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Freehand by InVision

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What is Freehand by InVision?

Freehand, from InVision headquartered in New York, is an online whiteboard that enables teams to plan, brainstorm, and draw together. It aims to give everyone a simple way to visually represent ideas with charts, diagrams, and drawings. Whether for mind…

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InVision Freehand has proven to be a valuable tool for various use cases, as reported by users, reviewers, and customers. Its low learning …
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Pricing

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Freehand Free

$0

Cloud
per year per user

Freehand Pro

$4

Cloud
per month per user

Freehand Enterprise

Custom Quote

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://freehandapp.com/pricing/

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $4 per month per user
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Product Details

What is Freehand by InVision?

Freehand by InVision is a visual collaboration platform built for organizations. With pre-built templates, organized spaces tor project management, and interactive widgets and reactions. Freehand centralizes the entire workflow so to ensure alignment at every stage of the collaborative process. Teams can work together both in real-time or asynchronously no matter what timezone they're in with, according to the vendor, no learning curve. Freehand is available with flat-rate enterprise pricing options, to alleviate the strain of admin seat license management.

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Freehand by InVision Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Freehand, from InVision headquartered in New York, is an online whiteboard that enables teams to plan, brainstorm, and draw together. It aims to give everyone a simple way to visually represent ideas with charts, diagrams, and drawings. Whether for mind mapping, creating a customer journey map, or drafting up an org chart, Freehand can help teams make ideas and plans visual.

Freehand by InVision starts at $4.

Miro, Mural, and Figma are common alternatives for Freehand by InVision.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Freehand by InVision are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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InVision Freehand has proven to be a valuable tool for various use cases, as reported by users, reviewers, and customers. Its low learning curve and real-time collaboration capabilities make it ideal for running UX workshops and collaborating with different teams. The software serves as a hub for UI/UX designers, developers, project and product managers, and key stakeholders to access visual design assets and details. It bridges the collaboration gap for remote teams, providing a space to add to the pool of meaning and align stakeholders. Additionally, InVision Freehand is frequently used in the early brainstorming and prototype phases to quickly collaborate and share ideas with the team. It facilitates clear communication of requirements between clients and the development team, reducing the scope for misunderstanding. Moreover, it serves as a centralized place for collecting and archiving documents and assets, collecting product requirements, and delivering annotated design specs. With its virtual whiteboard feature, InVision Freehand is valuable for remote brainstorming sessions and documenting business problems. Users appreciate the wireframe elements provided by InVision Freehand for customizing and building products efficiently. The software has been praised for its regular updates and enhanced functionality that brings value to designers' work. Overall, InVision Freehand is widely used across disciplines for collaboration, ideation activities, wireframing, project planning, design critiques, and much more.

Users commonly recommend using InVision Freehand for collaborative creative projects and suggest utilizing it alongside other InVision products for a smoother experience. InVision Freehand is praised for facilitating brainstorming, real-time idea sharing, desktop and mobile responsive design, team collaboration, conversations and critiques of work, and post wireframes and screen mockups. Users also highlight its usefulness in sharing work between teams, creating specs with easy-to-attach comments, promoting teamwork, enhancing contact with consumers, collecting feedback and suggestions, improving the workflow of design teams, and working with collaborators.

Additionally, InVision is highly regarded as a great tool for collaboration and communication with customers. It is useful for UI/UX developers to test designs and maintain a consistent aesthetic for their brand. Users also find it valuable for project management and collaboration with stakeholders. InVision is recommended for designers working on website redesign projects, collaborating with external creative agencies, and individuals in the web and mobile design fields. Users advise exploring the trial period to assess if InVision aligns well with the team's needs and encourage team members to provide design feedback directly in the tool.

Craft by InVision is suggested as a companion tool for faster prototyping and importing graphic assets. However, users caution that understanding the pricing structure and permissions for different features is important when using InVision. They also remind others to archive screenshots locally, as projects need to be deleted to start new ones.

Invision Freehand is recommended for various purposes from design workflow to high fidelity prototypes, allowing collaboration between members and improving team designs.

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Reviews

(1-25 of 102)
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January 27, 2023

Good for Small Projects and Collaboration, but the Tool Bar is a Bit Lacking

Verified User
Analyst in Product Management
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
InVision Freehand works really well for collaboration which is why our company started using it as we sometimes have multiple Business Analysts working on one wireframe at a time. It works well for wireframes and what we want the product to have.
January 23, 2023

Good tool for team collaborations!

