Overview
What is Miro?
Miro provides a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to dream, design, and build the future together. Today, Miro counts more than 60 million users in 200,000 organizations who use Miro to improve product development…
My use of Miro
Miro empowers remote teams in ideation and effective project planning
Miro Review
Miro is amazing
Miro is a MUST if you have a remote team.
Miro works to put your mind on screen and build a plan!
Works Perfectly for IT Workload Management
Miro is Miro-culous!
Visual collaboration made easy
A great solution for our global product team
Best collaboration tool
Great tool for product and user flow planning
Miro for design thinkers
21-gun salute for it's Visual Team Collaboration effectiveness.
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Pricing
1. Free - To discover what Miro can do. Always free
$0
2. Starter - Unlimited and private boards with essential features
$8
3. Business - Scales collaboration with advanced features and security
$16
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optionalOptional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $8 per month per user
Product Details
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- Integrations
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- Downloadables
- FAQs
What is Miro?
Miro provides a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to dream, design, and build the future together.
Today, Miro counts more than 60 million users in 200,000 organizations including Nike, Ikea, Deloitte, WPP, and Cisco, who use Miro to improve product development collaboration, to speed up time to market, and to make sure that new products and services deliver on customer needs.
Miro's visual workspace enables distributed teams to come together to synthesize information, develop strategy, design products and services, and manage processes all throughout the innovation lifecycle.
A Miro Board displays hundreds of collaborators moving through the space as named cursors on the screen designing, contributing ideas, providing feedback, and co-creating together with shared tools and information.
To learn more, please visit https://miro.com
Miro Features
- Supported: Drawing
- Supported: Marker Colors
- Supported: Mind Mapping
- Supported: Templates
- Supported: Drag-and-Drop
- Supported: Voting
- Supported: Commenting
- Supported: CMS Integrations
- Supported: Sharing
- Supported: In-Browser
- Supported: Desktop App
- Supported: Mobile App
- Supported: Collaborative Editing
- Supported: Task Management
- Supported: Notes and Comments
- Supported: Styles and Themes
- Supported: Image Import
- Supported: Custom Icons
- Supported: File Formats
- Supported: Cloud Storage Integration
- Supported: Mobile Application
- Supported: Desktop Availability
- Supported: Status Updates
- Supported: Instant Messaging
- Supported: Activity Feed
- Supported: Notifications
- Supported: Comments and Voting
- Supported: Discussions
- Supported: User Directory
- Supported: Online Status of Coworkers
- Supported: File Sharing
- Supported: Document Collaboration
- Supported: Version Control
- Supported: Tagging
- Supported: Knowledge Base
- Supported: Surveys
- Supported: Task Management
- Supported: Calendar
- Supported: Search
- Supported: Mobile
- Supported: Multi-Language Support
- Supported: Moderation
- Supported: User, Role, and Access Management
- Supported: Performance and Reliability
- Supported: Integrated Communications
- Supported: Native Communications
- Supported: Board Overview
- Supported: Screen Sharing
- Supported: Pre-made Templates
- Supported: Custom Templates
- Supported: Required Hardware
- Supported: Bring Your Own Device
- Supported: Permissions
- Supported: Talktrack
Miro Screenshots
Miro Videos
Miro Integrations
- Zoom Workplace
- Adobe XD
- Microsoft Teams
- Slack
- Dropbox
- Box
- Google Drive
- Zendesk Suite
- GitHub
- RingCentral Events
- BetterCloud
- monday.com
- Jira Software
- Azure DevOps Services
- Atlassian Confluence
- Trello
- HubSpot Marketing Hub
- Salesforce Sales Cloud
- Asana
- Webex Meetings
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
- Giphy
- Figma
- Airtable
- Google Calendar
- Google Meet
- Notion
- dscout
Miro Competitors
Miro Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Languages | English, French, Spanish, Japanese, German |
Miro Downloadables
- Miro is a workspace built for innovation. This download describes how Miro provides a full suite of capabilities for diagramming, wireframing, real-time data visualization, workshop facilitation, interactive presentations, and agile practices.
