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Jamboard (Legacy)

byGoogle
in Visual Collaboration Applications
4.3

Overview

Product Information on Jamboard (Legacy)

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Jamboard (Legacy)?

Jamboard is a software designed for collaborative digital whiteboarding, enabling users to create, share, and edit visual content in real time. The software supports drawing, writing, and inserting images, notes, and documents, facilitating interactive brainstorming sessions and remote collaboration. Jamboard integrates with cloud-based storage systems, allowing teams to access and modify boards from various devices. The software addresses business challenges related to distributed teamwork, communication, and idea visualization by providing a shared workspace for group projects, meetings, and presentations. Its features are tailored to enhance productivity and streamline workflows in organizational and educational environments.

Jamboard (Legacy) Pricing

Jamboard software uses a subscription-based pricing model, where organizations pay a recurring fee per device for access to its collaborative features and cloud management tools. The software typically includes options for annual billing and may require the purchase of specific hardware to operate.

Overall experience with Jamboard (Legacy)

Vertical Head
1B - 3B USD, Insurance (except health)
FAVORABLE

“Google Jamboard Offers Simple Interface But Limits Real-Time Collaboration Capacity”

4.0
Dec 26, 2025
Overall experience is good with the Google Jamboard, which is a digital whiteboard / interactive brainstorming tool.
Lead Devop Manager
50M - 250M USD, Banking
CRITICAL

“Google Jamboard's Usability Contrasted By Limited Scalability And Integration Issues”

3.0
Jan 8, 2026
My overall experience with Google Jamboard has been mixed. While it is simple to use for basic brainstorming and quick visual collaboration, it falls short for enterprise-scale and long term use. The product work well for lightweight ideation sessions, but lacks the depth reliability and governance features required in a large financial organization. Limited integration with enterprise tooling, performance issues in large board and the announced product deprecation reduce confident in adopting it as strategic collaboration platform.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Googlers is a company that creates products intended to create opportunities for an extensive audience, regardless of their location across the globe. The company values diverse perspectives, imaginations and non-conformity to predefined norms and impossibilities. The goal is to build products while incorporating uniqueness of each individual involved in this process, aiming to make their products accessible and useful to all.

Company Details

Updated 11th November 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1998
Head office location
Mountain View, CA, United States
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
www.google.com

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Jamboard (Legacy) Likes & Dislikes

Like

Simple Interface where most of our users learn quickly and that too with minimal training. Real-time collaboration with multiple team members is a likely feature.

Like

First it is very easy onboarding - minimal training required for new users. Secondly, Clean, intuitive UI that supports fast brainstorming and sketching. Last seamless access through Google Workspace with quick sharing capabilities.

Like

Super easy to use, great visual representation of data and great for collaboration.

Dislike

Requires a good Internet connection for real-time collaboration and syncing. Has a limit of 6 active users, it would be great if the active users can be increased.

Dislike

Limited advance collaboration and facilitation features. Also we notice weak enterprise governance audit and lifecycle controls. And performance degrades noticeably with large or complex boards.

Dislike

My only critique would be, compared to other Whiteboard solutions, the offering here is relatively basic and does not allow for the kind of customization and complex designs other solutions offer. That said, it is not a fit for those use cases any way and serves my needs well.

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Jamboard (Legacy) Reviews and Ratings

4.3

(115 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
45%
4 Star
43%
3 Star
12%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • Lead Devop Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Google Jamboard's Usability Contrasted By Limited Scalability And Integration Issues

    3.0
    Jan 8, 2026
    My overall experience with Google Jamboard has been mixed. While it is simple to use for basic brainstorming and quick visual collaboration, it falls short for enterprise-scale and long term use. The product work well for lightweight ideation sessions, but lacks the depth reliability and governance features required in a large financial organization. Limited integration with enterprise tooling, performance issues in large board and the announced product deprecation reduce confident in adopting it as strategic collaboration platform.
  • Vertical Head
    1B-10B USD
    Insurance (except health)
    Review Source

    Google Jamboard Offers Simple Interface But Limits Real-Time Collaboration Capacity

    4.0
    Dec 26, 2025
    Overall experience is good with the Google Jamboard, which is a digital whiteboard / interactive brainstorming tool.
  • SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Simple and Intuitive whiteboard solution for collaborative teams

    5.0
    Jan 12, 2026
    I have found Google Jamboard to be a super easy and useful tool for my organization. Where Jamboard excels is in it's powerful ecosystem with other Google products. Many other solutions offer Whiteboard capabilities, but Google's solution is the simplest i've used and allows for easy collaboration in organizations already leveraging Google Workspace.
  • Senior Product Manager
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Google Jamboard Enhances Team Collaboration But May Require Initial Training

    4.0
    Jan 12, 2026
    Google Jamboard is a good whiteboarding tool that helps teams to collaborate and create ideas in a digital manner and over calls. This if good for productivity in collaboration heavy domains like Product management
  • SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Cloud Platform with Gsuite Links Enhances Document Sharing During Team Meetings

    5.0
    Dec 10, 2025
    Cloud based collaboration with Gsuite integration. Great for collaboration during meetings and discussions, Can be used to follow up post discussions
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