Hi,
This post replies to every message sent through the feedback box. Your feedback helps a lot in shaping the app.
Novaboard has a feedback box with one open question, “What can be improved in Novaboard?”, and a single text field.
On desktop it opens by itself after a few visits, at most twice per person, and stops asking once someone has sent a message. It can also be opened at any time from the Feedback button in the top bar or the Help menu.
It has been collecting messages since 2026-02-24.
| Month | Shown to | Asked automatically | Opened by hand | Messages sent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03 | 17 | n/a | n/a | 2 |
| 2026-04 | 16 | n/a | n/a | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 13 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 23 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| 2026-07 | 57 | 11 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08 | 206 | 206 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-09 | 249 | 242 | 12 | 23 |
| 2026-10 | 335 | 314 | 24 | 11 |
| 2026-11 (to the 10th) | 127 | 113 | 15 | 10 |
| All months | 1,009 | 866 | 50 | 60 |
Counts are people, except the last column. Someone seen in two months counts once in each month and once in the total. Whether the box opened by itself or by hand is recorded from 2026-07-29 on. The 60 messages came from 50 people.
As I do not track sessions unless consent was given, some of these numbers might be inflated.
Messages before 0.29.0
Sent from March 2026 until the 0.29.0 release on 2026-09-28.
| Date | Message | Reply |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03 | i like it | Great! |
| 2026-03 | normal but I cant edit, idk why | If this continues, please let me know again. |
| 2026-04 | Prf | Not sure what this one means |
| 2026-04 | Pretty good | Thank you! |
| 2026-05 | Yo Bro | Yo! |
| 2026-07 | Hey i have a problem with it sometime crashed the website and the art disapper after crashed and also about animation can you guy add show colour onion skin option please? the colour onion skin hide the art line or any details which is difficult to animate (I very love this web ngl) Please fix this, thank you have a peaceful dayy :33 | I have updated the onion skin since this message and I have worked on the history system so that any crashes don’t lose data |
| 2026-07 | I’m totally new to this type of art. It’s been extremely easy to make pictures with this tool. It was more difficult on krita and even on my phone. Though, I wish there were a tutorial for learning layers. I saw an animated car but I didn’t understand how it worked. | I still have not made a tutorial to help early users, but it is on the todo list |
| 2026-08 | its pretty good | Thank you! |
| 2026-08 | It’s very underrated. It’s professional without being too advanced. I really like it. | Thank you! |
| 2026-08 | its great and an awesome alternative to aseprite! | Amazing to hear this! I hope others find it that way too. |
| 2026-08 | Good. | Thank you! |
| 2026-08 | It lags a bit sometimes but it is a genuinely good place to draw and stuff:3 thank you for your hard work! | I am working to improve performance overall so that it works smoothly on a wide range of devices. I am glad that you are enjoying it. |
| 2026-08 | Pretty Gud | Thank you! |
| 2026-08 | I LOVE IT SO MUCH | THANK YOU! |
| 2026-08 | is so good but it needs fector art too | The app is only focused on pixel art and I have no intention to do vector exporting, but having “vector” layers that keep their vertices controls is something I have considered. It is not planned though. |
| 2026-08 | It’s nice | Thank you! |
| 2026-09 | laggy occasionally. If it didn’t freeze up it would be my favorite app for sprite dev | I have made a lot of changes to reduce lag on a range of devices. Hope it feels better nowadays. |
| 2026-09 | Random pixels and now I just got greyscale | Random pixels were happening on Brave due to some constraints. About greyscale, there is a mode for it with a shortcut (ctrl+shift+u) that you might have unintentionally hit |
| 2026-09 | uh its a little complex plus there’s no timeline for the frames | The timeline sits at the bottom or if it’s disabled you can reenable it with (Shift + F3) |
| 2026-09 | 希望调色板交换效果可以从画布上取色 (“I wish the palette swap effect could pick colours from the canvas”) | Color picker on palette swap was implemented in response to this feedback. Thank you. |
| 2026-09 | 最高です。 特に学校で配布されたPCでできるのがいいです (“It’s the best. I especially like that it works on the PC my school handed out”) | I hope it does not distract you from your lectures! |
| 2026-09 | i LOVE it it could be a but more optimized and its a bit hard to see dark colours on the backgroung especially for vision impared but still its really good | You can configure the background checker colors to improve visibility and in the near future we will have custom themes that should help. On performance, I try on every version to improve performance a little. The goal is that it works smoothly on all devices. |
