Chemistry is hard. Most students learn it on a whiteboard that wasn't built for chemistry — and pay for tutors who can't draw arrows in real time. We're fixing both.
If you've taken organic chemistry, you know the moment. Your professor turns to the board, draws three resonance structures in 30 seconds, says "obvious, right?", and the room goes quiet.
It is not obvious. It takes someone slowing down, drawing it with you, watching where you stop. That's what good tutoring looks like — and what most online tools fail to replicate.
OChem Board is a whiteboard that knows benzene rings, electron-pushing arrows, and chair conformations as first-class citizens — paired with tutors who use it live, with you, in your timezone.
Five short ideas behind the way OChem Board is built.
In chemistry, the diagram is the explanation. A tool that makes drawing painful makes learning painful.
Pre-recorded lectures don't notice when you're lost. A person on the other end of a live whiteboard does.
"Free" tutoring is often nobody's job. Reasonable prices pay tutors, who actually show up.
Chemdu is a nonprofit closing the high-school chemistry gap. OChem Board is the paid college-level companion. Same mission, different audience.
Booking always shows times in your timezone. No "9 AM PST?? It's 6 AM here" surprises.
Every annotated session can be saved as PNG or PDF. Your notes don't disappear when the session ends.
The whiteboard is open right now — no account needed.