5 Best Microsoft White­board Alternatives

Working from home is quickly becoming the norm across industries. Select organizations are allowing their employees to work from home permanently. And while you work from home, brainstorming with your team could be tricky. Whiteboard is one of the tools that teams would find handy when collaborating remotely. While Microsoft Whiteboard is a solid choice, there are folks who might want to try different options. That's why I will share some of the best Microsoft Whiteboard alternatives in this post.

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DrawPile

DrawPile is an open-source and free whiteboard app available on Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms. It has no mobile version available. At its heart, DrawPile is a sketching tool with collaboration features. Inviting is a different story. You will need to share your external IP address and password for that. DrawPile offers a nifty guide on how to host a collaborative session.

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Draw.Chat

Draw.Chat comes with plenty of drawing tools that can be too much for Microsoft Whiteboard alternative seekers, but many will find these options useful. Best part is that there is no registration required and you get 10MB cloud storage where you can save whiteboards for up to 1 month before downloading them. There are plenty of keyboard shortcuts to make your life easy.

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Miro

You can drag and drop every element wherever you want. Also, you can zoom and pan around the board. Team members can chat with each other using text, audio, and video or just share screen inside Miro. You can also connect many third-party apps like Slack, Drive, Teams, Trello, and more. There is a Miro Marketplace for all sorts of plugins for extra functionality. Enterprise users will be happy to know that there are administrative controls for users with permissions to control the workflow.

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Explain Everything

Explain Everything works a little like the whiteboard option in Zoom or Meet, where you will create a whiteboard and send an invite code to others. There are no desktop apps, but it works on any browser and has dedicated mobile apps. It was created to help teachers and others who give presentations to explain how things work. It also supports audio and video recording.

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OneNote

While not a traditional whiteboard app, there are some benefits of using OneNote. You can create detailed notes, lists, draw, record, share, collaborate, and later search that sea of notes to find what you are looking for easily using keywords or tags. We have covered OneNote is great detail on GT before. Do check out our take.

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