Your reference board,
finally alive.

Palma is a creative workspace and moodboarding tool for designers. Drop your references, make notes, curate the vibe. All local on your machine.

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Windows · Free, forever · No account required · Runs entirely on your machine.

Find the direction in the noise.

Send the keepers to Focus and drop them into named zones: colour, texture, motion. What lands there becomes the project's direction, ready to export as a one-click brief, straight to your clients.

Curate your references.

Everything you need to turn a scattered pile of references into a clear creative direction. Arrange on an infinite canvas, mark refs up where it matters, pull clean stills from video, draft the brief right beside the board, and so much more.

Dump

Your good old moodboard. Fling images, video and screenshots onto an infinite canvas, then arrange them once the idea's ready.

Comments

Pin a note to anything. Mark references up with comments that live right on the board, exactly where they matter.

Video to Screenshot

Find the moment you want in any video reference and lift it out as a clean still. One click, right on the board, with no separate player or export step.

Scratchpad

A writing space that lives beside the board. Draft briefs, treatments and shot notes in proper rich text: headings, lists, quotes, code.

Built for how you actually work.

No accounts to manage, no servers to trust, no invoice next year. Palma runs where your work already lives.

Local-first, by design

Everything lives on your machine. On a plane, in a basement, offline for a week. Palma doesn't notice and doesn't care. It just opens.

No cloud, no account

Nothing to sign up for. Nothing uploaded. Your unreleased work and half-formed ideas never leave your disk, because there's nowhere for them to go.

Free, forever

Not a subscription waiting to happen. No seats, no tiers, no upsell. It's a tool. You own it. That's the whole deal.

Native-speed canvas

Thousands of assets, scrub-smooth video, zero spinners. It keeps up with the part of you that's already three ideas ahead.

Video to screenshot

Reference footage stays playable on the board. Park it on the right frame, grab the still, and it drops in place. The player and the canvas are the same surface.