Excalidraw is an open-source collaborative whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn style diagrams, wireframes, and flowcharts with real-time sharing.
130.6k stars15k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
5 self-hosted Mural alternatives
Mural is a cloud-based digital whiteboard for visual collaboration. It offers canvases with sticky notes, templates, voting, timers, diagramming and facilitation tools for brainstorming, workshops, process mapping and remote team collaboration, with integrations and real-time/asynchronous editing.
Alternatives to Mural
Browser and desktop diagram editor for flowcharts, UML, wireframes and network diagrams with cloud storage integrations and offline apps.
7.7k stars1.2k forksApache-2.0last 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.
2.6k stars481 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Real-time collaborative mind-mapping web app with import/export, sharing via links/QR, undo/redo and Postgres storage. Runs with a TypeScript/NestJS backend and Angular frontend.
491 stars42 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
#5
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.
168 stars23 forksMITlast commit Slowing down
What replacing Mural 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. 4 of 5 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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