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Design & Whiteboarding

Shared canvases for interface design, diagrams, and visual thinking.

7 products, 4 Projects: 4 open source, 0 source-available, 0 unresolved-license

Excalidraw

ExcalidrawOpen

Collaborative whiteboard with a hand-drawn look

Stars130.9K
Commit23h ago
LicenseMIT

Excalidraw's sketchy rendering is not decoration. Diagrams that look provisional invite comment, where a crisp vector diagram signals a decision already made, so it is unusually good at the early part of a design conversation.

Alternative tomirofigma
Godot Engine

Godot EngineOpen

Free 2D and 3D game engine with no royalties

Stars116.5K
Commit22h ago
LicenseMIT

Godot ships a complete engine, editor, and export pipeline under the MIT licence, which means no royalties, no revenue thresholds, and no licensing conversation before a project starts.

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Figma

Figma

Collaborative interface design in the browser

CompanyFigma
Since2016
PricingFreemium

Figma moved interface design out of single-user desktop files and into a shared document, and the industry reorganised around it. Multiplayer editing, comments in context, and a link that always shows the current state changed how design and engineering hand work to each other.

Miro

Miro

Infinite whiteboard for workshops and planning

CompanyMiro
Since2011
PricingFreemium

Miro is the canvas most distributed teams reach for when the work is thinking rather than producing: retrospectives, service maps, story mapping, and anything else that used to need a wall and sticky notes.

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Unity

Unity

Commercial game engine with the widest platform reach

CompanyUnity Technologies
Since2005
PricingFreemium

Unity's advantage is distribution. Console certification, mobile export, XR headsets, and the middleware ecosystem around them are all solved problems, which is why studios keep choosing it even after several rounds of unpopular licensing changes.

AFFiNE

AFFiNEOpen

Documents, whiteboard, and database in one canvas

Stars54.3K
Commit12h ago
LicenseMIT

AFFiNE puts a document editor and an infinite canvas over the same content. A page can be read as a document or arranged spatially as a whiteboard, and edits in one mode are edits in the other.

Alternative tonotionmiro
Penpot

PenpotOpen

Design and prototyping built on open web standards

Stars42.2K
Commit21h ago
LicenseMPL-2.0

Penpot stores designs as SVG and uses CSS layout primitives - flex and grid - as its layout model, so what a designer builds maps onto what a developer implements rather than needing translation.

Alternative tofigma