Online Brainstorming Tool

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The brainstorming tool of your dreams

Boost visual collaboration, creativity, and alignment with Lucidspark.

Ideation and brainstorming

Uncover your best ideas with our brainstorm software. Utilize freehand drawing to enhance creativity and engage with other collaborators. Import customizable templates for inspiration and add sticky notes with your bright ideas. Whether you’re working by yourself or with your team, Lucidspark makes brainstorming effortless.

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Collaborative AI

Revolutionize your brainstorming sessions with Lucid’s Collaborative AI. Generate ideas that spark creativity, sort your thoughts, and summarize ideas to keep projects moving forward.

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Visual Activities

Gain valuable insights from your brainstorming board with Visual Activities. Easily vote on ideas, prioritize projects, and get a pulse on how your team is doing. From there, view and share feedback as a group to decide on the best path forward.

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Easily import documents

Import content from other online brainstorming tools directly into Lucidspark and pick up where you left off. You can also import PDFs, PNGs, and CSVs.

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Universal canvas

Seamlessly switch between our two products while staying on the same canvas. Build a diagram in Lucidchart, then host a virtual brainstorm to gather feedback in Lucidspark.

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Lucidspark feature highlights

Facilitator Tools

Keep your brainstorming session and your team on track with features like take the lead and timer.

Dynamic Tables

Organize ideas to derive meaning and insights, plan work visually, and take action more quickly.

Embedded links

Embed your Lucidspark boards in external documents (and vice versa) to consolidate project info.

Comment, chat, react

Make it easy for the whole team to collaborate and communicate about ideas surfaced on your whiteboard.

Breakout boards

Create breakout boards to divide a large group into smaller groups for activities or discussions.

Visual Activities

Empower informed decision-making with interactive activities that make feedback actionable.

Timelines

Create Timelines to show past events or future plans. Add details such as status, assignee, or estimate.

Lucidspark feature highlights

Keep your brainstorming session and your team on track with features like take the lead and timer.

Brainstorming templates

AI feature brainstorm

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Reverse brainstorming

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Brainstorming

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Getting started in Lucidspark

Follow along with this video tutorial and learn how to kick-start creativity in Lucidspark.

Why teams choose Lucidspark

As a virtual whiteboarding application, Lucidspark’s infinite canvas enables teams to move seamlessly from ideation to planning and building.

Team collaborating with a Lucidchart Flowchart

Collaboration. Bring teams together side by side on a shared canvas from anywhere in the world.

Alignment. Build transparency and shared understanding of how a team or company works.

Large-scale change. Increase visibility, standardization, and knowledge sharing across your entire org.

End-to-end workflows. Upgrade to the Lucid Suite for a complete, connected visual collaboration solution.

Maximize the value of your strategic planning

Our strategic planning tool helps you map out every step to achieving your business goals. Identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to build a winning strategy that’s tailored to your needs. Lucidspark offers customizable templates to enhance your team’s planning efforts and promote collaboration throughout the process. Our strategic planning tool is designed to grow with your company and is always accessible and updated in real time.

Frequently asked questions about our strategic planning tool

I work on a PC, but I'm trying to collaborate with someone on a Mac. Will I need to download my board to share it?

No download needed—anyone on a Mac, PC, or Linux can access, edit, and collaborate in Lucidspark in real time.

Can I add a table from Google Sheets or an Excel workbook to my Lucidspark board?

Yes, you can add a table from an external source by selecting and copying the desired cells and pasting them onto your Lucidspark board. After the table is added to the board, you can resize it, add tags, comment on it, lock it, or link to an external website.

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Are there any video capabilities within Lucidspark?

Within Lucidspark, you can record and embed videos using Loom. Simply select the camera icon in the top-right corner of the canvas and click Loom. From there, choose your video recording settings, record your video, and add it to your board to give additional context to your canvas.

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Can I share my Lucidspark board with someone outside of my team?

Yes! Lucidspark lets you share with unlimited collaborators, including stakeholders and non-Lucidspark users.

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How do I add GIFs, emojis, and icons to the board?

Lucidspark integrates with third-party apps. GIFs are powered by GIPHY, images are from Bing image search, and icons are from Iconfinder.

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How much does Lucidspark cost?

Lucidspark offers a variety of pricing plans to meet individual and team needs. We offer individual free accounts all the way up to enterprise accounts for large organizations.

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Lucidspark additional resources

Lucid Training Labs

Learn visual collaboration skills in free, self-serve courses and live training workshops.

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Lucid Community

Connect with other users to share tips and insights. Provide feedback to Lucid’s product team.

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Help center

Find detailed articles with step-by-step instructions for using specific Lucid features.

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Lucidspark tutorials

Go to the Lucidspark tutorials playlist on YouTube for video training on various topics.

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Collaborate with AI

Get an overview of Lucidspark’s AI functionality and find additional resources.

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Lucid blog

Explore tips for optimizing collaboration, aligning teams, and driving initiatives in Lucidspark.

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Lucidspark pricing

Create a free account and compare options for paid Individual, Team, or Enterprise plans.

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Frequently asked questions about using brainstorming tools

Can I import files into Lucidspark?

Yes, you can import existing files from Miro, Mural, and FigJam. You can also import images, videos, GIFs, and CSV files.

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Can I add and customize shapes in Lucidspark?

Yes, you can upload images and GIFs from your computer and add them to your Lucidspark board. You can also customize built-in shapes by changing the shape styling, or moving, resizing, and rotating shapes.

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Can I add links to objects in a Lucidspark board?

Yes, you can add external links to webpages, GIFs, videos, or images anywhere on your Lucidspark canvas, including within shapes and sticky notes.

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How secure are my documents in Lucidspark?

Your Lucidspark documents are very secure. Lucid claims no ownership over any document data. You retain all intellectual property and other rights to your documents and the information they contain. We respect your privacy and will never make your documents publicly available without permission.

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Can I use Facilitator Tools during brainstorming sessions?

Yes, you can use Facilitator Tools to keep everyone on the same page during real-time sessions. Use the laser pointer to draw attention to specific content on your board and broadcast to send an announcement. Use the take the lead feature when you want participants to automatically start following you on the board.

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All the online brainstorming tools you need

In addition to our brainstorming tools and templates, Lucidspark offers support and training resources to help you ideate, plan, and build with your team.

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