Collaboard

Collaboard makes collaboration really easy for remote teams. It has useful features like sticky notes, mind maps, and ready-to-use templates, which help organize ideas quickly. Our team particularly appreciates the real-time updates, as everyone can immediately see changes. Implementation in a self-hosted env don't take long, and customer support respond promptly. It's genuinely made teamwork smoother and more productive.

Collaboard frequently updates and introduces new features, which sometimes requires some time to adapt. While continuous improvements are appreciated, there are some users who prefer stable and unchanging interfaces.

Collaboard solves the challenge of coordinating effectively across remote or distributed teams. It eliminates confusion by providing a central, visual workspace where everyone can contribute ideas, track changes, and stay aligned in real-time. This significantly reduces miscommunications and enhances productivity, making it easy to collaborate on projects from start to finish, no matter where team members are located.

As the CTO working for a small organization (around 75 employees) in the healthcare research space, I have long been looking for an adequate and secure online whiteboard solution that can be deployed on an appliance. With Collaboard, I found the right player within the market that allows me to leverage the data security advantages of Collaboard (a Swiss-based company) with an easy way to install it in my environment.

So far I definitely can't find anything that I didn't like.

Our teams are using Colloaboard in their innovation workshops.

Great pricing compared to Miro or Mural and paired with its 100% GDPR compliance, an excellent and easy-to-use online whiteboard. Collaboard has a very good customer support and offers a phone support as well as personal trainings which can be very helpful if you have to onboard larger teams.

Their template library was still minimal when I started using Collaboard 1.5 years ago. Nevertheless, they did a great job and expanded their library with many valuable templates.

Collaboard helps us in our daily work to be more efficient. To collaborate time-independent on one board allows the different team members to add content 24/7 without the presence of the other team members.

Collaboard offers an on-premises solution - so it can be run on a virtual machine in your own infrastructure (below 200 users) or on Kubernetes supporting various infrastructures like OpenShift, Rancher, IBM Cloud, etc. (for a large group of users). This makes it very attractive for me, as I'm working in a global healthcare provider's research and development department where data sensitivity is key. In addition to that, Collaboard is very easy to use and new joiners on the board will get used to it immediately.

So far I'm very happy with this solution and I'm still learning to become more efficient in handling the board. With having little practice at the beginning it took me some time to switch quickly within the different selection options at the navigation bar on the left.

We mainly use Collaboard during our clinical trials where we work closely together with various stakeholders (internal & external) in the design thinking process.

Collaboard has a nice and user friendly interface. It is 100% compliant with GDPR and from a price perspective very attractive compared to its competitors. I can Collaboard highly recommend.

The export feature for QuickLinks as PDF is not available yet. But according to their published roadmap on their website (https://www.collaboard.app/roadmap) it should be available very soon.

I mainly use Collaboard for workshops, brainstorming, design thinking and creative sessions. With the help of Collaboard our remote teams can work very efficient at any time.

Good virtual whiteboard What I like most: - Unlimited guests, live chat and zoom integration - Simple to use - Icons/shapes - I love the possibilities to Draw, Add forms, Write Text - Helpful collaboration features like timer and voting - Good system with virtual post-it notes - I can import on the board almost anything (Video, Audio, Image, URL, Embed Youtube, or Documents)

What I would like to see improved: - UI and UX should be improved to be more human-centered - Better preview abilities for images found via the "web search" tab before inserting them into the board - The zooming experience on the macOS Trackpad is not smooth. It's kind of too sensitive. - Templates can't be imported on board like in Miro - No proper mouse menus

For the price, this is a no-brainer. We all need systems to keep us on the path to meet our targets and goals, and this allows us to create the plans to do this with the added benefits of a whiteboard, kanban, brainstorm, and so much more.

I've used it for: - Team brainstorming & ideation - Client-facing virtual calls - A virtual whiteboard during the recording of an online course - Storyboarding - Team sticky notes

One thing I have noted and loved about Collaboard is its ability to work well with other products to make the user feel comfortable using its features and interface and this has been made possible by the way it allows me to extract all my data from Microsoft excel document into the board. I have seen that the upside of this integration comes from how convenient I can use excel to input data and use Collaboard for presentation and demonstrations which makes my workflow much simpler. Another feature that I have come rely on can be found in how much Collaboard has managed to promote collaboration whereby I can see mouse pointers of my other team members with their names on my board and in this way we can focus and contribute almost physically on the same board which is an added advantage. I also like that Collaboard has allowed me to edit uploaded documents by extracting pages and saving them as single pages on the board which is very helpful whenever I want to focus on a certain scope and not on the rest of the document pages.

The touch sensitivity of the board when I am using touch and drop feature is not smooth and reliable since it lags at times and objects might drop in the process of moving them.

I recommend anyone considering Collaboard that choosing this product would improve and help their workflow to be much smoother and less time consuming.

I do a lot of video referencing during my board presentations and I had been facing challenges when I am uploading videos because of different file sizes, formats among other reasons but Collaboard has managed to solve this issue with its integration with Youtube whereby I can just easily drag and drop a video for reference purposes which makes my workflow much simpler.

I like that it gives me quick access to YouTube and using this feature I have released that it makes it very easy to create references and it is a very easy way to get people to understand better. It works on all my devices hence it has no compatibility issues I can remotely make presentations for my team. Zoom calls can be initiated from within the application which is very convenient since in my organisation Zoom is our default way of communication.

The subscription for me seem a bit pricy.

I would recommend anyone considering this product to set aside a healthy budget for the product suscriptions.

Collaboard is very simple to get used to and also easy to use which has helped a lot to save us as an organisation from training expenses. Remote collaboration has been an issue in my organisation because of compatibility issues and very difficult to use interfaces from different products but Collaboard has managed to help us very much because it has no compatibility issues and it can handle remote collaborations perfectly.

Templates are great to start with. And I like this concept. As it’s a browser-based tool, so we can work from anywhere where the Internet is available. Mind mapping is really awesome. The drawing experience is awesome.

I don't like the light greenish color as sometimes it's hard to find out right tool as it's not clearly visible. I have found sometimes, it takes time to load. Otherwise, I am looking for more integrations.

As I am working remotely and we have team members in different countries. so for the ultimate brainstorming and making any decision faster, this tool helps us a lot.