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What Flocci Infinity is
Flocci Infinity (https://infinity.flocci.in) is the visual-thinking surface of the Flocci work suite, built by Flocci Technologies in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. It is an online whiteboard on a truly infinite canvas: pan and zoom without edges, with a minimap radar for orientation and snap-to-grid for tidy layouts. Teams use it for brainstorming, mind mapping, flowcharts and process mapping, sprint retrospectives, user-flow and customer-journey mapping, system architecture sketches, project planning, remote workshops, and teaching. Boards are real-time multiplayer — everyone sees named, colored live cursors and object changes the instant they happen. An AI composer drafts a starting board of colour-grouped sticky notes from one line of prompt. You can try the canvas on the home page before creating any account at all. One Flocci account (Google sign-in) then works across every Flocci app — Projects, Library, Calendar, Notes, Timesheets, Workspaces and 30+ more — on a single shared credit wallet, and any of their pages can be embedded as a live card directly on a board. Personal boards are free; paid tiers are priced in Indian rupees (Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, Business +₹49/seat/month) and one upgrade unlocks the entire suite.
Capabilities
| Truly infinite canvas | Pan and zoom without edges. Snap-to-grid keeps free placement tidy and a bottom-right minimap radar shows where your viewport sits, however far the idea sprawls. |
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| Sticky notes, text, shapes and frames | Sticky notes in eight colours, text blocks, rectangles, circles, diamonds, triangles and lines, plus frames to group regions — each with custom fill, border, opacity, rotation and z-index layering. |
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| Connectors that route themselves | Drag from one shape to another and the connector bonds to both. Five routing styles (straight, elbow, curve, orthogonal, s-curve), six anchor modes, seven arrowhead styles, four dash patterns and midpoint labels — every path recomputes live when you move a shape. |
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| Keyboard-driven mind maps | Press Tab for a child node, Enter for a sibling. Branches collapse on demand and the map lays itself out orthogonally as it grows — you can build an entire mind map without touching the mouse. |
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| Freehand pen with ink smoothing | A pressure-styled pen that removes hand jitter with a 1€ filter and beautifies strokes into Bezier curves. Your rough gesture comes out clean instead of shaky. |
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| Real-time multiplayer | Live cursors carrying each person's name and colour, presence state, and object-level sync over websockets. Your own edits apply optimistically first, so the board feels instant even on a weak connection. |
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| AI board generation | Describe what you want to explore — "risks and mitigations for a product launch" — and the AI composer drafts a board of colour-grouped sticky notes. Review the draft, then accept, retry, or edit it. |
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| Tables, images and live webpage embeds | Drop a table onto the canvas, add an image from a URL, or embed any webpage — including a Flocci Library spec page or a Flocci Projects task — as a live card sitting next to your diagram. |
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| Templates that skip the blank page | Start from a seeded system template — retro grid, mind map, flowchart — instead of an empty void, or open a blank board when that is what you want. |
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| Command palette | Cmd+/ (Ctrl+/) opens a searchable action palette: spawn a shape, switch tools, change options — without hunting through menus mid-thought. |
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| Present mode | One click hides every panel and toolbar and turns the board into a clean presentation surface; Esc brings the workspace back. No exporting to slides to walk a stakeholder through a map. |
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| PNG export and sharing with roles | Export the board as a PNG, or share it with named collaborators at owner, admin, editor or viewer level from the share dialog. |
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| Layers, alignment, grouping and full undo | A layers panel for z-order, alignment and distribution tools, grouping, locking, duplication and unlimited undo/redo — the housekeeping that keeps a busy board readable. |
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| Never-lose-a-stroke saving | Edits land on-canvas instantly and flush to the server through a background mutation queue. There is no save button and no lost work when the network wobbles. |
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| Try it before you sign up | The home page carries a working mini-canvas: drag a sticky, watch the connector re-route itself. No account, no email, no credit card to see whether the tool fits how you think. |
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| One account across the Flocci suite | Sign in with Google once and you are silently signed into Flocci Projects, Library, Calendar, Notes, Timesheets and Workspaces on the same identity and the same credit wallet — 30+ apps, one upgrade. |
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| Organisations, invites and roles | Org workspaces with member invites, role management and seat-based Business billing. Personal boards and org boards stay cleanly apart. |
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Not yet shipped (roadmap)
- Drag-and-drop cards for Flocci Projects tasks and Flocci Library pages directly onto the canvas (today you embed them by URL as live cards).
- SVG and PDF export alongside the existing PNG export.
- Comment threads pinned to canvas objects.
Pricing (INR)
| Tier | Price | Period | Includes |
| Free | Free | forever | Personal boards, free, no card. Google sign-in, real-time multiplayer, templates, mind maps, connectors, present mode, PNG export, and free monthly AI credits. |
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| Pro | ₹499 | per month | The platform Pro tier — a larger credit allowance and pro features across all 30+ Flocci apps on one subscription, not just the whiteboard. |
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| Pro+ | ₹2,999 | per month | The heavy-usage tier for power users and founders — the largest credit allowance across the entire suite. |
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| Business | ₹49 | per seat per month | Org workspaces with members, roles and centralised billing — seats priced in rupees rather than dollars. |
Upgrading once at account.flocci.in unlocks the paid tier across every Flocci app — Infinity included. AI-assisted features spend from the shared Flocci credit wallet, and every account gets free monthly credits.
The Flocci work suite — one account
Frequently asked questions
- What is Flocci Infinity?
- Flocci Infinity is an online whiteboard on an infinite canvas: sticky notes, shapes, frames, tables, auto-routing connectors, keyboard-driven mind maps, a smoothed freehand pen and real-time multiplayer. It is built by Flocci Technologies in India and works in any browser at infinity.flocci.in — no download.
- Is Flocci Infinity free?
- Yes. Personal boards are free with no card required — sign in with Google and start mapping. AI-assisted features spend from your shared Flocci credit wallet, which includes free monthly credits. Paid tiers (Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, Business +₹49/seat) unlock every Flocci app at once.
- Can I try Flocci Infinity without an account?
- Yes. The home page at infinity.flocci.in carries a working mini-canvas: drag a sticky note and watch the connector re-route itself, with no sign-up, no email and no credit card. When you want boards that persist and multiplayer, one Google sign-in creates the account.
- How is Flocci Infinity different from Miro or FigJam?
- Three ways. Personal boards are free without Miro's three-editable-board cap. Pricing is rupee-native — ₹499/month rather than USD per-seat rates. And one Flocci account signs you into 30+ apps including Projects, Library and Calendar, whose pages embed as live cards on the board.
- Can I build mind maps in Flocci Infinity?
- Yes. Select a node and press Tab to add a child or Enter to add a sibling — the map lays itself out orthogonally and branches collapse on demand. It is designed so you can build an entire mind map from the keyboard while you are still thinking.
- Does Flocci Infinity support real-time collaboration?
- Yes. Boards are multiplayer over websockets: everyone sees live cursors carrying names and colours, presence updates, and object changes as they happen. Your own edits apply optimistically on your screen and sync in the background, so it stays responsive on slow connections.
- What can I put on a Flocci Infinity canvas?
- Sticky notes, text, rectangles, circles, diamonds, triangles, lines, frames, tables, images from a URL, live webpage embeds, freehand pen strokes, connectors with seven arrowhead styles, and mind-map nodes — all with custom fill, border, opacity, rotation and layering.
- Do I need to install anything to use Flocci Infinity?
- No. Flocci Infinity runs entirely in the browser at infinity.flocci.in on desktop or tablet — Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox. There is nothing to download or update, and the same Google sign-in carries you across the whole Flocci suite.
- Can AI generate a board for me?
- Yes. The AI composer takes a prompt like "user personas for a fitness tracker" and drafts a board of colour-grouped sticky notes. You see the draft before it lands and can accept, retry or edit it. It spends shared Flocci credits, with free monthly credits included.
- Is Flocci Infinity good for teams in India?
- It is built India-first: rupee pricing (Pro ₹499/month, Business seats ₹49/month) instead of USD per-seat rates, free personal boards, and one subscription that covers 30+ work apps. For a ten-person Indian team that is a fraction of the cost of USD-priced whiteboard tools.
- Can I present from a Flocci Infinity board?
- Yes. Present mode hides every panel and toolbar and turns the board into a clean presentation surface; Esc returns the workspace. You walk stakeholders through the actual map instead of exporting a deck that is stale the moment the plan changes.
- Can I export a Flocci Infinity board?
- You can export any board as a PNG image, and share it with named collaborators at owner, admin, editor or viewer level. SVG and PDF export are on the roadmap; the canvas itself persists in your workspace, so the board — not the export — stays the source of truth.
Comparisons
USD→INR conversions below are approximate (₹84 to the dollar at the time of writing) and shown only for scale. Check live rates and each vendor's own pricing page before you buy.
The enterprise-scale visual workspace — the most feature-rich whiteboard on the market, with a vast template marketplace and integration catalog, used across the Fortune 100.
| Miro free tier | Free plan with 3 editable boards. |
| Miro paid | Starter $8/member/month and Business $20/member/month, both billed yearly; Enterprise is custom pricing from 30 members. |
| In rupees (approx.) | ≈₹672/member/month on Starter, ≈₹1,680/member/month on Business. |
| Flocci Infinity free tier | Free personal boards with no board cap, real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode, PNG export and free monthly AI credits. |
| Flocci Infinity paid | Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, Business ₹49/seat/month — covering 30+ Flocci apps. |
Choose Miro for: large enterprises that need governance at scale, hundreds of integrations, and an exhaustive template marketplace.
Choose Flocci Infinity for: small and mid-size teams — especially in India — who want free personal boards without a 3-board cap, rupee pricing, and a canvas that lives inside the rest of their work tools.
Where Miro is stronger: The deepest template and integration ecosystem in the category; Enterprise governance, compliance and admin controls proven at very large scale; Facilitation and workshop tooling battle-tested by huge distributed orgs.
Figures read from https://miro.com/pricing/ on 2026-07-29.
- Is Flocci Infinity a good Miro alternative?
- For teams that mainly brainstorm, mind-map and diagram, yes. Infinity gives you an infinite canvas, real-time multiplayer, auto-routing connectors, keyboard mind maps and AI board generation with free personal boards and rupee pricing. Miro stays stronger for enterprise governance and its template marketplace.
- How many boards do I get free in Miro versus Flocci Infinity?
- Miro's free plan allows 3 editable boards. Flocci Infinity's personal boards are free without that cap — sign in with Google and create boards as you need them, with real-time multiplayer, templates and free monthly AI credits included on the free tier.
- What does Miro cost in India compared to Flocci Infinity?
- Miro Starter is $8 per member per month billed yearly — roughly ₹672 each, so about ₹6,720 monthly for ten people. Flocci Pro is a flat ₹499 per month and covers all 30+ Flocci apps, with Business org seats at ₹49 each. Neither vendor publishes INR pricing except Flocci.
- Does Flocci Infinity have templates like Miro?
- Infinity ships focused starting templates — retro grid, mind map, flowchart — rather than Miro's marketplace, and adds AI board generation from a prompt. If your workflow depends on one very specific niche template, Miro's library is broader; for a fast start, Infinity covers it.
- Can I migrate a Miro board to Flocci Infinity?
- There is no automated Miro importer today. In practice teams rebuild the board they still use — usually faster than expected, since AI board generation drafts the sticky structure and mind maps rebuild from the keyboard with Tab and Enter.
Figma's collaborative whiteboard — the natural pick for teams already living in Figma, with a playful toolset sitting right beside their design files.
| FigJam free tier | Included on Figma's free Starter plan, which allows a limited number of files. |
| FigJam paid | Bundled with Figma seats: on Professional a Collab seat is $3/month and a Full seat $16/month; Organization and Enterprise seats cost more. |
| In rupees (approx.) | ≈₹252/month for a Collab seat, ≈₹1,344/month for a Full Professional seat. |
| Flocci Infinity free tier | Free personal boards with no board cap, real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode, PNG export and free monthly AI credits. |
| Flocci Infinity paid | Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, Business ₹49/seat/month — covering 30+ Flocci apps. |
Choose FigJam for: design teams already on paid Figma seats who want zero-friction whiteboarding next to their design files.
