Digital Whiteboards tools

Visual canvases for collaborative brainstorming and planning.

Excalidraw

Digital Whiteboards

Excalidraw is an open-source collaborative whiteboard for hand-drawn diagrams and wireframes, with an infinite canvas, exports, sharing, and offline support.

AppFlowy

75,519

Digital Whiteboards

AppFlowy is an open-source collaborative workspace for organizing projects, tasks, wikis, databases, documentation, and AI-assisted work across devices.

Penpot

58,636

Digital Whiteboards

Penpot is an open-source collaborative design platform for creating responsive interfaces, prototypes, and scalable design systems with developer handoff.

Plane

56,003

Digital Whiteboards

Plane is an open-source project management platform for tracking issues, organizing sprints, managing roadmaps, and analyzing project work across teams.

Siyuan

45,825

Digital Whiteboards

SiYuan is a privacy-first knowledge workspace for block-based notes, linked documents, AI-assisted writing, and structured personal knowledge management.

Trilium

37,438

Digital Whiteboards

Trilium is an open-source note-taking application for building large personal knowledge bases with rich editing, search, organization, and self-hosted sync.

Wiki

28,765

Digital Whiteboards

Wiki.js is a self-hostable, open-source wiki for creating, organizing, and maintaining team documentation through a modern Node.js web application.

Platform

27,357

Digital Whiteboards

Huly is an open-source platform for project management, team communication, CRM, HRM, ATS, and related business applications, with self-hosted deployment.

Docmost

21,372

Digital Whiteboards

Docmost is open-source collaborative wiki software for creating, organizing, searching, and maintaining team documentation with real-time editing, comments.

BookStack

18,987

Digital Whiteboards

BookStack is a self-hosted documentation platform for storing, organizing, and maintaining information in a simple, structured workspace for teams and other.

Docs

16,725

Digital Whiteboards

Docs is an open-source web editor for teams to create, organize, and share structured knowledge collaboratively, with real-time editing and self-hosted data.

Openproject

15,857

Digital Whiteboards

OpenProject is open-source project management software for planning portfolios, coordinating tasks, tracking roadmaps, and supporting team collaboration.

Gollum

14,313

Digital Whiteboards

Gollum is a Git-powered wiki for creating, organizing, editing, and serving durable documentation pages through a built-in local web interface.

Leantime

11,356

Digital Whiteboards

Leantime is an open-source project management system combining goals, planning, task execution, timelines, dashboards, and team collaboration in one workspace.

Kanboard

9,797

Digital Whiteboards

Kanboard is self-hostable project management software centered on Kanban boards, helping teams organize and track work through visual project workflows.

Kaneo

8,318

Digital Whiteboards

Kaneo is an open-source, self-hosted project management platform for organizing tasks, issues, projects, and labels in a focused team workspace.

Open-pencil

7,800

Digital Whiteboards

Open-source design editor for creating and editing .fig and .pen files with AI-assisted tools, components, auto layout, collaboration, and desktop or browser.

Plasmic

6,959

Digital Whiteboards

Plasmic is an open-source visual builder for creating apps, websites, and content with drag-and-drop editing, reusable components, and codebase integration.

Silverbullet

5,854

Digital Whiteboards

SilverBullet is a self-hosted Markdown knowledge database with wiki links, live preview, queries, tasks, and Lua scripting for programmable personal notes.

Dootask

5,548

Digital Whiteboards

DooTask is an open-source online project and task management platform with collaboration, documents, messaging, diagrams, file management, and self-hosted.

Vikunja

5,069

Digital Whiteboards

Vikunja is a self-hostable task and project management platform for organizing work, with hosted and locally deployable options for individuals and teams.

Colanode

5,015

Digital Whiteboards

Colanode is an open-source, local-first collaboration workspace for team chat, rich-text pages, wikis, databases, files, and self-hosted data control.

Dokuwiki

4,699

Digital Whiteboards

DokuWiki is an open-source wiki engine for creating, organizing, and maintaining shared documentation in a user-controlled knowledge base or team wiki.

Ever-gauzy

4,327

Digital Whiteboards

Ever Gauzy is an open business-management platform combining project and task management with CRM, ERP, HRM, time tracking, dashboards, reporting, and.

OpenDeepWiki

3,529

Digital Whiteboards

OpenDeepWiki turns repositories into searchable AI-generated documentation with public web pages, chat, MCP access, translations, mind maps, and administration.

Tududi

3,252

Digital Whiteboards

Tududi is a self-hosted productivity app for organizing tasks, projects, notes, areas, and tags, with recurring work, sharing, Telegram, and CalDAV support.

