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25 Excalidraw Reviews
4.4 out of 5
25 Excalidraw Reviews
4.4 out of 5

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Manan B.
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What do you like best about Excalidraw?

Real Time Collaboration is one of the best feature of the excalidraw.

Another great features of excalidraw is intutive interatction and ui. and the export options are almost all.

It is helpful in teahcing juniors about coding etc

Also the little things have been taken care of like dark mode and inserting image changing canvas background etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Excalidraw?

Leanring curve can be a little for any beginnner also it needs to have offline functionality when anyone wants to use it for personal purposes.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robel A.
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What do you like best about Excalidraw?

- Easy to get started with and use

- Provides an easy share method so you can collaborate with your team

- With the plus tier you get to organize your scenes into folders and form a very detailed knowledge base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Excalidraw?

... not much really , they have done a very good job with the app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Preatheep S.
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What do you like best about Excalidraw?

It's simple and straight forward tool any one can easily understand this product.

The minimalistic design and straight away we can create the flow chart or wireframes without any formal setups.

They providing most of the all features in free version itself.

Collaboration options is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Excalidraw?

The web application is exact similar to desktop version, no major chagnes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vanshika N.
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What do you like best about Excalidraw?

The markers colours or the exprt options are so great. Some other features that i like about excalidraw includes its Dark mode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Excalidraw?

What i dislike about Excalidraw is the learning curve , lack of clarity when using Sketch tool and the shapes provided. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Excalidraw?

It is user-friendly, has a Minimalistic design interface, and has collaborative options where multiple users can work. The tool supports various formats, including PNG, SVG, and JSON, providing flexibility in sharing and integrating diagrams into other applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Excalidraw?

Probably only offline limitations. There not much to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MW
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What do you like best about Excalidraw?

I use Excalidraw+ for UI wireframing and mockups for a FinTech startup. I used to do these on paper, because it's the easiest way for me to 'think and draw' at the same time. However, once I discovered Excalidraw I found it just "gets out of the way" and allows me to focus on thinking and designing, without being distracted by anything else. They are clearly laser focused on simplicity (I've seen feature requests that are (rightly) knocked back by the team, because of this focus on simplicity and speed of use). Give the free version a spin, you'll probably find it invaluable and then it's a great value for money upgrade to get the cloud-hosted version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Excalidraw?

There's nothing I really dislike. There are definitely some features I could think "Oh, it would be helpful if it had X, Y, or Z" but to be honest, I wouldn't want it to become more complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhijeet M.
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What do you like best about Excalidraw?

For me, Excalidraw has been a revelation.

During my software development workflow I use it for:

> Collaborative drawing with peers

> UX Prototyping

> Whiteboard Ideas

It's simple and intuitive interface with the ability to sketch freely stands out. Also, the export options provided by the tool makes it easy to integrate with software project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Excalidraw?

Excalidraw is fantastic. Although, more pre-built templates of commonly used diagram types would be a great add. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Excalidraw?

intuitive and easy to use, has many functionalities that allow you to flexibly be able to put your thoughts down onto the page, you can download your board, and have live collaboration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Excalidraw?

not sure if this is a premium option, but in the basic one there are only three font options which I would've liked to see more of Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Excalidraw?

It is completely collaborative, so my clients and I have the same capabilities to draw, write, edit text boxes (which other whiteboards won't allow), and to add links. I can either export the whiteboard as a png or I can export the file and upload it again later so we can pick up from one class where we left off from the previous class. It's brilliant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Excalidraw?

There's nothing I dislike about it; the learning curve was short and it's so intuitive that I use most of the capabilities already. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Excalidraw?

Its simplicity is next level. I use to draw pre-primary disigns of infrastructure or network flow. The best part is Real-time collaboration means multiple people can use the same board to edit or contribute to a design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Excalidraw?

Since this is a very basic tool it has many limitations like very few pre-defined shapes are available and same with fonts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.