Choose Flocci Infinity for: mixed or non-design teams who would be buying into a design-tool seat model purely to whiteboard.
Where FigJam is stronger: Zero friction for teams already paying for Figma — same accounts, same mental model; Polished, playful UX that design-led workshops and crits genuinely enjoy; Widgets that pull in light project context from Asana, Jira and GitHub.
Figures read from https://www.figma.com/pricing/ on 2026-07-29.
- Is Flocci Infinity a good FigJam alternative for non-designers?
- That is exactly its lane. FigJam shines when your team already pays for Figma. If you are not a design org, Flocci Infinity gives you the infinite canvas, multiplayer, mind maps and auto-routing connectors without buying design-tool seats — free for personal boards, ₹499/month for Pro.
- Do I need a Figma account to use Flocci Infinity?
- No. Flocci Infinity is independent of Figma. Sign in with Google at infinity.flocci.in and start on a free personal board; the same Flocci account then works across Projects, Library, Calendar, Notes, Timesheets and the rest of the 30+ app suite.
- FigJam or Flocci Infinity for sprint retrospectives?
- Both handle retros well with sticky notes and templates. FigJam wins if the whole team is in Figma daily. Infinity wins if you want a free retro board on the same account as your wiki and tracker, with present mode for walking the board in the review.
- What does FigJam cost compared to Flocci Infinity?
- FigJam comes through Figma seats: on Professional, a Collab seat is $3/month (≈₹252) and a Full seat $16/month (≈₹1,344). Flocci Infinity's personal boards are free, and Pro is ₹499/month covering every Flocci app, with Business org seats at ₹49 each.
The facilitation-first whiteboard — structured workshops, voting, timers and private mode, popular with consultants and design-thinking practitioners.
| Mural free tier | Free plan with 3 editable murals at a time (unlimited total murals, unlimited view-only visitors). |
| Mural paid | Team+ $9.99/member/month billed annually ($12 monthly); Business $17.99/member/month billed annually; Enterprise on request. |
| In rupees (approx.) | ≈₹839/member/month on Team+, ≈₹1,511/member/month on Business. |
| Flocci Infinity free tier | Free personal boards with no board cap, real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode, PNG export and free monthly AI credits. |
| Flocci Infinity paid | Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, Business ₹49/seat/month — covering 30+ Flocci apps. |
Choose Mural for: facilitators and consultancies running formal, structured workshops for clients.
Choose Flocci Infinity for: product teams who whiteboard continuously as part of building, and want the board beside their backlog and wiki rather than in a separate subscription.
Where Mural is stronger: The strongest facilitation toolkit in the category: timers, voting, private mode, celebrations; Serious enterprise security posture on higher tiers; Deep consulting and design-thinking method content behind the product.
Figures read from https://www.mural.co/pricing on 2026-07-29.
- Is Flocci Infinity a good Mural alternative?
- For everyday team whiteboarding — brainstorms, mind maps, flow mapping, retros — yes, with free personal boards against Mural's 3-mural free cap and rupee pricing against $9.99+/member/month. Mural stays ahead for formal facilitation mechanics like voting sessions, timers and private mode.
- What is the free plan difference between Mural and Flocci Infinity?
- Mural's free plan allows 3 editable murals at a time. Flocci Infinity's personal boards are free without that cap, and the free tier still includes real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode, PNG export and free monthly AI credits from the shared Flocci wallet.
- Which is cheaper for a ten-person Indian team, Mural or Flocci?
- Mural Team+ at $9.99 per member per month is roughly ₹8,390 monthly for ten people. Flocci Business seats are ₹49 each — about ₹490 for ten — and individual Pro is ₹499/month covering all 30+ Flocci apps. The gap is close to an order of magnitude.
The whiteboard for product builders — fast, opinionated editors for flowcharts, wireframes, mind maps and docs, with AI generation built in.
| Whimsical free tier | Free plan with 3 team boards, 10 guests, 5MB per file, 1GB total storage and 7-day version history. |
| Whimsical paid | Pro $10/editor/month and Business $20/editor/month, billed annually (annual billing saves 17%). |
| In rupees (approx.) | ≈₹840/editor/month on Pro, ≈₹1,680/editor/month on Business. |
| Flocci Infinity free tier | Free personal boards with no board cap, real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode, PNG export and free monthly AI credits. |
| Flocci Infinity paid | Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, Business ₹49/seat/month — covering 30+ Flocci apps. |
Choose Whimsical for: product teams whose main artifacts are wireframes and tight flow diagrams attached to specs.
Choose Flocci Infinity for: teams wanting an open infinite canvas — sprawling brainstorms, big mind maps, mixed media — connected to their wider work tools at INR pricing.
Where Whimsical is stronger: Genuinely fast, opinionated flowchart and wireframe editors; Docs and boards in one product for spec-plus-diagram workflows; AI generation of mind maps and flows from prompts.
Figures read from https://whimsical.com/pricing on 2026-07-29.
- Whimsical or Flocci Infinity for flowcharts?
- Whimsical's flowchart editor is more opinionated and template-rich. Flocci Infinity counters with connectors offering five routing styles that recompute orthogonal paths around obstacles live on an unconstrained canvas, plus seven arrowhead styles and midpoint labels — and free personal boards.
- Does Flocci Infinity have AI features like Whimsical AI?
- Yes. The AI composer generates a board of colour-grouped sticky notes from a text prompt: describe the topic, review the draft, then accept or retry. AI usage draws on the shared Flocci credit wallet, which includes free monthly credits on every account.
- How do the free plans of Whimsical and Flocci Infinity compare?
- Whimsical's free plan gives 3 team boards, 10 guests, 1GB storage and 7-day version history. Flocci Infinity's personal boards are free without a board cap, with real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode and free monthly AI credits included.
The visual organiser for creative projects — moodboards, research collection and asset curation for filmmakers, writers, designers and other creatives.
| Milanote free tier | Free plan capped at 100 notes, images or links and 10 file uploads, with no time limit. |
| Milanote paid | Pay-per-person $9.99/month billed annually ($12.50 monthly); Team from $49/month billed annually. |
| In rupees (approx.) | ≈₹839/month per person, ≈₹4,116/month for the team bundle. |
| Flocci Infinity free tier | Free personal boards with no board cap, real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode, PNG export and free monthly AI credits. |
| Flocci Infinity paid | Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, Business ₹49/seat/month — covering 30+ Flocci apps. |
Choose Milanote for: solo creatives and small studios organising inspiration, references and creative briefs.
Choose Flocci Infinity for: teams needing live multiplayer whiteboarding, diagramming and a path from board into delivery.
Where Milanote is stronger: A genuinely beautiful moodboarding and reference-collection experience; A web clipper and media-first cards that suit creative research; Deeply loved by creative professionals in film, writing, design and fashion.
Figures read from https://milanote.com/plans/ on 2026-07-29.
- Is Flocci Infinity a Milanote alternative for teams?
- They solve different problems. Milanote excels at collecting and arranging creative references. Flocci Infinity is a live team whiteboard — multiplayer cursors, mind maps, auto-routing connectors, retros, present mode. Teams that outgrow moodboards into collaborative planning tend to move this direction.
- How does Milanote's 100-note limit compare to Flocci Infinity's free plan?
- Milanote's free plan caps at 100 notes, images or links plus 10 file uploads in total. Flocci Infinity's personal boards are free without that kind of object cap; heavier AI-assisted usage draws on free monthly credits from the shared Flocci wallet.
- Can I brainstorm with a team in Milanote the way I would in Flocci Infinity?
- Milanote supports sharing and comments, but it is curation-first. Flocci Infinity is built for simultaneous group work: live named cursors, presence, instant object sync and keyboard-fast stickies — the mechanics a real-time brainstorm actually needs.
Lucid's virtual whiteboard — brainstorming with voting and timers, tightly paired with Lucidchart for formal, standards-grade diagramming.
| Lucidspark free tier | Free plan with 3 editable boards. |
| Lucidspark paid | Individual around $7.95/month; Team around $9/user/month; Enterprise custom. |
| In rupees (approx.) | ≈₹668/month Individual, ≈₹756/user/month Team. |
| Flocci Infinity free tier | Free personal boards with no board cap, real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode, PNG export and free monthly AI credits. |
| Flocci Infinity paid | Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, Business ₹49/seat/month — covering 30+ Flocci apps. |
Choose Lucidspark for: organisations already invested in Lucidchart who want a matching ideation surface.
Choose Flocci Infinity for: teams starting fresh who want whiteboard, mind maps and a whole work suite under one rupee-priced account.
Where Lucidspark is stronger: A smooth handoff into Lucidchart for formal, standards-compliant diagrams; Voting, timers and grouping for structured ideation sessions; Familiar and pre-approved inside orgs already on the Lucid suite.
Figures read from https://lucid.app/pricing/lucidspark on 2026-07-29.
- Lucidspark or Flocci Infinity for brainstorming?
- Both give you an infinite canvas with stickies and multiplayer. Lucidspark adds voting and timers and pairs with Lucidchart. Flocci Infinity adds AI board generation, keyboard mind maps, five connector routing styles and present mode — free for personal boards, with rupee pricing above that.
- How does Lucidspark's free plan compare to Flocci Infinity's?
- Lucidspark's free plan allows 3 editable boards, with Individual around $7.95/month for more. Flocci Infinity's personal boards are free without a 3-board cap, and ₹499/month Pro unlocks every Flocci app rather than just the whiteboard.
- Does Flocci Infinity do formal diagramming like Lucidchart?
- Not to Lucidchart's standard. Infinity offers free-form shapes, grid snapping and connectors with five routing styles rather than a formal BPMN or UML symbol library. For standards-compliant notation specifically, Lucidchart remains the stronger pick.
The open-source, hand-drawn-style virtual whiteboard — free, minimal, no account needed, with a paid Plus tier adding cloud workspaces.
| Excalidraw free tier | Free and open source: open the site and draw with no account, end-to-end encrypted collaboration links, PNG/SVG export. |
| Excalidraw paid | Excalidraw+ $6/user/month (annual billing saves 14%), with a 14-day free trial. |
| In rupees (approx.) | ≈₹504/user/month on Plus. |
| Flocci Infinity free tier | Free personal boards with no board cap, real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode, PNG export and free monthly AI credits. |
| Flocci Infinity paid | Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, Business ₹49/seat/month — covering 30+ Flocci apps. |
Choose Excalidraw for: quick sketches, architecture diagrams, and anyone who values open source and the sketchy aesthetic.
Choose Flocci Infinity for: teams who need persistent multi-board workspaces, keyboard mind maps, AI drafting and role-based sharing.
Where Excalidraw is stronger: Genuinely free and open source, with a hand-drawn aesthetic people love; Zero setup: open the site and draw, no account at all; Local-first with end-to-end encrypted collaboration links.
Figures read from https://plus.excalidraw.com/plus on 2026-07-29.
- Excalidraw is free — why would I use Flocci Infinity?
- Excalidraw is superb for one-off sketches. Flocci Infinity is for boards that live: persistent workspaces with recents and favourites, keyboard mind maps, five connector routing styles, AI board drafts, present mode and role-based sharing — still free for personal boards.
- Does Flocci Infinity have a hand-drawn pen like Excalidraw?
- Infinity's pen takes the opposite stance. Instead of a deliberately sketchy look it removes hand jitter with a 1€ filter and beautifies strokes into smooth Bezier curves, so a rough gesture comes out clean. Which you prefer is a genuine taste call.
- Can I use Flocci Infinity without signing in, like Excalidraw?
