Whimsical

Whimsical is a full-featured workspace for product teams that's designed to help teams collaborate and communicate better as they work on a product. It's a collection of tools to help teams get on the same page, generate ideas and organize them visually.

Among Whimsical's features are:

• Docs: A way to create a single source of truth for a project, with the ability to format text, add graphics and link related project information.
• Flowcharts: A tool to create user flows and process diagrams with predictive shapes and an unlimited canvas.
• Wireframes: A low-fidelity wireframe tool with drag-and-drop components.
• Mind Maps: A tool to brainstorm and organize ideas with a simple hierarchical structure and rich text formatting.
• Whimsical AI: The ability to automatically create flowcharts and mind maps in seconds, a good way to get a jump-start on brainstorming or to summarize website content.

Whimsical is designed to let teams work in an iterative process, tackling product problems in one workspace. The service has features like contextual toolbars, presentation-ready exports and live updates across channels. It's designed for direct communication with discussion threads, annotations and reactions.

Whimsical offers several pricing tiers for teams of different sizes:

• Starter: Free, good for solo problem solvers, with unlimited personal files, unlimited shared docs, 3 team boards and 100 AI actions.
• Pro: $10/month per editor (annual billing), good for teams working together, with unlimited shared files, 2000 AI actions per editor/month and premium support.
• Org: $20/month per editor (annual billing), good for teams with more security needs, including SAML SSO, user provisioning, new workspace blocking and custom agreements.

Whimsical is designed to help customers comply with GDPR and CCPA requirements and is SOC II Type 2 compliant. The company also offers a blog, careers page, customer showcase, product announcements and help center. Customers can contact Whimsical for support, and non-profits and students can apply for discounts.

In short, Whimsical is a flexible tool for product teams that want to work more efficiently, collaborate better and create visualizations of complex ideas more quickly.

Published on June 14, 2024