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Overview
What Excalidraw does
Excalidraw is a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them. It's completely free, open source, and works right in your browser. Perfect for brainstorming, wireframing, and creating visual notes with a personal touch.
What people use it 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
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Where it falls short
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- Advanced features (unlimited private scenes/folders, cloud storage, access management, presentations, extended AI, team management) are gated behind Excalidraw+
- Free hosted version persists via scene links/local storage rather than a managed multi-scene workspace
- Self-hosting the full collaborative stack requires standing up a websocket server and storage beyond the npm editor package
- No official native desktop or app-store mobile apps - web/PWA only
Pricing
What Excalidraw costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Excalidraw+
$6 /mo
- Unlimited private scenes and folders
- Cloud storage
- Access management
- Team management
Capabilities
Features
Hand-drawn style diagrams
Hand-drawn style diagrams capability
Real-time collaboration
Real-time collaboration capability
Infinite canvas
Infinite canvas capability
Shape libraries
Shape libraries capability
Text support
Text support capability
Image import
Image import capability
Export options
Export options capability
Keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts capability
GitHub
Integration with GitHub
Notion
Integration with Notion
Obsidian
Integration with Obsidian
Roam Research
Integration with Roam Research
Behind it
Who makes Excalidraw
- Company
- Excalidraw
- Based in
- Brno, Czech Republic
- Founders
- Christopher Chedeau
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