the iPad, used daily
In progress right now
Designed, not yet started
Most AI canvases are node graphs wearing a canvas costume: you pick a node type from a menu, a box appears, and you type inside the box. You cannot write between the boxes, because there is no between. A surface lets you mark anywhere and find the structure later, which is the order thinking actually happens in.
Three things have to be true at once, and the combination is the hard part. A notebook has the surface and the sync. A terminal canvas has the agents. Nobody has all three.
| Tool | Write anywhere | Live agents | Every device |
|---|---|---|---|
| winyiPad and Mac, Pencil-first | |||
| MaestrimacOS only, no sync by design | |||
| OpenCoveTyped nodes, no way to write on it | |||
| Flowith and n8nDataflow builders | |||
| tldraw and ExcalidrawGenuinely good surfaces | |||
| GoodNotes, Notability, OneNoteGenuinely good notebooks |
If you run several coding agents a day and own an iPad with a Pencil, you are who it is being built for. The community is where the beta opens up.
Join the Slack community