Excalidraw Blog

Welcome to the Excalidraw blog – sharing updates, tips, and deep dives into our development process.

Subset Web Worker
  • November 7, 2024
  • Mrazator

Adding hand-drawn font for Chinese, Japanese and Korean

Adding a hand-drawn font for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) has been on our radar as one of the most requested features. In the meantime, many have tried forking or extending Excalidraw with Chinese font/s, but the experience never really felt right.

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Parts of the <WelcomeScreen /> components
  • January 13, 2023
  • Excalidraw Team

Rethinking the Component API

Since we’ve shipped the editor redesign late last year, one burning question many of you devs had was when is it going to be released to the Excalidraw package, and why has it not been released in the first place?

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Excalidraw as the the hottest project per week
  • January 4, 2023
  • Excalidraw Team

Three for three

How did Excalidraw fare in its third year of existence, and what’s to come? Let’s find out!

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Monthly active users in years 2020 and 2021
  • January 3, 2022
  • Excalidraw Team

Year two of Excalidraw

Excalidraw celebrated its second birthday! What happened during the last year and what’s next?

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Excalidraw in Webex
  • October 28, 2021
  • Aakansha and David

Introducing Webex Integration

Collaborate using Excalidraw whiteboard directly in your Webex meetings.

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Excalidraw in the current iteration
  • May 21, 2021
  • tomayac

Excalidraw and Fugu: Improving Core User Journeys

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Unless you understand it. My name is Thomas Steiner, I work in Developer Relations at Google and in this write-up of my Google I/O talk, I will look at some of the new Fugu APIs and how they improve core user journeys in the Excalidraw PWA, so you can take inspiration from these ideas and apply them to your own apps. If you prefer watching it, see the video below

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Excalidraw+ - Collaborative whiteboarding made easy
  • May 3, 2021
  • Excalidraw Team

Introducing Excalidraw+

Excalidraw has had tremendous success as a tool for drawing up your ideas, but it hasn’t put teamwork on the center stage. Read on to find out what we’ve been up to for the past several months!

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One year of Excalidraw development
  • January 1, 2021
  • Excalidraw Team

One Year of Excalidraw

It’s been kind of a different year, but it was the first year and pretty amazing for Excalidraw.

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Copy-paste data to create simple charts in Excalidraw
  • December 20, 2020
  • Lipis

Tell your story with Charts

One of the hidden features of Excalidraw, is that you can generate charts in seconds. Once you imported the chart, all the elements are yours to manipulate using Excalidraw features for you to tell the story you want! Read more to see how to make a chart.

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Excalidraw as the Electron app
  • December 17, 2020
  • tomayac

Deprecating Excalidraw Electron in favor of the Web version

On the Excalidraw project, we have decided to deprecate Excalidraw Desktop, an Electron wrapper for Excalidraw, in favor of the web version that you can—and always could—find at excalidraw.com. After a careful analysis, we have decided that Progressive Web App (PWA) is the future we want to build upon. Read on to learn why.

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