- Partly. The home page carries a working mini-canvas you can drag stickies around with no account at all. Boards that persist, multiplayer and AI generation need one Google sign-in, which also signs you into the rest of the Flocci suite.
The value-priced AI whiteboard — an aggressive Miro alternative with AI generation, diagram types and lifetime licence options.
| Boardmix free tier | Free plan with 3 editable boards, 1GB storage and 100 objects per board. |
| Boardmix paid | Starter $5/member/month billed annually ($12 monthly); AI Starter $10/member/month annually; AI Business $20/member/month annually; lifetime licences $99–$999. |
| In rupees (approx.) | ≈₹420/member/month on Starter, ≈₹840 on AI Starter, ≈₹1,680 on AI Business. |
| Flocci Infinity free tier | Free personal boards with no board cap, real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode, PNG export and free monthly AI credits. |
| Flocci Infinity paid | Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, Business ₹49/seat/month — covering 30+ Flocci apps. |
Choose Boardmix for: budget-conscious teams who want the broadest possible feature checklist for the lowest USD price, or a one-time lifetime licence.
Choose Flocci Infinity for: teams who want a genuinely uncapped free tier, AI included rather than upsold, and rupee billing.
Where Boardmix is stronger: The cheapest mainstream paid tier in the category, plus one-time lifetime licences; AI generation and a wide spread of diagram types (fishbone, mind map, flowchart); A large template library relative to its price.
Figures read from https://boardmix.com/pricing/ on 2026-07-29.
- Boardmix or Flocci Infinity — which free plan goes further?
- Boardmix's free plan caps you at 3 editable boards, 1GB of storage and 100 objects per board. Flocci Infinity's free personal boards carry no board cap and no per-board object cap, and include real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode and free monthly AI credits.
- Is Boardmix cheaper than Flocci Infinity?
- Boardmix Starter is $5 per member per month billed annually, about ₹420 — but AI generation needs the $10 AI Starter tier. Flocci Pro is ₹499/month with AI credits included and covers 30+ Flocci apps, and Business org seats are ₹49 each.
A whiteboard built into a full work-management platform — sticky notes and shapes that convert into ClickUp tasks without leaving the canvas.
| ClickUp Whiteboards free tier | Free Forever plan; private whiteboards are listed under the Business tier rather than the free plan. |
| ClickUp Whiteboards paid | Unlimited $7/user/month and Business $12/user/month billed yearly; AI add-ons from $9/user/month; Enterprise custom. |
| In rupees (approx.) | ≈₹588/user/month on Unlimited, ≈₹1,008/user/month on Business. |
| Flocci Infinity free tier | Free personal boards with no board cap, real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode, PNG export and free monthly AI credits. |
| Flocci Infinity paid | Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, Business ₹49/seat/month — covering 30+ Flocci apps. |
Choose ClickUp Whiteboards for: teams ready to standardise their entire work stack on ClickUp and who want canvas-to-task conversion inside it.
Choose Flocci Infinity for: teams who want a fast, focused canvas first — with the option of adopting sibling apps one at a time rather than swallowing a whole platform.
Where ClickUp Whiteboards is stronger: Canvas objects convert into real tasks in the same product — the closest competitor to Flocci's suite thesis; One subscription covering docs, tasks, goals, dashboards and whiteboards; Very broad feature surface for the price.
Figures read from https://clickup.com/pricing on 2026-07-29.
- ClickUp Whiteboards or Flocci Infinity?
- ClickUp converts canvas objects into ClickUp tasks natively, which is genuinely powerful if you already run on ClickUp. Flocci Infinity is a faster, more focused canvas — keyboard mind maps, five connector routing styles, present mode — with the rest of the Flocci suite adoptable app by app, in rupees.
- Is ClickUp's whiteboard free?
- ClickUp has a Free Forever plan, but private whiteboards are listed under the Business tier at $12 per user per month billed yearly (≈₹1,008). Flocci Infinity's personal boards are free, with Pro at ₹499/month covering all 30+ Flocci apps.
The open-source Notion-and-Miro hybrid — the same content in a page mode and an edgeless canvas mode, local-first and self-hostable.
| AFFiNE free tier | Free cloud plan with 10GB storage, 10MB max file size, up to 3 members per workspace, 7-day version history and 3 login devices; unlimited local workspaces. |
| AFFiNE paid | Pro $6.75/month billed annually; Team $10/seat/month billed annually; a $499.99 one-time Believer licence; Enterprise custom. |
| In rupees (approx.) | ≈₹567/month Pro, ≈₹840/seat/month Team. |
| Flocci Infinity free tier | Free personal boards with no board cap, real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode, PNG export and free monthly AI credits. |
| Flocci Infinity paid | Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, Business ₹49/seat/month — covering 30+ Flocci apps. |
Choose AFFiNE for: privacy-focused and technical teams who want to self-host and value the doc-to-canvas toggle.
Choose Flocci Infinity for: teams who want a hosted, zero-maintenance canvas with strong multiplayer and no server to look after.
Where AFFiNE is stronger: Page mode and edgeless canvas mode over the same content — a genuinely distinctive idea; Open source and self-hostable, with full data ownership; Local-first: it works offline and keeps unlimited local workspaces free.
Figures read from https://affine.pro/pricing on 2026-07-29.
- AFFiNE or Flocci Infinity?
- AFFiNE is the pick if self-hosting and open source matter most, or if you love its page-to-canvas toggle. Flocci Infinity is hosted and zero-maintenance, with a deeper live-collaboration surface — named cursors, presence, present mode — free personal boards and rupee pricing.
- Is Flocci Infinity open source or self-hostable?
- No. Flocci Infinity is a hosted service run by Flocci Technologies from India. If self-hosting is a hard requirement, AFFiNE or Excalidraw are the honest recommendations; if it is not, Infinity removes the operational burden entirely.
Google's whiteboard app for Workspace — discontinued on 31 December 2024, with the app removed from web, iOS and Android and Jam files no longer accessible.
| Google Jamboard free tier | No longer available — Jamboard was shut down at the end of 2024. |
| Google Jamboard paid | No longer sold. |
| In rupees (approx.) | Not applicable. |
| Flocci Infinity free tier | Free personal boards with no board cap, real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode, PNG export and free monthly AI credits. |
| Flocci Infinity paid | Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, Business ₹49/seat/month — covering 30+ Flocci apps. |
Choose Google Jamboard for: nobody today — the product no longer exists.
Choose Flocci Infinity for: every team that used it, which is why this page exists: the migration question is what to use instead.
Where Google Jamboard is stronger: Was free with Google Workspace and dead simple — the reason teams still search for a replacement; Slide-based mental model that non-technical users picked up instantly; Google account sign-in with nothing to install.
Figures read from https://support.google.com/jamboard on 2026-07-29.
- What replaced Google Jamboard?
- Google did not ship a direct replacement; it pointed users toward partner whiteboards. Teams have mostly split between Miro, FigJam, Excalidraw and newer tools. Flocci Infinity is the India-first option: free personal boards, Google sign-in, no download and no board cap.
- Is Flocci Infinity a good Jamboard alternative?
- For most former Jamboard teams, yes. It keeps what people liked — Google sign-in, nothing to install, free to use — and removes what they outgrew, replacing fixed slide-sized jams with a truly infinite canvas plus mind maps, auto-routing connectors and present mode.
- Can I import my old Jam files into Flocci Infinity?
- No. Google deleted Jam files when the service shut down at the end of 2024, so there is nothing left to import anywhere. Teams rebuild the few boards they still need — AI board generation and templates make that faster than it sounds.
Use cases
To brainstorm online with a team, open a shared infinite-canvas board, let everyone drop sticky notes simultaneously with live cursors visible, cluster the ideas spatially, then walk the clusters together in present mode. Flocci Infinity does all four in one free board with real-time multiplayer.
A brainstorm dies in two ways: the tool caps the mess, or the group never converges. Flocci Infinity's canvas has no edges, so sixty stickies from five people spread out spatially instead of colliding in a list — and clustering is a drag, not a tagging exercise. Ideas that belong together end up physically together, which is the whole reason a canvas beats a document for this job.
Multiplayer here is real multiplayer. Every participant gets a named, coloured cursor; objects appear for everyone the instant they are dropped; presence shows who is actually on the board rather than who joined the call. Your own edits apply optimistically on your screen first, so even a hotel-wifi connection feels immediate instead of laggy.
The cold-start problem has a specific answer: the AI composer drafts the opening board for you. Type "ideas to improve onboarding" and it lays down colour-grouped stickies to react to — usually the fastest way past the blank-canvas freeze. Accept the draft, delete half of it, argue with the rest. Reacting is easier than generating, and the draft costs one line of typing.
When the diverging is done, present mode strips every panel away and turns the board into a clean surface for walking the room through the clusters. Nothing gets exported, nothing goes stale: the board you brainstormed on is the board you present, and it stays in your workspace afterwards as a browsable artifact rather than a screenshot in someone's downloads folder.
- Open a board — Sign in with Google at infinity.flocci.in and create a board — personal boards are free, with no card.
- Seed the canvas — Drop the central question as a card, or let the AI composer generate a starter board of colour-grouped stickies from one line of prompt.
- Diverge together — Everyone adds stickies simultaneously. Live named cursors keep the room aware of itself. Quantity first, no editing, no debate.
- Cluster spatially — Drag related stickies into clusters, use frames as cluster boundaries, and circle emerging themes with the pen.
- Converge and present — Switch to present mode and walk the clusters as a group; export the board as a PNG for anyone who missed it.
- How many people can brainstorm on one board at once?
- Boards are websocket multiplayer with live cursors and presence for everyone from your team or org who joins. Practical brainstorm groups of a dozen or more work smoothly because edits sync object by object rather than re-sending the whole canvas on every change.
- Can AI start the brainstorm for us?
- Yes. The AI composer takes a prompt such as "risks and mitigations for a product launch" and generates a board of colour-grouped sticky notes. You review the draft before it lands, then keep, retry or edit it. It spends shared Flocci credits, with free monthly credits included.
- Is there a free online brainstorming tool without a board limit?
- Flocci Infinity's personal boards are free with no three-board cap, which is the usual free-tier limit on Miro, Mural, Lucidspark, Whimsical and Boardmix. Real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode and PNG export are all included on the free tier.
- How do we keep the ideas after the session?
- The board persists in your workspace with recents and favourites, so it stays browsable rather than becoming a screenshot. Share it with named collaborators at viewer or editor level, embed the relevant spec page from Flocci Library beside it, or export a PNG for a summary email.
The fastest way to make a mind map online is to put the central idea on an infinite canvas, then press Tab to add a child branch and Enter to add a sibling, letting the layout arrange itself. Flocci Infinity's mind maps work exactly this way — keyboard-driven, free, in the browser.
Most whiteboard tools treat mind maps as decoration: you drag nodes by hand and the map fights you as it grows. Flocci Infinity treats the mind map as a keyboard instrument. Select a node, press Tab, and a child appears already positioned. Press Enter and a sibling slots in. The orthogonal auto-layout keeps branches untangled however fast you type, and whole branches collapse when you need to see the forest instead of the leaves.
Because the map lives on an infinite canvas rather than a fixed page, it can sprawl honestly. A two-hundred-node map of a product area pans and zooms smoothly, and the minimap radar in the corner keeps you oriented when the map is bigger than the screen. There is no moment where the tool tells you the map has grown too large for the page.
The map is also not stranded in its own mode. Surround it with sticky notes for open questions, sketch over it with the smoothed pen, connect map nodes to shapes elsewhere on the board with auto-routing connectors, or embed the live wiki page a branch refers to as a card right beside it. A mind map that can touch the rest of the board is worth more than one sealed in a dedicated app.
- Drop the centre — Create a board and place the central topic as a mind-map node — or start from the mind map template.
- Branch with Tab — Press Tab to create a child of the selected node and type its label immediately; the layout positions it for you.
- Sibling with Enter — Press Enter for the next idea at the same level. Whole layers get built without the mouse ever moving.
