What is the best online whiteboard in 2026?

FigJam is Figma's whiteboard. It covers the three classic jobs, brainstorming fresh ideas, diagramming complex flows and running meetings, with hundreds of free templates to start from and the same smooth, multiplayer feel as Figma itself. When design work lives in Figma, the brainstorm sits one click away from the files it is about.

The price is the reason it ranks first. On Figma's free Starter plan, FigJam works with unlimited collaborators in 3 editable files. Open sessions also let you invite anyone to a board for free for 24 hours, with no account required. On the Professional plan, a Collab seat costs $5 a month billed monthly, or $3 a month billed annually, and it includes full access to FigJam, Figma Slides, Figma Buzz and Figma Specs, plus view and comment access to design files. A team of 10 non-designers pays $50 a month on monthly billing, half the $100 that Miro Starter costs on the same billing.

The limit: FigJam is built for teams that live near Figma, around brainstorming and diagramming rather than project planning, and 3 editable files on Starter is tight for a team that runs workshops every week. Read Figma's billing rule too: on Professional, seats added in the middle of an annual term are billed monthly at the monthly price.

Excalidraw is the whiteboard you open when you need to explain something now. Its hand-drawn style makes rough diagrams look intentional, it runs in the browser, and the free version needs no account: you draw, share a link, and people join. The free plan includes the full editor, 1 infinite scene, unlimited collaborators, 10 generative AI requests a day and export to PNG or SVG, with end-to-end encryption locally in your browser.

Excalidraw+ adds what a team needs to keep boards: unlimited scenes and folders saved in the cloud, access management, read-only links and embeds, comments, presentations, export of frames to PDF and PowerPoint, voice hangouts with screen sharing, 100 AI requests a day and an MCP server and REST API in public beta. Claude can also draw hand-drawn diagrams in Excalidraw through a connector. It costs $7 per user a month on monthly billing, or $6 billed annually, with a 14-day free trial.

The limit: it is a drawing tool first. There are fewer templates and workshop features (voting, structured retros) than in Miro or Mural, and the free version keeps one scene at a time, so serious use quickly means Excalidraw+.

Mural is the whiteboard built around facilitation. Rooms organize boards by team or client, its 250+ expert templates help you start, and its facilitation features (timer, anonymous voting, private mode, summon, facilitator lock) are included on every plan, Free included. That makes it the natural rival to Miro for large workshops, with a slightly more guided feel.

The free plan is generous on people and strict on boards: $0 for unlimited members, unlimited murals with 3 editable murals at a time, unlimited view-only visitors and open rooms for your workspace. Team+ costs $12 per member a month billed monthly, or $9.99 billed annually, with unlimited editable murals, visitors with editing rights and private rooms. Business, at $17.99 per member a month billed annually, adds SSO (SAML 2.0) and unlimited guests, outside collaborators with ongoing access; requiring 2FA for members and guests is an Enterprise option. Support is self-serve on Free and standard on Team+; chat, email and priority support come with Business.

The limit: Mural is built around sessions. Teams that want docs, Kanban and slides on the same canvas get more from Miro, and Mural's pricing climbs per member too. It connects to Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom, Jira Cloud, Google Workspace and Slack, and you can automate it with Zapier or Make.

Miro is the reference most people compare every whiteboard to. Beyond sticky notes, the canvas holds diagrams, Kanban boards, docs, slides, tables and AI assistants, and its template library covers almost any workshop. That depth is why consultants and product teams standardize on it, and why it is the hardest to replace once boards pile up.

Miro's Free plan lets you create unlimited boards, but only the three most recent stay editable, and it has no timer or voting. Starter adds unlimited and private boards, timer, voting and private mode, 25 AI credits per member a month, and visitor editing: boards shared publicly that others edit with no sign-in. It costs $10 per member a month on monthly billing, or $8 billed yearly. Business costs $25 a month on monthly billing, or $20 yearly, and you can try it free for 14 days. Every member pays a seat, so price your real team, not the headline.

The limit is cost and support. Our Miro review scores value for money at 2.8 and support at 2.6: big boards also get slow and hard to navigate, and a team of 15 on Business pays $375 a month on monthly billing. Email support starts on Starter; Free gets the help center and community. With 250+ integrations, Miro also plugs into Zapier and Make to turn board items into tasks.

Canva Whiteboards gives you an infinite space for brainstorming, strategy sessions or project planning, and any Canva Presentation slide can expand into a whiteboard. Its strength is the library: Canva Free includes 1.6M+ templates and 4.7M+ photos, videos, graphics and audio, and a brainstorm can become a Presentation or a Doc without changing tools. Real-time collaboration, a timer with music, one-click sorting and reactions are all in Canva Free.

Whiteboards are part of Canva Free, which also includes 5GB of cloud storage and one Brand Kit with 3 colors. Canva Pro costs US$144 a year for one person on yearly billing and unlocks 3.6M+ templates including premium ones, 5 Brand Kits and 100GB of storage. K-12 educational organizations and not-for-profits can get most premium features for free, which makes it one of the best options for schools.

The limit: it is a design tool with a whiteboard, not a workshop tool. It has a timer, reactions and sorting, but fewer facilitation controls than Mural, which adds anonymous voting, private mode and a facilitator lock on every plan.

Zoom Whiteboard is an infinite canvas inside Zoom Workplace, for brainstorming and diagramming in real time or async, with pens, lines, text, sticky notes and over 250 ready-made templates. For teams whose brainstorming happens on Zoom calls, it removes the most common friction of any whiteboard: getting everyone to open a separate tool.

Whiteboard Basic is free, and it is the version included in Zoom Workplace Basic and Pro: 3 concurrently editable whiteboards, public sharing with no sign-in required, export to high-resolution images and PDF, a timer, presentation mode and voting, and an importer for Miro, Mural and Visio boards. The paid Whiteboard plan costs $5.83 per user a month billed annually and adds unlimited editable boards, Zoom AI features, version history, Jira, Asana and Azure DevOps task integrations and export to PPTX. Workplace Business, at $18.33 per user a month billed annually, includes unlimited whiteboards with meetings for 300 participants and SSO.

The trap: Workplace Pro, at $14.16 per user a month billed annually, still caps whiteboards at 3, like the free plan, so a Pro team that wants unlimited boards adds the Whiteboard plan or moves to Business. Zoom bills its plans annually as a single upfront charge, and its most complete AI features sit in Whiteboard Plus, a separate add-on at $8 to $16 per seat a month.