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The best infinite canvas apps for planning, compared honestly

An infinite canvas gives you unbounded space to plan, sketch and connect ideas. The right app depends on the job: broad team workshops, quick sketches, embedding a canvas in your product, or software planning where diagrams stay tied to tasks and GitHub. Here is how the main options differ.

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Infinite canvas apps at a glance

  1. Planloom

    Best for: Software and product planning where the board connects to tasks, kanban, GitHub and AI.

    Narrower than a general whiteboard on purpose; closed source.

  2. Miro

    Best for: Broad team workshops, facilitation and large template libraries.

    General purpose, with a mature marketplace; check current plan limits.

  3. FigJam

    Best for: Teams already working in Figma who want a lightweight board beside their designs.

    Strongest inside the Figma ecosystem.

  4. Excalidraw

    Best for: Fast, minimal sketching with a hand-drawn look.

    Open source and self-hostable; deliberately simple.

  5. tldraw

    Best for: Developers who want to embed an infinite canvas in their own product.

    An SDK first; check their license terms.

Descriptions of other tools are general and based on public information; confirm current features on their sites before deciding.

What you get

Pick by job, not by logo

Workshops, sketches, embedded canvases and software planning each favor a different tool.

Where Planloom fits

When whiteboard sessions end in pull requests, linked tasks and GitHub cards keep the board current.

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How it works

  1. 1List the jobs you need the canvas for.
  2. 2Match them to the descriptions above.
  3. 3Open a free canvas and rebuild one real board before deciding.

Questions

What is an infinite canvas?

A workspace with no page edges. You pan and zoom freely to arrange notes, diagrams and drawings at any scale.

Which infinite canvas app is free?

Most offer a free tier or free use with limits. Planloom lets you open a canvas without an account; the pricing page lists plan limits. Confirm the others on their sites.

Which one should a software team pick?

If your board needs to stay tied to tasks and GitHub, Planloom is built for that. For general workshops, Miro may fit better.

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