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Design & whiteboarding, ranked by value — not ad spend

Diagramming and product design on open standards. Penpot files are SVG; Excalidraw boards are JSON — no export ransom.

No paid placement. Ranked by evidence against four principles: transparency, value density, privacy, efficiency. How we rank →
Our pick
Excalidraw — Hand-drawn-style diagrams, E2EE collab 5.0
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1 Excalidraw
Hand-drawn-style diagrams, E2EE collab
 5.0 self-host ~
2 Penpot
Open-source Figma alternative on open standards
 4.3 self-host ~

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