What it does
Hoq Board is a vector canvas for layouts, plans and print artwork. You draw shapes, paths and text, set pages at sizes like Letter, A4 or Instagram, and export them as PNG, JPG, WebP, vector PDF or an Illustrator file.
Print work is built in. You add bleed, crop marks and contour cut lines, and you can export one file that carries the artwork plus every spot color as its own named channel. Merge from CSV makes one page per spreadsheet row from a template page.
You can bring plans in too. A PDF imports as one artboard per page, Illustrator and SVG files come in as editable shapes, and you can set a real-world scale and measure lengths on an imported floor plan.
Each board keeps a versioned copy in your Hoq Storage drive. AI agents get their own token, and you decide per area whether an agent can look, must ask first, or can make changes.
In numbers
50font families hosted by Hoq
5export formats: PNG, JPG, WebP, vector PDF, Illustrator
22MCP tools an AI agent can use on your boards
4agent levels per area: off, look, ask first, change
Specifications
| Export formats | PNG, JPG, WebP and vector PDF for a page or the whole board; native Illustrator file per page. |
|---|---|
| Import formats | PDF (one artboard per page), Illustrator and PDF pages as editable shapes and text, SVG as editable paths, images from file or clipboard. |
| Where a board is kept | On Hoq, with a versioned .board copy saved into your own Hoq Storage drive. |
| Print output | Bleed and crop marks, contour cut lines, and a print container with each spot color as a named channel. |
| Page sizes | Artboards at preset sizes such as Letter, A4 or Instagram; rulers in pixels, inches, millimeters and other units. |
| Fonts | 50 font families hosted by Hoq. |
| AI images | Image generation inside the board is paid from your own AI credit. |
| Agent access | MCP server at POST /mcp/board for a Hoq ID key with scope board:use (edit) or board:read (read only). |
| Agent permissions | Per agent and per area (boards, content, comments): off, look, ask first, or change. Asks wait for your approval. |
| Sign-in | Hoq ID. Board has no separate password. |
Features
72 features: 71 shipped, 1 in beta. Listed from the product's feature ledger; each row shows the day it was last checked.
| Your boards | Shows all your boards on a home grid with a real picture of each one. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Board details | Opens a side panel on any board with its details, recent activity and a link to its own page. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Saved in your drive | Keeps a versioned copy of each board in your Hoq Storage drive. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Version history | Saves named versions of a board and restores any of them, saving the current state first. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Undo and redo | Steps back and forward through your recent edits. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Board templates | Starts a new board from a saved board template. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Shapes and lines | Draws rectangles, ellipses, lines and arrows, and a shape can hold its own text. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Pen and pencil | Draws precise curves with the pen or freehand strokes with the pencil. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Edit points | Moves the individual points and curves of any path. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Text | Adds text that runs freely or wraps inside a box. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Connectors | Links two objects with a straight, elbow or curved line that follows them when they move. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Images | Places images from a file or straight from the clipboard. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Image crop | Crops an image to a circle or rounded rectangle. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Generate images | Creates images from a description inside the board, paid from your own AI credit. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Generate vector art | Turns a description into editable vector artwork. | Beta | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Artboards | Lays out pages at preset sizes such as Letter, A4 or Instagram and manages them from an Artboards panel. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Arrange artboards | Arranges every page in a grid, row or column with a live preview before you apply it. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Page guides | Shows margins, columns, rows and fold lines on a page. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Master pages | Shares common content across pages from a master page. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Grid and smart guides | Snaps objects to a grid and to other objects' edges and centers while you move them. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Rulers and units | Shows rulers and lets you work in pixels, inches, millimeters and other units without changing the drawing. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Align and distribute | Lines objects up and spaces them evenly. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Auto layout | Stacks a frame's contents in a row or column with set gaps and padding. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Components | Turns a frame into a reusable component whose copies can each be changed on their own. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Layers | Organizes objects in a layer tree with folders, hiding and locking. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Isolation mode | Lets you work inside a group or frame while everything else steps back. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Movable panels | Moves the side panels between the left and right and reorders them. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Combine shapes | Unites, subtracts, intersects or excludes overlapping shapes. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Multiple fills and strokes | Stacks several fills and strokes on one shape. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Gradients and patterns | Fills shapes with gradients or repeating pattern tiles. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Envelope distort | Bends shapes and text with a warp or a mesh. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Clipping masks | Uses one shape to clip the objects beneath it. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Text on a path | Runs text along a curve. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Create outlines | Turns text into editable vector shapes. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Graphic styles | Saves a look and applies it to other objects. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Repeat copies | Makes evenly spaced or rotated copies in one step. