The Best Free Online Whiteboards in 2026
Seven whiteboards compared on what the free plan caps: editable boards, members, guests, objects and export, with the first paid step.
Short answer: Mural's free plan is the most open for a team. It allows unlimited members and unlimited view-only visitors, with 3 editable murals at a time. Miro keeps only its three most recent boards editable and allows no guests on Free, and its Starter plan is $8 per member a month billed yearly.
Excalidraw is the free option with no seat rule at all, because its editor is MIT-licensed. It suits one person or a team that hosts its own board. FigJam gives unlimited drafts on the free Starter plan, and Figma's Professional plan is $16 per full seat a month.
Key facts7 tools compared: Mural, Miro, FigJam (Figma), Whimsical, Conceptboard, Stormboard, Excalidraw
- 7 tools compared: Mural, Miro, FigJam (Figma), Whimsical, Conceptboard, Stormboard, Excalidraw
- Miro (best for: Teams that mostly build on boards and want the largest template library before they pay for anything): Free with 3 editable boards and no guests; Starter $8/member/mo billed yearly.
- FigJam (Figma) (best for: Teams already on Figma that want full seats only for builders and cheaper seats for everyone else): Starter is free with unlimited drafts; Professional $16/full seat/mo, $3/collab seat/mo.
- Whimsical (best for: Individuals and small teams drawing flowcharts, wireframes and mind maps, who need a clean diagram more than a shared wall): Free with 50 board objects and 50 doc blocks a month; Pro $10/editor/mo billed annually.
A free online whiteboard is a shared canvas for sticky notes, diagrams, frames and comments, and the free version costs nothing until the team hits a cap. For most teams the cap is editable boards or who may join, not the price.
Toolradar data: Toolradar tracks 41 whiteboard tools as of October 10, 2026, and 31 of them (76%) have a free plan, so a free tier is common.
What differs is what each free tier caps.
This page is a comparison of seven of those tools, built from the vendors' own pricing pages read on October 10, 2026. Methodology: we began from the 41 tools Toolradar tracks, kept the seven that a team can start on at no cost, and read each free plan and its cheapest paid step in US dollars.
Euro prices are shown as euros and never converted. The ranking weighs members, editable boards, guests, export and storage, in that order, because those decide a pilot.
Tool profiles: Mural, Miro, FigJam, Whimsical and Excalidraw on Toolradar.
Top Picks
Based on features, real-world fit, and value for money.
| Tool | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Mural | Free with unlimited members and 3 editable murals; Team+ $9.99/member/mo billed annually. | Teams running workshops where everyone has to join and nobody should need a paid seat to watch. |
| Miro | Free with 3 editable boards and no guests; Starter $8/member/mo billed yearly. | Teams that mostly build on boards and want the largest template library before they pay for anything. |
| FigJam (Figma) | Starter is free with unlimited drafts; Professional $16/full seat/mo, $3/collab seat/mo. | Teams already on Figma that want full seats only for builders and cheaper seats for everyone else. |
| Whimsical | Free with 50 board objects and 50 doc blocks a month; Pro $10/editor/mo billed annually. | Individuals and small teams drawing flowcharts, wireframes and mind maps, who need a clean diagram more than a shared wall. |
| Conceptboard | Free with 3 active boards and 250 MB storage; Starter is €5/user/mo, listed in euros only. | Small teams that need outside guests on a few boards and can live with three active ones at a time. |
| Stormboard | Free Personal plan, no credit card, 5 members per Storm; Business priced per member, no US dollar price published. | Facilitated brainstorms and votes with a small group, where the output is a ranked list more than a drawing. |
| Excalidraw | No license fee: the editor is MIT-licensed open source, so you pay only for the server if you host it. | Solo sketches, architecture diagrams, and teams willing to run their own board. |
Pricing read from each vendor's own published pricing page, checked Oct 2026. Every vendor here publishes a price.
Best for: Teams running workshops where everyone has to join and nobody should need a paid seat to watch.
PricingFree with unlimited members and 3 editable murals; Team+ $9.99/member/mo billed annually.
Best for: Teams that mostly build on boards and want the largest template library before they pay for anything.
PricingFree with 3 editable boards and no guests; Starter $8/member/mo billed yearly.
Best for: Teams already on Figma that want full seats only for builders and cheaper seats for everyone else.
PricingStarter is free with unlimited drafts; Professional $16/full seat/mo, $3/collab seat/mo.
Best for: Individuals and small teams drawing flowcharts, wireframes and mind maps, who need a clean diagram more than a shared wall.