RJ
Riya Jawandhiya
Product Design/Development Engineer
Branch (Marketing & Advertising, 501-1000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In the brainstorming sessions when many people dive into a call, we earlier used to lose context because the conversation would divert, so in such cases it works excellently. Also, when we revisit to any project after a while to see what we did and why and when, InVision Freehand helps in giving the context and the boards too.
December 08, 2022

Research needs more colors for sticky notes.

Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Our team uses Invision Freehand for planning out individual products - with user flows, journey maps, screen flows, brainstorming, and planning. These are created by designers and often shared with non-design team members. The boards are also used for research affinity mapping and reflection. Finally, we also use them for team social meetings for our book club, jeopardy, and other team games or activities.
December 07, 2022

Scratching many itches—some areas better than others

Bumhan YU | TrustRadius Reviewer
Bumhan YU
Sr/Lead Product Designer
DoubleVerify (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Good: Gathering feedback and continuing discussion on design artifacts. Providing design annotations and specs along with design deliverables. Collaborate in realtime and brainstorm freehand Putting together quick wireframes or other sketches Less appropriate: Collecting a variety of types of data content, documents, and files (probably better suited for Google Apps, Notion, Dropbox) Directly accessing design specs from Figma and its prototypes (probably better done natively in Figma, or via other spec tools like Zeplin)
December 02, 2022

InVision Freehand is the Best Way to Collaborate

Art Stiefel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Art Stiefel
Adjunct Professor - Digital Media & Advertising
Temple University (Education Management, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Without a doubt, InVision Freehand sets the table for excellent live workshopping that plays an important role in business today. This becomes even more of a necessity as a tool in today's remote - non-in-person business environment. This approach to getting work done today is no longer a nice-to-have, it's an absolute must! The access to working across remote team member groups and using InVision Freehand helps us feel secure in setting up meetings. We know that we will have a much more positive working session with the collaborative workspace that InVision Freehand gives us. We haven't found any instances that Freehand wouldn't be a positive component to a productive workshop, brainstorming or even just capturing thoughts from meeting discussions. Freehand is a pretty flexible platform for us to work in. What it comes down to for us is that with Freehand we don't have to think at all about the platform we're using. We just use it intuitively and instinctively. As it should be.
December 01, 2022

My Favorite White Board Tool in a Fully Remote Environment!

Nicolette (Nic) Nieves | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nicolette (Nic) Nieves
UX/UI Designer
Onlife Health® (Design, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I've been using InVision Freehand for close to 4 years. I've used it when designing for responsive sites and native apps and it has helped, especially with the large variety of complex enterprise projects I've worked on. So far, it has been great for collaborating and sharing with the team during brainstorming, user flow diagram, and wireframing sessions in the early planning stages. In the research stage, it has also helped with creating and sharing affinity maps, feedback grids, and being able to color code when multiple team members are working together to document possible solutions has also been great! Overall, I definitely appreciate how much they've stood out on top of making improvements to simplify the whiteboarding and even automate some parts of the process. One feature I appreciate most is the ability to use templates so more time-consuming parts (like commonly used icons) are readily available. I didn't give a full 10 because, for me, the scrolling is something I have to get used to each time I use it since it's opposite from how I regularly scroll. It would also be great to have more color and opacity options, but it's definitely not a deal-breaker.
November 30, 2022

Great tool for designers!

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited scenarios: Brainstorming Mapping out workflows Presentations Sharing ideas Icebreaker activities Less appropriate scenarios: Design handoff Managing documents w/ large amounts of text
November 29, 2022

Freehand makes a PMs life easier!

Verified User
Employee in Product Management
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
InVision Freehand is really well suited for lo-fi mocks and wireframes. It's so helpful to be able to get an initial rendering of a product to give developers a general idea of the product they are going to build, as well as share the concept with stakeholders. InVision Freehand is not well suited for situations where you need a very detailed mock-up, with fonts, padding, spacing, etc.
November 28, 2022

InVision Freehand Review

LN
Leila Nasser
Designer
AFS (Design, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We use this tool to collaborate on virtual calls. It's nice to have a visual format for brainstorming sessions. I enjoy having another means of interacting and engaging with colleagues. That being said, at times it can be visually overwhelming if you're collaborating with a bunch of people in real-time since you see each person's mouse movements. It can feel a little overwhelming, in that sense.
November 23, 2022

InVision Freehand makes collaborating with UX a lot easier for us!

