draw.io AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Whiteboards

The best Whiteboard alternative to draw.io is Excalidraw, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to draw.io and 16 are Whiteboards so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Whiteboard alternatives to draw.io are Whimsical, tldraw, Mural and Wireflow.

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  1. Excalidraw icon
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    Excalidraw is an open-source whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them. Available directly online as a web app and also through CodeSandbox to easily see how the code works, and the app is available for self-hosting.

    78 Excalidraw alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Excalidraw is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to draw.io.

    • Excalidraw is Freemium and Open Sourcedraw.io is Free and Proprietary
  2. tldraw icon
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    tldraw is a collaborative digital whiteboard available at tldraw.com. Its editor, user interface, and other underlying libraries available in this repository and also distributed on npm. You can use tldraw to create a drop-in whiteboard for your product or as the foundation on...

    33 tldraw alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  3. Mural icon
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    MURAL is a visual collaboration workspace for modern teams. Based in the cloud, MURAL serves shared, digital whiteboards where teams visually explore complex challenges, facilitate design thinking methods and organize Agile processes across any device.

    55 Mural alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. Wireflow icon
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    Feature-rich, open-source Wireflow offers a collaborative platform for online creation of complex user flow prototypes. Ideal for team work in UI design, wireframing, and mind mapping, promoting idea sharing in real-time environment aided by modern whiteboard features.

    117 Wireflow alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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    Comments about Wireflow as an Alternative to draw.io
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    More a tool for website design

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    Leopoldo Lugones
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    Does have a lot of graphics, but none of them let you change their content, only the title. For my use this makes it unusable. You cant even insert links or images. If only I could add text on these graphics, I would begin to use this tool.

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    • Wireflow is Free and Open Sourcedraw.io is Free and Proprietary
  5. FigJam icon
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    FigJam is an online whiteboard from Figma, made for designers to ideate and brainstorm with their extended teams. It’s for defining user problems, looking for inspiration, and exploring ideas.

    33 FigJam alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • iPad
    • Figma
     
  6. Kinopio icon
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    Kinopio is a visual thinking tool for new ideas and hard problems. Used for note taking, planning, journaling, and diagramming – by yourself or collaboratively.

    52 Kinopio alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    Brainboard addresses the challenges of managing complex cloud infrastructures by offering a platform that promotes collaboration, streamlines workflows, and integrates multi-cloud environments. As a single source of truth, it remains in sync with your infrastructure, updating...

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. okso icon
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    The minimalistic online drawing app. It allows you to create visual notes (drawings) and organize them in the nested "drawing inside the drawing" structure for faster lookup. Allows creating fast sketches and visual notes. Exports sketches to PNG, JPG, SVG, and WEBP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. MoreDraw icon
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    Moredraw is a thought recording whiteboard with multiple types of nodes built in, including flowcharts, mind maps, pictures, notes, videos, to-do lists, charts, etc. Any node can be linked to help you organize your thoughts.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  10. Eraser IO icon
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    Eraser is an all-in-one ideation tool for distributed teams. Eraser allows users to communicate ideas at the speed of thought using a markdown note editor, a lightweight canvas. Use Eraser for brainstorming, diagramming, wireframing, and interviewing!

    13 Eraser IO alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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