Name: Zoom Whiteboard
Rating: 4.4 (171 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on Zoom Whiteboard

Updated 5th May 2026

What is Zoom Whiteboard?

Zoom Whiteboard is software designed to facilitate collaboration and visual communication during meetings and remote work sessions. The software allows users to create, share, and interact with digital whiteboards featuring drawing tools, sticky notes, shapes, text boxes, and images. It supports real-time co-editing by multiple participants and offers persistent boards that can be revisited and edited after meetings. Zoom Whiteboard integrates with video conferencing and chat capabilities, enabling seamless brainstorming, planning, and problem-solving workflows. The software addresses the need for interactive spaces where teams can capture ideas, organize information, and coordinate projects, enhancing productivity and engagement in virtual environments.

Overall experience with Zoom Whiteboard

Communications Associate

500M - 1B USD, Healthcare and Biotech

FAVORABLE

“Zoom Exceeds Expectations With Their Native Whiteboard Applet”

5.0

Mar 6, 2026

This review will be geared towards Enterprise customers, and its author (me) has been a Zoom administrator for a large company for 11 years. Zoom Whiteboards can be considered best-in-class as a collaboration tool, with feature parity that meets and sometimes exceeds standalone whiteboarding tools. I think many vendors in the Unified Communications space lazily slapped in a barebones whiteboard functionality just to be able to say on paper that they have it. But Zoom went above and beyond in ensuring that their whiteboard experience was an advanced, easy to use, feature-rich, deeply integrated toolset. For existing licensed Zoom users with access to Whiteboards, if you're not using it, you should be. And for prospective Zoom customers, Zoom Whiteboards is an excellent factor to consider when evaluating Zoom.

DIRECTOR OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

<50M USD, Healthcare and Biotech

CRITICAL

“Academic Applications Possible but Limitations Affect Real-World Meeting Scenarios”

3.0

Dec 2, 2025

Base program works well, and collaborative features abound. Whiteboard may have some more useful applications in an academic or structured meeting context, however I've not found it to be more useful than other available resources.

About Company

Company Description

Zoom is an all-in-one intelligent collaboration platform that makes connecting easier, more immersive, and more dynamic for businesses and individuals. Zoom technology puts people at the center, enabling meaningful connections, facilitating modern collaboration, and driving human innovation through solutions like Team Chat, Phone, Meetings, omnichannel cloud Contact Center, AI Companion, Whiteboard, and more, in one offering.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2011

Head office location

San Jose, United States

Number of employees

5001 - 10000

Website

https://www.zoom.com

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At its core, it is a highly accessible whiteboarding tool. I've seen even the most tech-averse users get quickly adjusted to it in large team activities. As a first party tool, it's incredibly easy to invite all meeting attendees in to collaborate on a board in-meeting, and to create and modify boards from both the Zoom app, mobile, and the web. But despite its simple surface, those who dig into it more will find an iceberg of deep features and integrations. Here are some of the most notable ones (assuming an Enterprise license). Unfortunately, I can't go into too much detail due to a character limit. -Admins can create and distribute Org-Wide Templates. There's also a wide variety of excellent templates built-in -Whiteboards work with a variety of Zoom Rooms Touch all-in-one devices (eg by DTEN/Yealink/Neat) -Supports flowcharts and mind maps, plus org-wide custom shapes -Includes frame features, with buttons to allow one to jump from frame to frame, which means you can make highly interactive experiences where collaborators can jump to different parts of the board for a variety of activities. Great for making something advanced like a C4 diagram, or creating gamified activities -Can function as a PowerPoint replacement with native presentation tools -Connects with Zoom's native Digital Signage, which runs on Zoom Rooms and standalone devices. This is huge! I have many offices set up with signage, and it was previously a serious pain to get people trained on uploading content to their monitors. But since a Whiteboard can be connected to signage now, people can live-update their signage via a board, so deployment of signage is now a cinch! -AI in whiteboards can generate entire templates from a single sentence, plus presentations, mind maps, stickies, and more!

Easy to access in meeting and display to all participants. Quick to find past whiteboards and share as needed.

Zoom Whiteboard is a highly intuitive tool that facilitates real-time visual collaboration. Its integration with Zoom allows for seamless transitions between meetings and collaborative workspaces, enhancing team dynamics, which is invaluable for training and development. Its ease of use enables rapid adoption, making ideation, planning, and decision-making processes more agile and effective. In our experience, it has improved our clients' experience and streamlined the work of trainers, boosting team dynamics.

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It could use some tweaking, just like any tool. Zoom does fortunately update it frequently, and if you look at their release notes, you'll see amazing things get implemented on a regular basis. Here are the things I'd like to see. -Expand the Presentation functionality. It's fairly simple at the moment, and it's not capable of going completely fullscreen like a PowerPoint is. It could be an excellent PPT replacement if this gets fleshed out a bit more. -Make AI generation more powerful. Its ability to create templates and presentations (the most recently added features) is currently fairly rudimentary, so that could stand to be more intelligent. It would be great if it had more contextual awareness. For instance, if I could tell it create a presentation with a theme involving blue and gray triangles and outline all images with an orange outline of 4px thickness or something like that, that would be amazing. -I wish Zoom Workflows integrated with Whiteboards. Workflows currently integrates with Docs and Tasks, which is great, but there are many things I'd like to automate with Whiteboards. Though, given the visual nature of Whiteboards compared to the text-based nature of the other two tools, it may be difficult to implement workflow automation for Whiteboards. -The native Voting functionality in Whiteboards is a bit clunky. -Zoom Docs has the ability to automatically loop GIFs. I wish Zoom Whiteboards could do that. Currently, you have to click a button to cause them to loop. Though Whiteboards does integrate with Zoom Clips, which is really awesome.

I don't really see a benefit to using Whiteboard over other collaboration tools. Only one person can edit/control at a time, so how is it different from sharing a screen and turning control over to another attendee? Just don't have a lot of use cases in my meetings and webinars.

What I like least about the service is the support, the good thing is that I have needed it very few times

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50M-1B USD

Healthcare and Biotech

Review Source

Zoom Exceeds Expectations With Their Native Whiteboard Applet

VP, Customer Service and Support

1B-10B USD

Software

A key solution to enhance visual collaboration, simple and effective in cutting-edge teams

4.0

Mar 31, 2026

The service is very stable, and the platform is constantly being updated with new features that add value to the business. The only challenge is that, on the few occasions when support has been needed, the contact channels are not effective enough for the Latin American market due to time zone differences and language barriers.

Customer Service & Support Associate

Services (non-Government)

Great app for saving time and driving for business meetings

Mar 11, 2026

i’m using the Zoom app at the time when we were operating in. It worked pretty good for the most part. The only time that it became an issue was when sometimes the audio didn’t come in but other than that, it seemed like it worked pretty well I seem to be pretty happy

Director of IT

10B+ USD

Banking

Robust whiteboarding solution continuing to get enhancements from a great product/dev team.

Mar 26, 2026

We have had a great relationship with the product team, the service team, and have also been engaged with professional services to ease any transition needs we may have. This has reduced friction and allowed our team to make decisions quickly.

ENGINEERING MANAGER

Construction

Zoom Whiteboard Enables Real-Time Project Alignment for Distributed Construction Teams

Mar 2, 2026

We use Zoom Whiteboard internally as a construction team to align on the different programs we have going on in the different regions. Because each program manager is working several locations at once, it helps us to align as a team to visually see what programs are near completion and what outstanding items there are. Whiteboard is also easy to share so we can all hop on a meeting together and work on the same whiteboard at the same time especially because our teams are global.