spb/tools-spboucher-ai

1{2  "slug": "excalidraw",3  "name": "Excalidraw",4  "aliases": [5    "Excalidraw+"6  ],7  "vendor": {8    "name": "Excalidraw",9    "slug": "excalidraw",10    "website": "https://excalidraw.com"11  },12  "homepage_url": "https://excalidraw.com/",13  "docs_url": "https://docs.excalidraw.com/",14  "repo_url": "https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw",15  "pricing_url": "https://plus.excalidraw.com/pricing",16  "license_url": "https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/blob/master/LICENSE",17  "product_type": "application",18  "product_status": "active",19  "summary": "Open-source virtual whiteboard for hand-drawn-style diagrams with live collaboration, embeddable as a React component, plus a hosted Excalidraw+ service",20  "description": "Excalidraw is an open-source whiteboard application for sketch-style diagrams, maintained by the Excalidraw team and community. The web app runs entirely in the browser, saves to local storage or exportable .excalidraw JSON files, and offers end-to-end encrypted live collaboration rooms, shape libraries, arrows with binding, text-to-diagram helpers and export to PNG, SVG or clipboard. The editor is also published as an npm package so it can be embedded in other applications, which is how the popular Obsidian plugin and many documentation sites use it. Excalidraw+ is the company's hosted product adding workspaces, cloud storage, presentations and team features on a subscription. The free app has no accounts or persistent cloud storage unless you keep the files yourself, the hand-drawn aesthetic is deliberate and not suited to formal pixel-precise diagrams, and large boards can become slow.",21  "capabilities": [22    "Freehand-style shapes, arrows and text with binding",23    "Live collaboration with end-to-end encryption",24    "Shape libraries and templates",25    "Export to PNG, SVG and .excalidraw JSON",26    "Embeddable React component via npm",27    "Mermaid-to-Excalidraw diagram conversion"28  ],29  "workflows": [30    "Sketch a system architecture during a call and export SVG into docs",31    "Embed the editor in an internal tool or Obsidian vault"32  ],33  "advantages": [34    "MIT-licensed and self-hostable",35    "No account required",36    "Embeddable in other apps"37  ],38  "limitations": [39    "No persistent cloud storage without Excalidraw+ or your own files",40    "Sketch aesthetic unsuited to formal diagrams",41    "Performance drops on very large canvases"42  ],43  "prerequisites": [44    "Modern browser"45  ],46  "audiences": [47    "Engineers and researchers sketching diagrams",48    "Teams whiteboarding remotely"49  ],50  "alternatives": [51    "draw-io",52    "mermaid",53    "figma"54  ],55  "comparison_notes": "draw.io produces precise, formal diagrams with extensive shape libraries; Mermaid generates diagrams from text; Figma's FigJam is a commercial whiteboard with deeper workshop features. Excalidraw favours quick, informal sketches and is open source.",56  "categories": [57    {58      "slug": "design-prototyping",59      "primary": true60    },61    {62      "slug": "collaboration-communication"63    }64  ],65  "tags": [66    "diagrams",67    "whiteboard",68    "open-source",69    "typescript",70    "collaboration"71  ],72  "use_cases": [73    "draw-diagrams",74    "collaborate"75  ],76  "operating_systems": [77    "web"78  ],79  "execution_modes": [80    "local",81    "cloud",82    "self-hosted"83  ],84  "interfaces": [85    "web",86    "library"87  ],88  "deployment_models": [89    "saas",90    "embedded",91    "on-premises"92  ],93  "integrations": [94    "Obsidian (plugin)",95    "VS Code extension",96    "Mermaid",97    "React"98  ],99  "data_formats": [100    ".excalidraw JSON",101    "PNG",102    "SVG"103  ],104  "languages": [105    "TypeScript"106  ],107  "source_model": "open-source",108  "license_spdx": "MIT",109  "pricing_model": [110    "open-source",111    "free",112    "paid"113  ],114  "pricing_checked_at": "2026-11-02",115  "self_hostable": true,116  "sources": [117    {118      "url": "https://excalidraw.com/",119      "type": "official_site",120      "supports": [121        "name",122        "summary"123      ],124      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",125      "title": "Excalidraw"126    },127    {128      "url": "https://docs.excalidraw.com/",129      "type": "official_docs",130      "supports": [131        "capabilities",132        "interfaces"133      ],134      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",135      "title": "Excalidraw developer docs"136    },137    {138      "url": "https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/blob/master/LICENSE",139      "type": "license_page",140      "supports": [141        "license_spdx",142        "source_model"143      ],144      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",145      "title": "LICENSE (MIT)"146    },147    {148      "url": "https://plus.excalidraw.com/pricing",149      "type": "pricing_page",150      "supports": [151        "pricing_model"152      ],153      "checked_at": "2026-11-02",154      "title": "Excalidraw+ pricing"155    }156  ],157  "confidence": "high",158  "depth": "standard",159  "featured": false,160  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",161  "editorial_status": "reviewed",162  "visibility": "public",163  "author": "batch-F"164}165