What are the differences between Whiteboards.io (standalone) and Whiteboards for Jira/Confluence?

Whiteboards for Jira offers the deepest version of our Jira integration. When you install our app, Whiteboards gets full access to tools and permissions offered by the platform.

With the app you can:

• Attach whiteboards to Jira issues and dashboards for easier access,

• Use Issue table—an advanced tool that allows you to sync in real-time issues with Jira and automatically update different fields,

• Manage Jira Software backlog through estimation, sprint management, and backlog order,

• Limit access to the whiteboard based on project access properties from Jira. 

Our Confluence app was created with the idea in mind that Confluence often serves as the main point of truth and documentation for companies. We want to ease your workflow and decrease the effort needed to remember where that retrospective was held or where to look for planning results. 

Whiteboards for Confluence allows you to:

• Use whiteboards as a macro for Confluence pages to easily access your brainstorming or planning sessions from one place, without the need to switch between platforms, 

• Access the whiteboard with respect to the permissions set on the Confluence page where the macro is placed. This way you can make sure the right people can view and work on it,

• Create single boards that aren’t connected to any Confluence page and can be accessed from the Confluence dashboard (go to Apps> Whiteboards in the top navigation).