Best Free Digital Whiteboard Apps for 2025
AdminApr 20, 2025

Product list

Noteey

Miro

Mural

Whimscal

LucidSpark

Stormboard

Boardmix

Microsoft Whiteboard

Explain Everything

Milanote

 

Noteey

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Noteey is an all-in-one offline visual suite designed to help you create great visual content, including visual notes, designs, presentations and prototypes. With its intuitive UI and rich features, its infinite canvas empowers you to unleash all your creativity, visualize your ideas, organize them, and share them with the world.

 

Best Features:

  • Rich visual elements, including images, shapes, lines, drawing tools, and embedded videos.
  • Nested canvases for structured content organization, facilitating the creation of larger-scale ideas.
  • Embedded with various third-party websites, including Youtube, Twitter, Google Docs, Figma, Loom, and more.
  • Hundreds of templates, including mind maps, SWOT analysis, storyboards, world building, and more.
  • Offline publishing, export projects as pcanvas (portable canvas format) and share them with friends.

 

Limitations:

  • Due to its local-first system design, it's not ideal for real-time team collaboration. It's more suitable for asynchronous collaboration.

 

Pricing:

  • Free for personal and educational users; commercial use requires purchasing a license ($50 per year).

 

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Miro

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Miro is a very popular whiteboard product in recent years, focusing on team collaboration and remote communication. It provides rich visual elements for teams to communicate more efficiently, along with a wide range of templates and plugins, and integration with third-party tools such as Slack, Trello, and other platforms.

 

Limitations:

  • Cannot be used offline.
  • Free users can only create 3 whiteboards.
  • Nested boards are not supported, all content can only be tiled on a single borderless canvas.

 

Pricing:

  • Free for individual users
  • Team: Starts $8 per member/month
  • Business: Starts at $16 per member/month

 

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Mural

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Like Miro, this is one of the top whiteboard products for team collaboration.

 

Limitations:

  • Similar to Miro, free users can only create 3 boards.

 

Pricing:

  • Free trial available
  • Paid plan starts at $12 per user per month

 

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Whimsical

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Like Miro and Mural, Whimsical is also one of the top whiteboard products for team collaboration.

It's worth mentioning that Whimsical is quite friendly to free users, allowing you to create an unlimited number of personal boards.

 

Limitations:

  • Cannot be used offline.
  • Does not support nested canvases; all content is laid out on a single infinite canvas.

 

Pricing:

  • Free: Unlimited personal files
  • Pro: $10 per month
  • Organization: $20 per month

 

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Lucidspark

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Lucidspark is a popular team collaboration whiteboard product, offering enterprise-level scalability and security features.

It also offers the very powerful diagram design tool Lucidchart.

 

Limitations:

  • Cannot be used offline.
  • Free users can only create 3 boards.

 

Pricing:

  • Free
  • Individual: $7.95 monthly
  • Team: $9/user monthly

 

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Stormboard

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Stormboard is a digital collaboration and whiteboard application that allows users to create virtual sticky notes and collaborate with others in real-time. It also provides analytics tools to help teams track progress and performance.

 

Limitations:

  • Limited functionality for free users.
  • Cannot be accessed offline.

 

Pricing:

  • Free trial available
  • Paid plan starts at $10 per user per month

 

Information:

 

Boardmix

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Boardmix is created by the famous tool team Wondershare, boasting powerful functionality. It offers great value for money with a lifetime discount of $79, which is an incredible promotional price!

 

Limitations:

  • Cannot be accessed offline.
  • Free users can only create 3 boards.

 

Pricing:

  • Free: Up to 3 boards
  • Business: $4.9 per month

 

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Microsoft Whiteboard

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This is part of the Microsoft 365 suite, and if you're a Microsoft 365 user yourself, you'll feel right at home because Whiteboard integrates seamlessly with the other tools in the Microsoft 365 suite, turning the whiteboard into your visual center of gravity. All content in one place!

 

Limitations:

  • Dependency on Microsoft: requires Microsoft Suite to use the Whiteboard
  • Cannot be accessed offline.

 

Pricing:

  • Microsoft Whiteboard is part of Microsoft 365, you need to purchase Microsoft 365 first.

 

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Explain Everything

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This is a popular whiteboard product in the online education field, offering rich visual elements as well as multimedia features like recording and screen recording. It's a one-stop digital whiteboard for teachers.

 

Limitations:

  • Lack of offline access.
  • Free users cannot collaborate with others in real-time.

 

Pricing:

  • Free
  • Teacher: $34.99 per user yearly
  • Class and School: $130 per teacher and 30 students yearly

 

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Milanote

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Milanote is a visual platform for creative teams to gather, brainstorm, and transform creative projects into reality using an infinity canvas.

Milanote supports various visual elements, including notes, to-do lists, Kanban boards, images, videos, embedded web pages, and more, providing workspaces where designers, R&D, product managers, and customers can collaborate seamlessly!

 

Limitations:

  • Limited usage for free users.
  • Cannot be accessed offline.

 

Pricing:

  • Free users: up to 100 notes, images or links
  • Pro: $9.99 per month

 

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*All data sourced from Semrush.