Best Interactive Whiteboard Software

Canva is an online graphic design platform that makes design accessible to everyone, regardless of experience. Launched in 2013, it pairs a simple drag-and-drop editor with a huge library of templates, photos, fonts, and elements, so anyone can produce social posts, presentations, flyers, logos, videos, and more in minutes.

Beyond templates, Canva includes AI-powered tools for image generation, background removal, writing assistance, and one-click resizing across formats. Teams can collaborate in real time, manage brand kits for consistent colors and fonts, and publish or schedule content directly to social channels. With free and paid tiers, Canva serves individuals, small businesses, and large marketing teams that want fast, on-brand design without specialist software.

Explain Everything is an online whiteboard built for teaching, published with a tutoring application, explainer video creation, learning management system integration and school deployment, alongside a code-based joining mechanism letting collaborators enter a whiteboard without an account.

Recording the whiteboard session as video is the capability that distinguishes it from general collaboration products, and it changes what a whiteboard is for in education.

A general whiteboard preserves the final state: what the board looked like when everyone stopped. In teaching that is the least valuable part. A student who missed the lesson, or who followed it but did not understand, does not need the finished diagram. They need the sequence in which it was built and the explanation given while it was being drawn, because the reasoning is in the order and the commentary rather than in the result.

Recording the drawing as it happens with the voice over it captures exactly that, which is why this format became the standard for mathematics and science instruction specifically. A worked solution makes sense as a process and very little sense as a photograph.

The tutoring focus is consistent with it. One-to-one tutoring is where explanation quality matters most and where the student most often needs to revisit an explanation afterward, and a tutor who can hand over a recording extends the value of a paid hour considerably.

Code-based joining removes the account friction that matters disproportionately with younger students, where creating accounts raises data protection obligations and practical difficulty.

Learning management system integration and school deployment address institutional buying, where the constraint is administration rather than capability, and a product that cannot be deployed across a school will not be adopted however good it is.

Pricing is published with a free tier at $0, a Pro tier at $7.49 aimed at tutors and creatives, and an Advanced bundle published at $69 for instruction with whiteboards.

FigJam is an online whiteboard made by Figma for teams to brainstorm, diagram, and plan together in real time. It uses sticky notes, shapes, connectors, and freeform drawing on an infinite canvas, with over 300 templates for meetings, retrospectives, and product planning. Built in AI tools can generate diagrams from a prompt, sort sticky notes into themes, and summarize a board into action items.

Teams collaborate live with cursors, audio chat, comments, stamps, and voting tools. FigJam integrates with Jira, Asana, GitHub, and Slack, and connects directly to Figma design files. It is available as a free Starter plan, with paid Professional, Organization, and Enterprise plans unlocking unlimited files, admin controls, and advanced security.

Whimsical is a visual workspace built for product teams to create flowcharts, wireframes, mind maps and documents in one place. It emphasizes speed and a clean interface, with AI powered diagram generation that turns a text prompt into an editable flowchart, plus real time collaboration, comments and customizable templates.

Whimsical offers a free plan limited to 3 team boards and 10 guests, along with Pro and Business subscriptions billed monthly or annually. The Business plan adds SSO, SCIM provisioning and workspace lockdown controls for larger organizations, and Whimsical provides discounts for nonprofits and free access for verified students and teachers.

Miro is a cloud based visual workspace used for brainstorming, diagramming, wireframing and project planning on an infinite canvas. Teams use it for sticky note brainstorms, flowcharts, journey maps and product planning, with real time cursors, comments, voting and timers to run workshops and meetings directly on the board.

Miro AI can generate flowcharts, UML diagrams and entity relationship diagrams from text prompts and can cluster sticky notes by theme. The platform connects with more than 250 tools including Jira, Asana, Slack and Microsoft Teams, and includes SSO, audit logs and SOC 2, GDPR and PCI compliance for larger organizations.

Excalidraw is an open source virtual whiteboard for sketching diagrams, wireframes and mind maps that have a distinctive hand drawn look. The core app is free, requires no account, and can be used offline as a progressive web app, with real time collaboration secured by end to end encryption and export to PNG, SVG or JSON.

Excalidraw+ is the paid, commercially hosted version made by Excalidraw s.r.o., adding cloud storage, team management, presentations, voice hangouts and screensharing on top of the free editor. It is priced per user per month with a 14 day free trial, and discounted education pricing is available for verified students and teachers.

Lucidspark is the virtual whiteboarding product within the Lucid Suite, published alongside Lucidchart for diagramming and airfocus for product management and roadmapping, with suite add-ons including Cloud Accelerator for understanding and planning cloud infrastructure changes, Process Accelerator for standardising process documentation governance, and Enterprise Shield for enhanced security.

Sitting inside a suite alongside a diagramming product is the structural advantage, and it addresses a transition that otherwise breaks.

Collaborative work has two distinct phases that need different tools. Ideation is loose: sticky notes, rough grouping, half-formed thoughts, no correctness requirement. Documentation is precise: accurate diagrams, correct notation, something that can be reviewed and relied upon. Most teams do the first on a whiteboard and the second in a diagramming tool, and the transition between them is normally manual re-creation.

That re-creation is where the work is lost. Somebody has to interpret a messy board into a formal diagram days later, decisions get subtly changed in translation, and the original board is abandoned rather than maintained. Having both in one suite means the messy phase can become the formal artefact without starting again.

The Cloud Accelerator add-on is a genuinely specific capability, since importing actual cloud infrastructure into a diagram produces documentation reflecting what exists rather than what somebody remembers building. Infrastructure diagrams are almost always out of date, and the gap between the diagram and reality is where incidents originate.

Process Accelerator addresses governance of process documentation, which matters because processes documented once and never reviewed become misleading rather than merely stale, and people follow them anyway.

Enterprise Shield as a separate security layer reflects that collaborative boards accumulate genuinely sensitive material, including strategy, organisational plans and architecture, usually without anyone classifying it.

Pricing is published on the Lucid pricing page but no figure was captured, so confirm current rates with the vendor.

Mural is a visual collaboration platform built around facilitated sessions, published with use cases spanning brainstorming and ideation, agile practices, product development, strategic planning, customer journey mapping, process mapping, research analysis, client collaboration and team building, serving research and development, consulting, marketing, sales, design and user experience teams.

Organising the product around use cases and methods rather than around canvas features is the meaningful choice, and it identifies what this product is genuinely for.

An infinite canvas with sticky notes is not difficult to build and is close to a commodity. What separates products in this category is whether they support the structure of collaborative work: a retrospective has a format, a design sprint has a sequence, and a customer journey map has a shape. Supplying those as templates with the facilitation mechanics attached is worth considerably more than another drawing tool.

The facilitation emphasis addresses the actual difficulty of collaborative sessions, which is not the canvas but the meeting. Distributed workshops fail through people talking over each other, dominant voices, unclear phases and no shared sense of what stage the group is at. Timers, private voting, silent ideation and structured phases exist to manage those dynamics, and they matter more to the outcome than any drawing feature.

The consulting focus among named audiences is telling, since consultants run facilitated sessions professionally and are demanding about the mechanics in a way occasional users are not.

Client collaboration as a use case addresses working with people outside the organisation, where the practical requirement is that a guest can participate without creating an account or installing anything, since any friction there wastes the first ten minutes of a paid workshop.

Pricing is published with a free tier at $0, a Team tier published around $9 per member and a figure of $9.99 per member published alongside for unlimited editable murals.