Apple’s Freeform aims to be a collaborative whiteboard for everyone

guest · Nov 12, 2022

By Ivan Mehta @indianidle - November 9, 2022

Apple announced its so-called Figma Whiteboard competitor called Freeform at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June. The company hasn’t rolled out the idea board app to everyone yet, but if you are using a public or developer beta, you will get to play with the app with the iOS 16.2 update, and on Mac with the macOS 13.1 update.
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While Figma is for people who might already have some design experience, Apple’s Freefrom app caters to all kinds of users who just want to dump their ideas with multiple media formats on a board. On the face of it, Freeform is just a large board with a grid that lets you put different things like text, images, videos, notes, objects, documents and more. Apple wants to provide users with an infinite board and basic tools that hardly requires onboarding. Most folks would have used some of these editing tools like Apple’s own apps like Photos and Notes.
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For the initial test, we used iPhone and iPad running beta versions of the software.

Freeform will be available for everyone when the stable releases of iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2 and macOS 13.1 are released in a few weeks.
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