FigJam vs tldraw

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

tldraw

• Quick sketches and diagrams without creating an account
• People who want whiteboard files kept locally on their computer
• Working on a canvas alongside coding agents such as Codex or Claude Code
• Developers evaluating the tldraw SDK for their own product

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.

tldraw

• The vendor describes tldraw.com as the flagship demo of its SDK and ships early SDK versions there for testing and evaluation.
• Sharing a board from tldraw.com requires signing in to an account.
• No native iOS or Android apps are listed; on phones and tablets tldraw runs in the browser.
• tldraw is not open source: the SDK is source-available, and using it in a product needs a commercial license whose price is not published.

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.

tldraw

Infinite canvas drawing tools

Draw freehand, add shapes, arrows and text with rich formatting, and drop in images and bookmarks. The site says it works in browsers on phones, tablets and desktops.

Accounts and cloud files

The app works without logging in. Signing in to a free account saves files to the cloud, syncs them between devices and lists them in a sidebar.

Sharing and multiplayer

A signed-in owner can invite guests as editors or viewers with a link, keep a file private, or publish a snapshot that can be updated later without a new link.

tldraw offline

A desktop app with no accounts and no server. Boards are saved as self-contained .tldraw files, and others on the same local network can join a file.

Canvas for AI agents

A plugin for ChatGPT and Codex and an MCP App for Cursor let agents draw on a board, and tldraw offline lets local agents such as Claude Code edit and script files.

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.

tldraw

• Free$0

  The whiteboard at tldraw.com, with or without an account, and the tldraw offline desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux.

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.

tldraw

No public discounts listed.