Vani is Zoho's visual collaboration platform, letting teams brainstorm, plan, and execute together on a shared infinite canvas. It's an independent brand within Zoho, alongside brands like TrainerCentral and Qntrl, and competes directly with established visual collaboration tools such as Miro, Lucid, FigJam, and Mural.

The Spaces and Zones Model

Vani organises work using a two-level structure: a Space acts as the overall canvas for a project, while Zones are sub-canvases within that Space, used to segment work by contributor, function, or phase. This lets different stakeholders work in parallel without interfering with each other, while everyone still retains visibility of the bigger picture, and ideas can evolve in isolation before being brought together.

Core Capabilities

• Infinite canvas. Collaborate using text, shapes, connectors, sticky notes, images, audio, GIFs, and video, with data pulled in from your desktop, drives, spreadsheets, and more.
• Templates and kits. Ready-made resources to move a team from idea generation to execution faster.
• Live interaction. Live cursors, quick emojis, comments, and voice notes for genuinely real-time collaboration.
• Integrated video calls. Video meetings directly within a Space, so teams stay informed without switching tabs.
• AI tools. Built-in AI helps visualise ideas more efficiently, summarise discussions, and automate follow-up tasks directly from a canvas.

What Teams Use It For

Whiteboarding, brainstorming, diagramming, mind mapping, wireframing, and storyboarding, along with user research, process documentation, and task lists. Marketing teams use it to plan campaigns, product teams to document specifications, project teams to track progress, design teams to build mood boards, and sales teams to pitch and close deals more effectively.

Getting Started

Vani is generally available to all existing Zoho users and offers a free plan with unlimited user onboarding, accessible directly from vanihq.com.