raimohanska/ourboard Alternatives

online whiteboard / visual collaboration

A self-hostable web-based collaborative whiteboard for notes, images, links, areas, and connections.

813TypeScriptNOASSERTIONslowing · last push 1.1y agoGitHub

Drop-in peers

Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.

excalidraw/excalidrawGitHub

Choose for a mature MIT-licensed hand-drawn diagramming whiteboard with a larger ecosystem than ourboard.

Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

: 132.5k
: TypeScript
: MIT

active23d ago

Same job, different approach

Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.

quickdrawjs/quickdrawGitHub

Choose as an embeddable MIT-licensed whiteboard SDK when building your own canvas rather than deploying a full board.

The MIT-licensed infinite-canvas whiteboard SDK. An open-source tldraw alternative — no license fee, free for commercial use. React, React Native, and plain JS.

: 479
: JavaScript
: MIT

active22d ago

Older generation, or narrower

An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.

jncraton/box-line-textGitHub

Choose for a bare-bones static HTML whiteboard if you can accept stale maintenance and no collaboration.

Simple virtual whiteboarding

: 458
: HTML
: NOASSERTION

dormant1.9y ago

End-user tools

Does the same job, but ships as an app. Useful to a person, not swappable into a codebase.

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OpenBoard-org/OpenBoardGitHub

Choose for an offline native classroom whiteboard with pen/touch support when browser collaboration is not required.

OpenBoard is a cross-platform interactive whiteboard application intended for use in a classroom setting.

: 3.1k
: C++
: GPL-3.0

active1mo ago

mbrlabs/LorienGitHub

Choose for a native desktop infinite-canvas drawing/whiteboarding app when local offline use matters more than web collaboration.

Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app for Windows, Linux and macOS. Made with Godot.

: 6.8k
: GDScript
: MIT

slowing1.1y ago

devmobasa/wayscriberGitHub

Choose for live Linux screen-overlay annotation/whiteboarding during presentations, not a hosted collaborative board.

Live overlay for drawing, annotating, presenting with zoom, hiding text, and capturing screenshots on Linux. Can be used as whiteboard or blackboard. Packed with features. Highly customisable. Written in Rust.

: 746
: Rust
: MIT

active29d ago

Listed as an alternative to

These projects were analysed and named ourboard among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how ourboard rates them is a separate judgement, made when ourboard is analysed in its own right.

excalidraw/excalidrawGitHub

calls ourboard “Choose it when you want a basic standalone online whiteboard app rather than an embeddable diagramming SDK.”

Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

132.5kTypeScriptactive