Excalidraw
Excalidraw is an open-source virtual whiteboard application with hand drawing aesthetics. It supports end-to-end encryption and real-time collaboration features. The project can be integrated into your own applications as a npm package, and PNG offers the opportunity to export in SVG formats.
Excalidraw
100excalidraw · Figma Alternatives / Design
Common commercial products in this category: Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD
- You draw diagrams and wireframes in hand drawing style on endless canvas
- Export your work in PNG, SVG or .excalidraw JSON format
- Share your drawings with others through end-to-end encrypted links
- • High number of open issues (3,447)
- • NeutralHacker News
Why is Excalidraw so good?
“A lot of people use things like Excalidraw also on their tablets. (mostly iOS and Android) How is this helping? This whole cosmopolitan-fanboy'ism is completely ignoring my initial statement. What are you trying to bring to the table here? Sorry if I sound harsh, but you are…”
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
“I want to love Excalidraw but it can be really frustratingly mediocre a lot of the time. For example, I'm constantly retrying to rescale something and then an arrow repositions or resizes itself, which reveals some kind of mistake in the underlying data model. Or undo/redo just…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
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