Excalidraw
Excalidraw is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Utilities category, licensed MIT and written mainly in TypeScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Figma, Lucidchart and Microsoft Visio and ships a Docker image. It has 134,563 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 134,563
- Forks
- 15,840
- Open issues
- 2,152
- Commits, last 12 months
- 280
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.18.1Apr 21, 2026
- Created
- Jan 2, 2020
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 280 commits in 12 months.
- Welcomes contributors29 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 280 |
| Latest release | v0.18.1 (Apr 21, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 1 |
| Releases, all time | 15 |
| Open issues | 2,152 |
| Open pull requests | 1,267 |
| Good first issues | 26 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Jan 2, 2020 |
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About Excalidraw
Virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard for diagrams and sketches.
Description written by appsgit. Source code: github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw.
Topics
- productivity
- collaboration
- diagrams
- drawing
- whiteboard
- canvas
- hacktoberfest
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Is Excalidraw free and open source?
Yes. Excalidraw is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Excalidraw with Docker?
Yes. Excalidraw provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Excalidraw?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Excalidraw include revealjs, penpot and tldraw. Excalidraw itself is a self-hosted alternative to Figma, Lucidchart and Microsoft Visio.
Is Excalidraw actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Excalidraw was on Oct 25, 2026 with 280 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.18.1, published Apr 21, 2026. It had 2,152 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.