Verified User
Professional in Product Management
Farming Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's perfect for when I want to quickly see what designs UX has come up with and then it allows me to easily provide feedback. They can then respond to that feedback or quickly replace the UX. This sort of back-and-forth makes collaborating really easy. It's not as good at making prototypes that can go on a mobile phone without a lot of hassle.
November 16, 2022

InVision Freehand is a great tool for collaboration

JS
Jacqueline Schillinger
Senior product designer
Vendr (Information Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are trying to do something low fidelity or collaborate with the team on something, it works great. If you need more high-fidelity designs or a more structured collaboration environment, it might not be the best tool for you.
November 11, 2022

Connectivity, Collaboration and New Design Paradigms

Verified User
Vice-President in Other
Broadcast Media Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
InVision Freehand has quickly evolved to be a very robust solution for our pre-design process and collaboration with stakeholders and other product teams. It has brought a lot more hands-on workshopping opportunities and created engaging spaces for cross functional teams. Internally to our design org we are able to prototype ideas faster and generate insights or changes BEFORE going into more hi-fidelity design tools or processes.
November 08, 2022

Like a magic whiteboard that nobody can accidentally erase

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Design Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As a UI designer, it's great for sharing user flows with many screens, showing multiple options, and notating feedback right on the screens themselves. It's also good for collecting inspiration and ideas in a flexible format. Most of all, it allows my team to work in one file and have a single source of truth.
November 07, 2022

A good option for large teams

Irene Morant Estellés | TrustRadius Reviewer
Irene Morant Estellés
Digital Designer
Tag (Design, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
InVision freehand is a very good option for companies that have large teams working from different locations, thanks to this tool we can all be connected and keep up to date with any updates in the designs. However, I think InVision freehand sometimes falls short and does not let us upload some heavier designs.
November 04, 2022

Helps remote work tremendously

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Retail Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I use Invision to collaborate with remote teams and it has been fantastic as a communication tool! Easy collaboration amongst remote teams, as well as a great presentation resource. I love the comments feature on the design prototypes. This allows for much more efficient feedback loops when you can comment directly on the prototype and keeps conversation streams clear. I have also began using the moodboards on the platform which has been fantastic for project kickoffs. Less appropriate would be for product design because you can't organize 30 flows
November 04, 2022

Freehand versus Miro

Verified User
Manager in Product Management
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 201-500 employees
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Freehand has been well suited for creating process maps and getting stakeholder feedback. It has also been good for brainstorming and "freehand" board creation.
Some of the templates are hard to customize for specific needs so it's sometimes better to build your own from scratch.
There are a lot of navigational issues with larger boards that require zooming in/out and navigating to different sections.
November 02, 2022

It's the virtual whiteboard that works better than the real life in-person whiteboard!

Verified User
Manager in Product Management
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great when sketching or discussing topics at a high level and wanting to have something to look at or speak to. It's also very helpful when trying to assimilate and categorize feedback from research or focus groups. I like putting tidbits of info into boxes that we can then sort and organize thematically and identify where our biggest opportunities may be. We tried using it a bit as a road mapping/project management tool, and don't feel it was well suited for that.
November 01, 2022

I have been a Freehand user for a while

Verified User
Consultant in Marketing
Design Company, 1-10 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend InVision Freehand, 9 out of 10! The reason for this 9 score, is that I have been using it for quite some time now and found that there are some slight competitive advantages between freehand and its competitors. Freehand's competitors, such as Figma, MIRO, and Mural, all have different features that are slightly different. Each software does a few things better than the others, but there's not one that does everything super well.
October 27, 2022

Welcome to the collaboration party!

Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services
Design Company, 11-50 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Freehand is best suited for: Remote teams Working fast and dirty, Incorporating notes and flows with design mockups Freehand is not great for Complex illustrations (looking at you, sitemaps) High Fidelity comps where the details matter, Scenarios where you need archival data. Things change a lot and can get deleted easily.
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