AI canvas workspace
for your ideas.
Your inspiration, notes, and plans are scattered across tools.
Causal brings everything into one place.
The most ambitious ideas require space to proliferate.
Give your plan the space it deserves.
Save ideas of all forms.
Get started with templates.
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Features for productivity.
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Chrome extension
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Reviews from creatives
Maya
Motion Designer
I started using it to plan a new concept animation I am working on, I love the UI it is so simple and clean. I also love the AI feature honestly everything about this is soo good
Ota
Product Designer
What I liked most is that everything lives in one place: images, links, docs, Figma files, call recordings - all the stuff I usually have scattered across different apps.
Isabel
Content Creator
I've been using Causal to organize my brand identity and map out the content strategy for my upcoming song release. It's been really helpful for visualizing my workflow and keeping my ideas connected in one place.
Abel
Creative Director
Since I started using it, Causal is slowly becoming my dump yard for ideas. The whole experience is top-notch, especially the AI integration on the canvas. It makes getting ideas out of my head and into something tangible feel ridiculously easy.
Alex
Creative Director
Really love the idea behind Causal. Super clean UI and a great way to keep all your inspiration and ideas in one place. Definitely something I'd use as a designer
Akriti
Brand Designer
It's been great for brand research. I did a breakdown of a project i am working on, and having images, notes and links side by side felt much lighter than doing it in figma. I can also see it working for sharing early direction and moodboards with clients before any design exists, and maybe even as a brand hub I hand over at the end of a project.
Questions
It's a spatial workspace. Instead of filing things into folders, you put your notes, files, images and links onto an infinite canvas and arrange them in a way that matches how you think conceptually. The layout is the organisation - similar ideas sit near each other, and connections represent relationships. It preserves causal relationships between ideas this way, so your brain can focus on what it does best: generating new ones.
Causal is the step before opening any creative tool. It's for creatives who see the benefit in planning before execution. Notion organises structure into pages and databases; Obsidian is plain markdown files. Causal's canvas stores rich text, files and images without restraining you to the structure of a page, so you have complete freedom in planning.
Yes, and it isn't a trial - the free plan doesn't expire and you don't need a card to start. You get 100 notes, images and links, 10 files, 5 widgets, 50 AI requests a month, and every feature the canvas has: nothing is locked behind Pro. Pro raises those limits for when you outgrow them.
Yes. Any canvas can be turned into a read-only link in one click, and whoever you send it to can open it without an account. Sharing grants access to that canvas and any nested canvases within it. You can copy the link again or stop sharing at any point.
Three tools provide structure. Create a collection to pack nodes into tidy columns. Create a nested canvas inside a canvas when a topic needs its own space. And when you have something you don't want to place yet, drag it to the right edge and park it in the unsorted tray.
You can drop in anything up to 20 MB per file. PDFs, Word documents, Adobe files, markdown, spreadsheets, images and video all open fullscreen inside the app with real previews. Markdown files and CSVs can even be edited in place, saving straight back to the file. Anything else is stored safely and shows up as a card you can download whenever you need it.
Both. Notes sit directly on the canvas for fast, flexible thoughts, while longer pieces open into a dedicated full-page editor. Quick notes and full-page text files share the exact same rich formatting - headings, lists, checkboxes, quotes, code blocks, highlights, images and links.
Yes - there's a free Mac app, and it keeps itself up to date, so you only ever install it once. Open this page on a Mac and the download sits in the footer, under Product. There's no phone app: Causal needs a desktop-sized screen to be worth using, so that one is on the longer horizon.
No. Empty canvases come with a set of templates for different kinds of creative work, whatever your workflow - we have templates for app development, website design, branding, storyboarding, research and more.