- Collapse and focus — Fold finished branches to keep the working area calm, and unfold them when you present the map.
- Connect outward — Link nodes to other canvas objects with connectors, or embed the page or task a branch refers to as a live card.
- Is the mind map maker free?
- Yes. Mind maps are a core feature of Flocci Infinity's free personal boards. Sign in with Google, create a board, drop a central node and press Tab. There is no card, no trial clock and no cap on how many boards you keep.
- Does the mind map layout arrange itself?
- Yes. Mind maps use orthogonal auto-layout: children and siblings position themselves as you add them, and the structure reflows as branches grow or collapse. You never hand-position nodes just to keep the map readable, which is what usually kills momentum.
- What are the mind map keyboard shortcuts?
- Tab creates a child of the selected node and Enter creates a sibling at the same level — the two shortcuts that let you build an entire map without the mouse. Cmd+/ or Ctrl+/ opens the command palette for everything else, and Esc leaves present mode.
- Can I mix a mind map with other whiteboard objects?
- Freely. The map is a first-class citizen of the same infinite canvas as stickies, shapes, frames, tables, pen strokes and connectors. Circle a branch with the pen, pin a sticky of open questions next to it, or connect a node to a flowchart on the other side of the board.
- Can I export a mind map as an image?
- Yes — export the board as a PNG from the share dialog, at whatever region you have framed. SVG and PDF export are on the roadmap. You can also present the map full-screen with present mode instead of exporting it into slides at all.
To map a process online, spawn a shape for each step, then drag from one shape's edge to the next. In Flocci Infinity the connector bonds to both shapes, computes a path around anything in the way, and re-routes automatically whenever you rearrange the diagram — so editing is dragging, not redrawing.
The hidden tax on every flowchart is connector maintenance: move one box and spend a minute re-bending arrows. Infinity's connectors are computed, not drawn. They bond to shape edges, offer five routing styles — straight, elbow, curve, orthogonal and s-curve — and recalculate live as you drag. Rearranging a thirty-step process map becomes a sequence of drags rather than a repair job.
The detail work is there too. Anchors can be automatic or pinned to a specific edge; arrowheads come in seven styles including triangle, circle, diamond, open and bar; lines can be solid, dashed, dotted or dash-dot; and each connector carries an optional midpoint label so a decision branch can be marked "yes" and "no" without floating text boxes. The connector studio panel exposes all of it in one place.
Shapes come from the toolbar or the Cmd+/ command palette — rectangles for process steps, diamonds for decisions, circles for terminators, frames for swimlanes — and snap-to-grid keeps lanes honest. Because the canvas is infinite, the map can hold the real process including the ugly exception paths that never fit on a slide, which are usually the paths that matter.
Process maps only earn their keep if they stay current. Present mode lets you walk the map live in a review instead of exporting a deck that is stale by the next sprint, and you can embed the SOP page the step refers to as a live card right beside it, so the map and the written procedure stay within one glance of each other.
- Lay down the spine — Spawn shapes for the happy-path steps left to right; snap-to-grid aligns them without fiddling.
- Connect — Drag from a shape's edge to the next shape — the connector bonds to both and routes itself around whatever is in between.
- Branch the decisions — Add diamond shapes for decisions and label each outgoing connector at its midpoint with the condition.
- Annotate — Sticky notes for open questions, pen circles for problem areas, colour for ownership, frames for swimlanes.
- Review it live — Walk the map in present mode with collaborators following your cursor, and update the map instead of redrawing a slide.
- Do connectors stay attached when I move shapes?
- Yes. Connectors bond to the shapes at both ends. Move, resize or restack anything and every attached connector recomputes its route around the new layout instantly. There is no manual re-drawing of arrows, which is the single biggest time sink in most diagramming tools.
- What connector routing styles are available?
- Five: straight, elbow, curve, orthogonal and s-curve. Anchors can be automatic or pinned to a specific edge, arrowheads come in seven styles, lines support four dash patterns, and each connector can carry a label at its midpoint for decision branches.
- Can I make swimlane or BPMN-style diagrams?
- Infinity gives you free-form shapes, frames for lanes, grid snapping and auto-routing connectors rather than a formal BPMN symbol library. Teams map real processes comfortably this way; if you need standards-compliant BPMN or UML notation specifically, a dedicated tool like Lucidchart is the honest recommendation.
- Is there a fast way to spawn shapes?
- Yes — Cmd+/ or Ctrl+/ opens the command palette: type the shape or tool name and press Enter. Each tool also has a single-key shortcut, and double-clicking empty canvas spawns a card directly. All three keep long mapping sessions in flow.
Run a remote retro by opening a retro grid template, having everyone add stickies to the Went Well / Didn't / Try columns simultaneously, clustering duplicates by dragging them together, then voting by colour and walking the result in present mode. Flocci Infinity covers the whole loop on a free board.
The retro is the easiest ceremony to hollow out: same columns, same silence, actions that evaporate. The mechanics matter more than the format, and Infinity is built around them. Start from the seeded retro grid template so the columns exist before anyone joins. Everyone writes simultaneously — live named cursors keep the energy visible instead of leaving people wondering whether anyone else is typing.
Clustering is spatial rather than administrative. Drag duplicates on top of each other instead of arguing about which tag they belong under; use frames to fence off a theme once it forms. Voting works by colour or by a quick pen circle, which converges a group far faster than a round of verbal agreement, and gives quieter teammates equal weight.
Silent-writing rounds are the retro's real equalizer, and multiplayer stickies make them native: everyone writes at once and nobody holds the marker. The facilitator does not screenshare a single editing seat while nine people spectate — which is the failure mode that turns a retro into a status meeting.
Afterwards the board stays in the workspace as a browsable artifact. Star the retro boards and your retrospective history becomes a series of boards you can actually reopen and compare, rather than a folder of PNG exports nobody names consistently. Present mode makes the walkthrough clean, and PNG export covers the person who missed the call.
- Open the retro template — Create a board from the retro grid template — columns for Went Well, Didn't Go Well and Try Next are ready before the team joins.
- Write simultaneously — Timebox a silent writing round; everyone adds stickies at once with live cursors showing the room is working.
- Cluster and discuss — Drag duplicates together, frame the themes that form, and walk each cluster as a group.
- Vote with colour — Mark priority stickies with a colour or a pen circle to converge quickly without a verbal round-robin.
- Close and keep it — Walk the agreed changes in present mode, star the board so the retro history stays browsable, and export a PNG for absentees.
- Is there a ready-made retrospective template?
- Yes. Infinity ships a retro grid as one of its seeded system templates alongside mind map and flowchart. Create a new board, pick the retro grid, and the columns are laid out before anyone joins the call — no facilitator setup in the first five minutes.
- Is the retro board free?
- Yes. Personal boards are free with no card and no three-board cap, and the free tier includes real-time multiplayer, templates, present mode and PNG export — everything a retro actually needs. Paid Flocci tiers add credits and org features, not retro features.
- How do quieter teammates contribute equally?
- Silent-writing rounds are the equalizer, and multiplayer stickies make them native: everyone writes at once and nobody holds the marker. Spatial clustering then merges duplicates without a debate about whose card wins, and colour voting converges the group without a verbal round-robin.
- Can we keep a history of past retros?
- Boards persist in your workspace with recents and favourites, so starring each retro board gives you a browsable history you can reopen and compare sprint to sprint. That is materially more useful than a folder of screenshots with inconsistent filenames.
Visual project planning works in three passes: mind-map the scope until it stops growing, arrange the pieces into a sequenced flow with dependencies, then frame the phases and assign owners. Flocci Infinity supports all three on one infinite canvas, with connectors that re-route as the plan changes.
Projects rarely fail at the Gantt stage; they fail earlier, when the scope was never actually mapped. Infinity is the surface for that earlier stage. Mind-map the whole territory first with Tab and Enter, and let the infinite canvas absorb the real size of the thing — the workstreams nobody wrote down are precisely the ones that slip. A canvas that never says "page full" is what makes an honest scope map possible.
Then shape the map into a plan. Drag branches into sequence left to right, connect dependencies with auto-routing connectors that survive rearrangement, frame phases with shapes, and mark unknowns with a distinctive sticky colour so the risk register is visible rather than filed. This intermediate artifact — more structured than a brainstorm, looser than a backlog — is exactly what slide tools and task trackers both skip.
Keep the plan next to its evidence. Embed the live spec page from Flocci Library or the sprint board from Flocci Projects as a card on the canvas: one Google sign-in covers all of them, so those embeds simply work rather than requiring an integration to be configured. The plan board becomes the index of the project rather than a document that describes it.
Finally, make review cheap. Present mode walks stakeholders through the actual map at each checkpoint instead of a deck that was true a fortnight ago. When reality diverges — and it does — you drag boxes and the connectors re-route, rather than rebuilding a diagram from scratch. Re-planning becomes something you do weekly instead of something you dread.
- Map the scope — Mind-map every workstream with Tab and Enter until nothing new appears — the point where the map stops growing is the point the scope is real.
- Sequence it — Arrange chunks left to right and connect dependencies with connectors that recompute their paths when you rearrange.
- Frame the phases — Use frames as phase boundaries and a distinct sticky colour for risks and open questions.
- Attach the evidence — Embed the spec page, the sprint board or the reference dashboard as live cards beside the chunks they belong to.
- Review live — Walk the board in present mode at each checkpoint and update the map instead of rebuilding a deck.
- How is this different from planning directly in a task tracker?
- Task trackers demand structure before you have it — a list forces premature decisions about hierarchy and order. An infinite canvas holds the ambiguous middle stage: half-formed scopes, competing sequences, visible unknowns. You move to the tracker once the shape has hardened, not before.
- Can stakeholders follow the plan without editing it?
- Yes. Share the board at viewer level from the share dialog, or walk it live in present mode where panels disappear and the map fills the screen. The minimap keeps big plans navigable, and the plan stays one canonical board rather than a deck exported at every milestone.
- Does the plan survive scope changes?
- That is the design point. Connectors re-route when you rearrange, mind-map branches fold as scope closes, and frames move as phases shift. Re-planning is dragging rather than redrawing, which is what makes it cheap enough to actually do when the situation changes.
A remote workshop needs one shared surface every participant can edit at the same time. Flocci Infinity provides it: a multiplayer infinite canvas with live named cursors, templates, frames as exercise zones, spatial clustering, colour voting and a present mode for walking the results.
The failure mode of remote workshops is the single-editor screenshare: one person drives while everyone else spectates into a second monitor. Infinity's whole design is against that. Every participant edits simultaneously, cursors carry names and colours so the room stays legible, and object sync is fast enough that a ten-person sticky storm just works rather than turning into a queue.
Facilitators get structure from primitives instead of a rigid workshop engine. Templates cover the common formats, frames fence off exercise zones so people know where to write, colour conventions carry voting, and the smoothed pen annotates live while you talk. The command palette keeps the facilitator's hands fast, and the minimap radar keeps latecomers oriented on a canvas that is already large by the time they arrive.
Preparation is cheap because the board persists. Build the exercise zones the day before, star the board, and open it again in the session — no re-setup, no template hunting while fifteen people wait. Afterwards the same board is the record: share it at viewer level with people who could not attend, or export a PNG for the summary email, without the outputs being trapped in one facilitator's account.
Where Infinity is different from dedicated facilitation platforms is cost and reach: the free tier already carries multiplayer, templates and present mode, and paid tiers are rupee-priced rather than USD per-seat — which matters when a workshop involves a client's whole team, not just your five facilitators.
- Build the zones ahead — Lay out frames as exercise areas with instructions as text blocks, and star the board so it is one click away in the session.
- Open it together — Share the board with participants; live named cursors show the room assembling in real time.
- Run timeboxed rounds — Silent sticky rounds in each frame, everyone writing simultaneously rather than dictating to one editor.
- Converge with colour — Vote by sticky colour or pen circle, and cluster the survivors by dragging them together.
