Excalidraw Has a Free Whiteboard Tool — Collaborative Diagrams That Look Hand-Drawn

Excalidraw is a virtual whiteboard for creating diagrams that look hand-drawn.

What You Get for Free

• Hand-drawn style — everything looks like a whiteboard sketch
• Real-time collaboration — work with others simultaneously
• Shapes & connectors — rectangles, ellipses, arrows, text, lines
• Libraries — pre-made icon packs and templates
• Export — PNG, SVG, clipboard
• Embeddable — React component for your apps
• Local-first — no account needed, works offline
• Encrypted sharing — end-to-end encrypted collaboration
• Dark mode — easy on the eyes
• Open source — self-hostable

Quick Start

# Just open excalidraw.com — no account needed
# Draw → share link → collaborate in real-time

# Or embed in React
npm install @excalidraw/excalidraw

import { Excalidraw } from "@excalidraw/excalidraw";
function App() {
  return <Excalidraw />;
}

Why Developers Love It

Lucidchart/Draw.io produce sterile diagrams. Miro is bloated:

• Beautiful by default — hand-drawn style makes diagrams approachable
• No account — open and draw immediately
• Embeddable — add a whiteboard to your app with one component
• Fast — canvas-based, handles thousands of elements

An architect was spending 45 minutes making Lucidchart diagrams look "less corporate" for design discussions. Excalidraw's hand-drawn style communicates "this is a draft, let's discuss" — saving time and getting better feedback.

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