Infinite canvas, super simple, lightning fast, near zero learning curve. Powerful enough. No arbitrary lock in to the apple ecosystem. Free. Open source.
“Let’s do collaboration”, says the company locking people who dare not be in its ecosystem out. Gross, IMO.
I recently had to make some sketches of schematics. On iPad I tried excalidraw, ms whiteboard, notes, notability, and sketchbook: drawing the same thing on each. To my surprise, notes actually worked the best for me with the snapping editing and exporting. Notability was also very good, but I tried that only after finishing in notes.
Excalidraw works with Apple Pencil which is great but doesn’t have snapping and straightening of lines.
I just tried to use it, as the limitations of Freeform bother me, and Jamboard has frustrating privacy implications.
Unfortunately, palm rejection on Excalidraw isn’t great - each time I rest my hand on the screen to start drawing with the pencil, random lines get drawn on the screen.
Shame, as the potential is high. Will bookmark for future in the hopes it improves. Thanks!
Handwriting support in Concepts doesn't feel as good as Notes or Procreate so I imagine it'll be better in Freeform.