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Swatches | Keeps named colors that update everywhere they are used. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Brand kit | Puts your brand colors in every color picker. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Eyedropper | Picks a color from anything on the board. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Fonts | Offers 50 font families hosted by Hoq. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Linked text frames | Flows one story across several text boxes and edits it in a story editor. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Import PDF plans | Imports a PDF as one artboard per page, with a progress bar and a stop button. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Reference underlays | Locks an image underneath your drawing to trace over. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Scale and measure | Sets a page's real-world scale from a preset or two points, then measures real lengths. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Find rooms | Finds the rooms on an imported floor plan. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Bleed and crop marks | Adds bleed and crop marks to printed pages. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Contour cut lines | Adds a cut line around artwork for printers and cutters. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Merge from CSV | Makes one page per row of a spreadsheet from a template page. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Spec sheet | Produces a spec sheet for a board as a page or a PDF. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Export images and PDF | Exports a page or the whole board as PNG, JPG, WebP or a vector PDF. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Illustrator export | Exports a page as a native Illustrator file. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Illustrator import | Opens an Illustrator or PDF page as editable shapes and text instead of a flat picture. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-09 |
| Tab stops | Keeps a priced list's columns in place: imported text carries Illustrator-style tab stops, and the properties panel edits them (left, right, center, decimal). | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-09 |
| SVG import | Brings SVG files in as editable paths. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Print container | Exports one file carrying the artwork plus every spot color as its own named channel, for printers and film tools. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Live sync | Shows changes from your other tabs and from agents as they happen. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Cursors and selections | Shows the pointer and selection from your other open tabs of the same board. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Comments | Adds comment threads to any object that you can reply to and resolve. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Board chat | Keeps a chat thread about the whole board. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Activity feed | Shows agent runs and background jobs for a board in one feed. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Canvas assistant | Makes changes on the board when you ask in plain language. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Magic Write | Writes or rewrites selected text with AI, and one undo puts it back. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Agent access | Gives an AI agent its own token so it can read and edit a board and answer when mentioned in comments. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Board description for agents | Lets an agent read a board as structured data with an optional preview image. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Agent guide | Publishes a guide explaining how agents work with boards. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Boards by name | Lets an agent find a board by its name and address any board by name or uid instead of a number. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-07 |
| Grimaste agents | Lets a Grimaste agent use Board through MCP tools with its own labelled token, read-only or editing, revocable in the Agents sheet. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-09 |
| Agent levels per area | Lets the owner set each Grimaste agent to off, look, ask first or change for boards, content and comments from the Agents sheet. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-09 |
| Asks the owner approves | Records a change an agent proposes in an "ask first" area, shows it in the Agents sheet with Approve and Turn down, runs it as the agent once approved, and tells the agent the answer. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-09 |
| Hoq ID sign-in | Signs you in with your Hoq ID, with no separate Board password. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Sign out | Signs you out of Board and Hoq ID together. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| App switcher | Jumps to your other Hoq apps from the menu. | Shipped | Checked 2026-10-03 |
Works with
- Hoq StorageEach board is saved as a versioned .board copy in your Hoq Storage drive.
Your data
| Where it is kept | Boards are kept on Hoq, and a versioned copy of each board is written into your own Hoq Storage drive. |
|---|---|
| Getting it out | Export any page or the whole board as PNG, JPG, WebP or vector PDF, or a page as a native Illustrator file. |
| If you leave | Not documented on a public page yet. |
APIs and standards
- MCP server: POST /mcp/board, JSON-RPC 2.0, 22 tools, Hoq ID key with scope board:use or board:read
- Agent guide published inside the app
- Standard: PDF
- Standard: SVG
- Standard: MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Compared
| Checked 2026-11-01 | Hoq Board | Miro | FigJam |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price per user per month, cheapest paid tier | Not published on board.hoq.app | $8 per member, billed yearly (Starter)1 | $3 per Collab seat (Professional)2 |
| Export formats | PNG, JPG, WebP, vector PDF, Illustrator | High-resolution JPG or PDF on Starter; low-res only on Free1 | PNG, JPG, PDF, CSV (sticky notes only)2 |
| Print preparation (bleed, crop marks, cut lines, spot color channels) | Built in | not published1 | not published2 |
| Where data is stored | On Hoq, plus a versioned copy in your own Hoq Storage drive | EU on Free, Starter and Business; EU, US, Australia or Japan on Enterprise1 | not published2 |
| API and AI agents | MCP server with 22 tools; per-area agent permissions with approvals | REST APIs and Web SDKs; MCP calls capped at 100 to 10,000 a day by plan1 | REST APIs, rate limits vary by seat and plan2 |
| Largest file you can upload to a board | not published | 30 MB3 | not published2 |