Feature Requests

ClickUp already has a solid Whiteboard feature — but it's missing a major opportunity: AI-driven diagram generation. The use case is simple: I type a prompt describing what I need (a flowchart, a process map, a system architecture, an org chart…), and the AI builds the entire diagram for me — nodes, connections, layout — from A to Z. This already exists in the market. Excalidraw, for example, offers an MCP (Model Context Protocol) connector that integrates with Claude AI. You describe what you want in natural language, and it generates the full visual mapping directly on the canvas. It's fast, accurate, and a massive time saver. Imagine being able to do this natively inside ClickUp Whiteboards: "Map out a client onboarding workflow with 6 stages" "Create a decision tree for lead qualification" "Build a system architecture diagram for a CRM integration" …and getting a complete, editable diagram in seconds — right where the rest of your project lives. ClickUp is already investing heavily in AI. Adding AI generation to Whiteboards would be a natural and high-impact extension of that strategy. Would love to see this on the roadmap.

Please allow for hold right click on mouse to move the whiteboard instead of just pushing 'm' on the keyboard or 'v' every time to change between functionality. It is less clicks!

The previous version of whiteboards allowed for text that could be different sizes in the same text box as well as bold and other formatting options. This being removed from whiteboard 3.0 has made it less readable

Description Whiteboards are great for facilitation and live collaboration, but there is no built-in way to timebox activities. A simple countdown timer (and optional stopwatch) inside Whiteboards would help teams keep pace during workshops, retros, brainstorming sessions, and decision-making conversations without relying on external tools or screen sharing. User story As a facilitator using ClickUp Whiteboards, I want to start a visible countdown timer on the canvas so that participants can stay aware of time remaining and we can move through agenda items efficiently. Suggested behaviour Add a Timer tool/widget available from the Whiteboard toolbar (or Insert menu). Timer modes: Countdown (set duration, e.g., 2, 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes or custom) Optional: Stopwatch (count up) Controls: Set duration Start, pause, resume, reset Optional: add +1 min / +5 min quick buttons Visibility and collaboration: Timer is visible to all collaborators on the Whiteboard (including viewers if appropriate). Timer state is synced in real time (everyone sees the same remaining time). Clear indication of who started/controls the timer (optional “facilitator control” setting). Notifications/alerts: Optional sound and/or visual cue when time is up. Optional intermediate alerts (for example, “1 minute remaining”). Placement and presentation: Timer appears as a movable/resizable widget on the canvas. Option to pin it so it stays visible while panning/zooming (sticky overlay). Permissions: Option to allow only editors (or a chosen facilitator) to control the timer; others can view.

It would be great if we could zoom freely on whiteboards rather than in steps. Right now, Zooming is done in increments - and the increments also vary in strength - making it hard to get the exact zoom level you want. It's hard to get the contents to fit correctly for your screen size, where all elements are clearly visible and text legible. It would work a lot better if it would zoom smoothly instead of in jumps. So we could literally set any zoom percentage level. Maybe this would work best for Ctrl+mouse wheel users, and the zoom buttons can stay in increments. (They should be standardised - say every 5% zoom - as, right now, it can be any random increment). I would also suggest we could freely change the zoom number by clicking the number and changing it with a keyboard input.

I LOVE ClickUp, I have been a user since 2018 and it kills me how unusable this system is at scale for us. We care about speed, precision, personalization and scalability. Building Whiteboards from scratch will never work for us. Using a template still means we will have to do a lot of unnecessary clicking. Many apps have Mermaid support (See draw.io for one of the better representations where you can edit it after you make the initial diagram). I would love to see you guys give us the ability to paste Mermaid in as an input and it creates the diagram with the correct shapes in ClickUp and then we can move them around as we need. SOPs should be visual! I'd have your AI read the text from an SOP and then create a Mermaid representation of it. I can't afford the AI for my whole team, so I pray you support Mermaid so I can copy and paste please 🙏🏽 Having a ClickUp Whiteboard embedded in the middle of SOPs to show flow of events would turn a lot of heads. Especially because you can link to tasks and Docs in the Board as well. I was excited I saw something about JSON exports previously. The feature didn't work as expected, but I figured you guys were working out the details on that. I was stoked. Then at least I can have a large language model like ChatGPT or Claude understand your JSON format. Then I can have it make tweaks to the file, import the file back in, and paste it there, and be able to rapidly visually reflect what I want. But this is just too slow and clunky. I will import Boardmix, Miro or even Draw.io inside of ClickUp all day long because it's just so hard to have any type of streamlined workflow. It just takes too long to produce things on here if you always have to click and drag everything. No one's going to want to do that who has to do it at scale.

It would be helpful if the task due date could be pulled into the task card visible on the whiteboard.

Please post any templates that you would like to see included in the whiteboards template library!

Hello. While drawing a while, selecting objects is not possible, and zooming and panning are also disabled in the Windows desktop app. Also, the Windows desktop version is not in sync with the web version

Currently there isn't any arrowhead on whiteboards to identify a one to many relationship. I recommend just adding a "birdfoot" sort of arrowhead.