Collaborative whiteboard with a hand-drawn aesthetic
- Stars
- 134.3k
- Growth
- +1.7k
- Launched
- Jan 2020
MITupdated today
R.I.P.Open-source alternatives to Miro
7 projects replace Miro, the online whiteboard. 6 shipped code in the last 30 days.
Miro charges per member, and its free plan allows only three editable boards. Workshops and retros often include occasional guests, and paying a seat for each feels wasteful. Some teams also want their boards off a US vendor's cloud.
Excalidraw is the quick sketch tool, with a hand-drawn look, live collaboration and end-to-end encrypted rooms. tldraw is a fast infinite canvas and also an SDK other apps build on. draw.io is better for structured diagrams such as flowcharts and network maps. AFFiNE and Drawnix combine whiteboards with mind maps, and AFFiNE adds docs on the same canvas.
7 open-source alternatives
Most-starred first. Stars, growth and activity are live from GitHub.
Docs, whiteboards, and databases in one privacy-first workspace
- Stars
- 73.7k
- Growth
- +885
- Launched
- Jul 2022
Custom licenseupdated 8d ago
Open-source UI design and prototyping for product teams
- Stars
- 61.4k
- Growth
- +1.2k
- Launched
- Dec 2015
MPL-2.0updated today
Free instant whiteboard with real-time collaboration
- Stars
- 51k
- Growth
- +523
- Launched
- May 2021
Custom licenseupdated today
Open-source alternative to Miro and FigJam
- Stars
- 15k
- Growth
- –
- Launched
- Jun 2024
MITupdated 1mo ago
Security-first diagramming with no login required
- Stars
- 8.9k
- Growth
- +644
- Launched
- Sep 2016
Apache-2.0updated 2d ago
Design, prototype, and test user experiences with ease
- Stars
- 2.7k
- Growth
- +23
- Launched
- Apr 2019
GPL-3.0updated 9d ago
What you give up by leaving Miro
The honest part. Free and open usually costs something else.
- Fewer templates Miro's library of workshop and retro templates is much larger than anything open source.
- Facilitation tools Timers, voting and private mode for running workshops are mostly missing.
- App embeds Live Jira cards and syncs with tools like Asana have no open-source equivalent.
- Big sessions Boards with hundreds of live participants are proven at scale in Miro; self-hosted rooms less so.
