That Whiteboard Photo From Last Week's Planning Meeting? Nobody Can Find It.
I am the founder of Appgenesis and the developer behind Sketch2Diagram.
In 12 years of building software, I've watched the same scene repeat in almost every team I've worked with:
A planning meeting or architecture review wraps up. The whiteboard is covered in boxes, arrows, and half-legible labels. Someone snaps a photo and drops it into Slack, Teams, or an email thread. Everyone nods—"We'll clean this up later."
Nobody cleans it up. The photo gets buried. The decisions made in that room never reach your actual documentation.
Whether you scribble an architecture idea on paper at your desk or brainstorm on a physical board, turning those ideas into editable diagrams usually means manually redrawing the whole thing from scratch. That's hours of wasted work just to reconstruct decisions that were already made.
That’s the exact problem we set out to solve with Sketch2Diagram on the Atlassian Marketplace
We wanted a solution that bridges the physical whiteboard and Confluence documentation instantly.
Check out demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psDc0xAJbxI
How Sketch2Diagram Works
Built Natively on Atlassian Forge: Runs securely on Atlassian's Cloud infrastructure so your data never leaves the ecosystem.
AI Vision Parsing: Upload a photo of a whiteboard, paper sketch, or digital napkin drawing. The AI detects nodes, shapes, and connections.
Interactive Canvas: Instantly turns the raw photo into a clean, editable, drag-and-drop diagram right inside your Confluence page.
Why existing diagramming tools fall short
Standard Diagramming Apps (draw.io, Gliffy, Confluence Whiteboards): Fantastic for building visuals from scratch, but completely lack photo-to-diagram conversion. You are still stuck manually redrawing every box, shape, and arrow by hand.
Mermaid & Text-to-Code Tools: There are some tools that can generate mermaid code from images using AI but iterating seemed nearly impossible.
This is not drag and drop visual editor. To move a box you need to debug in code which entirely defeat the purpose of visual architecture and rapid prototyping.
Try it out for free Sketch2Diagram is live on the Atlassian Marketplace with a 30-day free trial.
As a freshly launched app, we are eager to shape our roadmap based on real usage. Give it a try on your team's latest whiteboard photo, and let me know your thoughts in the comments!