The Lucidspark Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Lucidspark in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
Lucidspark
The Insider’s Guide
Virtual whiteboard for team brainstorming and workshops
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among whiteboard and mind map tools, read from Lucidspark’s own pages.
Made by Lucid Software Inc. · checked Oct 6, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from Lucidspark’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Lucidspark’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 6, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.4
GPA, above 6 of the 30 other whiteboard and mind map tools we grade
Lucidspark is the virtual whiteboard from Lucid Software, the company behind Lucidchart. Teams brainstorm on an infinite canvas with sticky notes, freehand drawing, mind maps and templates, then gather and sort what they collected. Paid plans add facilitation tools such as voting and timers, and the Enterprise plan bundles Lucidchart and adds breakout boards.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Lucidspark, taken from its own pages and our grades.
- 1
Best for team brainstorms and workshops on a shared board
Lucidspark is the whiteboard from the Lucidchart company, for team brainstorms with sticky notes, drawing and mind maps, plus tools to sort what everyone added.
- 2
Paid plans start at $9 a month
As its pricing page puts it: $9 per month, billed annually.
- 3
There is a free plan
3 editable Lucidspark boards with unlimited shapes per board, freehand drawing, emoji reactions, commenting, basic Visual Activities, presentation mode and Lucid AI.
- 4
It runs on 3 platforms
Web, iOS and Android.
- 5
Infinite canvas
Boards hold sticky notes, shapes, freehand drawing, images and comments, with Gather and Sort tools to group notes after a brainstorm.
- 6
Visual Activities
Interactive exercises collect input from a group and turn it into results the team can act on. Basic activities are free; premium ones need a paid plan.
- 7
Facilitation tools
Team plans add voting, a timer, a laser pointer, facilitator controls and the option to call everyone to one spot. Breakout boards are Enterprise only.
- 8
A 2.4 GPA, above 6 of 30
That is against the other whiteboard and mind map tools we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
- 9
Keep it
The plain part of Lucidspark you could make: mind mapping and templates. What surrounds it you could not. The 7 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
Lucidspark at a glance
- Pricing
- Free plan, from $9 per month, billed annually
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- 7-day free trial of Individual or Team; payment details are required at sign-up
- Runs on
- Web, iOS, Android
- Made by
- Lucid Software Inc.
- Category
- Whiteboards & Mind Maps
- Our grade
- 2.4 GPA, fair
The report card
Best for team brainstorms and workshops on a shared board
Lucidspark is the whiteboard from the Lucidchart company, for team brainstorms with sticky notes, drawing and mind maps, plus tools to sort what everyone added. AI is on every plan. Voting, timers, guests and revision history start at Team, the free plan stops at 3 boards, the trial wants payment details, and there's no desktop app.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | C | Individual is $9 a month billed annually and Team $10 a user, which is the dearer half of this category without being extreme. Watch which one you need, though: voting, the timer, guests and revision history all start at Team, and the page quotes no monthly rate at all. |
| Free plan and trial | C | Free forever with unlimited shapes per board, freehand drawing, commenting, presentation mode and Lucid AI. The wall is the board count: 3 editable boards, which is a fortnight of retros. The 7-day trial of the paid plans asks for payment details at sign-up. |
| Features | B | The whiteboard job is covered: sticky notes, shapes, freehand drawing and mind maps on an infinite canvas, Gather and Sort to tidy up afterwards, Visual Activities to collect a group's input, and AI that sorts notes into themes. Voting, timers and facilitator controls wait for Team. |
| Ease of use | C | No rating on record. The template gallery covers retros, sprint planning and roadmaps, so you're not facing a blank board, but this is still a workshop you set up: boards to build, people to invite, and the facilitation tools sitting on a higher plan. |
| Platforms and integrations | B | Web, iPhone and Android, with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Jira and Confluence hooked up and a developer platform from Team. There's no desktop app at all, and the iOS app needs a Team or Enterprise subscription. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
Who Lucidspark is for
- Fits if your team is remote and runs brainstorms and workshops on a board
- Works for teams already on Lucidchart, which comes bundled on Enterprise
Who it is not for
- Tight if you're staying free, as you only get 3 editable boards
- Skip it if you want voting and timers on the $9 plan, since they start at Team, $10 a user
- Not for you if you want the iOS app on Free or Individual, which get sent to the browser
- Watch out: the 7-day trial asks for payment details, and monthly prices aren't published
- Pricey if you need breakout boards, SAML or the Jira and Azure DevOps links, which are Enterprise only at a quoted price
Good to know
Good for
- Remote and hybrid teams running brainstorms and workshops
- Agile teams holding standups, sprint planning and retrospectives
- Organizations that already use Lucidchart for diagrams
- Teachers and students, who get a free upgrade with a school email
Worth knowing
- The Free plan is limited to 3 editable boards.
