Excalidraw

Hand-drawn style whiteboard with real-time collaboration and a minimal hosted app for quick diagramming.

Excalidraw is an open source alternative to Miro. Hand-drawn style whiteboard with real-time collaboration and a minimal hosted app for quick diagramming. MIT licensed, 126.7k GitHub stars, hosted version available, and last released 2026-04-21.

Should you switch?

Use it if

People who want a fast browser whiteboard for hand-drawn diagrams with real-time collaboration and no setup.

Skip it if

You need a full-featured design or ops platform beyond a focused whiteboard and sketching tool.

Watch out

The hosted app is described as a minimal showcase of the editor, so teams wanting more workflow structure may need paid or custom layers around it.

In the product

Screenshot coming soon

Community proof

"I use excalidraw for almost everything. Brilliant tool."
bunsenhoneydew · hacker_news · 2023-12-21

"Most companies / teams I know of use something like excalidraw or miro."
heluser · hacker_news · 2025-05-24

Maintenance health

CadenceActive

Last releasev0.18.1 · 2026-04-21

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1. Use the hosted versionSee pricing

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Topics

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