{"id":588392,"date":"2023-09-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-09-28T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T16:00:21","slug":"google-jamboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2023\/09\/28\/google-jamboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Google shutting down Jamboard, offering transition to other whiteboard apps","document_title":"Google shutting down Jamboard, offering transition to other whiteboard apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in 2016<\/a>, Google announced a 55-inch 4K touchscreen that serves as a digital whiteboard for real-time collaboration. Google Jamboard and its mobile apps are now shutting down in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Google Workspace team is aware that digital whiteboards are popular, but has decided to cede that functionality to partners \u2014 FigJam<\/a>, Lucidspark<\/a>, and Miro<\/a>, specifically \u2014 and “focus on core content collaboration across Docs, Sheets, and Slides.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes as Apple last year added a very consumer-facing Freeform<\/a> app to every iPhone, iPad, and Mac, while Microsoft just announced the 50 and 85-inch Surface Hub 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For several years, Jamboard was Google’s first-party offering, and it launched as a “collaborative, digital whiteboard built for the cloud” at $4,999<\/a>. Each document, referred to as a Jam, could be worked on from other Jamboards, the mobile<\/a> apps<\/a> (that’s a Pixel C in the cover image above), and a web client<\/a>. All work was saved to Google Drive, with support for projecting into Hangouts\/Meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n