- The iOS app requires a Team or Enterprise subscription; Free and Individual accounts are pointed to the browser version instead.
- Voting, timers, guest collaborators and revision history start at Team; breakout boards, SAML and the Jira and Azure DevOps integrations are Enterprise only.
- The pricing page shows only annual-billing rates. Its FAQ says monthly billing is available but gives no monthly price.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$9
A month to start. There is a free plan too
Lucidspark has a free plan. Paid plans start at $9 per month, billed annually.
Free forever with unlimited shapes per board, freehand drawing, commenting, presentation mode and Lucid AI.
Free
$0
3 editable boards, unlimited shapes per board, freehand drawing, commenting, basic Visual Activities and Lucid AI.
Individual
$9
per month, billed annually
Unlimited editable boards, premium Visual Activities and 1 GB of storage.
Team
$10
per user / month, billed annually
Adds voting, timer, facilitator tools, guest collaborators, revision history with versioning and the developer platform.
Enterprise
Custom
Adds Lucidchart, breakout boards, team hubs, SAML authentication, sharing restrictions, and Jira, Smartsheet and Azure DevOps integrations.
The free plan
3 editable Lucidspark boards with unlimited shapes per board, freehand drawing, emoji reactions, commenting, basic Visual Activities, presentation mode and Lucid AI.
Trying it first
7-day free trial of Individual or Team; payment details are required at sign-up
Read from lucid.app on Oct 6, 2026.
Ways to pay less
Annual discount
Lower price with annual billing
Lucid's pricing FAQ says paid plans can be paid monthly or, at a saving, annually. The listed rates are the annual ones and the page does not state the size of the saving.
Stated on lucid.appEducation
Free upgrade for students and educators
Accounts registered with a valid educational email address are upgraded automatically at no charge. Schools can also request a quote for Education Premium.
Stated on lucid.co
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
3
Places it runs: Web, iOS and Android
Virtual whiteboard for team brainstorming and workshops. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, AI features, real-time collaboration, whiteboard, templates, mind mapping.
Voting, timers and facilitator controls wait for Team.
- Infinite canvas
- Boards hold sticky notes, shapes, freehand drawing, images and comments, with Gather and Sort tools to group notes after a brainstorm.
- Visual Activities
- Interactive exercises collect input from a group and turn it into results the team can act on. Basic activities are free; premium ones need a paid plan.
- Facilitation tools
- Team plans add voting, a timer, a laser pointer, facilitator controls and the option to call everyone to one spot. Breakout boards are Enterprise only.
- Lucid AI
- AI generates ideas, sorts notes into themes and summarizes a session. It is listed on every plan, with a note that it may move to a paid model later.
- Lucid Cards and Dynamic Table
- Lucid Cards work with task tools such as Jira and Azure DevOps to turn ideas into next steps, and Dynamic Table organizes ideas for visual planning.
- Mind maps and templates
- A mind map can be added to any board in a few clicks, and the template gallery covers retrospectives, sprint planning, roadmaps, SWOT analysis and more.
Where it runs
- Web
- iOS
- Android
What it works with
- Jira
- Azure DevOps
- Smartsheet
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Zoom
- Google Meet
- Confluence
Lucidspark is made by Lucid Software Inc.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
6/30
Other whiteboard and mind map tools it is graded above
Lucidspark's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 6 of the 30 other whiteboard and mind map tools we grade, and level with 6.
It stands best on features (B, above 15 of 30) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $9 a month, against a middle price of $8.29 for the category: 14 of the 23 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 6 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 31 whiteboard and mind map tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Lucidspark’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 4 of 30
- CFree plan and trialAbove 1 of 30
- BFeaturesAbove 15 of 30
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 30
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 5 of 30
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 28 whiteboard and mind map tools. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Lucidspark is the marked dot.
