➡ Elbow connectors now route themselves more intelligently, with cleaner paths, better spacing, and more predictable behavior as you create, move, and reorganize your diagrams. No more twists and turns. No more cutting corners. Just getting straight to the point.

More space for your ideas, not our UI. We updated the board toolbar - it’s now slimmer and a few clicks lighter. Faster switching between wireframes and diagrams, while taking up less of your precious screen space.

Whimsical + Claude, now official. Your ideas beautifully visualized, minus the part where you draw the boxes yourself. Find us in Claude's connector directory: claude.ai/directory/co...

Nobody talks about this, but remote teams have a calibration problem. You spend years on Zoom with someone. You build trust. Then you meet at the offsite and realize they're 6'5" and you've been picturing them at 5'9" the entire time. We solved this at Whimsical with a height chart. Best idea yet?

We're not saying you should spend all day recreating a Van Gogh with flowchart shapes... But with custom colors, you can.

Our marketing lead on his favorite part of working at Whimsical: "Me Boards"

One cool use case we're seeing with our MCP and ChatGPT app: photograph a flowchart or sketch, get a Whimsical diagram back. Editable, shareable, done. Works with sticky notes too 😉

Linux friends, you've waited long enough. 🐧 The Whimsical desktop app is now available on Linux. One less reason to keep your browser open. Download it here: whimsical.com/download

You can now whiteboard in ChatGPT with Whimsical: ✨ Visualize ideas with beautiful mind maps and flowcharts ⚡️ Rapidly explore UI concepts with lofi wireframes ✏️ Tweak and edit with ease in @Whimsical app Install link below 👇

Marie Kondo your flowcharts: introducing auto-layout for diagrams that spark joy.

Our new settings page is so hot right now.

Whimsical donates 1% to Stripe Climate year-round, but from today through the 30th we’re giving 10% of upgrade revenue to make our carbon footprint a little smaller. 💚 We call it Green Friday.

🎃 We’ve been brewing up something special for Halloween - mysterious new powers known as toggles, accordions or collapsible blocks. Like a good jump scare, they keep things hidden until it’s time for the big reveal. Read more: help.whimsical.com/docs/toggles

It’s ok if you get attached to our latest file upload improvements that make it easier to view, organize, and collaborate around your files—right where the work happens. Now with: ▶️ Video player in Boards 📄 PDF previews 🛠 Admin controls ✏️ Editable file names See it in action:

You can now change a team’s visibility in Whimsical - anytime. Switch between open (visible to all workspace members) and private (invite-only) from team settings. See how it works 👇

Good news for Windows users: the Whimsical desktop app is here! 🪟 Download for Windows (or macOS) here: whimsical.com/download Everything you love about Whimsical in your browser - now in a dedicated space on your desktop. ✅ Tabs for multitasking ✅ Keyboard shortcuts ✅ Distraction-free focus

Now in Whimsical: File uploads 📎 Upload PDFs, videos, audio, and more - directly inside Whimsical. Files downloaded from Whimsical keep their original size and quality. No unwanted compression, ever.

Building something truly great means obsessing over the smallest details as much as the big ones. 🔍 Whimsical desktop app users can choose whether to show or hide the unread notification badge on the app icon. Download it here: whimsical.com/download

Excel-lent news: you can now copy tables from Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, etc. and paste as tables into Whimsical. 🪄 ✨ But wait, there’s more! Use the “Paste as” option to transform tables into sticky notes, cards, or bulleted lists.

Your new favorite tool for calm work just found its new favorite place to post. Hello, Bluesky! 💙