PricingFree with 50 board objects and 50 doc blocks a month; Pro $10/editor/mo billed annually.
Best for: Small teams that need outside guests on a few boards and can live with three active ones at a time.
PricingFree with 3 active boards and 250 MB storage; Starter is €5/user/mo, listed in euros only.
Best for: Facilitated brainstorms and votes with a small group, where the output is a ranked list more than a drawing.
PricingFree Personal plan, no credit card, 5 members per Storm; Business priced per member, no US dollar price published.
Best for: Solo sketches, architecture diagrams, and teams willing to run their own board.
PricingNo license fee: the editor is MIT-licensed open source, so you pay only for the server if you host it.
What it is
An online whiteboard is an infinite canvas shared in real time. A free plan is useful only if it holds the work you actually do.
Three limits decide it: how many boards stay editable, who can join (members, guests, or view-only visitors), and whether you can export what you made without a watermark or a resolution cap.
Only one tool here is free by license rather than by plan.
Excalidraw's editor is MIT-licensed, so the software costs nothing to run, and the only bill is the server if you host it yourself. The others are hosted products whose free plans are built to lead to a paid seat.
Why it matters
The cap you hit first is the one that breaks the pilot. A workshop on a board with three editable slots fills up fast, and then the team is paying for the wrong thing. Plan the trial around the limit, not around the logo.
Who may join matters as much.
Miro's free plan has no guests, so an outside facilitator needs a paid seat before the session. Conceptboard names temporary guest access for externals on its free plan, which Miro's free plan does not offer. Mural goes further on people: unlimited members and visitors, though visitors can only view.
Key features to look for
Pricing
Every price below was read on the vendor's own pricing page on October 10, 2026, and is in US dollars unless marked euros.
Sources: Mural pricing, Miro pricing, Figma pricing, Whimsical pricing, Conceptboard pricing, Stormboard pricing and the Excalidraw repository.
The paid step is where the difference shows.
Ten people on Miro Starter, billed yearly, come to $960 a year (10 x $8 x 12). The same ten on Mural Team+, billed annually, come to $1,198.80 a year (10 x $9.99 x 12).
On FigJam Professional, three full seats and seven collaborator seats come to $69 a month at the listed rates, because the people who only comment do not need a full seat.
Mural's Team+ is $9.99 billed annually and $12 billed monthly, so the annual rate is the one to price.
Whimsical's $10 is its annual rate, a 17% saving over monthly billing. Conceptboard's paid plans are listed in euros, and we have not converted them.
| Plan | Price | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Mural Free | Free | 3 editable murals, unlimited members and visitors |
| Mural Team+ | $9.99/member/mo, billed annually ($12 monthly) | Paid tier above the free plan |
| Mural Business | $17.99/member/mo, billed annually | Top paid tier before Enterprise, which is quoted |
| Miro Free | Free | 3 editable boards, unlimited team members, no guests |
| Miro Starter | $8/member/mo, billed yearly | Guest invites and board access controls, 25 AI credits per member |
| Miro Business | $20/member/mo, billed yearly | 50 AI credits per member and a 14-day free trial |
| FigJam Starter | Free | Unlimited drafts, 150 AI credits a day up to 500 a month |
| FigJam Professional full seat | $16/mo | Unlimited files and projects, 3,000 AI credits a month |
| FigJam Professional collab seat | $3/mo | Seat for people who join boards without building, 500 AI credits a month |
| Whimsical Free | Free | 50 board objects and 50 doc blocks a month, watermarked exports |
| Whimsical Pro | $10/editor/mo, billed annually | Unlimited objects, no export watermark, 90-day history |
| Conceptboard Free | Free | 3 active boards, 100 objects each, 250 MB storage, guests |
| Conceptboard Starter | €5/user/mo, listed in euros | Entry paid plan, 5 GB storage |
| Stormboard Personal | Free | 5 members per Storm, no guests, no credit card |
| Excalidraw | Free (open source) | MIT license; you pay only for hosting if you self-host |
The bottom line
Start with Mural when the job is a workshop with the whole team in the room, because its free plan has no member limit. Use Miro when you need the template library and can keep to three live boards.
Whimsical is the free plan for diagrams made alone, and Excalidraw is the choice for anyone who can run their own server.
Pick Conceptboard only when outside guests are the requirement, and treat Stormboard as a voting tool, not a whiteboard.
FigJam is the pick for a team already on Figma, paying the cheaper collaborator rate for the people who only comment.
Cite this: Techpresso, "Best Free Online Whiteboards in 2026", October 2026.
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