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
Keep it
The plain part of Lucidspark you could make: mind mapping and templates. What surrounds it you could not. The 7 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 18 of the 30 other whiteboard and mind map tools grade higher. It costs $108 a year.
What you could make
- Mind mapping and templates: an app builder makes these well.
What you could not
- An endless canvas that stays smooth with hundreds of things on it.
- A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- Several people working in it at the same moment.
- It plugs into other products, Jira, Azure DevOps and Smartsheet among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- People on the other end: facilitators. No app builder makes those.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Lucidspark’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
Miro, Mural, FigJam, Microsoft Whiteboard and Whimsical
The 5 tools Lucidspark is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 3.0GPA
Miro
Free plan · from $8/mo
Online whiteboard for team brainstorming, diagrams and planning.
- Only Miro lists macOS and Windows apps.
- Miro also covers diagrams.
- 2.6GPA
Mural
Free plan · from $9.99/mo
Online whiteboard with built-in facilitation tools for workshops.
- Only Mural lists macOS and Windows apps.
- Mural also covers diagrams.
- 3.0GPA
FigJam
Free plan · from $3/mo
Online whiteboard from Figma for brainstorms, diagrams and meetings.
- Only FigJam lists macOS and Windows apps.
- Lucidspark also covers mind mapping.
- FigJam also covers diagrams.
- 3.4GPA
Microsoft Whiteboard
Free
Free collaborative canvas built into Microsoft 365 and Teams.
- Only Microsoft Whiteboard lists a Windows app.
- Lucidspark also covers mind mapping.
- 2.4GPA
Whimsical
Free plan · from $10/mo
Whiteboard for flowcharts, wireframes, mind maps and docs.
- Only Lucidspark lists iOS and Android apps.
- Only Whimsical lists macOS, Windows and Linux apps.
- Whimsical also covers documents and diagrams.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
16
Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is Lucidspark free?
Lucidspark has a free plan. 3 editable Lucidspark boards with unlimited shapes per board, freehand drawing, emoji reactions, commenting, basic Visual Activities, presentation mode and Lucid AI.
How much does Lucidspark cost?
Lucidspark lists 4 plans. Free: $0.
What platforms does Lucidspark work on?
Lucidspark is available on Web, iOS and Android.
Does Lucidspark offer any discounts?
Lucidspark publicly lists the following: Lower price with annual billing; Free upgrade for students and educators.
Does Lucidspark have a Windows app?
No Windows app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 6, 2026. Lucidspark is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Does Lucidspark have a macOS app?
No macOS app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 6, 2026. Lucidspark is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Is Lucidspark open source?
Lucidspark is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 6, 2026.
Does Lucidspark have an API?
Yes. Lucidspark offers a public API, according to its own site.
What does Lucidspark integrate with?
Lucidspark's listing names Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet and Confluence.
Does Lucidspark have a student discount?
Free upgrade for students and educators. Accounts registered with a valid educational email address are upgraded automatically at no charge.
Does Lucidspark have a free trial?
Yes. 7-day free trial of Individual or Team; payment details are required at sign-up.
Who makes Lucidspark?
Lucidspark is made by Lucid Software Inc.
What are the alternatives to Lucidspark?
The closest alternatives to Lucidspark in our directory are Miro, Mural, FigJam, Microsoft Whiteboard and Whimsical.
How does Lucidspark compare with other whiteboard and mind map tools?
Lucidspark's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 6 of the 30 other whiteboard and mind map tools we grade, and level with 6.
Is Lucidspark good value for money?
ToolGPA grades Lucidspark C for value for money. Its paid plans start at $9 a month, against a middle price of $8.29 for the category: 14 of the 23 others that charge start lower.
Could I make my own version of Lucidspark?
The plain part of Lucidspark you could make: mind mapping and templates.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Lucidspark’s own pages on Oct 6, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 10, 2026. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Lucid's own pages on 6 October 2026. Also tested with a demo account on 2026-06-16.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Lucid Software Inc. Prices change, so check lucid.co before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
3,189
Tools graded, in 94 categories
ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
3,189
tools graded
94
categories
426
price changes on record
579
apps priced in 12 countries
What else is on toolgpa.com
- Lucidspark, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/lucidspark
- How grades are givenThe rules behind every letter and every GPAtoolgpa.com/grades
- Value chartsWhat each tool costs against what it scores, for every categorytoolgpa.com/charts
- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
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