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Alternatives to Excalidraw
22 technology tools sit alongside Excalidraw in this directory. Below is what separates each from Excalidraw on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 13
- Cheaper to start
- 1
- Excalidraw starts at
- Free, then $6/month
Why people look past Excalidraw
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Excalidraw entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is only one tier
Excalidraw publishes a single plan, Excalidraw+ at $6/month. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Manage your team's work, projects, & tasks online
- Starts $4.99 a month dearer, at $10.99/month.
One app to replace them all
- Starts $1 a user/month (annual) dearer, at $7/user/month (annual).
- 5 tiers to Excalidraw's 1.
The issue tracking tool you'll enjoy using
- Starts $4 a month dearer, at $10/month.
- 4 tiers to Excalidraw's 1.
The collaborative interface design tool
- Starts $6 a month dearer, at $12/month.
- 4 tiers to Excalidraw's 1.
Capture, organize, and analyze product feedback
- Starts $394 a month dearer, at $400/month.
- 4 tiers to Excalidraw's 1.
Cloud storage and file synchronization service
- Starts $3.99 a month dearer, at $9.99/month.
- 4 tiers to Excalidraw's 1.
Every Excalidraw alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excalidraw (this page) | Free, then $6/month | - | 1 | |
| AsanaManage your team's work, projects, & tasks online | Free, then $10.99/month | - | - | vs Excalidraw |
| ClickUpOne app to replace them all | Free, then $7/user/month (annual) | - | 5 | vs Excalidraw |
| LinearThe issue tracking tool you'll enjoy using | Free, then $10/month | - | 4 | vs Excalidraw |
| FigmaThe collaborative interface design tool | Free, then $12/month | - | 4 | vs Excalidraw |
| Canny | Free, then $400/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Excalidraw |
| Dropbox | Free, then $9.99/month | Freemium | 4 | vs Excalidraw |
| Amplitude | Free, then $49/month | - | 4 | vs Excalidraw |
| Safari | Free | Free | - | vs Excalidraw |
| Auth0 | Free, then $35/month | - | 3 | vs Excalidraw |
| Docker | Free, then $11/month | - | - | vs Excalidraw |
| Apache Spark | Free | Open-source | - | vs Excalidraw |
| CloudAMQP | Free, then $19/month | Freemium | 6 | vs Excalidraw |
| Coda | Free, then $10/month | - | - | vs Excalidraw |
| Personetics | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Excalidraw |
| Zeta | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Excalidraw |
| Finxact | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Excalidraw |
| Thought Machine | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Excalidraw |
| Alkami | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Excalidraw |
| Datadog | $15/month | - | 3 | vs Excalidraw |
| Drift | $2500/month | - | - | vs Excalidraw |
| Dashlane | $4.99/month | - | 1 | vs Excalidraw |
| Close | $9/month | - | 4 | vs Excalidraw |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Excalidraw badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (13)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
Cheaper than Excalidraw (1)
Entry price under Excalidraw's $6/month. The record does not say what unit that price is charged in, so confirm per-seat versus flat rate before comparing budgets.
- Dashlane , $4.99/month
What you would be giving up
Excalidraw is most often brought in for wireframing and diagramming, real-time collaborative whiteboarding, hand-drawn-style illustrations for docs and decks, embedding a whiteboard into third-party apps via the npm package, visual planning and note-taking. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Excalidraw is broadly right and the question is cost, the Excalidraw pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Technology category lists everything the directory holds, and best technology tools ranks them.
Excalidraw runs on web. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Excalidraw alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Excalidraw?
- 22 other technology tools are listed in this directory, led by Asana, ClickUp, Linear, Figma. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Excalidraw?
- 13 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Asana, ClickUp, Linear, Figma, Canny.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Excalidraw?
- Yes. 1 of the alternatives below start under Excalidraw's $6/month: Dashlane at $4.99/month.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Excalidraw?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Excalidraw?
- Excalidraw is most often brought in for wireframing and diagramming, real-time collaborative whiteboarding, hand-drawn-style illustrations for docs and decks, embedding a whiteboard into third-party apps via the npm package, visual planning and note-taking. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Excalidraw?
- Apache Spark is recorded with an open-source licence model.
- How were these Excalidraw alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Technology, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Excalidraw against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Excalidraw covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every technology tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Technology category, 22 tools beside Excalidraw. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.