FigJam vs Whimsical

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

Whimsical

• Product teams sketching flows, wireframes and specs in one place
• Teams with many occasional viewers, since only editors are billed
• Linux users: the desktop app ships as DEB and RPM packages
• Students and teachers, who can apply for a free year

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.

Whimsical

• The Free plan allows 50 new board objects and 50 doc blocks a month and puts a watermark on exports.
• There is no dedicated mobile app: on a phone, files can be viewed and commented on in a browser, and iPad use is browser-based.
• AI credits are a one-off 10 per account on every plan; more are sold in bundles starting at 250 credits for $25.
• Private teams, SAML single sign-on and SCIM are limited to Business, at $20 per editor / month billed annually.

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.

Whimsical

Boards on an infinite canvas

One board type covers flowcharts, mind maps, sequence diagrams, sticky notes and freehand sketches. Voting and a timer are included on every plan.

Wireframes

Wireframes are assembled from drag-and-drop components, as a quick way to explore product ideas and iterate on them.

Whimsical AI

A prompt generates a flowchart, a branched mind map or an editable wireframe. Each account gets 10 one-off AI credits; more are sold separately at $0.10 each.

Docs

Docs hold notes, project plans, briefs and specs next to the boards they describe, with Markdown support, toggles and embedded content.

Multiplayer editing and comments

Several people can edit a file at once and leave comments on it. Share links can grant view, comment or edit access on every plan.

Embeds and AI tool connectors

Boards embed live in Notion and Obsidian and preview in Slack, Jira and Google Docs. An MCP server and connectors let ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor create diagrams.

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.

Whimsical

• Free$0

  50 new board objects and 50 doc blocks a month, 5 MB uploads within 1 GB of storage, watermarked exports and 7-day version history.

• Pro$10

  per editor / month, billed annually ($12 billed monthly)

  Unlimited board objects and doc blocks, exports without a watermark, 90-day version history, password-protected files and 100 GB of storage.

• Business$20

  per editor / month, billed annually ($24 billed monthly)

  Private teams, SAML single sign-on, SCIM, content security lock, unlimited version history, invoicing, priority support and storage from 2 TB.

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.

Whimsical

• Annual discount

  2 months free with annual billing

  Pro is $120 per editor billed annually against $12 a month, and Business is $240 against $24. The pricing page shows this as a 17% saving.

• Education

  Free for a year for students and teachers

  Teachers and students can apply for the education plan, which provides the same features as Pro free of charge for a year.

• Nonprofit

  20% off for nonprofits

  Whimsical offers a 20% discount to non-profit organizations that apply through its form.

• Other savings

  Free for life for YouTube creators

  Creators with a public YouTube channel of at least 1,000 subscribers and a video published in the past 30 days can apply for a plan that is free for life.