- Walk and keep the output — Present mode for the readout, PNG export for absentees, and the board itself stays browsable in the workspace.
- How many participants can join one workshop board?
- Boards are websocket multiplayer with presence and live cursors for everyone from your team or org. Object-level sync means a busy board stays responsive with a large group, since a change sends one object rather than re-broadcasting the whole canvas.
- Does Flocci Infinity have facilitation features like timers and voting?
- Not as dedicated widgets. Voting is done spatially — by sticky colour or a pen circle — and timing with whatever clock you already run the session by. If formal facilitation machinery like private mode and built-in timers is central to your practice, Mural is the honest recommendation.
- Can participants join without a Flocci account?
- Editing a shared board requires signing in, which takes one Google click and also signs them into the rest of the Flocci suite. Anyone can try the mini-canvas on the home page first with no account at all, which is a useful pre-workshop warm-up for nervous participants.
To map a user flow, place one shape per screen or state, connect them in the order a user moves, and branch at every decision point with a labelled connector. Flocci Infinity's connectors bond to both shapes and re-route automatically, so a flow can be rearranged without redrawing arrows.
A user flow is a specific kind of diagram: mostly linear, punctuated by branches, and constantly wrong until you walk it with someone who has watched a real user. That means the diagram gets edited far more than it gets drawn — which is why connector behaviour matters more than shape libraries. Infinity's connectors bond to both endpoints and recompute their path whenever you move something, so restructuring the flow is a drag rather than an afternoon.
Frames carry the structure. One frame per screen or state, titled, with the key UI elements sketched inside as shapes or dropped in as images from a URL. Diamonds mark decisions, and every outgoing connector gets a midpoint label — "has account", "no payment method", "declined" — so the branch conditions are readable at a glance instead of implied by position.
The unhappy paths are where flow maps earn their money, and an infinite canvas is what makes room for them. Error states, retries, timeouts and abandonment routes usually get dropped from a flow because they will not fit on the slide. Here they go below the happy path with their own frames, and the map stops being a marketing artifact and starts being a specification.
Keep the real product beside the map: embed the live page or the staging URL as a card on the canvas, and the flow diagram sits next to the thing it describes. Because one Flocci account also covers Library and Projects, the spec page and the sprint board embed the same way — the flow map ends up as the visual index of the feature rather than an isolated drawing.
- Frame the screens — One frame per screen or state, titled, laid out left to right in the order the user encounters them.
- Sketch inside — Rough the key UI elements with shapes and text, or drop a screenshot in from a URL as an image object.
- Connect in order — Drag connectors between frames; they bond to both and re-route themselves as you rearrange the layout.
- Branch and label — Diamonds for decisions, with each outgoing connector carrying its condition as a midpoint label.
- Map the unhappy paths — Give errors, retries and abandonment their own frames below the happy path — the canvas has room for all of them.
- What is the difference between a user flow and a wireframe?
- A wireframe shows what one screen contains; a user flow shows how a person moves between screens and where the decisions branch. Infinity is built for the flow — frames, decisions and self-routing connectors — with rough sketching inside frames rather than pixel-accurate wireframing.
- Can I put screenshots of my product on the canvas?
- Yes. The image tool adds an image from a URL as a canvas object you can position, scale and layer. The embed tool goes further and renders a live webpage as a card, so the staging build can sit next to the flow diagram that describes it.
- How do I label the branches of a flow?
- Every connector supports a midpoint label with its own background and text colour, so a decision's outgoing paths read "yes", "no", "expired" or whatever the condition is. Combined with seven arrowhead styles and four dash patterns, the branch semantics stay readable without a legend.
A customer journey map is built as a grid: stages across the top, and a row per layer — what the customer does, which touchpoints they hit, how they feel, and where it hurts. Flocci Infinity builds this with frames as stages, tables for evidence rows, and colour-coded stickies for emotion.
Journey maps go stale because they are usually built once, in a workshop, and exported to a PDF that nobody edits again. The structural fix is to build the map somewhere it can keep changing: an infinite canvas where adding a newly discovered pain point is a sticky note, not a redesign. Stages become frames across the top, and each layer of the map is a horizontal band running beneath them.
Use the object types deliberately. Stickies carry customer verbatims and emotions, colour-coded by sentiment so a wall of frustration is visible from a zoomed-out view. Tables carry the hard evidence — drop-off percentages, ticket volumes, NPS by stage — so the map is not purely anecdotal. Shapes and connectors carry the backstage processes that produce each touchpoint, which is where most of the fixable causes live.
The emotional curve is the part stakeholders remember, and it belongs on the canvas rather than in a separate chart. Draw it with the smoothed pen straight across the stage frames: the 1€ filter turns a shaky freehand line into a clean curve, so a hand-drawn curve looks intentional. It reads instantly in present mode, which is where the map does its real persuading.
Keep the sources attached. Embed the live analytics dashboard, the support queue or the research repository page as cards beside the stages they support. Because a single Flocci account covers the whole suite, embedding a Library research page next to the journey stage it came from takes no integration setup at all — the map cites its evidence in place.
- Lay out the stages — One frame per stage across the top — awareness, evaluation, onboarding, habit, renewal, or whatever your journey actually is.
- Band the layers — Horizontal bands beneath: actions, touchpoints, emotions, pain points, backstage processes.
- Fill with real evidence — Stickies for verbatims colour-coded by sentiment, tables for metrics, embeds for the dashboards and research pages behind them.
- Draw the emotional curve — Sketch the curve across the stages with the smoothed pen — hand-drawn but clean, and instantly readable.
- Present and keep editing — Walk it in present mode for stakeholders, then keep adding to it as research lands instead of freezing it in a PDF.
- Is there a customer journey map template?
- Infinity ships retro grid, mind map and flowchart as seeded templates; a journey map is built from frames and bands in a couple of minutes, or drafted by the AI composer from a prompt describing your stages. Star the board afterwards and it becomes your own reusable starting point.
- Can I put real metrics on a journey map?
- Yes. Table objects hold numeric evidence — drop-off rates, ticket volumes, NPS by stage — directly on the canvas, and the embed tool renders a live analytics dashboard as a card beside the stage it explains, so the map cites its sources in place rather than in an appendix.
- How do I share a journey map with stakeholders?
- Share the board at viewer level with named collaborators, walk it live in present mode where every panel disappears, or export a PNG for a deck. The board stays the master copy, so the version stakeholders saw and the version the team edits never diverge.
To diagram a system architecture, draw one shape per service, group them into frames by boundary, then connect dependencies with labelled connectors — solid for synchronous calls, dashed for asynchronous. Flocci Infinity's connectors re-route automatically, so the diagram survives the next refactor.
Architecture diagrams rot because editing them is expensive. Move one service box in a typical tool and you spend ten minutes repairing arrows, so nobody updates the diagram and it quietly becomes fiction. Infinity's connectors bond to shapes and recompute their own routes, which changes the economics: a refactor is a few drags, and the diagram stays close enough to true that people keep trusting it.
The notation is yours to define, and the primitives support a clear one. Frames mark boundaries — a VPC, a cluster, a trust zone, a team's ownership. Solid connectors for synchronous calls, dashed for asynchronous messages, dotted for optional or planned edges, using the four available dash patterns. Midpoint labels carry the protocol or the queue name. Seven arrowhead styles let you distinguish a request from an event stream without a legend nobody reads.
An infinite canvas also lets one board hold several zoom levels of the same system, which is usually what people actually want. A context-level view of the whole platform sits in one region; the detail of the payment path sits in another with its own frame and title; a third region holds the migration target state. Pan between them, use the minimap to navigate, and stop maintaining three drifting diagrams in three files.
Because you can embed live webpages as canvas cards, the runbook page, the dashboard or the repository README can sit beside the component it describes. Present mode then turns the board into a clean surface for an architecture review or an onboarding walkthrough — a new engineer follows the map with someone talking over it, which lands far better than a static PNG in a wiki.
- Box the services — One shape per service or component, named, with frames marking boundaries like clusters, VPCs or team ownership.
- Draw the dependencies — Connectors between components; they bond to both ends and re-route themselves when the layout changes.
- Encode the semantics — Solid for synchronous, dashed for asynchronous, dotted for planned; midpoint labels for protocol or queue name.
- Add the zoom levels — Keep the context view, the detail views and the target state as separate regions on the same infinite canvas.
- Attach the runbooks — Embed the dashboard, runbook or README as live cards beside the components they belong to, and review in present mode.
- Does Flocci Infinity support UML or C4 notation?
- There is no formal UML or C4 symbol library. You build the notation from shapes, frames, dash patterns and labelled connectors — which suits C4-style boxes-and-lines diagrams well. For strict UML compliance with a validated symbol set, a dedicated diagramming tool remains the better fit.
- Can I keep several diagrams for one system?
- Keep them as regions on a single infinite canvas rather than separate files: a context view, detailed subsystem views and the migration target state, each in its own titled frame. The minimap makes navigation between them quick, and there is only one artifact to keep current.
- How do I show synchronous versus asynchronous calls?
- Use the four dash patterns and seven arrowhead styles: solid with a triangle head for synchronous calls, dashed with an open head for asynchronous messages, dotted for planned edges. Midpoint labels carry the protocol or queue name so the diagram needs no separate legend.
A visual product roadmap is built as horizon frames — now, next, later — with a swimlane per theme, initiatives as cards inside them, and connectors marking dependencies. Flocci Infinity keeps the connectors correct as you drag cards between horizons, so re-planning stays cheap.
Roadmaps presented as Gantt charts promise precision the team does not have, and roadmaps presented as bullet lists lose the relationships that make them a plan. A canvas sits between the two honestly: horizon frames instead of dates, swimlanes for themes, cards for initiatives, and explicit connectors where one thing genuinely blocks another. Nobody mistakes it for a commitment to a Tuesday, and everybody can see what depends on what.
Encode confidence in colour rather than in a footnote. A high-confidence initiative in the now column reads differently from an exploratory bet in later, and using sticky colours consistently means the overall risk profile of a roadmap is visible from a zoomed-out view. Frames make the horizons unambiguous, and dragging a card from next to now is the entire re-planning gesture — dependent connectors follow automatically.
Keep the reasoning attached to the plan. Each initiative card can sit beside an embedded live card of the spec page, the research summary or the sprint board it corresponds to — one Flocci account covers Library, Projects and Calendar, so those embeds need no integration setup. Stakeholders who ask "why is this next?" get an answer on the same screen instead of a follow-up meeting.
The review is where roadmaps usually break. Present mode turns the board into a clean full-screen surface, so you walk the roadmap live and edit it in front of the room when someone changes a priority — which is much better than promising to update the deck. The board is the artifact, so there is no version drift between what leadership saw and what the team is working from.
- Frame the horizons — Three frames — now, next, later — instead of a date axis you cannot honestly commit to.
- Lane the themes — A horizontal swimlane per product theme or customer outcome, running across all three horizons.
- Card the initiatives — One card per initiative, coloured by confidence so the roadmap's risk profile is visible at a glance.
- Connect the dependencies — Draw connectors where one initiative genuinely blocks another; they re-route themselves when cards move between horizons.
- Attach the why — Embed the spec, research or sprint board beside the initiative, then review the whole thing live in present mode.
- Should a roadmap have dates?
- Horizon frames — now, next, later — communicate sequence without promising precision the team does not have. If a genuine external deadline exists, put it on the card as text so it reads as a real constraint rather than as an estimate dressed up as a commitment.
- How do I show dependencies on a roadmap?
- Draw connectors between the initiative cards that genuinely block each other. Because connectors bond to both cards and re-route themselves, dragging an initiative from later into now keeps every dependency edge correct — so the diagram never quietly lies after a re-plan.
- Can I keep the roadmap and the backlog in sync?
- Keep them deliberately separate and linked. The canvas holds intent and relationships; Flocci Projects holds the executable backlog. Embed the relevant sprint board as a live card beside the initiative it belongs to — the same Google account covers both, so no integration setup is involved.