MrDoc

3,229

Digital Whiteboards

MrDoc is a self-hosted online document and knowledge-management platform for individuals and small teams, with Markdown writing, collaboration, permissions.

Worklenz

3,147

Digital Whiteboards

Worklenz is an open-source project management platform for planning projects, tracking tasks, scheduling resources, collaborating, and monitoring delivery with.

NoteDiscovery

2,746

Digital Whiteboards

Self-hosted knowledge-base app for writing, organizing, searching, and linking Markdown notes with themes, templates, graph views, sharing, and AI integration.

Whitebophir

2,632

Digital Whiteboards

WBO is a self-hostable collaborative whiteboard where users draw together in real time on persistent virtual boards for teaching, design, and diagrams.

Namviek

2,547

Digital Whiteboards

Namviek is an open-source project management platform for development teams, offering a self-hosted way to organize collaborative work while controlling.

Community

2,415

Digital Whiteboards

Documize is a self-hosted knowledge-management platform for creating, organizing, and maintaining internal and external documentation with collaborative pages.

Alexandrie

2,326

Digital Whiteboards

Self-hosted knowledge base for organizing, searching, sharing, and exporting Markdown notes with offline access, team workspaces, and granular permissions.

Matterwiki

2,094

Digital Whiteboards

Matterwiki is a self-hosted team wiki for organizing company knowledge, documentation, notes, culture guidelines, and onboarding content collaboratively.

AppFlowy-Cloud

1,986

Digital Whiteboards

AppFlowy Cloud is an open-core collaborative workspace for teams, combining wikis, projects, AI features, real-time editing, page publishing, and self-hosted.

Umlet

1,601

Digital Whiteboards

UMLet is an open-source UML diagramming tool for quickly creating, customizing, exporting, and sharing UML diagrams through a simple user interface.

Crowi

1,099

Digital Whiteboards

Crowi is a self-hostable Markdown wiki for team knowledge sharing, with hierarchical pages, real-time editing, search, and a web frontend for teams.

Leafwiki

1,042

Digital Whiteboards

LeafWiki is a self-hosted wiki for structured, durable documentation, with Markdown pages, tree navigation, search, links, access roles, and a lightweight Go,.

Openflowkit

703

Digital Whiteboards

OpenFlowKit is a local-first visual diagramming studio for flowcharts and architecture maps, with AI generation, code synchronization, structured imports, and.

Sage-wiki

582

Digital Whiteboards

sage-wiki turns documents into an interlinked, searchable knowledge wiki with graph-based, cited answers for people and AI agents, locally or on a team server.

Drafft-ink

546

Digital Whiteboards

Drafft.ink is a self-hostable infinite-canvas whiteboard for drawing, annotating, and collaborating in real time across desktop, web, and mobile.

Wiki

426

Digital Whiteboards

Frappe Wiki is an open-source web wiki for creating, organizing, publishing, and maintaining documentation and knowledge-base content with controlled updates.

Zametek.ProjectPlan

237

Digital Whiteboards

Open-source cross-platform desktop software for creating, planning, tracking, importing, and analyzing project plans, with chart exports and a scripting CLI.

Whiteboard

207

Digital Whiteboards

Nextcloud Whiteboard is a self-hosted infinite canvas for creating, sharing, and collaboratively editing visual boards with real-time synchronization.

How to choose open-source Digital Whiteboards software

Start with the workflow you need to replace, then compare feature coverage, deployment documentation, project activity, data portability, and support. Repository popularity is useful context, but it should not outweigh fit or the project's maintenance history.

Capabilities and use cases

Across the reviewed tools, common documented capabilities include Collaborative knowledge pages from draft to maintained team reference, Live document collaboration, Task management, Configurable project delivery boards, Task assignment and tracking, Project deliverable tracking through configurable work-item workflows, Team knowledge-base pages from capture to shared source of truth, Workspace search and answers. Verify the exact workflow on each profile before migrating production data.

Licensing considerations

Licenses represented in this category include AGPL-3.0, Apache-2.0, BSD-2-Clause, EPL-2.0, GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0, MIT, MPL-2.0. Check redistribution, modification, and hosted-service obligations against your intended use.

Self-hosting tradeoffs

44 of 44 reviewed tools are confirmed as self-hostable, and 29 document Docker support. Compare upgrade, backup, monitoring, and security work alongside hosting cost.

Related software categories

Document Collaboration Knowledge Management Project Management Task Management Calendars & Scheduling AI Assistants