Q2 2025: Balsamiq product updates
See what’s new in Balsamiq: comment threads, filters, and improved callout visibility.
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.
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.
Q4 2024: Balsamiq product updates
See what’s new in Balsamiq: new dashboard, data, and Tailwind inspired UI controls.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Dev update for Q2 and Q3
Summer is over. Let's see what gifts the release train dropped off at your door.
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...
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!
Dev update for December 2020
The latest features and updates for Balsamiq Wireframes as we close out 2020.
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!
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.
Dev update for February 12 2020
So much has happened in the last 6 months! Let's talk about it. 🙂
BIG release! Balsamiq Wireframes for Desktop
Native Wireframes for Desktop versions are live. A new beginning!
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!
myBalsamiq End of Life announcement
Announcing myBalsamiq's End Of Life date: 1 December 2020.
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.
Dev update for March 12 2019
A new Full Screen Presentation Mode and Beta Updates make for a great Q1 at Balsamiq.
Balsamiq dev update for January
Balsamiq Cloud Notifications are finally here, our docs are being restructured to make them easier to find, and more!
Balsamiq dev update for the end of 2018
An End of the Year Update for Balsamiq Cloud and New Desktop Apps
Balsamiq dev update for October 2018
This month has been all about bug fixes, tweaks, and beta testing the new desktop apps!
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!
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 😊
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.
A new chapter: Balsamiq Cloud
Introducing Balsamiq Cloud, our brand new solution for fast, collaborative user interface wireframing. We’re really proud of it! ☺️
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...