What is FigJam?
FigJam is an infinite digital whiteboard where teams work through ideas together before, and alongside, detailed design work. Participants add sticky notes, shapes, connectors, stamps and drawings to a shared canvas, see each other’s cursors in real time and talk through built-in audio chat. Because it shares accounts, files and plans with Figma, designers can paste frames from their design files onto a board for discussion and carry decisions back into their designs.
The tool is aimed at everyone on a product team, not only designers. Facilitators run workshops, retrospectives and planning sessions with timers, voting and spotlight mode, which brings every participant’s view to the presenter. More than 300 ready-made templates cover exercises such as brainstorms, user flow maps and org charts, and widgets pull live information from tools like Jira, Asana and GitHub onto a board.
FigJam AI, introduced in November 2023, can generate boards, diagrams and meeting templates from a text prompt, sort sticky notes into themes and summarize the results of a brainstorm. At its Config conference in June 2026, Figma announced plans to extend its AI agent, first built for the design canvas, to FigJam and Figma Slides. FigJam competes with dedicated whiteboard products such as Miro, Mural and Lucidspark.
Key features of FigJam
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Sticky notes, shapes and connectors
Core whiteboard tools let participants jot ideas on sticky notes, sketch with pens and highlighters, and join shapes with snapping connectors to build quick flowcharts, org charts and system diagrams.
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Facilitation tools
Timers, voting sessions and spotlight mode help facilitators keep workshops on schedule and focus attention, while stamps, emotes and high fives let participants react without interrupting the discussion.
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Template library
More than 300 templates cover brainstorms, retrospectives, user flows, planning exercises and diagrams, and organizations can add their own templates for recurring team rituals.
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FigJam AI
Text prompts generate starting boards, flowcharts, timelines and meeting agendas, and one-click tools sort sticky notes by topic and turn a brainstorm into a summary of themes and action items.
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Widgets and integrations
Interactive widgets bring Jira issues, Asana tasks and GitHub items onto a board, and community-built widgets add small tools such as polls and trackers that people use during sessions.
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Audio, chat and comments
Built-in audio calls and cursor chat support live sessions without a separate meeting tool, and comments let colleagues who missed a meeting add their input later.
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Connection to Figma Design
Frames and components can be copied between Figma and FigJam, so product teams can review design work on a whiteboard and move the resulting decisions back into their design files.
Who uses FigJam?
- Product teams run brainstorms, design sprints and retrospectives on a shared board that stays available for reference after the meeting ends.
- Engineers and product managers sketch system diagrams, user flows and roadmaps before detailed design or development work begins.
- UX researchers cluster interview notes and survey feedback into themes, using AI sorting to speed up affinity mapping.
- Distributed teams hold planning meetings and workshops across time zones, using audio chat, timers and voting instead of a separate meeting tool.
History of FigJam
Figma launched FigJam on April 21, 2021, as its first product beyond the core design editor, aimed at the brainstorming and planning that happens before formal design work. At launch it offered sticky notes, shapes, connectors, stamps and cursor chat, and Figma added audio chat across its products at the same time.
Figma steadily expanded the whiteboard with widgets, a template library and integrations with project management and developer tools. In November 2023 it added FigJam AI, which generates boards and sorts and summarizes sticky notes. Under Figma’s current seat-based pricing, FigJam is included in every seat type, including the lower-cost Collab seat intended for people who mostly review and discuss work rather than design it, and Figma announced in 2026 that its AI agent would come to FigJam.
- 2021
Figma launches FigJam, its online whiteboard, on April 21.
- 2023
FigJam AI adds prompt-based board generation plus sticky note sorting and summaries.
- 2026
Figma announces plans to bring its AI agent to FigJam at Config 2026.
FigJam pricing
Pricing modelFreemium
Available on Figma’s free Starter plan and included with every paid seat type, including the lower-cost Collab seat; paid plans are billed per seat.
Prices change often. Check the official FigJam website for current plans.
FigJam alternatives
Well-known alternativesMiro, Mural, Lucidspark, Microsoft Whiteboard and Zoom Whiteboard
FigJam: frequently asked questions
Who makes FigJam?
FigJam is made by Figma, Inc., the San Francisco design software company co-founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace. Figma launched FigJam in 2021 as its second major product, and the whiteboard shares accounts, files and billing with the Figma design tool.
What is FigJam used for?
FigJam is used for collaborative whiteboarding. Teams use it to brainstorm with sticky notes, map user journeys, draw flowcharts and system diagrams, run retrospectives and workshops, and plan projects, with timers, voting, audio chat and AI tools that sort and summarize ideas.
Is FigJam free?
FigJam can be used on Figma’s free Starter plan, which suits individuals and small groups trying it out. Organizations that need shared team spaces, administration and security controls or larger AI allowances pay per seat for Professional, Organization or Enterprise plans, and FigJam is included with every seat type.
When was FigJam released?
Figma released FigJam on April 21, 2021. It launched with sticky notes, shapes, connectors, stamps and cursor chat, and Figma has since added widgets, a library of more than 300 templates and FigJam AI features, which arrived in November 2023.
Is FigJam part of Figma?
FigJam is a separate product from Figma’s design editor, but both are made by Figma, Inc. and share the same accounts, file browser and plans. Users can copy frames and components between the two, which makes it easy to move from a brainstorm on a board to detailed interface design.
Sources
- Introducing FigJam, Figma Blog figma.com
- FigJam, Figma figma.com
- Introducing AI to FigJam, Figma Blog figma.com
- Figma introduces a whiteboard tool called FigJam, TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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