Browse top collaboration platforms for remote and hybrid teams. Compare features, pricing, and reviews.
24 tools
Tools in Collaboration
Figma — Figma is a browser-based, real-time collaborative interface design platform used by product teams for UI design, prototyping, whiteboarding, and developer handoff, now publicly traded on the NYSE.
Microsoft Teams — Microsoft Teams is Microsoft's chat-based collaboration hub combining team messaging, video meetings, file sharing, and app integrations, available free or bundled with Microsoft 365.
Excalidraw — Excalidraw is a free, open source virtual whiteboard for sketching diagrams, wireframes, and flowcharts with a distinctive hand-drawn look, supporting real-time collaboration and a paid Excalidraw+ workspace.
tldraw — tldraw is an open-source infinite canvas SDK and whiteboard app for React that lets developers embed drawing, diagramming, and multiplayer collaboration tools into their own products.
WBO — Free, open source online whiteboard for real-time collaborative drawing and sketching, built and maintained by an independent developer.
Drawpile — Drawpile is a free, open-source collaborative drawing program that lets multiple people paint, sketch, and animate together in real time on the same canvas, with support for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and the web.
Diagrams.net — Diagrams.net (formerly draw.io) is a free, open-source diagramming tool for flowcharts, UML, network diagrams, and mind maps, usable online or offline with no account required.
PlantUML — PlantUML is a free, open-source tool that generates UML and other technical diagrams from plain-text descriptions, first released in 2009 by developer Arnaud Roques.
D2 — D2 is a free, open-source, declarative diagram scripting language from Terrastruct that turns plain text into professional architecture and technical diagrams.
Kroki — Kroki is a free, open-source API that renders text-based markup into diagrams, supporting over 20 diagram types through one unified endpoint.
Graphviz — Free, open source graph visualization software that renders DOT-language graph descriptions into diagrams for networks, hierarchies and structured data.
Etherpad — Etherpad is a free, open-source, web-based editor for real-time collaborative writing, letting multiple authors edit the same plain-text or rich-text document simultaneously with full attribution and version history.
Citadel — Free, open-source, self-hosted groupware server providing email, calendaring, forums, instant messaging, wikis, and blogs under a distinctive rooms-based architecture.
Colanode — Colanode is an open-source, local-first collaboration workspace combining Slack-style chat and Notion-style pages, databases, and files, self-hostable by default.
Digipad — Digipad is a free, open collaborative multimedia wall from La Digitale, a Padlet-style pinboard where teachers and students post text, files, images, and links without an account.
Digistorm — Digistorm is a free live-polling and brainstorming tool from La Digitale, letting teachers run real-time polls, word clouds, quizzes, and idea walls without student accounts.
Digiwall — Digiwall is a free, open-source collaborative multimedia wall from La Digitale, an evolution of Digipad adding new capsule formats like photo galleries and audio-image posts.
egroupware — EGroupware is an open-source groupware suite for email, calendaring, contacts, file sharing, and project management, available as free self-hosted software or paid cloud and enterprise editions.
Group Office — Group Office is an open source groupware and CRM suite offering email, calendar, file sharing, and project tools that can be self-hosted or run on the vendor's cloud.
Openmeetings — Apache Openmeetings is a free, open-source web conferencing platform offering HTML5 video meetings, screen sharing, whiteboards, and document collaboration, governed as a top-level Apache Software Foundation project.
SOGo — SOGo is a free, open-source groupware and webmail server offering email, calendars, and contacts with CalDAV, CardDAV, and ActiveSync support for self-hosted collaboration.
Tine — Tine is an open-source groupware, CRM and collaboration suite covering email, calendar, contacts, tasks and CRM, developed by German company Metaways Infosystems and released under the AGPLv3 license.
Zimbra Collaboration — Zimbra Collaboration is an email, calendar, and file-sharing suite deployable on-premises, in a private cloud, or hybrid, positioned as a data-sovereign alternative to Microsoft Exchange and Google Workspace.
FigJam — FigJam is Figma's online whiteboard for brainstorming, diagramming, and workshops, with real-time collaboration, AI-assisted templates, and integration with Figma's design files.