FigJam vs Stormboard

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

Stormboard

• Facilitated workshops that need to end in a written report
• Agile teams planning with Jira, Rally or Azure DevOps
• Teams that co-edit Office or Google files inside a board
• Small groups: the free plan allows 5 users in each Storm

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.

Stormboard

• The Personal plan allows 5 open Storms with 5 users each, and Microsoft Office and Google Drive files are view-only on it.
• Substorms, idea grouping, folders, and the Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Google reports all need the Business plan.
• SAML single sign-on, audit logs and the Surface Hub app are Enterprise-only, and StormAI on Business is a 30-day trial before an Enterprise upgrade.
• The vendor lists apps for Windows, iOS and Android but no Mac app, and describes the phone app as a companion with limited features.

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.

Stormboard

Storms built from sticky notes

A workspace, called a Storm, holds text, image, video, file and whiteboard sticky notes on an infinite canvas divided into sections. Index card notes open a Substorm on paid plans.

Templates and section types

More than 250 templates are included. On Business and Enterprise, a section can become a calendar, spreadsheet or matrix, and customized templates can be saved for reuse.

Reports and exports

A Storm exports as an editable Word, PowerPoint or Excel report, or as Google Docs, Slides or Sheets. These need Business; Personal has word cloud, votes and tasks exports.

Two-way agile integrations

Integrations with Jira, Rally and Azure DevOps mirror changes made in Stormboard back to the tracker, for backlog and sprint planning and for showing dependencies.

Voting, tasks and timer

Participants can vote on ideas, comment, and assign a task to a sticky note, and an assigned-tasks report lists owners and due dates. A timer is included on every plan.

StormAI

StormAI builds a template from a stated goal, suggests ideas, and summarizes sticky notes or groups them by theme or sentiment. Business customers get a 30-day trial of it.

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.

Stormboard

• Personal$0

  5 open Storms, 5 users per Storm, one administrator per Storm, pre-made templates, and word cloud, votes and tasks exports.

• Business$8.33

  per user / month, billed annually ($10 billed monthly)

  Unlimited Storms, Substorms, idea grouping, folders, custom templates, Office and Google reports, and live co-editing of Office and Google files.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Adds SAML single sign-on, a single-tenant option, audit logs, the Surface Hub app, volume pricing, priority support and a dedicated account manager.

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.

Stormboard

• Annual discount

  2 months free with annual billing

  Business is $8.33 per user a month billed annually ($100 a seat per year) against $10 billed monthly. Annual subscriptions are non-refundable and do not include the free trial.

• Nonprofit

  25% off annual plans for nonprofits

  Certified non-profit organizations get 25% off annual plans by choosing a plan and then contacting Stormboard. The discount does not apply to monthly billing.