Product updates

Q2 2025: Balsamiq product updates

See what’s new in Balsamiq: comment threads, filters, and improved callout visibility.

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

The future of Balsamiq for Desktop

The future of Balsamiq is Cloud! Sales of our legacy product, Balsamiq for Desktop will stop on December 31, 2026. Learn what that means for you.

Arielle Johncox
By Arielle Johncox

Q1 2025: Balsamiq product updates

See what’s new in Balsamiq: a 5-project plan, UI facelift, and templates designed to help you wireframe faster.

Arielle Johncox
By Arielle Johncox

Q4 2024: Balsamiq product updates

See what’s new in Balsamiq: new dashboard, data, and Tailwind inspired UI controls.

Arielle Johncox
By Arielle Johncox

Q3 2024: Balsamiq product updates

See what’s new in Balsamiq: the Sketch wireframe style, simplified symbol editing, and more—all built for early-stage product work.

Arielle Johncox
By Arielle Johncox

July 2024 release: New pricing plans and workflow updates

What’s new in Balsamiq: we updated the onboarding by adding user segmentation questions, redesigned the project navigation, and added new pricing and plans.

Arielle Johncox
By Arielle Johncox

Dev update for Summer 2023

Summer brings a redesigned Balsamiq Wireframes Editor and a couple nice new features! Join Brendan as he walks you through all of it.

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Dev update for October 2022

Font Awesome 6, Project Properties, and when to remove a feature. All that in this month's Dev Update Blogpost

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Dev update for July 2022

Find and Replace, Exporting, Text, and Icons - you will want to be sitting down for this because it's a big one.

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Dev update for Q2 and Q3

Summer is over. Let's see what gifts the release train dropped off at your door.

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Dev update for Q1 2021

With one quarter in the books, we look about what's coming in the immediate future, and what's a little further down the track...

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

New integration: Balsamiq Power-Up for Trello!

Balsamiq now integrates with Trello! Link your wireframes to Trello cards with just a few clicks, and collaborate without friction!

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Dev update for December 2020

The latest features and updates for Balsamiq Wireframes as we close out 2020.

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Balsamiq Wireframes for Desktop 4.1 - Future proofing

Balsamiq Wireframes 4.1 is ready to go. Find out about auto-updates, font changes, and spell check in our release post. We squashed 300+ bugs, and we're not slowing down!

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Balsamiq dev update for June 19 2020

Image Links and Balsamiq Wireframes on Linux are just the start of the waterfall of features coming this year.

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Dev update for February 12 2020

So much has happened in the last 6 months! Let's talk about it. 🙂

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

BIG release! Balsamiq Wireframes for Desktop

Native Wireframes for Desktop versions are live. A new beginning!

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Coming soon: Balsamiq Wireframes for Desktop

Wireframes for Desktop is SO CLOSE to being release-quality. Come try it out, and help us get over the finish line!

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

myBalsamiq End of Life announcement

Announcing myBalsamiq's End Of Life date: 1 December 2020.

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Dev update for May 21 2019

We've implemented some of the biggest customer requests in Balsamiq Cloud this month, with the new desktop apps right around the corner.

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Dev update for March 12 2019

A new Full Screen Presentation Mode and Beta Updates make for a great Q1 at Balsamiq.

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Balsamiq dev update for January

Balsamiq Cloud Notifications are finally here, our docs are being restructured to make them easier to find, and more!

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Balsamiq dev update for the end of 2018

An End of the Year Update for Balsamiq Cloud and New Desktop Apps

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Balsamiq dev update for October 2018

This month has been all about bug fixes, tweaks, and beta testing the new desktop apps!

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Balsamiq dev update for September 2018

This month in Balsamiq-land: we released Dropbox backups for Balsamiq Cloud, we continued to work on our Desktop clients, and we went to Atlassian Summit!

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Balsamiq dev update for August 2018

We released one of our most requested features: Project History for Balsamiq Cloud! And fixed a super old annoying bug in Balsamiq Mockups 3 for Desktop 😊

Brendan Saricks
By Brendan Saricks

Balsamiq dev update for July 2018

We are starting a new tradition at Balsamiq; monthly release notes. This month, July 2018, most of the work was behind the scenes.

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

A new chapter: Balsamiq Cloud

Introducing Balsamiq Cloud, our brand new solution for fast, collaborative user interface wireframing. We’re really proud of it! ☺️

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Coming soon: Balsamiq Wireframes

Balsamiq Wireframes is our next generation low-fidelity, collaborative wireframing editor. It's better in every way, and about to be released.

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Mockups 3.5! Improved material design support, iPhone 7, macOS Sierra compatibility, and more!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! Another month, another exciting release! Improved Material Design Support! We have added some controls and properties to make it easier to create designs inspired by Material Design. A new g...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Mockups 3.4!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! Today's release is bigger than our usual ones, so we're switching the version number from 3.3 to 3.4 for it. Let's see what's new and improved: (Optional) Manual Save One of the most daring...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

In case you missed it: New hidden powers in Balsamiq Mockups 3

Finally getting to work on features that have been on the back-burner forever is a great way to rejuvenate developers and reward long-time customers. After a slow year of public releases in 2014 while we re-wrote our pr...

