Excalidraw vs. Gliffy

Excalidraw is a free open-sourced collaborative whiteboard. Don't waste time searching for the best tool or the best template. Just draw. With no sign-up, no pop-ups or cookie consents. Simply the whiteboard, essential tools and AI features to create perfect results fast. Teams and Professionals often level up to Excalidraw+ with unlimited cloud workspace and plus-only features like presentations, voice hangouts, extra generative AI prompting, enhanced collaborative features, access management & more.

Gliffy's diagramming applications make it easy to communicate and collaborate at the speed of your ideas. Whether you're using Gliffy in Confluence and Jira or jumping into our standalone diagramming tool, Gliffy Online, you'll find an intuitive way to draw diagrams. Drag and drop your way to professional-looking flowcharts, UML diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams, and more in just a few clicks. Plus, you can now build your diagrams using code with Mermaid js. Use a template to make a mind map or concept map while brainstorming.