# Limnu review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Freehand online whiteboard for quick sketching with others Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Limnu is a browser and iOS whiteboard built around freehand drawing on an unbounded canvas. Several people can draw on a board together, and a board admin can switch on a Leading mode that keeps everyone at the same spot. It also offers a whiteboard API for embedding boards in other products. - **Category:** Whiteboards & Mind Maps - **Made by:** Limnu - **Website:** https://limnu.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you use Android or want a desktop app, as none is listed. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Limnu has a free plan, and paid plans start at $5 per month, billed monthly ($50 billed yearly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free plan with unlimited collaborators, limited admin and security controls and 30 minutes of video conference time. - **Free trial:** 14-day test drive of Pro or Team features, then the Free plan. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Unlimited collaborators, collaborative or solo-draw boards, limited admin controls and 30 minutes of video conference time. | | Pro | $5 per month, billed monthly ($50 billed yearly) | For individuals: unlimited boards and collaborators, private and collaborative boards, unlimited video conference time. | | Team | $8 per team member / month, billed monthly ($80 billed yearly) | Unlimited boards, team or private boards, team security controls and unlimited video conference time. | | Enterprise | Custom | Team features plus a customer success manager and a training and onboarding program; sold through sales. | Read from https://limnu.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Limnu before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Yearly billing saves $10 (Pro) or $16 (Team)** (Annual discount): The pricing page shows Pro at $50 a year (save $10) and Team at $80 a year per team member (save $16). Source: https://limnu.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Freehand drawing:** Boards have no edge boundaries and support markers, shapes, text, sticky notes and stylus or Wacom tablet input. - **Leading mode:** A board admin can lead, so that everyone on the board sees the same area. Leading works in solo-draw and collaboration modes. - **File and image markup:** PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPEG, PNG, GIF and SVG files can be added. They upload as images, one per page, and can be marked up. - **Team controls:** Team plans add admin controls over who can share and invite, and security settings that can restrict boards to an organization. - **Whiteboard API:** A separate API product lets a company embed whiteboards in its own app or website, priced through sales. ## Good for - Quick sketching during video calls - Tutors who draw maths or diagrams with students - Teams that want a simple drawing board and not a diagramming suite ## Worth knowing - Exports are of the area visible in the viewport, like a screenshot, not the whole board. - Team security controls and admin controls are on the Team plan; the Free plan has limited ones. - Limnu lists a browser and an iOS app; no Android or desktop app appears on the pages we read. - The Slack integration is described as being upgraded and not currently available. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Limnu is a freehand whiteboard with markers, shapes and stylus support, in a browser and on iOS. Exports capture only the visible area, team controls need the $8 Team plan, and the Slack integration is not available right now. - **Value for money: B.** Pro is $5 a month billed monthly or $50 a year, at the edge of the cheaper quarter ($5.00). Team is $8 a seat. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The free plan has unlimited collaborators and boards with no cap on the page, limited admin controls and 30 minutes of video. A 14-day test drive of paid features comes first. - **Features: C.** Freehand drawing, leading mode, file markup and an API. Gap the listing shows: export is the visible area only, like a screenshot, not the whole board. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You draw everything yourself and decide how to lay out the board. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and iOS. The Slack integration is described as being upgraded and unavailable, and there is no Android or desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Limnu's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among whiteboard and mind map tools - Limnu's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 35 of the 61 other whiteboard and mind map tools we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 48 of 61) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $5 a month, against a middle price of $7.49 for the category: 10 of the 44 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 8 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/whiteboards ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Limnu does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 4 things listed below take a company. It costs $60 a year. - You could not: An endless canvas that stays smooth with hundreds of things on it. - You could not: A real app for iOS. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Slack among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Slack **Tags:** Whiteboard, Real-time collaboration, Public API ## Alternatives - [Excalidraw](https://toolgpa.com/tools/excalidraw): Open-source whiteboard for hand-drawn style sketches and diagrams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/excalidraw-vs-limnu) - [Microsoft Whiteboard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/microsoft-whiteboard): Free collaborative canvas built into Microsoft 365 and Teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/limnu-vs-microsoft-whiteboard) - [Ziteboard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ziteboard): Lightweight online whiteboard for tutoring and live teamwork. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/limnu-vs-ziteboard) - [Whiteboard Fox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/whiteboard-fox): Shared online whiteboard that works in any modern browser. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/limnu-vs-whiteboard-fox) - [Miro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/miro): Online whiteboard for team brainstorming, diagrams and planning. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/limnu-vs-miro) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://limnu.com - https://limnu.com/pricing/ - https://limnu.com/faq-support/ - https://limnu.com/about/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/limnu Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).