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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Jamboard (discontinued)

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Jamboard was a collaborative whiteboard, available as an add-on to Google Workspaces, that has been discontinued, and is no longer supported.N/A

    Whimsical

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AWhimsical is a visual workspace application from the company of the same name in Denver, allowing users to create collaborative wireframes, mindmaps, flowcharts, and sticky notes.

    $12

    per month per editor

    Pricing
    Google Jamboard (discontinued)Whimsical
    Editions & Modules
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    Pro
    $12
    per month per editor
    Business
    $18
    per month per editor
    Enterprise
    $240
    per year per editor
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Jamboard (discontinued)Whimsical
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—17% discount for annual billing on Pro and Business plans.
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    Community Pulse
    Google Jamboard (discontinued)Whimsical
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    Discontinued Products
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    Whimsical
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    29%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    Google Jamboard (discontinued)Whimsical
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    Whimsical
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    Score9.4 out of 10
    FigJam
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Whimsical
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Jamboard (discontinued)Whimsical
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.3
    (7 ratings)
    9.5
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.7
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Jamboard (discontinued)Whimsical
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Google Jamboard is ideal for live, synchronous sessions to support collaboration and engagement. It can be used for the entire class, small group, or independent work. Create a Jamboard for a simple student knowledge check, or annotation exercise, or sorting activity. Insert a Google document, spreadsheet, or presentation, and have students annotate the file. There are many types of active learning activities you can do with a Google Jamboard!
    Incentivized
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    Whimsical
    It's extremely well-suited for rapid wire-framing of concepts, as product teams can quickly collaborate on any idea and create a visual blueprint of it. Whimsical could provide more intuitive feature prioritization templates. The current templates lack the necessary detail and could be further enhanced from a UI/UX standpoint.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Colorful and engaging designs and layout
    • Freeform format
    • Real-time collaboration without lagging or download wait-time
    • Can be used for many different purposes-- business, education, personal, etc.
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    Whimsical
    • Simple to use
    • Tons of uses
    • Can be customized with themeing
    • Can organize all your boards pretty much however you want
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    Cons
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    • Jamboard includes nice set of function that allows to do basic and not so basic things
    • I am not really sure if there is a need to add any more functions
    • I am pretty happy with the set available
    • of course it may not work well on iOS but I guess it is kind of obvious
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    Whimsical
    • Kind of want to see some of the functionality of other similar apps like Miro but the app is great at what it does
    • Folder structure takes a little time to get used to
    • Nitpicking here but not a big fan of the default font
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    It's a tool that's easily accessible from your Google Suite. For a whiteboarding workspace, it provides a good basic platform. Multiple whiteboards can be created in one workspace, so you can share a session with multiple teams/plants. Compared to more advanced whiteboarding tools, it has limited features. You'll need to have access to the Internet to take full advantage of the collaborative workspace. The amount of storage space required for your session will use up your Google Drive quota.
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    Whimsical
    It's fairly intuitive, I rarely have any problems using the app. The layout is pretty user-friendly and easy to adapt to. There's a lot of tooltips to help with the various features and functions, so it's very easy to get self-help for the most part. Overally, I'm pretty happy and satisfied with the usage of Whimsical for mind-mapping.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Whimsical
    I reached out to support, as I was interested in possibly investing in the organization, and they quickly and happily informed me they are a bootstrap organization and do not take on investors at this time. The swift response and information readily available for my consumption was extremely helpful and shows how solid the team behind it is.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Miro is more user friendly, and interactive as compared to Google Jamboard. Advantages of using jamboard would be that since it's a part of the Google suite, individuals are more comfortable using the tool and tracking changes/updates. Both can be used for collaboration, and brainstorming. Miro holds more features, since we can add emojis, stickers, media content etc.
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    Whimsical
    Whimsical is so much easier and has a better interface, so I think it's more suited to our workflow if compared to other tools like Google Charts. I really love this tool and I'm looking to learn and use it even more, as it helps us optimize our time, planning, and delivering more efficiently.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Faculty love having an active learning tool that's easy to use in synchronous sessions.
    • Not as well known as other Google apps like Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
    • Can be used synchronously (for live engagement) or asynchronously (for self-paced learning).
    • Easy to miss in the Google Suite or forget it's available to use.
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    Whimsical
    • We've been using free version, so it's a no brainer.
    • As it helps us focus on the information organization process, we don't lose time redoing work due to the lack of planning before doing design or code.
    • We can collaborate on the same project, so it's easier to get things done as we're working from home as well.
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