---
title: Excalidraw and tldraw
description: Excalidraw and tldraw files open as the drawing itself, not their JSON.
sidebar:
  label: Excalidraw and tldraw
---

<img className="drop-video" src="/file-types/excalidraw.jpg" alt="The drawing, not its JSON" />

Drawings from [Excalidraw](https://excalidraw.com) and [tldraw](https://tldraw.com) 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` |

```bash
jalco-drop architecture.excalidraw
jalco-drop flow.tldr
```

<img className="drop-video" src="/file-types/tldraw.jpg" alt="Shapes, a bound arrow and a sticky note" />

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.