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Excalidraw

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By Excalidraw S.R.O.

Excalidraw is a browser-based collaborative whiteboard for sketching diagrams, wireframes, and freehand illustrations in a deliberately hand-drawn visual style on an infinite canvas.

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What it does
  • Excalidraw is a browser-based collaborative whiteboard for sketching diagrams, wireframes, and freehand illustrations in a deliberately hand-drawn visual style on an infinite canvas.
More detail
  • The free excalidraw.com editor requires no account to start, and its open-source MIT editor can also be embedded in third-party apps via an npm package
  • a separate paid per-seat tier, Excalidraw+, adds persistent cloud, team, presentation, and export features.
Best for
  • Individual engineers, designers, PMs, students, and small teams who want fast, low-friction diagramming with a sketch aesthetic and are comfortable starting without an account.
More detail
  • Also fits developers who want to embed an open-source whiteboard via npm and organizations that need self-hosting or end-to-end encrypted collaboration.
Pricing
  • The excalidraw.com editor and open-source MIT editor are free with no account required
More detail
  • on that free tier drawings stay in browser LocalStorage and AI requests are capped at 10 per day.
  • Excalidraw+ is a separate paid per-user subscription at $6 per user per month billed annually (annual billing save
Main limitation
  • Teams that need persistent cloud storage, comments, presentations, PDF/PPTX export, or team management without paying for Excalidraw+, and buyers who require formal UML/BPMN notation or a native mobile app.
More detail
  • Organizations that cannot pay by credit card will also struggle with the paid tier.
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About

  • Excalidraw is a browser-based collaborative whiteboard for sketching diagrams, wireframes, and freehand illustrations in a deliberately hand-drawn visual style on an infinite canvas.
  • The free excalidraw.com editor requires no account to start, and its open-source MIT editor can also be embedded in third-party apps via an npm package
  • a separate paid per-seat tier, Excalidraw+, adds persistent cloud, team, presentation, and export features.

What it helps with

Capabilities

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OfferingAvailableDetail
No-account browser diagramming YesRuns at excalidraw.com in the browser; no account is needed to start, though JavaScript is required.
Infinite canvas with hand-drawn style YesFree editor includes infinite canvas, sketch-style rendering, dark mode, and shape libraries.
Real-time collaboration and shareable links LimitedAvailable on hosted excalidraw.com with E2EE and read-only links, but feature parity is only planned as drop-in plugins for the npm package.
Persistent cloud storage on the free tier NoFree excalidraw.com stores drawings in browser LocalStorage; cloud sync requires Excalidraw+.
Open-source embeddable editor YesMIT-licensed editor distributed as an npm package with an SDK for embedding in third-party apps.
Mermaid import YesMermaid-to-Excalidraw conversion is unlimited and does not require AI.
AI diagram generation LimitedFree tier capped at 10 AI requests/day; Excalidraw+ allows 100/day on the Excalidraw key; BYOK has no Excalidraw limit.
PDF and PPTX export LimitedListed as an Excalidraw+ paid-tier feature, not available on the free editor.
Native mobile app UnknownNo iOS or Android app is documented in the supplied evidence; the product is browser/PWA based.
Self-hosting YesSupported for both the open-source editor and Excalidraw+, with infrastructure costs borne by the customer.

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