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Excalidraw

Hand-drawn diagramming

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About

Excalidraw is a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.

Features

  • hand-drawn diagrams OSS
Pricing
Open Source
Pricing detail
self-host OSS
Platforms
Web + self-host

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