Moving day for Balsamiq AI. Boxing day for text elements.
Balsamiq AI has a new home in the toolbar, right where it belongs. Clicking the ✨ Balsamiq AI button will open the same chat you’ve become accustom to. We also combined label, subtitle, title, and paragraph of text into one UI element, which means you don’t have to search for a specific text element any longer - just add the text element and make it whichever you want. Full notes below.
✨ Features:
- Balsamiq AI moved to the left toolbar
- Label, subtitle, title, and paragraph of text combined into a single “text” element
- The Balsamiq Support Chatbot is now in the app
⚙️ Enhancements:
- The mini-map only appears when you do not see any elements on the canvas
- Zoom all to actual size places the UI elements closer to the left and top panels
- When moving a UI element, the selection rectangle stays visible
- While adding a comment, clicking anywhere outside the comment dialog will commit the comment (as long as there is text in the comment)
- Comments filters are now accessible in the View menu
🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Zoom commands in the bottom right panel correctly target either the current wireframe or all wireframes
- Presentation mode no longer disables links when the comments panel is open
- Double clicking on one of your comments that is above a text element will edit the comment and not the text
- The comments panel scroll has been fixed
- The navigator takes emojis into account for shortening wireframe names
January Maintenance Release
This is where we make the “Bug Fixes and Enhancements” joke, but put the full changelog below. 😊 Happy Wireframing!
⚙️ Enhancements:
- Vibe Editing is now available to all Balsamiq Cloud accounts!
- Added Delete Project to the All Projects dialog
- Added the ability to dismiss the Transform menu with ESC or clicking away
- AI edits are now part of the undo stack
🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Zoom All to Actual Size now takes the state of the floating navigator panel into account for calculating the scrollbar position
- Fixed text links with varying font styles
- The Transform menu no longer gets clipped by the inspector
- Export Wireframe Notes returns to the PDF export options
- We fixed the undo stack when dealing with resizing
- Fixed dragging control selections in Safari
December Maintenance Release
What’s a better gift than “bug fixes and enhancements”?
⚙️ Enhancements:
- CMD/CTRL+SHIFT+DRAG added for containers (so you can move the encompassing container without moving the contents)
- Balsamiq AI has improved text manipulation
- Balsamiq AI can now see selected controls inside containers
- The link inspector now responds to keyboard shortcuts
🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Zoom to fit and zoom to width take the open panels into account
- Fixed a Balsamiq AI error that occurred when the model returns an incorrect icon size
- Fixed the ability to search the link inspector dropdown by pressing the first letter
A New Look for a New Year
It’s early, but we couldn’t wait to show you what Balsamiq Cloud will look like in 2026. The UI has been overhauled to provide a better experience, pulling back everything distracting, and allowing you to focus on what’s important: your wireframes. Check out the full changelog below, and please let us know what you think.
✨ Features:
- Inspector and Navigator are now floating panels on the right and left sides of the canvas
- The canvas is now grey to help with wireframe legibility (and make them “pop”)
- Floating panel on the bottom with zoom, undo/redo, trash, background music and the help menu
- Introducing Containers: place controls inside of a larger control, and them move them all by moving the larger control
⚙️ Enhancements:
- Open the All Projects window by clicking on the Balsamiq logo
- Wireframe notes moved to the Wireframe Menu
🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Inspector names are now properly shortened
- Wireframe notes are now in the wireframe menu
- Markdown characters no longer trigger inside words