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Fast, local-first visual workspace

Jestral

Give the whole project room.

Lay out references, notes, tasks and connected boards on one canvas. Jestral keeps the work local and the context visible.

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The Jestral app showing the Project Lumen first-playable pitch with a cinematic key image, labelled player-journey connectors, nested boards, tasks, and a world-rules table.
Project Lumen gameplay concept showing a flooded station mapped with light.

Project Lumen / working pitch

Watch the pitch
come together.

This is Project Lumen: references, world rules, player flow and production tasks laid out as the project developed.

Project
Project Lumen
Format
Game pitch

01

Find the look

Start with the images you keep coming back to.

Place them beside the research and the half-formed notes. Patterns show up sooner when the material is visible.

A cinematic Project Lumen skydome colour study with a lone navigator overlooking a drowned research station
Colour script / Skydome study
Project Lumen character study with survival equipment and a navigation device
Character / Field navigator

02

Connect the thinking

Turn the references into a pitch someone can follow.

Here, the world rule leads into the player loop, then into the work needed to prove it. Connectors make that route explicit; nested boards keep the detail nearby.

The Project Lumen first playable pitch arranged in Jestral with a dominant cinematic world image, a labelled three-step player journey, skydome annotation, a production task, and image-backed nested boards
Actual Jestral board
01Image-led hierarchy
02Labelled routes
03Nested boards
04Tasks & tables

03

Keep working

Stay on the board when the idea gets practical.

Add the task, table or sub-board where it belongs. The plan stays beside the material that prompted it, so the reasoning does not disappear into another app.

Nested boards

Open up one part of the project.

Move into a character, scene or production system, then pull back to the whole pitch.

Local-first

No connection? Keep working.

Projects are stored locally, so the board is still there when the Wi-Fi is not.

Your workspace

Set it up your way.

Change the canvas, toolbar and shortcuts to suit the work in front of you.

Local-first

Your board remains available offline.

Built for big boards

Keep the overview as the work fills up.

Free core

The tools you need to make the board are free.

Boards for very different work

See how the board
changes with the job.

The shape comes from the project. A bakery launch, a live show and a footwear range each need a different mix of images, notes, timings and decisions.

A bakery brand launch board in Jestral with a large storefront image, packaging studies, brand-position document, voice note, launch task, connectors, and nested packaging and service boards
Built in Jestral · Light theme

Bakery launch / brand and service

Build the bakery before the doors open.

The shopfront and packaging sit beside the brand position, tone of voice and launch checklist. You can see whether the promise holds together.

01
Brand position
02
Launch prototype
03
Packaging sub-board

Why I built it

The board kept getting in the way.

A useful tool turned into another monthly bill.

A busy board slowed down just when the project became interesting.

Basic fixes spent years on somebody else’s roadmap.

A big board should still feel quick.

Jestral only renders what is in view and is built to handle dense boards. Add hundreds of items without turning every pan and zoom into a wait.

Keep the project where you put it.

Use browser storage or choose a folder on your machine. Local projects are not uploaded to Jestral’s servers. Basic product analytics are kept separate from your project content.

Pay once, or use the free version.

The core app is free. The Lifetime unlock is one payment for extra ways to tailor the workspace, with updates included. Any future hosted cloud service would be separate.

Pricing

The full canvas is free.

Notes, images, tasks, tables, connectors and nested boards are all in the free version. The Lifetime unlock adds ways to tailor the workspace; it does not change what you can make.

Free

£0

No account. No time limit.

  • Notes, lists, tables, documents, tasks and media
  • Drawing, frames and containers
  • Connectors and mind maps
  • Nested boards and multi-board projects
  • The same performance engine as the paid tier
  • Core updates included
  • Local project storage
  • No account required

The free version does not watermark your work. Free and Lifetime boards can contain the same material.

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Early Adopter

Lifetime

£39£79

One payment · early-adopter price

  • Everything in Free
  • Themes
  • Custom toolbar layout
  • Custom keybinds
  • Canvas customisation
  • Font selection
  • Advanced search and boardmarks
  • Minimap navigation
  • Tags and filtering
  • Extended export options
  • Templates and custom default cards
  • Support independent development

For people who want to spend less time setting up and moving around the workspace. The price rises to £79 after the early-adopter period.

Coming Soon

Enterprise

Custom

For larger organisations

  • Everything in Lifetime
  • Dedicated support
  • Custom integrations
  • Priority feature requests
  • Onboarding and training
Coming Soon

Modules are separate tools for jobs such as presentations. Each one will have its own one-off price. The core app and its updates stay free.

Side by side

What the £39 unlock changes.

It changes how Jestral is set up and how quickly you can move around it. It does not change what the board can contain or the quality of the result.

FeatureFreeLifetime£39
Notes, lists, documents
Tables
Tasks with priorities
Images, audio, video
Embed media
Drawing tools
Connectors & mind maps
Containers & framing
Board nesting
Full performance engine
All updates included
Local-first data
No account required
Themes
Custom keybinds
Custom toolbar
Canvas customisation
Font selection
Advanced search
Boardmarks
Minimap navigation
Tags & filtering
Extended export
Templates
Custom default cards

Roadmap

What I'm building next

I ship Jestral in public. These are the next things on the bench; the backlog shows direction, not a promise or a date.

Major work

Coming soon

AI Integration & Flow

Use your own API keys to create images, video, music and text without leaving the board.

Coming soon

Desktop App

Windows and macOS apps with less browser chrome and tighter access to local files.

Coming soon

Presentation Module

Turn a board into a presentation without rebuilding it in a slide app.

Coming soon

Smaller additions

Coming soon

Clean Nav Mode

Press one key to hide the interface and leave the board on screen.

Coming soon

Board-Wide Export

Export a complete board without stitching together screenshots.

Coming soon

Feature Voting

Put your vote behind the backlog items you want sooner.

Coming soon

Backlog

On the radar

Video Editor Module

Cut video inside the graph, close to the notes and references around it.

Planned

Dashboards

Roll up tasks, tags and board content into a practical project view.

Planned

AI Nexus

Run AI tasks from Jestral while keeping the process visible and under your control.

Planned

Custom Themes

Make and share themes beyond the built-in set.

Planned

Colour Palette System

Save project colours once and reuse them across the workspace.

Planned

SSO Authentication

Organisation sign-in for account access.

Planned

Cloud Service

Managed sync for people who want it; local projects remain the default.

Planned

Good to know

Questions people ask

Project Lumen / working board

Project Lumen
Tide Archive / 01

“Make the tide readable before the player has words for it.”

Put the whole project
on the board.

Keep the source material where you can see it. Open a detail when you need it; pull back when you need the whole project.

Local-first · No account required

Open the free app in your browser. Start with the work already in front of you.

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