Microsoft Whiteboard vs Preview

Microsoft Whiteboard

Description: Microsoft Whiteboard is a freeform digital canvas that enables collaborative brainstorming and workshopping. It lets users add sticky notes, images, text, documents, and draw using pen and ink. It supports real-time collaboration across multiple devices.

Type: software

Preview

Description: Preview is a free and open-source document viewer application for macOS. It allows quick viewing of multiple file formats including images, PDFs, Markdown files, Office documents, and more. Preview has basic editing capabilities and annotation tools for PDFs.

Type: software

Pricing: Open Source

Microsoft Whiteboard Features

• Freeform digital canvas for collaborative brainstorming and workshopping
• Add sticky notes, images, text, documents, and draw using pen and ink
• Real-time collaboration across multiple devices
• Integration with Microsoft 365 apps and services
• Whiteboard templates and templates gallery
• Ink-to-shape and ink-to-text conversion
• Ability to export whiteboards as images or PDFs

Preview Features

• View PDFs, images, text files and more
• Annotate PDFs with shapes, text boxes, signatures
• Basic image editing tools
• Fill out and sign PDF forms
• Combine PDFs and export as PDF or other formats
• Tabbed interface to view multiple files
• Quick Look support to preview files
• Built-in screen capture tool

Microsoft Whiteboard

• Not listed

Preview

• Open Source