Leon Barnard
By Leon Barnard

Mockups 3.3, another big step forward!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! We're very excited to share today's release with you. It's a big one, so we're switching the minor number from 3.2 to 3.3 for it. Make yourself comfortable and let's dive in! 🙂 A New Way to...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Mockups 3.2: a whole new way to wireframe!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! Today we have something so exciting to share that we're switching the version number from 3.1 to 3.2 for it. Check it out! Two new control types: Block and Line of Text Our sweet spot is the...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Balsamiq Mockups 3.1! Alternates, new Google Drive plugin, background music, and much more!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! It's only been three weeks since the last release, but A LOT has happened since. In fact, this is such a big update that we're calling it 3.1! Don't worry, this is a free update for existing c...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

How we got here: the road to Balsamiq Mockups 3

The release of Balsamiq Mockups 3 was the biggest release in our history since the original product launch in 2008. For this release we took a leap of faith and went nearly an entire year without releasing any real prod...

Leon Barnard
By Leon Barnard

Balsamiq Mockups 3!

Hello friends of Balsamiq! 🙂 Today is a big day for us: after almost a year of heads-down work, we are releasing the biggest update in our little company's history: Balsamiq Mockups 3.

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Balsamiq Mockups 3 public beta!

Hello? Is anyone still reading this? After being quiet for 10 months, we can understand if you thought we had sent our developers on a long vacation somewhere... 😉 Well, we didn't. In fact, we have been working really...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Open source at Balsamiq

At Balsamiq, we're big fans of open-source software. We open source parts of our code and tools on GitHub, in case you want to take a look.

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Balsamiq 2.2 is here!

It is with great excitement and pride that I present to you our biggest release yet: Balsamiq Mockups 2.2! The new release sports an updated look and feel, and a new 'wireframe' skin for you to use in your mockups, and l...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Meet Balsamiq Sans font

Read about the adventure of creating a new font, and meet Balsamiq Sans! Available for free for everyone on Google Fonts. Created by Michael Angeles.

Mike Angeles
By Mike Angeles

Mockups 2.1!

Hello friends, we hope you're having a great summer! Today's release marks the end of an era for us, as we introduce our very own font. It's a big enough change that we feel it warrants a new minor version update: 1.5...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Mockups 2.0: the Symbols release

After months and months of work, we are ecstatic to finally be able to release Mockups 2.0 into the world. The main feature of Mockups 2.0 is what we pre-announced last week, the ability to reuse groups of controls as t...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Mockups 1.8: editable groups and much more

Hello friends! Wow, it's been 4 weeks since our last update, that's probably the longest we've EVER gone without releasing! I hope you'll agree it was worth the wait. This is one of our biggest updates since we started...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Biweekly release: version 1.7!

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great easter/spring break and are fully recharged for the months ahead. This is the first blog post from our new web server, so if you find any broken links or anything that doesn't...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Mockups 1.6 release: linking mockups, and more!

Lots to share, but here's the main announcement: You can now link Mockups together! Simple as that. 🙂 At the moment the feature only works in Mockups for Desktop, but with your help I plan on bringing it to the Conflu...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

New release: Balsamiq Mockups 1.5

I am extremely pleased to announce the immediate availability of Balsamiq Mockups version 1.5. This is a FREE upgrade for all Mockups versions. Download links: Mockups for Desktop, for Confluence, for JIRA and for XWik...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

New product: Mockups for Jira Personal

I know I know, it might not be the smartest thing to release a new product every day, but I'm too excited to sit on this one. The news: if you are running a free JIRA 3.13 Personal License, you can now make it even bett...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Mockups for Jira: now shipping!

I am thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Balsamiq Mockups for JIRA, the latest version of Balsamiq Mockups. You can download it, test it and if you wish, buy it for just $799. Quick and dirty Screencast...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

New release: Balsamiq Mockups 1.1

The news: Mockups version 1.1 is available as of today as a free upgrade to all customers. What to do: go get it! For your desktop and for Atlassian Confluence. Licensed users will NOT need to re-enter your license infor...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

Mockups for Desktop 1.1 alpha - Not for the faint of heart

A full 16 days after the release of Mockups 1.0, an alpha version of 1.1 is ready for testing for the braves amongst you. 🙂 Version 1.1 is scheduled to be released on July 21st, and it will be a free upgrade to custome...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

New micro-release!

I want to write a 'launch post-mortem' entry tomorrow, but for now I wanted to encourage you to go download the new release of Mockups, as there are some pretty cool enhancements and bug fixes all around: Bugs Fixed UI...

Peldi Guilizzoni
By Peldi Guilizzoni

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