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Virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard.
Collaborative and end-to-end encrypted.

Create beautiful hand-drawn like diagrams, wireframes, or whatever you like.

Features

The Excalidraw editor (npm package) supports:

• 🎨 Infinite, canvas-based whiteboard.
• ✍️ Hand-drawn like style.
• 🌓 Dark mode.
• 🏗️ Customizable.
• 📷 Image support.
• 😀 Shape libraries support.
• 👅 Localization (i18n) support.
• 🖼️ Export to PNG, SVG & clipboard.
• 💾 Open format - export drawings as an .excalidraw json file.
• ⚒️ Wide range of tools - rectangle, circle, diamond, arrow, line, free-draw, eraser...
• ➡️ Arrow-binding & labeled arrows.
• 🔙 Undo / Redo.
• 🔍 Zoom and panning support.

Excalidraw.com

The app hosted at excalidraw.com is a minimal showcase of what you can build with Excalidraw.

• 📡 PWA support (works offline).
• 🤼 Real-time collaboration.
• 🔒 End-to-end encryption.
• 💾 Local-first support (autosaves to the browser).
• 🔗 Shareable links (export to a readonly link you can share with others).

We'll be adding these features as drop-in plugins for the npm package in the future.

Quick start

Note: following instructions are for installing the Excalidraw npm package when integrating Excalidraw into your own app. To run the repository locally for development, please refer to our Development Guide.

Use npm or yarn to install the package.

npm install react react-dom @excalidraw/excalidraw
# or
yarn add react react-dom @excalidraw/excalidraw