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JAMBOARD ALTERNATIVE

Jamboard is gone.
Here is where to go next.

Google has discontinued Jamboard. The app was shut down at the end of 2024 and the Jamboard hardware was discontinued alongside it, which leaves a lot of classrooms and teams holding exported PDFs and no obvious destination. This page is triage, not a pitch. If you want free sticky notes and nothing more, we will point you at the tools that do that best. If Jamboard was always thinner than the work you were trying to do, that is where Storyflow comes in. Storyflow is paid-only during early access, with plans from $9.99 a month, and a Free plan launches before the end of 2026.

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What happened to Jamboard, and what should actually replace it?

Google has discontinued Jamboard. The whiteboard app was shut down at the end of 2024 and the Jamboard hardware was discontinued alongside it, so the 55-inch panels bolted to meeting room walls and school corridors stopped being the thing they were bought to be. Google's own guidance was to get your content out and move to a third party whiteboard, and the tools named most often in that conversation were FigJam, Miro, and Lucidspark. If you are reading this while looking at a folder of exported PDFs, that is the situation, and nothing you did caused it.

What made Jamboard worth using was never sophistication. It was that it was free with Google Workspace, that it opened in one click next to Docs and Classroom, that a child could use it without a tutorial, and that it worked with a finger on a huge touchscreen. Those are four genuinely good properties and they are why nobody complained about the missing features. The frames cap, the thin text handling, the shallow object model, the way a Jam could not really hold a document or a research trail: people worked around all of that because the thing was right there and it cost nothing.

So the replacement question splits in two, and being honest about which half you are in saves you a wasted month. Half of the people who land here want the same small thing back: a shared surface, sticky notes, a pen, and no bill. If that is you, go and take FigJam's free tier, Miro's free tier, Excalidraw which is free and open source and needs no account at all, or Canva Whiteboards if your school or team already lives in Canva. Those are the right answers and we are not going to pretend otherwise on a page you found while trying to solve a problem. The other half found Jamboard limiting long before Google killed it, kept a Jam for the sticky notes and a doc for the actual plan and a folder for the references, and wants those to stop being three places.

That second group is who Storyflow is for, because a real Jamboard replacement has to cover six things at once: sticky notes on a shared surface that several people can move at the same time, drawing and handwriting that still feels natural with a stylus or a finger, a fit with Google Workspace and Google Classroom that does not add a login step to every lesson, free access when the users are a class of thirty or a team with no software budget, touch behaviour that survives on a wall-mounted whiteboard screen as well as a laptop, and a way to bring across the Jams you already exported. No single tool covers all six perfectly, which is the actual reason this migration has felt awkward. Storyflow covers the surface, the drawing, the sharing, and everything Jamboard never did, and it is candid on this page about the two where a free competitor beats it.

THE MIGRATION

Get your Jams out, then decide what deserves to be rebuilt.

Most of a sticky-note board is a snapshot of a conversation that already happened. Very little of it needs to exist again.

01

Export what you still have

Jams were exported as PDFs or saved into Google Drive as images. If you did that before the shutdown, those files are your archive. They are flat, so they are a record rather than a working board, and that is the right way to treat them.

02

Sort the archive from the live work

Be ruthless. A retro board from eighteen months ago is history, not material. Usually two or three Jams are still live: the running plan, the class board you use every week, the reference wall. Only those are worth anyone's time.

03

Rebuild the live ones on a canvas

Open Storyflow, describe what the board was for in a sentence, and the AI lays out a first version you can rearrange. Drop the exported PDF or image straight onto the canvas beside it so nothing from the original is lost while you rebuild.

04

Share it the way you shared the Jam

Send a view-only link and anyone opens the board in a browser with no account and no install. Anyone a paid member invites to a board joins free today, so a class or a wider team is not a per-seat decision.

What you get instead of a frame limit.

Jamboard gave you a fixed set of frames and a handful of object types. This is what the same instinct looks like without the ceiling.

