FigJam vs Milanote

FigJam

• Teams that already design products in Figma
• Stand-ups, retrospectives and workshops run on a shared board
• Mapping user flows next to the designs they describe
• Classrooms: verified students and teachers get FigJam free

Milanote

• Designers, filmmakers and writers collecting references and ideas
• Building moodboards and storyboards to share with clients
• Teams of 5 to 50 who want one flat annual price
• Trying every feature on a free plan with no time limit

FigJam

• FigJam cannot be bought separately; access comes with a Figma seat, and plans and seats are chosen for the whole Figma product set.
• The free Starter plan allows 3 FigJam files in its team folder and leaves out voting, open sessions, audio conversations and advanced shapes.
• Custom color palettes and organization-wide custom templates need the Organization plan, which is billed annually only.
• The iPhone and Android apps view and comment on FigJam files; on mobile, sketching in FigJam is offered on iPad only.

Milanote

• The Free plan stops at 100 notes, images or links and 10 file uploads, with images capped at 10MB each.
• Team plans are billed annually only; monthly billing exists only on the per-person plan at $12.50 a month.
• Teams of more than 50 people need a custom enterprise plan arranged through sales.
• There is no separate Pro trial: the vendor points people to the Free plan to try the product.

FigJam

Shapes and connectors

Shapes and connectors snap to the grid for mapping user flows, processes and systems. Advanced shapes for AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure and Kubernetes need a paid plan.

Facilitation tools

A shared timer, stamps, emotes and a built-in music player are on every plan, and Spotlight mode lets a presenter guide the group. Voting starts at Professional.

FigJam AI

A prompt generates meeting templates and visuals, and one click sorts stickies into themes or summarizes them. These draw on the AI credits included with each plan and seat.

Open sessions

On paid plans, people outside the team can be invited to contribute to a board for 24 hours without a paid seat, with no limit on the number of sessions.

Templates, widgets and plugins

More than 300 ready-made templates cover kickoffs, retrospectives, flow charts and journey maps, and community widgets and plugins extend a board.

Ties to Figma Design and Slides

Screens and components from Figma libraries can be dropped into a diagram, and an AI feature in Figma Slides drafts a deck outline from a FigJam board.

Milanote

Freeform visual boards

A board combines notes, images, videos, links, files and sketches, arranged freely, so a project's research and plans sit in one view.

Moodboards and storyboards

Templates and guides cover moodboards, storyboards, creative briefs, character profiles, shot lists and other formats used in creative work.

Web clipper

A browser extension saves text, images, links and video from any page to a board. It is offered for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge and Opera.

Sharing and collaboration

Invite clients or teammates to edit, comment on or just view a board, and work together in real time. Shared boards are unlimited on every plan.

Mind maps and whiteboarding

The same boards work as an online whiteboard on an infinite canvas and as a mind mapping tool for brainstorming sessions.

Desktop and mobile apps

Desktop apps for Mac and Windows open Milanote outside the browser with live notifications, and mobile apps cover iPhone, iPad and Android.

FigJam

• Starter$0

  3 FigJam files plus unlimited drafts, with the timer, tables, code blocks, diagramming tools and the AI generate, sort and summarize features.

• Professional$3

  per Collab seat / month, billed annually

  Unlimited files, voting, open sessions, audio, advanced shapes and unlimited version history. Dev seats are $12 and Full seats $16 a month.

• Organization$5

  per Collab seat / month, billed annually

  Adds custom color palettes, custom templates shared across the organization, SSO and centralized administration. Full seats are $55 a month.

• Enterprise$5

  per Collab seat / month, billed annually

  Adds custom workspaces, SCIM seat management, guest access controls and expiring public links. Full seats are $90 a month.

Milanote

• Free$0

  100 notes, images or links, 10 file uploads and unlimited shared boards, with no time limit.

• Pro (pay per person)$9.99

  per person / month, billed annually ($12.50 billed monthly)

  Unlimited notes, images, links and file uploads, with images up to 100MB and other files up to 5GB each.

• Team (up to 10 people)$49

  per month for the team, billed annually

  Unlimited content for up to 10 people under one team admin. Annual billing only.

• Team (up to 50 people)$99

  per month for the team, billed annually

  Unlimited content for up to 50 people under one team admin. Annual billing only; larger teams are quoted an enterprise plan.

FigJam

• Education

  Free for verified students and educators

  Figma for Education gives students and teachers who verify their status free access to Figma and FigJam, including the paid professional tools, through an education team.

• Annual discount

  Lower Professional seat prices on annual billing

  Professional seats can be billed monthly or annually, and the pricing page shows the lower annual rates. Figma's help center prices a Dev seat at $15 on monthly billing against $12 on annual.

Milanote

• Annual discount

  About 20% less with annual billing

  The per-person plan costs $9.99 a month when billed annually against $12.50 billed monthly, a saving of about 20%.

• Other savings

  Flat team price for 5 or more people

  The team plan costs $49 a month for up to 10 people or $99 a month for up to 50, billed annually. The plans page labels the two sizes "Save 50%" and "Save 80%".

• Education

  Student and academic discount

  Milanote's help centre says students and academics get a discount by emailing its education address with details of their institution or course.

• Nonprofit

  Discount for NGOs and not-for-profits

  Milanote says it generally discounts plans for NGOs and not-for-profits, decided case by case after contacting support.