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4 self-hosted Excalidraw+ alternatives

Cloud-hosted version of Excalidraw for creating hand-drawn-style diagrams and whiteboards with real-time collaboration, team workspaces, sharing controls and cloud storage for drawings.

Alternatives to Excalidraw+

Excalidraw is an open-source collaborative whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn style diagrams, wireframes, and flowcharts with real-time sharing.

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130.6k stars15k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

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WBO is a lightweight, real-time collaborative whiteboard where multiple users can draw simultaneously, with persistent boards and optional JWT-based access control.

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2.6k stars481 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Sticky is a digital sticky-note board for organizing ideas, collaborating in real time, and syncing across devices with customizable notes and drag-and-drop layout.

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168 stars23 forksMITlast commit Slowing down

What replacing Excalidraw+ actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 3 of 4 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, Apache-2.0, AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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