| 2026-09 | The ability to make a “grouped” file, not like the folder groups in the menu but like I can make in one file and have all the animations in one file. Kind of like layers but they don’t overlap and you can export them one at a time. As a game dev this would be very useful when making player animations as I would not have to return to workspace everytime I wanted to work on another anim | You can have multiple animation tags and export each separately. |
| 2026-09 | ちょっとラグい (“it’s a bit laggy”) | Yes, I am working on improving the app’s performance |
| 2026-09 | The zoom feels pretty janky right now, could you make it smoother maybe? Thanks! | Thank you for this comment, after it I reworked the zoom and its levels. I hope it feels better nowadays. |
| 2026-09 | When switching workspaces the folders port over to another workspace, and deleting the folder from one workspace deletes them from all workspaces | This was a bug, and a big one. Thank you for your report. |
| 2026-09 | i want the short cut to be close to each other, such as Line and Color picker is too far away | You can adjust your shortcuts on user preferences or using the shortcut (?) |
| 2026-09 | Maybe you can add a tutorial to how to use it for starter users | A tutorial is indeed needed, it is planned. |
| 2026-09 | Bug: When switching Workspaces, the folders from the workspace you are switching from automatically get copied into the new workspace. | Yes, sorry for the delay to fix this bug. |
| 2026-09 | can you add an option to change the UI to to be similar to other pixel art apps ui, and i would like to be able to customize the buttons by adding some thing like (load custom buttons preset 1, 2, or 3.) | I am working on themes, there is already a Dracula theme, but I don’t plan to copy other editors visually as Novaboard has its own identity. But, when custom themes arrive, feel free to create your own! |
| 2026-09 | Feature Request: Random Color brush, it explains itself I think. | I don’t have a random color brush planned at the moment, but you can mimic it with an animated custom brush where each frame is a different color. You can also change colors mid stroke using shortcuts. Default are (9) and (0), these will change to prev. and next colors in palette. |
| 2026-09 | FOLDERS GO INTO OTHER WORKSPACES D: PLEASE FIX IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! D: D: D: | Yes, sorry for the delay to fix this bug. |
| 2026-09 | I was just wondering if there’s a way I could save this as my mouse cursor because I don’t see the button if there is | I have planned a feature to help build custom cursors, but it is not done at the moment. |
| 2026-09 | the zoom is way too far. maybe add a settign to change the zoom speed? it takes only one scroll to get really close. finer zoom control pls. | I have reworked the zoom since this message, I hope it feels better now. |
| 2026-09 | maybe add a button that lets us see only the layer selected and hide everything else | This already exists at “Active layer highlight”, and you can also Shift+click an “eye” icon on any layer to view only it. |
| 2026-09 | la aplicacion se suele congelar frecuentemente (“the app tends to freeze often”) | I am sorry that this was happening. I have improved performance since the message, I hope it works better now. |
Messages during 0.29.0
Sent from 2026-09-28 to 2026-10-05, while 0.29.0 was the current release.
| Date | Message | Reply |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09 | zoom feature is kinda cheeks. add like a slider to the side and bottom. and improve the color pallet image thing.Thank you for hearing and if oyur christian or somthing similar, godbless❤️ | I have added a zoom slider at the statusbar due to your message. Thank you. Hope it feels better now |
| 2026-09 | add a cursor maker feature | I have planned features for cursor making |
| 2026-09 | I was wondering if a Minecraft skin template could be added I use novaboard to edit them a lot of the time. | Yes, this can be added. I have not yet as I was thinking in having a custom model for previewing it already. |
| 2026-10 | Loading aseprite files inserts held frames every other frame | Yes, this was by design. Most likely a bad one. I was struggling to decide if I would only allow to use held frames instead of custom durations, but this was creating too much friction with other editors. So I decided to allow for both, now you can customize each frame’s duration OR use multiple held frames. |
| 2026-10 | Make frames with different frame lengths so that way I can import .aseprite files | This was implemented since, for more context read previous reply. |
| 2026-10 | Different frame rates so I don’t have to duplicate frames | This was implemented since, for more context read previous reply. |
Messages during 0.30.0
Sent from 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-18, while 0.30.0 was the current release.