For online teaching, use an infinite-canvas whiteboard where you can write with a pen, keep the whole lesson visible instead of erasing, and let students work simultaneously on their own regions. Flocci Infinity does this free in the browser, with present mode for lecturing and PNG export for handouts.
A physical whiteboard's worst property is that it fills up and you erase the thing a student was still copying. On an infinite canvas the whole lesson stays: pan back to the derivation from twenty minutes ago, zoom out to show how the day's topics connect, and let a student scroll back on their own screen rather than asking you to re-draw. That single property changes how a lesson can be structured.
The pen matters for teaching more than for any other use. Writing with a mouse or trackpad normally looks terrible; the 1€ filter removes hand jitter and beautifies strokes into Bezier curves, so handwriting and quick sketches come out legible without a graphics tablet. Combined with pressure styling, annotating over a diagram mid-explanation looks deliberate instead of scrawled.
Group work is where multiplayer earns its place. Give each group a frame on the same board, and every student can write simultaneously with their name attached to their cursor — you pan between groups and see who is actually contributing, which is impossible in breakout rooms. Mind maps built with Tab and Enter are excellent for concept mapping exercises, since a student can build one as fast as they can think of terms.
For the lecture itself, present mode hides every panel and gives you a clean surface to share. Afterwards, export the board as a PNG for handouts, or share it at viewer level so students revisit the actual canvas. Personal boards are free with no board cap, which matters for a teacher running a board per lesson across a term — and Flocci's paid tiers are priced in rupees, which matters for Indian institutions.
- Board per lesson — Create a board for each lesson — free personal boards have no cap, so a whole term of lessons stays organised and reopenable.
- Write, don't erase — Use the smoothed pen and pan to fresh canvas instead of erasing; the entire lesson remains visible and scrollable.
- Frame the groups — Give each student group its own frame; everyone writes simultaneously with named cursors showing who contributed.
- Build concepts as maps — Concept-mapping exercises with Tab and Enter — students build a mind map as fast as they can name terms.
- Lecture and hand out — Present mode for the live session, PNG export or viewer-level sharing for revision afterwards.
- Is Flocci Infinity free for teachers and students?
- Personal boards are free with no card and no board cap, which covers a teacher running one board per lesson across a term. The free tier includes the pen, mind maps, multiplayer, templates, present mode and PNG export — the whole teaching toolkit, not a trial slice of it.
- Do students need to install anything?
- No. Flocci Infinity runs in any modern browser on desktop or tablet at infinity.flocci.in, and students can try the mini-canvas on the home page with no account at all. Joining a shared board takes one Google sign-in and nothing to download or update.
- Can I write by hand without a graphics tablet?
- The pen applies a 1€ filter that removes hand jitter and beautifies strokes into Bezier curves, so mouse or trackpad writing comes out far more legible than raw input. A stylus on a tablet is still nicer, but the smoothing is specifically what makes trackpad writing usable.
- Is this a good replacement for Google Jamboard in a classroom?
- For most classrooms, yes. It keeps the parts teachers liked — Google sign-in, nothing to install, free to use — and replaces fixed slide-sized jams with an infinite canvas, adding mind maps, self-routing connectors and present mode. Jamboard shut down at the end of 2024.
Indian startups usually pay USD per-seat rates for whiteboarding — roughly ₹670 to ₹1,680 per person per month on mainstream tools. Flocci Infinity is built in India and priced in rupees: personal boards free, Pro ₹499/month covering 30+ apps, and org seats at ₹49 each.
Every mainstream whiteboard tool prices in dollars, and none of them publish an INR tier. That is a straightforward tax on Indian teams: a ten-person startup on Miro Starter is roughly ₹6,720 a month, and on Mural Team+ roughly ₹8,390 — before the tracker, the wiki and everything else. Flocci Technologies is based in Ranchi and prices in rupees because that is the currency the customers actually earn in.
The maths matters most in the first two years. Personal boards are free with no three-board cap, so a founding team can map the entire product, the go-to-market and the hiring plan without paying anything. When you do upgrade, ₹499 a month for Pro covers every Flocci app rather than only the whiteboard — the wiki, the tracker, the calendar, notes and timesheets included — and org seats are ₹49 each, which is roughly one-fifteenth of a typical USD whiteboard seat.
Early-stage work is exactly the work an infinite canvas is best at. Positioning is a mind map before it is a deck. A go-to-market plan is a flow with branches before it is a spreadsheet. A hiring plan is boxes and dependencies before it is a budget. All three are things you rewrite weekly, and the tool being free and re-arrangeable is what makes rewriting them weekly plausible rather than a chore you avoid.
Two practical Indian details. Sign-in is Google, which is what almost every Indian startup already uses. And AI board generation is included with free monthly credits rather than gated behind a higher tier the way most competitors gate their AI — so drafting a competitor-landscape board or a risk register from a prompt costs nothing on day one.
- Start free — Sign in with Google and open a free personal board — no card, no board cap, nothing to install.
- Map the business — Mind-map positioning, ICP and objections with Tab and Enter until the map stops growing.
- Flow the go-to-market — Turn the map into a flow with self-routing connectors: channel, funnel stage, conversion assumption, owner.
- Draft with AI — Use the AI composer for the boards you would otherwise skip — risk registers, competitor landscapes, hiring plans.
- Upgrade once — When the team grows, one ₹499/month Pro upgrade at account.flocci.in unlocks every Flocci app, with org seats at ₹49.
- Is there an online whiteboard priced in Indian rupees?
- Flocci Infinity is: personal boards free, Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month and Business seats ₹49/month, billed in INR at account.flocci.in. Miro, Mural, Whimsical, Lucidspark, Boardmix and Milanote all publish USD pricing only, with no India-specific tier on their pricing pages.
- What does a whiteboard tool cost for a ten-person Indian team?
- At approximately ₹84 to the dollar: Miro Starter ≈₹6,720/month, Mural Team+ ≈₹8,390/month, Whimsical Pro ≈₹8,400/month. Flocci Business seats are ₹49 each — about ₹490 — and that subscription covers the whole Flocci suite rather than the whiteboard alone.
- Is Flocci Infinity actually built in India?
- Yes. Flocci Technologies is an AI-native SaaS studio based in Ranchi, Jharkhand, founded by Md Afsar Hussain, and Infinity is one of 30+ apps it builds. Support and billing are Indian, and pricing is set in rupees rather than converted from a dollar list price.
- Do I get AI features on the free tier?
- Yes. AI board generation draws on the shared Flocci credit wallet, and every account gets free monthly credits — so you can draft boards from a prompt without upgrading. Most competitors put AI generation behind a higher paid tier rather than including it free.
Guides
An infinite canvas is a digital workspace with no fixed page size: instead of filling pages or slides, you place content anywhere on an unbounded plane and navigate by panning and zooming. It suits spatial, connected thinking — brainstorms, mind maps, process diagrams — where fixed pages force artificial cuts.
How does an infinite canvas actually work?
Technically an infinite canvas is a coordinate space, not a stored image. The tool keeps every object's position and size as data and renders only the region your viewport currently shows at your current zoom level. That is why a board holding thousands of objects still pans smoothly: the canvas is "infinite" because coordinates are unbounded, and rendering is windowed to what you can see. Good implementations add navigation aids on top — Flocci Infinity pairs snap-to-grid, so free placement can still be tidy, with a minimap radar showing where your viewport sits inside the populated region.
When does an infinite canvas beat a document or a slide deck?
Use a canvas when the structure of the content is itself information: brainstorms whose clusters carry meaning, mind maps, process and user-flow diagrams, retro boards, planning walls, architecture sketches. Spatial arrangement — what is near what, what is upstream of what — is data that a linear document destroys the moment you flatten it into an ordered list. Use a document when the material is genuinely sequential prose, and slides when you need to control the pacing of a presentation. Many teams pair them: think on the canvas, then write the settled decision down.
What separates a good infinite-canvas tool from a bad one?
Judge four things. Navigation: pan and zoom smoothness plus a minimap, because an infinite space without wayfinding becomes a junk drawer. Object model: connectors that bond to shapes and re-route themselves, so rearranging does not mean redrawing, plus proper layering and grouping. Collaboration: real-time multiplayer with visible named cursors, since canvases are inherently group surfaces. And escape hatches: what happens to the content afterwards — image export at minimum, presentation mode and durable shareable boards at best.
Which tools offer an infinite canvas?
Most modern visual-collaboration tools are built on one. Miro and Mural serve enterprise workshops; FigJam sits beside Figma for design teams; Whimsical focuses on product diagrams; Excalidraw offers open-source sketching; AFFiNE toggles between page and canvas modes; Boardmix competes on price; ClickUp embeds a canvas inside a work-management platform. Flocci Infinity is the India-first option: free personal boards with no three-board cap, keyboard mind maps, five connector routing styles, AI board generation, present mode, and rupee pricing from ₹499/month. They differ far less in the canvas itself than in pricing model, collaboration depth and what surrounds the board.
Is an infinite canvas the same thing as a whiteboard app?
Nearly. The infinite canvas is the underlying surface most modern whiteboard apps are built on. "Whiteboard app" names the use case — sketching, workshops, sticky notes — while "infinite canvas" names the mechanism, an unbounded zoomable coordinate space. The distinction only matters when a tool calls itself a whiteboard but has fixed page edges, as Google Jamboard did with its slide-sized jams: those tools cap the mess, which is exactly the property an infinite canvas exists to remove.
- Is an infinite canvas really infinite?
- Practically, yes. Coordinates are unbounded and the tool renders only what your viewport shows, so you run out of ideas long before the canvas runs out of room. Some tools cap extreme zoom levels for rendering sanity, but no realistic board ever meets a wall.
- Does an infinite canvas get slow with lots of objects?
- Well-built ones do not, because rendering is windowed to the visible region rather than the whole board, and collaborative edits sync object by object instead of re-sending the entire canvas. A minimap matters here too: navigation, not rendering, is what usually degrades first on a huge board.
- What is the best free infinite canvas tool?
- It depends on the job: Excalidraw for zero-setup open-source sketching, FigJam's free tier if you already live in Figma, and Flocci Infinity for free personal boards with multiplayer, keyboard mind maps, AI drafting and present mode — with paid tiers in rupees rather than USD per seat.
To make a mind map online, write the central idea on a canvas, add one branch per major theme, then expand each branch with sub-ideas — one idea per node, labels short. In Flocci Infinity this is entirely keyboard-driven: Tab creates a child node, Enter creates a sibling, and the layout arranges itself.
Start with one central idea, not a list
A mind map only works if the centre is a single, specific thing — "Q3 launch" rather than "planning". Put it on the canvas as your root node and resist the urge to pre-plan the branches; the value of the technique is that structure emerges from the dump rather than being imposed on it. If you find yourself deciding what the branches should be before you start, you are writing an outline, and an outline is better made in a document.
Branch with the keyboard, not the mouse
The single biggest determinant of whether a mind map captures your actual thinking is whether the tool keeps up with it. Dragging nodes with a mouse is roughly ten times slower than typing, and that gap is where ideas get lost. In Flocci Infinity, select a node and press Tab for a child or Enter for a sibling; the new node appears already positioned by the orthogonal auto-layout and you type its label immediately. Whole layers get built without your hands leaving the keyboard.
Keep one idea per node and labels short
Nodes carrying a sentence stop being scannable, and a mind map's whole purpose is scannability. Aim for one to three words per node. If a node needs a paragraph, that is a signal it should be its own branch, or that the detail belongs in a linked document rather than on the map. Colour is the other compression tool: use it consistently for a dimension that matters — confidence, owner, effort — so the map carries a second layer of meaning at a glance.
