Feature category
Invite your team to collaborate
Diagrams stay private until you share. Everyone you invite shows up on the canvas in real time, with live cursors, comments, and presence.
- Editor or view-only links
- Teams with a shared library
- Live presence
Everything in this category
Share & access
Editor or view-only links
Create an editor link for collaborators or a view-only link for stakeholders who should watch, not touch. Run as many links as you like, side by side. Any link also embeds read-only in your wiki, Notion, or docs: copy the iframe snippet from the Share dialog.
Teams with a shared library
Create a team, invite people by email, and everyone gets a shared folder of diagrams they can all open and edit. Admins manage membership and roles; members just get to work. Sign in to set one up, the canvas itself never needs an account.
Links that expire on their own
Give a share link a lifetime when you create it: a week, a month, six months, or never. When it lapses the URL stops working on its own, no cleanup to remember, and you can extend it for another run or delete it for good.
Stop sharing on demand
Sharing is a toggle, not a state of being. Revoke a link and the URL stops working. The diagram is yours again.
Work together live
Live presence
See who is in the diagram from the participant avatars on each tab. Status rings show online, away, or stale.
Edits land live
The moment someone makes a change, everyone sees it. If two people edit the same thing at once, the most recent change is the one that sticks.
See what others are working on
Click an element and your collaborators see your colour glow on its border, plus your initials in the corner, in real time.
See what happened while you were away
The Explorer opens on a Timeline: a day-by-day feed of comments left on your diagrams, actions assigned to you, teammates joining, invites, and what is about to expire. Anything new since your last visit is marked, and the sidebar carries a count so you can tell without looking.
Comments on any element
Right-click an element, leave a thread. Replies, resolve, delete. Comments carry the author's name and colour so it's clear who said what.
Comment panels on the board
For a remark that belongs somewhere rather than to someone, drop a comment panel and join it to an element with an arrow. It is the same thread a comment badge opens, except it stays put: on the board, in the export, and in everyone else’s session.
Assign actions to teammates
Turn any element into a piece of work: name the action, describe it, and hand it to a teammate from any of your teams, with an optional email nudge. An Actions panel tracks everything still open, with your own assignments on top.
Present & facilitate
Ask the room if they are done
Drop a Done check and everyone marks themselves finished. The card shows who has and who it is still waiting on, built from whoever is actually in the room, and flashes when the last person marks. Reset it for the next round from its own menu.
Celebrate on the canvas
Reaction pads throw confetti, sparkles, hearts, applause or fireworks over the board for everyone in the room. Press one, or walk an Avatar-mode character onto it. Nothing is saved: a reaction is a moment, not a mark on the diagram.
Run the session: timer + voting
Facilitate live from the canvas. Drop a timer straight onto the board — the real one, with start, pause, restart and a bar that drains as the time goes — or start a countdown or stopwatch the whole room sees, then open dot-voting to surface the group’s priorities. Everyone votes with a budget of dots; results tally in real time, and revealing them starts a guided walkthrough: each top pick lights up and centres on screen while you step through with Next and Previous. Perfect for retros, workshops, and timeboxed planning.
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- Simple by design, powerfully deep
- Presentation tools built right in
- Customise it your way
- Bring the canvas to life
- Keep your work tidy
- Work across tabs
- Diagrams you can rely on
- More than boxes and arrows
- Draw, write, and annotate
- The canvas does the fiddly parts
- Connect your tools and AI
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