A mind map spread across an infinite Storyflow canvas with no frame limit

One surface with no edge

An infinite canvas rather than twenty frames

The single most common Jamboard complaint was running out of room and starting a second Jam nobody could find. An infinite canvas has no frame count, so a term of lessons or a whole project lives on one board and you navigate by zooming rather than by hunting through files.

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Sticky notes clustered into groups on a shared Storyflow board

The part Jamboard did well, kept

Sticky notes that still work like sticky notes

Drop notes, colour them, cluster them, drag them into groups, and let several people move them at once. Nothing about the basic gesture changes, because the basic gesture was never the problem with Jamboard.

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Research, documents, and references arranged beside a plan on a canvas

A board that holds the whole job

Research, references, and documents on the same board

A Jam held notes and drawings, so the source material lived in Drive and the plan lived in a doc. Here the PDF, the screenshot, the moodboard, the frame grabbed from a YouTube video, and the plan itself sit on one surface, which is the difference between a snapshot and a working board.

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AI generating a full board of cards from a single prompt in Storyflow

The bit Jamboard never had

AI that reads the board and builds on it

Describe a lesson, a workshop, or a project in one sentence and the AI lays out a full board of cards you can rearrange. Because it reads the canvas as context, you can ask what a plan is missing and get an answer about your board rather than a template.

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The pricing question, met head on.

Jamboard was free with Google Workspace and Storyflow is not, so here is the plain version. Storyflow is paid-only during early access, with plans from $9.99 a month, and a Free plan launches before the end of 2026. Anyone a paid member invites to a board joins free today. If free is the requirement rather than a preference, take Excalidraw, FigJam's free tier, or Miro's free tier instead, with no hard feelings.

Unlimited boards on an infinite canvas, no frame cap

Basic AI usage to generate boards from a prompt

Invited collaborators join a paid member's board free today

View-only links anyone can open without an account

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A shared Storyflow board open in a browser

AFTER JAMBOARD

What carries over, what does not, and what changes for the better.

A migration goes badly when someone tries to recreate every old board faithfully. Almost none of them deserve it.

An exported Jamboard PDF pinned on a canvas beside a rebuilt board

The honest migration story

There is no Jam importer, and you probably do not want one

Storyflow cannot import a Jam file: No tool can meaningfully re-open a Jam now that the service is gone, and we are not going to imply we have an importer we do not have. What you can do is drop the exported PDF or image straight onto a canvas, where it sits as a reference while you rebuild the parts that still matter.

What actually carries over: The content, as a flat picture: the notes, the drawings, the layout, the colours. What does not carry is the liveness. An exported Jam is an image of a conversation, so the thing you are migrating is usually the intent behind the board rather than the board itself.

Rebuild two boards, archive the rest: For most teams the live set is small: the running plan, the class board, the reference wall. Everything else is a record. Keep the PDFs in Drive, rebuild the two or three that are still working documents, and skip the fortnight of pointless retyping.

Rebuild by describing, not retyping: Say what the board was for and let the AI lay out the structure, then move the cards until it matches how the team actually thinks. That takes minutes rather than an afternoon of transcribing sticky notes from a screenshot.

A full project board with cards, phases, and references on one canvas

For the people Jamboard was too small for

A board that holds a project, not just a session

The plan and the thinking in one place: In the Jamboard era the sticky notes were in the Jam, the plan was in a doc, the references were in a Drive folder, and the three were joined by links that broke. On one canvas the brainstorm becomes the plan without anybody rewriting it into a different tool.

Images and moodboards as first-class objects: Drag in screenshots, brand references, photographs, and PDFs and arrange them spatially. Visual work needs to be seen side by side, which is exactly what a whiteboard built around sticky notes could never quite do.

Structure when you want it: Cards, groups, and connections give a board a shape that survives a week away from it. A wall of loose notes is great in the room and unreadable the following Monday, which is why so many Jams were never opened twice.

