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Whimsical

Design — The visual workspace for teams
Designest. 2018
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 48.3 · 2/4
48.3
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
40
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
10
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 40 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
40 probes · Jun 11, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 40 probesavg response 537 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
whimsical.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
#39,453
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Whimsical's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 48.3 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 10 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Lucidchartdesigncurated25.00.0→ redirected
Figmadesigncurated40.4-1.6● live
Realtime Boarddesignsimilar100%49.80.0● live
Framer Effectsdesignsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Visme Flowchart Makerdesignsimilar91%40.00.0● live
Frontify Workspacedesignsimilar91%8.70.0— unverified
smartmockupsdesignsimilar91%8.00.0— unverified
Mural.lydesignsimilar91%18.10.0→ redirected

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives2
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:11Z200whimsical.comcloudflare228alive
2026-08-26 09:42Z200whimsical.comcloudflare158alive
2026-08-19 14:03Z200whimsical.comcloudflare1113alive
2026-08-11 00:38Z200whimsical.comcloudflare348alive
2026-08-08 06:31Z200whimsical.comcloudflare236alive
2026-08-05 18:51Z200whimsical.comcloudflare1303alive
2026-07-30 18:05Z200whimsical.comcloudflare307alive
2026-07-23 09:26Z200whimsical.comcloudflare292alive
2026-07-22 09:29Z200whimsical.comcloudflare316alive
2026-07-21 09:31Z200whimsical.comcloudflare416alive
2026-07-20 09:58Z200whimsical.comcloudflare661alive
2026-07-19 09:09Z200whimsical.comcloudflare696alive
2026-07-18 08:50Z200whimsical.comcloudflare451alive
2026-07-17 09:12Z200whimsical.comcloudflare995alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Whimsical · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/whimsical · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.