Collapse branches to find the shape
Once a map passes about fifty nodes, the whole thing stops fitting on a screen and the exercise flips from generating to seeing. Collapse completed branches so only the top two levels remain visible: that view is where the real structure — duplicate themes, an unbalanced branch that is secretly three projects, a missing category — becomes obvious. Unfold selectively when you present the map so the audience gets the shape first and the detail on demand.
Turn the map into something that happens
A mind map that stays a mind map is a nice afternoon. Mark the branches that turned out to be real work, and connect them outward: on an infinite canvas you can sit a flow diagram, a plan or a sticky wall right next to the map, connected with self-routing connectors, and embed the spec page or the sprint board as a live card beside the branch it came from. The map then becomes the index of the thinking behind the work rather than an artifact you never reopen.
- What is the fastest way to make a mind map online?
- Use a tool with keyboard branching. In Flocci Infinity, Tab adds a child node and Enter adds a sibling, with the layout positioning each new node automatically — so you type at the speed you think instead of dragging boxes around and adjusting spacing by hand.
- How do I make a mind map for free?
- Flocci Infinity's personal boards are free with no card and no board cap: sign in with Google at infinity.flocci.in, create a board, drop a central node and press Tab. The free tier includes multiplayer, templates, present mode and PNG export, not a trial slice of them.
- How many branches should a mind map have?
- Five to nine main branches is the practical range — fewer and you have a list, more and the map stops being scannable. If you consistently exceed nine, the centre is probably too broad and should be split into two maps with a linking connector between them.
- Can AI generate a mind map for me?
- Flocci Infinity's AI composer drafts a board of colour-grouped sticky notes from a text prompt, which works well as raw material to restructure into a map. Reacting to a draft is usually faster than starting empty, and it spends shared Flocci credits with free monthly credits included.
Run a remote brainstorm in four timeboxed stages: frame one specific question, have everyone write silently and simultaneously on a shared canvas, cluster the stickies spatially, then vote and pick. The silent simultaneous stage is what separates a productive session from a call where the loudest person wins.
Frame one question, narrowly
"How do we grow?" produces nothing; "what would make a new user reach their first saved board within five minutes?" produces forty stickies. Write the question as a card in the centre of the canvas before anyone joins, and put the constraints beside it — budget, timeline, what is out of scope. Fifteen minutes of framing routinely saves the whole session, and doing it on the board rather than in the invite means it stays visible while people work.
Diverge silently and simultaneously
The single highest-leverage change to a remote brainstorm is the silent round: eight minutes where everyone writes stickies at the same time, with no talking. It removes the anchoring effect of whoever speaks first and it removes the queue that a single-editor screenshare creates. This only works if the tool supports genuine simultaneous editing with visible presence — in Flocci Infinity every participant has a named, coloured cursor and objects appear for everyone as they land, so the room can feel itself working without anyone narrating.
Cluster by dragging, not by tagging
Once the writing round ends, cluster physically. Drag related stickies on top of each other, then frame each cluster and name it. Spatial clustering is far faster than any tagging or categorisation UI, and more importantly it is negotiable in real time: someone drags a sticky out of your cluster, and that disagreement is now visible and resolvable in three seconds instead of being buried in a comment thread.
Converge with colour, not consensus theatre
Give everyone a fixed number of votes and have them mark stickies with a colour or a pen circle — simultaneously, again. Verbal round-robins over-weight seniority and the last speaker; a simultaneous colour vote makes preference visible all at once. Then talk only about the top cluster. Most brainstorms fail at this stage by trying to discuss everything, which guarantees the discussion runs out of time before it reaches a decision.
Close the loop before the call ends
Before anyone leaves, write the decision and its owner on the board as a distinctly coloured card, and put the next checkpoint on it. The board persists, so this is a durable record rather than a promise to send notes. Walk it once in present mode as the closing beat, export a PNG for anyone absent, and star the board so it stays one click away when the decision gets questioned three weeks later.
- How long should a remote brainstorm be?
- Sixty to ninety minutes, split roughly into fifteen minutes framing, eight to ten minutes silent divergent writing, twenty minutes clustering, ten minutes voting and the remainder converging. Anything beyond ninety minutes on a video call degrades sharply regardless of how well the session is run.
- What tool is best for remote brainstorming?
- Any tool with genuine simultaneous multiplayer editing and visible cursors, since the silent parallel round is the mechanism that makes the session work. Flocci Infinity provides that free on personal boards, with AI board generation for the cold start and present mode for the closing walkthrough.
- How do you stop one person dominating a brainstorm?
- Structure, not moderation. Silent simultaneous writing removes speaking order entirely; spatial clustering makes disagreement a drag rather than an argument; and simultaneous colour voting reveals everyone's preference at once instead of sequentially, where each vote anchors the next one.
- Can AI help with brainstorming?
- Best used for the cold start and the blind spots. Flocci Infinity's AI composer drafts a board of colour-grouped stickies from a prompt, which gives the group something to react to — reacting is easier than generating — and it surfaces obvious categories the room might have skipped past.
Mainstream whiteboard tools cost roughly ₹420 to ₹1,680 per user per month once USD prices are converted, and none of them publish an INR tier. For a ten-person Indian team that is ₹4,200 to ₹16,800 monthly. Flocci Infinity bills in rupees: free personal boards, Pro ₹499/month, org seats ₹49.
Why this is hard to research
Search for whiteboard pricing in India and you get USD pricing pages and listicles that convert nothing. That is not an accident: essentially every vendor in this category sets a single global USD price list, with no India tier and no purchasing-power adjustment. So the honest way to answer "what will this cost us" is to take each vendor's own published USD number, convert it, and multiply by headcount. The numbers below do exactly that, read off each vendor's own pricing page.
The per-seat numbers, converted
At approximately ₹84 to the dollar: Boardmix Starter $5/member/month ≈₹420. ClickUp Unlimited $7/user/month ≈₹588, Business $12 ≈₹1,008. Lucidspark Individual around $7.95/month ≈₹668, Team around $9/user ≈₹756. Miro Starter $8/member/month ≈₹672, Business $20 ≈₹1,680. AFFiNE Pro $6.75/month ≈₹567, Team $10/seat ≈₹840. Whimsical Pro $10/editor/month ≈₹840, Business $20 ≈₹1,680. Mural Team+ $9.99/member/month ≈₹839, Business $17.99 ≈₹1,511. Milanote $9.99/month ≈₹839 per person. FigJam arrives through Figma seats — a Professional Collab seat is $3/month ≈₹252, a Full seat $16 ≈₹1,344. Excalidraw+ is $6/user/month ≈₹504, with the core editor free and open source. Annual billing is assumed where a vendor quotes it, and conversions are approximate.
What that means at team scale
Multiply by ten people and the shape of the decision changes. Miro Starter is about ₹6,720 a month, Mural Team+ about ₹8,390, Whimsical Pro about ₹8,400, ClickUp Business about ₹10,080. Those are annual commitments of roughly ₹80,000 to ₹1.2 lakh for one category of tool — before the tracker, the wiki, the calendar and everything else the same team also pays for, usually in dollars, usually per seat, usually separately.
The free tiers, and where they stop
Every vendor has a free tier and almost all of them stop at the same place: three boards. Miro allows 3 editable boards, Mural 3 editable murals at a time, Lucidspark 3 boards, Whimsical 3 team boards with 1GB storage, Boardmix 3 boards with 1GB and 100 objects per board. Milanote caps at 100 items rather than boards. AFFiNE's free cloud tier allows 3 members per workspace. Excalidraw is the outlier — genuinely free and open source, scene-based rather than a managed workspace. Flocci Infinity's free personal boards carry no three-board cap, and the free tier includes multiplayer, templates, present mode, PNG export and free monthly AI credits.
The rupee-native option
Flocci Infinity is built by Flocci Technologies in Ranchi, Jharkhand, and prices in INR because that is what its customers earn in: personal boards free, Pro ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month, and Business org seats ₹49/month, billed at account.flocci.in. The comparison that matters is not just per-seat: one Flocci subscription covers 30+ apps including Projects, Library, Calendar, Notes and Timesheets, so it replaces a column of separate USD line items rather than one of them. For a ten-person team, ₹490/month in Business seats sits against ₹6,720 for the whiteboard alone elsewhere.
- Does Miro have India pricing in rupees?
- Miro's public pricing page lists USD only — Starter $8 per member per month and Business $20, both billed yearly — with no India-specific or INR tier shown. The same is true of Mural, Whimsical, Lucidspark, Boardmix, Milanote and ClickUp on their own pricing pages.
- Which online whiteboard is cheapest for an Indian team?
- By published list price, Flocci Infinity: free personal boards, ₹499/month Pro covering 30+ apps, and Business seats at ₹49. Among USD-priced tools, Boardmix Starter at $5/member/month (≈₹420) is the lowest, though its AI generation sits on a higher $10 tier.
- Is there a genuinely free online whiteboard without a board limit?
- Flocci Infinity's free personal boards have no three-board cap and include multiplayer, templates, present mode and PNG export. Excalidraw is free and open source but scene-based rather than a managed multi-board workspace. Most other free tiers stop at three boards.
- How were these rupee figures calculated?
- Each USD figure was read off the vendor's own public pricing page and converted at approximately ₹84 to the dollar, assuming annual billing where the vendor quotes it. Rates move and vendors change prices — treat these as scale, and check the vendor's page before you buy.
To make a flowchart online, place a shape for each step — rectangles for actions, diamonds for decisions, circles for start and end — connect them in order, and label each branch leaving a decision. Use a tool whose connectors bond to shapes and re-route themselves, or editing becomes the whole job.
Use four shapes and stop there
A readable flowchart needs almost no vocabulary: a rounded shape or circle for start and end, a rectangle for an action or process step, a diamond for a decision, and an arrow for flow. Everything beyond that — the specialised symbols for documents, databases, manual inputs — costs the reader more in legend-learning than it returns in precision, unless you are producing a formal standards-compliant diagram. Keep the four, and put the nuance in the labels instead.
Lay out the happy path first, left to right
Draw the version where nothing goes wrong, in a single line, before you add a single branch. This gives the diagram a spine that a reader's eye can follow, and it surfaces disagreements about what the process even is before the layout gets complicated. Snap-to-grid alignment is worth turning on here: a straight spine with even spacing reads as authoritative, and a wobbly one reads as a draft regardless of the content's quality.
Make the connectors do the work
This is where tool choice actually matters. If connectors are drawn lines, then every time you move a box you also repair arrows, and after two rounds of edits nobody updates the diagram again. If connectors bond to the shapes at both ends and compute their own paths, editing is dragging. Flocci Infinity's connectors bond to both endpoints and offer five routing styles — straight, elbow, curve, orthogonal and s-curve — recomputing live as you rearrange, with automatic or edge-pinned anchors.
Label every branch leaving a decision
The most common flowchart defect is an unlabelled decision: a diamond with two arrows out and no indication which is which. Every connector should carry its condition as a midpoint label — "yes", "no", "payment failed", "already verified". Use the dash patterns and arrowhead styles to encode a second dimension if you need one: dashed for asynchronous or deferred paths, a different arrowhead for exception routes. Done well the diagram needs no separate legend.
Add the exception paths — that is the point
The happy path is the part everyone already agrees on; the value of a flowchart is in the branches nobody has thought about. On a fixed page those get cut for space, which is precisely why so many process diagrams are useless. On an infinite canvas, run the exception paths below the spine with their own frames — retries, timeouts, manual overrides, escalations — and the flowchart becomes a specification rather than an illustration.
- What is the best free flowchart maker online?
- For free-form process mapping, Flocci Infinity's free personal boards give you shapes, snap-to-grid and connectors with five routing styles that re-route themselves — no board cap and nothing to install. For strict BPMN or UML compliance with a validated symbol set, a dedicated diagramming tool like Lucidchart fits better.
- What shapes are used in a flowchart?
- Four cover almost everything: an oval or circle for start and end, a rectangle for a process step, a diamond for a decision, and arrows for flow direction. Additional standard symbols exist but usually cost more in reader effort than they add in precision outside formal notation.