AI laying out cards and open questions on a Storyflow canvas

AI as the thing Jamboard never got

Start from a full board instead of an empty frame

A board from one sentence: Describe a lesson, a brainstorm, a launch, or a unit of work and the AI places cards, groups, and open questions across the canvas. Editing a first draft is faster than facing the blank frame that made so many Jams die at the title.

It reads the canvas you already have: Ask what a plan is missing, how to split a phase, or how to turn a wall of notes into themes, and the answer comes back about your board rather than a generic checklist.

Your work stays where you put it: Re-prompt as often as you like. Cards you wrote and placed yourself stay exactly where they are while the AI builds around them.

A shared planning board opened from a view-only link

Sharing, classrooms, and the Workspace habit

Getting other people onto the board

A link, and that is the whole onboarding: Send a view-only link and anyone opens the full board in a browser with no account, no install, and no app store. That was half of why Jamboard spread inside schools and companies, and it is the part worth keeping.

Guests do not each need a paid seat: Anyone a paid member invites to a board joins free today, so inviting a colleague, a client, or a co-teacher is not a budget conversation. This is the closest thing to the old Workspace arrangement that we can honestly offer during early access.

Works in the browser on the hardware you kept: Storyflow runs in a browser on a laptop, a tablet, or a large touchscreen, so a panel that has outlived its Jamboard software can still be the thing at the front of the room.

Export the board when it needs to leave: Export a board as a high-quality image or PDF for a lesson handout, a client review, or a leadership update, which is the same escape hatch you used on the way out of Jamboard.

Explore templates for your project

Every template opens as a real, editable board on the infinite canvas. Pick the closest fit and make it your own.

Mind Map

Branch one central idea out into themes and sub-points, then drag the connections around until the structure makes sense.

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Mind Map template built in Storyflow
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HOW WE COMPARE

Storyflow vs FigJam, Miro, and Excalidraw.

Every one of these is a reasonable place to land after Jamboard. Three of them have a free tier today and we do not, so that row goes to them.

Storyflow

Recommended

Free plan available today

Sticky notes, drawing, and a shared canvas

Open source and self-hostable

Workshop facilitation with timers and voting

Moodboards, PDFs, and video frames on the same board

Built for ongoing project work, not just sessions

FigJam

Free plan available today

Sticky notes, drawing, and a shared canvas

Open source and self-hostable

Workshop facilitation with timers and voting

Moodboards, PDFs, and video frames on the same board

Built for ongoing project work, not just sessions

Miro

Free plan available today

Sticky notes, drawing, and a shared canvas

Open source and self-hostable

Workshop facilitation with timers and voting

Moodboards, PDFs, and video frames on the same board

Built for ongoing project work, not just sessions

Excalidraw

Free plan available today

Sticky notes, drawing, and a shared canvas

Open source and self-hostable

Workshop facilitation with timers and voting

Moodboards, PDFs, and video frames on the same board

Built for ongoing project work, not just sessions

What creators are saying

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Storyflow has sped up my workflow by at least 3x, which means more flow state and more projects I can actually ship. It truly changed the way me and my team create.

Reilin Joey

Reilin Joey

Director & YouTuber

One prompt gets me a structured board. But the tactics are my favorite. I run my YouTube scripts through them and my intros and retention got better. It's amazing.

Justkay

Justkay

YouTuber & Freelance Filmmaker

I used to juggle five apps to plan a project. Now I describe what I am making and get boards, lists, and a schedule. All in one place.

George

George

@fernwehchronicles

Jamboard shutdown questions, answered straight.

Including the ones where the useful answer sends you to somebody else's product.

Google discontinued it. The Jamboard whiteboard app was shut down at the end of 2024 and the Jamboard hardware was discontinued alongside it, so the panels stopped being supported as Jamboard devices. Google's guidance at the time was to export your Jams and move to a third party whiteboard, and FigJam, Miro, and Lucidspark were the names that came up most often. There is no version of Jamboard still running quietly somewhere, and no announced plan to bring it back, so the migration is real rather than optional.

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