# chocoford/ExcalidrawZ

> A native Excalidraw client for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS built with SwiftUI, adding file management, iCloud sync, history, export, AI assistance, and MCP integration around the Excalidraw canvas.

- Magnitude: 5.2 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 1,894 total · +5 stars measured 2026-11-14, 00:03–11:13 UTC, ≈ 22 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Swift · License: MIT · Created: 2022-12-26 · Last push: 2026-11-14
- GitHub: https://github.com/chocoford/ExcalidrawZ · Homepage: https://excalidrawz.chocoford.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/chocoford/ExcalidrawZ

## Useful for

- Organize and edit .excalidraw files as documents with groups and iCloud sync across Apple devices.
- Restore earlier versions of a drawing from file history checkpoints.
- Connect an MCP client to let AI read, create, and revise drawings on the canvas.

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-14 (UTC), 00:03–11:13: 1889 → 1894 stars (+5). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +21 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 1 per day.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 2 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- Hacker News: “ExcalidrawZ: Local Native Excalidraw on macOS/iOS” — 130 points, 1 day ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @mbrukman (402 followers), @chindris-mihai-alexandru (348 followers), @denkensk (248 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 103
- Issues and pull requests: 197
- Watchers: 5
- Average over the last week: 54 per day
- Usual pace: 2 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v2.5.1 (2026-10-24)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-16 … 2026-11-14: 1, 4, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 5, 2, 2, 3, 2, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 4, 2, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 1, 299, 50, 5

## Magnitude by day, last 3 days

11-12 6.1, 11-13 7.3, 11-14 5.5

## Hacker News

- ExcalidrawZ: Local Native Excalidraw on macOS/iOS — 130 points, 28 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50468944

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-14 11:22 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.