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Whiteboard

4 projects tagged Whiteboard, in the order of our ranking. Some replace a paid product; others are free tools people use alongside one.

Most often they replace Figma, Canva or Miro. 4 of 4 run on your own machine. The most starred is Excalidraw, with 135k stars on GitHub.

Compare	Project	Runs on my machine	Allowed at work	Paid services	Hardware	Setup	Stars
Add Excalidraw to your comparison	ExcalidrawHand-drawn style infinite whiteboard for sketches, diagrams and wireframes, with end-to-end encrypted collaboration on excalidraw.com.	Yes	YesMIT	None required	No graphics card needed	Medium	135k+440 this week
Add AFFiNE to your comparison	AFFiNELocal-first workspace merging docs, whiteboard canvas and multi-view databases, with real-time sync and a self-hostable server.	Yes	ConditionsMIT	Optional only	See its page	Easy	74k+255 this week
Add WBO (Whitebophir) to your comparison	WBO (Whitebophir)Simple self-hosted collaborative whiteboard where many users draw on a large shared board in real time; boards are persisted.	Yes	ConditionsAGPL-3.0	None required	See its page	Medium	2.7k+5 this week
Add desigma to your comparison	desigmaEarly-alpha native Rust design tool with frames, auto layout, components, prototyping, Dev mode code, whiteboards and Figma .fig import.	Yes	YesMIT or Apache-2.0	None required	No graphics card needed	Easy	954+265 this week

Tick up to three to compare. “Allowed at work” includes projects with conditions, marked amber. Unknown is never counted as a yes. Stars show attention, not quality.