Twiddla

Twiddla is another digital whiteboard jam packed with collaboration features that you might find both interesting and useful. We have covered a collaboration tool called Dabbleboard before and really got great responses from our readers. If you liked Dabbleboard, then you might enjoy this even more.


So what makes it interesting? It’s a digital whiteboard where you can collaborate with co-workers and business partners online. What make it so special are not its drawing tools. Although the drawing tools are more feature packed than DabbleBoard, I still find Dabbleboard’s drawing features easier to use and more powerful than Twiddla’s.


Twiddla’s drawing tools features the usual shapes, freehand drawing, eraser, and text placement. The changeable pen sizes make it more versatile in making different line sizes. These tools are very common to digital whiteboards. What makes Twiddla stand out is the ability of the web app to add media on the whiteboard itself. You can easily add documents, email address and images. My favorite part of Twiddla is that you can also add Widgets, Codes and Mathematical formulas. There is also a chat feature which allows text and voice communication among the users.

Non-private collaborations can be done instantly without signing up. You can easily invite other users to your session by entering their emails on the invite form. They will then be redirected to your created Twiddla session.

Twiddla will only ask you to register if you decide to make your session done privately. Invited users will be asked for the password that you created for the session. This is another great feature for online collaboration as most collaborations are done in a secured manner, especially sensitive company discussions. The tools are very useful and the added text and voice chat makes it even more handy. There is no need to add each other's IM's of you are using different services which takes away the time spent on registering of a new IM account. This also takes away the platform conflicts of IM's being used in different operating systems.

Twiddla and Dabbleboard are two great free collaboration tools with different features. I personally like Dabbleboard for its simplicity and user-friendliness but you can’t deny that Twiddla’s versatile features make it more useful for all types of users. Its ability to insert widgets and codes are very useful for code writers. The document and image insertions will be of great use to everybody.

They call Twiddla a web-based meeting playground. It’s a pretty useful playground if you ask me.

Which of the two do you like better? Share your thoughts. We’d love to hear them.

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