| Date | Message | Reply |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10 | fix color pallete | I’m not sure which part. I made some changes to it since, I hope it feels better now. |
| 2026-10 | make outline tool easy to understandable to use | I have reviewed it, but I am not sure what you mean. |
| 2026-10 | massive ram usage, long history will cause crashes so maybe a history clear button? | Yes, the history was using too much ram. I have since improved it, but also added manual trimming to it. |
| 2026-10 | it would be nice to be able to have larger images than 4096 by 4096 | I hope in the future to allow larger canvases, but for now I will keep it at 4096 max to keep performance within good limits |
Messages since 0.30.0
Sent from 2026-10-19, when 0.31.0 replaced 0.30.0, to 2026-11-10.
| Date | Message | Reply |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10 | Importing a sprite sheet to Novabaord and being able to move the row and column lines smoothly. In addition, being able to export and download multiple sprites pngs and in one zip file. Lastly, the shading tool on the brush button section does not work at all. Thanks for reading the feedback points! | I loved the idea of reordering rows and cols from spritesheets and have planned implementing it soon. It is possible to do batch exports already, but I am working on improving it for next version. The shading tool does work, but it is not intuitive at all, if you click ctrl+color swatch, it will number it, then you can create a color ramp, which the shading tool will automatically replace right or left depending on mouse button used. I am going to rework it when possible. |
| 2026-10 | very buggy when i import an image, but thats excpected | I am sorry that you found bugs while importing an image. I know that dragging images inside the app does not always work. I will work on it and I hope it improves your experience. |
| 2026-10 | less laggyness | I will keep improving performance until these feedbacks decrease in number |
| 2026-10 | its great maybe make a simpler mode for begginners of somthin overall great app!! | It is not clear to me what a “simple mode” would be, I have tried to hide the timeline and some tools, but that was not good enough. I will try to implement this again in future, so any hints here would help a lot. |
| 2026-11 | selecting multiple files at once, being able to choose a default color mode | You can now select multiple files in a workspace and open them as tabs. I am not sure on where you want a default color mode. |
| 2026-11 | Maybe adding like a sign-in, mayyyybe. | This is something planned, but I am not sure if it will be well received as having a sign-in and an online backup would incur a cost and then I would have to charge some sort of subscription. |
| 2026-11 | it is impossible to add a custom palette as a default palette | Yes it was, this was a bug that should be fixed by now. |
| 2026-11 | Suggestion: The ability to select certain frames without deleting them, kind of like a disable option for temperary testing on a couple frames so I don’t have to spam the arrow keys when testing just 2 frames out of 20, when selecting the frames I can loop the animation to view certain frames at ease. | You can use tags somewhat for this, but I have since implemented looping on selected frames due to your feedback. Thank you! To use it, just select a few frames and play, it will loop only on selected frames, allowing you for example to select frames 1, 2, 8, 9. Skipping 3-7 altogether. |
| 2026-11 | add more size and add some galaxy colors oh also add folders for the tabs and make it was more nice also add a tut for new users to get into pixel art | 4k is what is planned for now due to performance. I don’t know what you mean by galaxy colors. Folders on tabs would clutter things too much, I think, so no for now. Tutorial is planned. |
| 2026-11 | hey can you make it have a bit less lag as my pc is not that good | I am trying. Every version I try to improve perf. at least a little bit, hope it feels better. |
| 2026-11 | Suggestion: An (optional) login, that allows you to save your workspaces to other devices, would be really nice so I don’t have to download the workspace and email it to my self over and over. | I like the idea, I even plan on doing an optional subscription for cross-platform syncing and multi user editing. But I worry people would not be interested on a payed service on top of a license for native builds. |
| 2026-11 | An option for when you drop in a image you are prompted on how you want to load it (i.e. spritesheet, layers, frames, etc.) | This is a great idea. Currently there are options to split images in multiple ways but the app doesn’t prompt on all imports. I will review the drag-n-drop images for import soon and will also review when images can be split. |
| 2026-11 | Nothing its really great!!!! | Thank you! |
| 2026-11 | Well you could add more colors | Sure, I will look into adding more color palettes that are better configured for the app. |
What I have learned
I am really happy to receive feedback. It shows me that people are using and enjoying the app, as they take the time to explain their needs or just compliment the effort put into it.
Many features that are live today came from these messages: the zoom slider, custom default palettes and looping on selected frames. I have also done a lot of bug fixing and performance work to improve the experience for everyone.
Thank you all for your messages. I hope I can keep improving Novaboard so it becomes the best editor it can be.
marcel0ll