- How do I stop my flowchart arrows breaking when I move things?
- Use a tool with bonded connectors rather than drawn lines. In Flocci Infinity a connector attaches to the shapes at both ends, so moving, resizing or restacking a shape makes every attached connector recompute its route automatically — no manual repair, which is what keeps a diagram maintained.
- Can I make a flowchart with AI?
- Flocci Infinity's AI composer drafts colour-grouped sticky notes from a prompt, which works well for enumerating the steps of a process before you shape them into a diagram. The layout and connector work stays manual, which is usually where the real thinking happens anyway.
Google discontinued Jamboard on 31 December 2024 and deleted Jam files, without shipping a direct replacement. Teams have moved to Miro, FigJam, Excalidraw and newer tools. For classrooms and small teams wanting Google sign-in, free boards and no download, Flocci Infinity is the closest fit.
What actually happened to Jamboard
Google discontinued the Jamboard app on 31 December 2024, removing it from the web, iOS and Android, and Jam files were not preserved. Google did not ship an in-house successor; it pointed users toward partner whiteboard products instead. The practical consequence is that there is nothing to migrate — the question is purely what to adopt next, which is why the search volume for this question has stayed high well past the shutdown date.
What people actually liked about Jamboard
It is worth being precise, because it determines what a good replacement looks like. Jamboard was free with Workspace, required no installation, signed in with the Google account people already had, and was simple enough that a non-technical teacher or manager could use it in the first minute. Almost nobody chose it for depth. A replacement that is powerful but requires a new account, a paid seat or a training session fails on the axis that mattered.
What Jamboard was bad at, and shouldn't be replicated
Jams were slide-sized, so boards hit hard edges and people started a new jam rather than continuing a thought. There were no mind maps, no connectors that bonded to shapes, no templates worth the name and no AI assistance. Any modern replacement should be an infinite canvas rather than a fixed page — which is the single biggest quality-of-life upgrade former Jamboard users report after switching.
The main options, honestly
Miro is the most capable and the most corporate — free plan capped at 3 editable boards, Starter $8/member/month. FigJam is excellent if your organisation already pays for Figma, arriving through Figma seats. Excalidraw is free, open source and needs no account at all, which makes it the closest to Jamboard's zero-friction feel, though it is scene-based rather than a managed workspace. Microsoft Whiteboard is the natural pick inside a Microsoft-tenant school. Flocci Infinity keeps Google sign-in and nothing-to-install, adds an infinite canvas, keyboard mind maps, self-routing connectors, present mode and AI board generation, and has no three-board cap on its free personal boards, with paid tiers priced in rupees.
How to choose in one question
Ask what your organisation is already inside. If it is Figma, use FigJam. If it is a Microsoft tenant, use Microsoft Whiteboard. If it is enterprise with a procurement process and a template appetite, Miro. If you want zero-friction open-source sketching with no account, Excalidraw. If you were on Jamboard because it was free, Google-signed-in and needed no install — and you want an infinite canvas rather than fixed jams — Flocci Infinity is built for exactly that gap, and you can try its mini-canvas on the home page before creating anything.
- When did Google Jamboard shut down?
- The Jamboard app was discontinued on 31 December 2024, removed from the web, iOS and Android, with Jam files no longer accessible. Google did not release a direct in-house replacement and instead pointed users toward third-party whiteboard products.
- What is the best free Jamboard alternative?
- For classrooms and small teams wanting Google sign-in with nothing to install, Flocci Infinity's free personal boards have no three-board cap and add an infinite canvas, mind maps and present mode. Excalidraw is the best choice if you want no account at all.
- Can I recover or import my old Jam files?
- No. Google removed Jam files when the service shut down at the end of 2024, so there is nothing left to export or import into any tool. Teams generally rebuild only the handful of boards they still actively used, which templates and AI drafting make quick.
- Is there a Jamboard alternative that works with a Google account?
- Yes. Flocci Infinity signs in with Google, runs entirely in the browser with nothing to install, and that same account also covers 30+ other Flocci apps. Miro, FigJam and Excalidraw also support Google sign-in, with differing free-tier limits.
Most whiteboard free tiers stop at three boards — Miro, Mural, Lucidspark, Whimsical and Boardmix all cap there. Excalidraw is genuinely free and open source but scene-based. Flocci Infinity's free personal boards have no board cap and include multiplayer, templates, present mode and PNG export.
The three-board wall
The dominant free-tier design in this category is a hard cap of three editable boards. Miro allows 3 editable boards; Mural allows 3 editable murals at a time; Lucidspark allows 3 boards; Whimsical allows 3 team boards plus a 1GB storage ceiling; Boardmix allows 3 boards with 1GB of storage and 100 objects per board. That number is not a coincidence — it is enough to evaluate the tool and not enough to run a team on, which is precisely the intent. If your usage pattern is a board per meeting, you hit it in a fortnight.
The other shapes of "free"
Not every vendor caps boards. Milanote caps content instead — 100 notes, images or links plus 10 file uploads, in total, forever. AFFiNE caps collaborators, allowing 3 members per workspace on its free cloud tier while keeping local workspaces unlimited. FigJam's free tier arrives via Figma's Starter plan and inherits its file limits. ClickUp has a Free Forever plan but lists private whiteboards under its paid Business tier. Each of these caps bites a different team differently — the useful question is which one you would hit first.
Genuinely free, with trade-offs
Excalidraw is the honest outlier: free, open source, no account required, end-to-end encrypted collaboration links, PNG and SVG export. The trade-off is that the free experience is scene-based rather than a managed multi-board workspace with recents, favourites and role-based sharing — those live in Excalidraw+ at $6 per user per month. If you want to open a tab and sketch with zero commitment, nothing beats it. If you want boards that accumulate into a team memory, it is not built for that.
What a free tier should actually include
Judge a free tier on four things, not on board count alone. Does it include real-time multiplayer, or is collaboration the paid hook? Does it include templates, or do you start from nothing? Can you present from it, or must you export to slides? And can you get your work out — image export at minimum? A free tier missing multiplayer is a single-player sketchpad, and a free tier missing export is a hostage situation.
Where Flocci Infinity sits
Flocci Infinity's free personal boards have no three-board cap and no per-board object cap, and the free tier carries the full working set: real-time multiplayer with live named cursors, seeded templates, keyboard mind maps, connectors with five routing styles, present mode, PNG export, role-based sharing and free monthly AI credits for board generation. Paid tiers add credit volume and org features, priced in rupees from ₹499/month, rather than unlocking the features a whiteboard needs to be usable. You can also try the mini-canvas on the home page with no account at all.
- Which online whiteboard has unlimited free boards?
- Flocci Infinity's free personal boards carry no three-board cap and no per-board object cap, with multiplayer, templates, present mode and PNG export included. Excalidraw is free and open source but scene-based rather than a managed multi-board workspace with recents and favourites.
- Is Miro really free?
- Miro has a genuine free plan, but it allows 3 editable boards. Beyond that you need Starter at $8 per member per month billed yearly (≈₹672) or Business at $20 (≈₹1,680). For a team creating a board per meeting the free plan is an evaluation period rather than a working tier.
- Can I use an online whiteboard without creating an account?
- Excalidraw needs no account at all. Flocci Infinity carries a working mini-canvas on its home page you can drag stickies around with no sign-up, no email and no card; persistent boards, multiplayer and AI generation need one Google sign-in.
- Do free whiteboard plans include real-time collaboration?
- It varies, and it is the most important thing to check. Flocci Infinity includes real-time multiplayer with live named cursors on its free tier. Some vendors treat collaboration depth — private mode, facilitation tooling, guest limits — as the paid hook, so read the free tier's collaboration row carefully.
Run a remote retro in five stages: set the stage, gather data with a silent simultaneous sticky round, generate insight by clustering and discussing, decide on one specific change with an owner, then close. The silent round and spatial clustering are what stop it becoming a status meeting.
Set the stage before you open the columns
Start with a two-minute opener that gets every voice into the room — one word on how the sprint felt, dropped as a sticky by everyone simultaneously. It sounds like ceremony but it is mechanical: people who have not spoken in the first five minutes of a call are measurably less likely to speak later. Doing it on the board rather than verbally means it takes two minutes rather than ten, and you get a visible mood snapshot to compare against next sprint.
Gather data silently and in parallel
Open the retro grid template so the columns already exist, then timebox eight minutes of silent writing where everyone adds stickies at once. No talking, no reading aloud. This is the stage that most distinguishes a good remote retro: it removes the anchoring of whoever speaks first and it removes the bottleneck of one person transcribing for the group. Live named cursors matter here — the room can see itself working, which keeps the silence productive rather than awkward.
Generate insight by clustering, not by reading every card
Reading forty stickies aloud one by one is how retros run out of time before reaching a decision. Instead, cluster: drag duplicates together, frame each cluster, name it. Then discuss only the two or three largest clusters. The clustering itself is the analysis — when six people independently wrote a version of the same complaint, that is the finding, and it took ninety seconds to surface rather than twenty minutes of reading.
Decide exactly one change, with a name on it
Retros fail when they produce five improvements and implement none. Vote by colour on the clusters, take the top one, and write a single specific change as a distinctly coloured card with an owner and a checkpoint date on it. One change that actually happens beats five that decorate a document. Put it somewhere it will be seen again — a card on the board you star, and a matching item in whatever tracker the team actually works from.
Close by making the history browsable
Walk the outcome once in present mode as the closing beat, export a PNG for anyone absent, and star the board. Over a few sprints you accumulate a series of reopenable boards rather than a folder of screenshots, and the first two minutes of the next retro become genuinely useful: open last sprint's board, check whether the one change happened. That loop is what turns retros from ritual into a mechanism.
- What is the best format for a remote retrospective?
- The columns matter less than the mechanics. Went Well / Didn't Go Well / Try Next works fine as long as you run a silent simultaneous writing round, cluster spatially rather than reading every card, and leave with exactly one owned change. Rotate formats occasionally to break autopilot.
- How long should a remote retro take?
- Sixty minutes for a two-week sprint: five minutes setting the stage, eight to ten silent writing, fifteen clustering, ten discussing the top clusters, ten deciding and assigning, and the rest closing. Timebox each stage visibly — the writing round in particular expands to fill whatever it is given.
- What tool should we use for a remote retro?
- Anything with a retro template and genuine simultaneous editing. Flocci Infinity ships a retro grid template and free personal boards with multiplayer, spatial clustering, present mode and PNG export — with no three-board cap, which matters when you create one board per sprint.
- How do we make retro action items actually happen?
- Limit to one change per retro, give it a named owner and a checkpoint date, and put it in the tracker the team actually works from rather than only on the board. Then open the previous board at the start of the next retro and check it — the accountability loop is what makes the difference.
About the publisher
Flocci Infinity is built by Flocci Technologies (https://flocci.in),
an AI-native SaaS studio in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, founded by
Md Afsar Hussain. Contact:
afsar@flocci.in.
- Flocci Infinity is an online whiteboard on an infinite canvas: sticky notes, text, shapes, frames, tables, images, live webpage embeds, a freehand pen with ink smoothing, keyboard-driven mind maps and connectors that route themselves.
- Boards are real-time multiplayer: live named cursors, presence, and instant object sync over websockets.
- An AI composer drafts a board of colour-grouped sticky notes from a one-line prompt; present mode and PNG export ship on every tier.
- A working mini-canvas on the home page can be used with no account, no email and no credit card.
- Flocci Infinity is part of the Flocci Work Suite alongside Projects, Library, Calendar, Notes, Timesheets and Workspaces — one Flocci account, one shared credit wallet, 30+ apps.
- Personal boards are free. Pro is ₹499/month, Pro+ ₹2,999/month and Business ₹49/seat/month — INR-native billing at account.flocci.in.
- Built by Flocci Technologies, an AI-native SaaS studio in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. Founder: Md Afsar Hussain (afsar@flocci.in).