FigJam is Figma’s whiteboard, made for a team to brainstorm, sketch a flow or run a workshop right beside the design files. Filamental is a desktop app for what comes after the jam: a structure where every node is a full document and every connection is a relationship you name, kept as plain Markdown in a folder you own.
FigJam’s AI can sort a board of stickies into themes and summarise it into action items, which is a quick way to close a session. The reasoning behind each sticky, though, rarely fits on the sticky.
In Filamental every node is a full document, with headings, tables and attachments, and the line between two nodes is a type you name, such as “depends on”, “replaces” or “contradicts”, with its own colour, direction and pull. Press Dark Energy and the layout spaces each part by how connected it is, so the clusters come from what you’ve said about the work, and they’re still there to reason about next month.
Everyone who edits a FigJam board needs a Figma seat, and a guest can join an open session for a day. A Filamental space is built by the person working on it, and everyone they share it with opens a link in a browser, on a phone as readily as on a desktop, with no install, no account and no seat.
The work itself is a folder of Markdown files on your own disk, readable in any editor with Filamental closed and private on every plan. Nothing reaches our servers unless you publish a link, and a published link is encrypted on your device before it leaves.
FigJam’s AI draws on the monthly credits that come with each Figma seat.
Filamental has no AI of its own. Connect Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, VS Code or Zed over MCP and it reads and edits the open space directly, or add your own key for the provider you choose, or run a model locally through Ollama or LM Studio. Every request goes straight to your provider, on your account, and nothing passes through us.
Figma’s free Starter plan gives limited access to its products, and full FigJam comes with a paid seat for each person who edits.
Filamental’s Personal plan is free and permanent, with no account and no card, unlimited spaces and everything AI, and the people you share with never need a plan at all. The paid tier is $120 a year, or $12 a month, and covers handing work over beyond the one live link that’s free, including presenting.
For some jobs. FigJam is Figma’s online whiteboard, made for teams to brainstorm, diagram flows and run workshops together in real time. Filamental is a desktop app for the structure that has to last: every node is a full document, every connection is a relationship type you name, and the whole thing is kept as Markdown files on your own computer. Run the jam in FigJam, and keep what it decided in Filamental.
Yes, through the AI. FigJam exports sticky notes as a CSV file. Attach it to a message in Filamental’s built-in AI window and ask it to build the space, with the ideas as nodes and the relationships between them as typed connections. The result is a first draft that’s yours to arrange, and a board exported as an image or PDF can be attached the same way.
No. Only the person building the space uses the app. Everyone you share it with opens a link in a browser, on a phone as readily as on a desktop, with no installation, no account and no seat. A published link is encrypted on your device before it leaves.
Not live, the way a multiplayer whiteboard allows. A Filamental space is a folder of files, so a team shares it through a synced or shared folder, and each person sees the others’ changes as the files update.
No. Filamental has no AI of its own, so there are no credits from us. You connect the AI you already use: an MCP client such as Claude Desktop or Cursor, your own API key for the provider you choose, or a local model through Ollama or LM Studio. Requests go straight to your provider and are billed to your own account.
Attach the CSV to Filamental’s AI, ask it to build the space, then give each node the reasoning it never had room for.