Excalidraw and tldraw
Excalidraw and tldraw files open as the drawing itself, not their JSON.
Drawings from Excalidraw and tldraw open as the drawing: shapes, arrows, lines, freehand strokes and text, in their own colours. Anyone can look at it without an account or the app.
| App | File |
|---|---|
| Excalidraw | .excalidraw or .excalidraw.json |
| tldraw | .tldr |
jalco-drop architecture.excalidraw
jalco-drop flow.tldr
A few things to know:
- Images pasted into a drawing show when they’re stored in the file. Linked images show as a grey box.
- A tldraw file with several pages shows its first page.
- A drawing with more than 5,000 elements opens as highlighted JSON.
The raw file is at /<slug>/<file name>, so whoever you send it to can download it and open it in the app to edit.