# Draft.io Reviews
**Vendor:** Draft  
**Category:** [Collaborative Whiteboard Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/collaborative-whiteboard)  
**Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 12
## About Draft.io
Draft.io is a flexible workspace for collaboration and visual management.



## Draft.io Pros & Cons
**What users dislike:**

- Users experience **technical issues** with Draft.io, including non-functional controls on MacOS using Chrome. (1 reviews)

## Draft.io Reviews
  ### 1. Tool very handy for workshops, very visual, and connected to Jira

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Olivier C. | Chief Information Security Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2023

**What do you like best about Draft.io?**

Easiness to add text boxes and format them
Connectivity with Jira
Possibility to show progress bars

**What do you dislike about Draft.io?**

A few  controls not working on the objects, while using Chrome on MacOS  (like 'Send to back' or 'copy to clipboard').

**What problems is Draft.io solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It is a very convenient tool when you need to facilitate workshops.
It is also convenient in daily scrum meetings, to show the Sprint progress and identify Boost actions.

  ### 2. Multipurpose and easy to use

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Mathieu C. | CEO Cofounder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2023

**What do you like best about Draft.io?**

An application that is suitable for both internal project management and external consultancy assignments.
An application that's easy to use and quick to handle.

**What do you dislike about Draft.io?**

Shapes and fonts availables could be developed  further.

**What problems is Draft.io solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Collaborative project management that could be designed in our own process and organisation.
An effective tool for videoconferencing workshop sessions with clients : It's easy to get them involved and to give them their precise vision of the project concerned.

  ### 3. Excellent agile experience.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Gowen P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2023

**What do you like best about Draft.io?**

Very good collaborative tool, that every people can use quite easily, and very powerfull including templates and examples. It's nice using Draft.io for all agile event and for liberating structures too.

**What do you dislike about Draft.io?**

May be the very first entry to the tool may be enhanced but in fact it's a matter of few minutes to take the tools good in hand.

**What problems is Draft.io solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Everyone can be connected on a board without creating any account ! it's very nice. And so the collective intelligence is very likely to emerged. Business performance increased as we create user stories, story mapping, and a lot of agile experiment using the tool.

  ### 4. Easy to use at anytime

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Arnaud D. | Coach Agile (principalement sur le Cadre Scrum), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2023

**What do you like best about Draft.io?**

Digital board very easy to use for single or multiusers. The tool is simple and provide the essential for many activities.
Somecompetitors provide to complex solution that need lot of time to onboard at the beginning of the activities

**What do you dislike about Draft.io?**

May be features missing to manage huge boards :
 may be provide an anchor system to help for navigation in the board. Simple to set and easy to understant for users.

May be also a system to hide and show some parts of the board it can help to make the current  activity clearer.

**What problems is Draft.io solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Visual work, collaborative activities, ...

  ### 5. Best solution for storymaps synchronized with Jira

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Nadia C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2023

**What do you like best about Draft.io?**

The Jira integration
The collaborative features

**What do you dislike about Draft.io?**

Not as attractive as Miro at first sight

**What problems is Draft.io solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I had problem to build storymaps synchronized with Jira, with the appropriate personalization. I tried many solutions and this one is definitively the best one. 
I also needed a simple collaborative whiteboard to facilitate workshops, the new features are simple and very usefull (brainstorm meeting, poker planning, prioritization meetings...)

  ### 6. Never without my draft!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sandra H. | Director of CX Lab and Transformation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2023

**What do you like best about Draft.io?**

Draft.io is now our daily tool, it is a collaborative tool, hyper intuitive, easy to use and which allows to share ideas, concepts and plans without needing to train for hours.

**What do you dislike about Draft.io?**

Nothing I don't like, but I would like to have access to more ready-to-use templates to structure. Nothing I don't like, but I would like to have access to more ready-to-use templates to structure.

**What problems is Draft.io solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Any real problem for the moment

  ### 7. Very Usefull

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Turibio Z. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2023

**What do you like best about Draft.io?**

Draft.io is very usefull for my workshop. It helps me to collaborate with my team members and create a lot of value.

**What do you dislike about Draft.io?**

For new joiners, it can be a little bit diffcult to take in hands.

**What problems is Draft.io solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Collaboration support for distributed teams

  ### 8. Use for facilitating workshops and creating team synchronization boards.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Stéphane T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2023

**What do you like best about Draft.io?**

The simplicity of getting started. The use of the card object. The ease of inserting objects (image, link ...).

**What do you dislike about Draft.io?**

It is sometimes difficult to click on objects and edit them. There are sometimes display bugs in multi-user mode. The workflow on the cards is not customizable.

**What problems is Draft.io solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It allows me to conduct workshops with people remotely by making the participants active in the workshop. It allows me to make the participants' interactions tangible.

  ### 9. an essential tool for professional use

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Emmanuel L. | Ingénieur Software Craftsmanship, Agile (Kanban, Scrum), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2023

**What do you like best about Draft.io?**

ease of use
easy deployment
almost immediate user acceptance
editor training

**What do you dislike about Draft.io?**

some instabilities, quite rare but still surely existing due to the light client side, so browsers of all versions

**What problems is Draft.io solving and how is that benefiting you?**

the animation of remote workshops with several users

  ### 10. I use draft.io as a second brain. Very easy to use, save my time instead of create a powerpoint.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2023

**What do you like best about Draft.io?**

Easy to use. Collaborative tools. Save my time.

**What do you dislike about Draft.io?**

Black color. Cards could be improved in order to have a best quick view of what information are inside. Zoom is not always easy to use. May be more templates available could help.

**What problems is Draft.io solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Save my time. Easy to communicate information through draft. Collaborative tools.

  ### 11. PO

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tatiana S. | Product Owner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2023

**What do you like best about Draft.io?**

I like very much the link with JIRA software

**What do you dislike about Draft.io?**

lack of functionalities exemple : format)

**What problems is Draft.io solving and how is that benefiting you?**

publish my roadmap for my business partner

  ### 12. Draft.io helps us on a daily basis for the organization of the Engineering team.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2023

**What do you like best about Draft.io?**

The fact it brings a very fluid interface to create a manage sprint or release mappings.

**What do you dislike about Draft.io?**

Pretty much nothing. The tool meets my requirements.

**What problems is Draft.io solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It helps us organize meetings and also the development team activity. It is precious to manage and follow teams' sprints with something more visual than Jira.



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## Draft.io Features
**Communication**
- Status Updates
- Instant Messaging
- Activity Feed
- Notifications
- Comments and Voting
- Discussions
- User Directory
- Online Status of Coworkers

**Design Tools**
- Drawing
- Marker Colors
- Mind Mapping
- Templates
- Drag-and-Drop

**Content Management**
- File Sharing
- Document Collaboration
- Version Control
- Tagging
- Knowledge Base
- Surveys

**Communication Tools**
- Voting
- Commenting

**Productivity Tools**
- Task Management
- Calendar
- Search
- Mobile
- Multi-Language Support

**Integrations**
- CMS Integrations
- Sharing

**Administration**
- Moderation
- User, Role, and Access Management
- Performance and Reliability

**Software Offering**
- In-Browser
- Desktop App
- Mobile App

**Agentic AI - Collaborative Whiteboard**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning

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