The FigJam alternative for creatives
who plan projects, not workshops.

Usually because the board stops at the workshop. FigJam is built to sit beside Figma files, so it suits design sprints and product flows. Creative work also needs a script with real text, a schedule with dates and owners, and a client who can see progress without a Figma account. When those end up in four other tools, people look for one canvas that holds the whole project.

When your team works in Figma and the board is a workshop. FigJam sits next to your design files, and its stickies, stamps, timer and voting make live sessions quick. If the output of the session is a Figma file rather than a campaign, a film or a brand rollout, stay with FigJam. Storyflow has no timers, voting or Figma connection.

Not during early access. Storyflow is paid-only during early access, with plans from $7.99 a month billed annually ($9.99 monthly). A free plan launches before the end of 2026, and anyone a paid member invites to a board joins free. If you need a free whiteboard today, FigJam, Miro and Milanote all have free plans with limits, and Excalidraw is free and open source.

Storyflow is built for planning a creative project from brief to delivery, with Docs, Tables, Kanban and an AI that knows jobs like shot lists and campaign briefs. Miro is the broader workshop platform with timers, voting and many integrations. Milanote is calm and good for collecting references alone. Whimsical is the fast choice for flowcharts, wireframes and mind maps.

Yes. Invited collaborators edit the same board in real time with live cursors on any paid plan, and anyone a paid member invites joins free. Notes, Frames, Lines and Comments cover a working brainstorm. What Storyflow lacks is facilitation tooling: there is no session timer, no voting and no stamps, so for a structured workshop of twenty people FigJam or Miro is the better room.

No. Storyflow is standalone and runs in your browser with nothing to install. That is the point for many creatives: a photographer, a producer or a marketing lead can open a board and plan a project without any design tooling. If your designers work in Figma, they can keep it for design files and use Storyflow for the brief, the references and the schedule around them.

Yes. A view-only link opens in any browser with no account, once the owner turns sharing on. The client sees the latest version when they open or reload the page. To leave a comment the client signs in, and the comment sits on the exact frame, reference or Doc it is about, so nobody has to match feedback from an email.

Yes, for the diagrams creative projects need. Lines connect any two objects, Frames group a section, and a Mermaid element turns a short text description into a flowchart or sequence diagram. For detailed UX flows and wireframes with components, FigJam next to Figma, or Whimsical, is faster. Storyflow is stronger when the diagram sits beside the references and the plan.

There is no FigJam importer, so boards are rebuilt. In practice that is less work than it sounds, because what you carry forward is the outcome of a workshop, not every sticky. Paste the decisions and the brief into a prompt and the AI lays out a project board from them, then drop in the images you want to keep.

It builds boards from a prompt, using named workflows for jobs like a campaign brief, moodboard, video script, shot list, storyboard and budget. It reads the board you have open and up to five documents and three other boards you attach. It can draft a treatment, one-pager, lookbook or call sheet PDF. Every edit lands with one-click Undo.

Yes. Presentation mode shows the board fullscreen and steps through its Frames in order, so a review runs on the plan itself rather than a separate deck. You can also export the whole board as an image or PDF, and Docs export to Word or PDF. There is no approval button or proofing markup, so sign-off happens in comments.