Whimsical

Name: Whimsical
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Author: Whimsical Inc

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Overview

What Whimsical does

Whimsical is a unified workspace for thinking and collaboration. Teams use Whimsical to align on projects with wireframes, flowcharts, mind maps, and sticky notes—all in one place. Built for speed and clarity.

What people use it for

Product planning
UI/UX design
Brainstorming
Process documentation
Project visualization

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Whimsical.

The free plan is capped at 3 team boards, 3 teams and 10 guest seats
File uploads are limited to 5MB per file and 1GB in total on the free plan
Version history on the free plan goes back 7 days
Voting, the timer, private teams, the GitHub integration, password-protected files and watermark removal all need Pro at $10 per editor per month
SSO and SAML are Business tier only at $20 per editor per month

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Pricing

What Whimsical costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Starter

Free

Up to 4 boards
Unlimited viewers
7-day version history
Basic integrations
PNG export

Pro

$10 /mo

Unlimited boards
Unlimited version history
Advanced permissions
PDF & SVG export
Priority support

Org

$20 /mo

Everything in Pro
SSO
User management
Shared team spaces
Advanced security

Capabilities

Features

Flowcharts
Flowcharts capability
Wireframes
Wireframes capability
Mind maps
Mind maps capability
Sticky notes
Sticky notes capability
Docs
Docs capability
Real-time collaboration
Real-time collaboration capability
Templates
Templates capability
Keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts capability
Notion
Integration with Notion
GitHub
Integration with GitHub
Slack
Integration with Slack
Figma
Integration with Figma

Behind it

Who makes Whimsical

Company: Whimsical Inc
Based in: Denver, Colorado, USA
Founders: Kaspars Dancis

Timeline

Whimsical over time

Funding2021-11-02$30m
First outside funding: Series A led by Accel
Source
Launch2021-01-01
Docs product introduced
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Founded2017-01-01
Whimsical founded
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