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Excalidraw

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Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.

54Ecosystem scoreWeak

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Excalidraw Overview & Summary

Rank #80 · 59/100

Excalidraw ranks 80th overall in the SaaS category with a composite score of 59 out of 100. The organization describes itself as Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them, which frames how developers first encounter the brand on GitHub, in package registries and in search results.

Its developer reach and documentation and learning material come across as strong, and are what most developers will notice first when they land on the organization. By contrast, its developer experience and shipping velocity look minimal today, which is the clearest area where a small amount of focused work would visibly move the needle. Taken together, the picture is of a company whose public developer surface is neither uniformly polished nor uniformly weak, and where different audiences (contributors, integrators, evaluators) will likely form very different first impressions depending on which door they walk through.

Excalidraw maintains 25 public repositories on GitHub, built primarily in TypeScript, JavaScript and HTML, which together have collected 139,618 stars and drawn contributions from 229 developers outside the core team, 3 of those repositories have seen commits in the last 90 days, a useful proxy for how much of the codebase is genuinely alive rather than archived.

For anyone evaluating Excalidraw as a technology choice, weighing a contribution, integrating the APIs, or comparing it against similar companies in the space, the sections below break down each of these signals in detail and link straight through to the underlying repositories, documentation and community threads that inform the score.

At a glance

Public repos
25
Total stars
139,618
Active (90d)
3
Outside contributors
229
Foundation
What the company ships
52Weak
Traction
How the ecosystem responds
56Mixed
Foundation
Traction

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