- About the business value of Miro per analysts at IDC This download describes what IDC analysts believe to be the Business Value of Miro.
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Reviews
(1-25 of 4541)Miro totally saved my life in COVID
When COVID hit, I really worried about my ability to run large form workshops and qualitative interviews. With Miro, not only could I do all of that from home (mostly), but I already had all of my work digitized and ready for synthesis--immediately after the meeting. It's magic. A research run used to be measured by time in the field = time in synthesis (so, 1 week in the field, 1 week in a room). Now, with Miro, I can cut the synthesis time in half, and get to insights much faster.
Anyway, there are few tools that I'd actually rave about, but Miro is actually one of the key things in my quiver.
- Inclusive ways of engaging customers
- Restrictive design that let's me focus on the problem
- Super easy to learn and train folks to learn
- The music is terrible (I never use it, and the feature is sorta broken)
- Advanced ways of creating shapes would be nice
- Rasier access to the ai tools would be lovely
- Distributing objects that have joins (arrows) is not as easy as it could be
My use of Miro
- Easy to put together component diagrams
- Easy to collaborate with others as multiple people can look at the same thing
- Can add a lot of content
- Frames is good to encapsulate related data
- The zoom is super confusing. Different people draw diagrams at different zooms. For few days, I thought 100% should be default. But text at zoom 100% is too small. So I need to zoom in whenever I need to add text.
- If we have to look back after a long time, Confluence seems better as there are lot of explanations and a specific flow from top to botton. In Miro, it is hard to follow as we don't know where to start and where to end for big boards. Frames can provide some structure, but no one uses it for that.
- The board can be put at many places in the tree. It is hard to find it later.
- Visual collaboration on diagrams, charts, and other visual content in real time.
- It facilitates design thinking workshops.
- Roadmaps and timelines planning.
- Improve the mobile app to offer a smoother and more intuitive user experience.
- Expand the library of templates for different use cases and industry-specific cases.
- An offline mode that allows users to access and work on boards even when they don't have an internet connection, with changes syncing once they reconnect.
Miro Review
- Great for organizing and visualizing information
- It's easy to collaborate with others
- Very flexible tool when designing
- Check boxes from wireframe library are buggy
- loading time can be slow, especially for large boards
- More options for the background color of a board
Miro is amazing
- Design thinking templates
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Facilitation
- Easier exporting
- Single sign-on complexity
I would not use it as an individual trying to capture notes.
Miro is a MUST if you have a remote team.
The templates are a great jumping off point for newbies, but more often than not, we wind up just using some stickies and some basic shapes and we're off and running. The ability to recreate a genuine work session while not being physically in the same room is something we have not found with any other software.
- Co-working: the ability to tag in colleagues at exact points of the screen, or have them follow your cursor so they don't get lost.
- Customization: the ability to change colors, sizes, and details so you can mark things up individually and know what's what when you go back to it.
- Commenting: the ability to leave comments and tag others to those comments. This is becoming increasingly standard these days, but Miro was an early adopter, and it's made a big difference when our team is working asynchronously.
- Templates: feeling like you don't know where to start? Pull up the myriad of template options and start clicking around. It's sure to get your brain going.
- I'd like it to be easier to export frames and maintain quality.
- More shapes!
- More sticky colors. (Is this silly? Yes. But it would be helpful when working with a big team and a lot of topics.)
If team members are not game to learn new tech, it's a harder sell. There IS a learning curve, but it's VERY figure-outable. The willingness has to be there, though.
Miro works to put your mind on screen and build a plan!
- Result chains
- Process documentation
- Applying thought to screen
- Works with the Jira tool
- My needs have not outgrown Miro, and it does everything I need it to do very well
Works Perfectly for IT Workload Management
- Easy to use for my team, they don't waste cycles how to do this or that.
- Graphically represent what is needed, in progress and completed.
- The out-of-the-box templates are very helpful and helps me get a headstart.
- Provides a better picture regarding any projects we manage through Miro. All stakeholders can easily see it, what has been accomplished, what's next and where the challenges are.
- Better navigation with a touchpad. I use a mouse, but some of time prefer the touchpad, and being able to navigate a large Miro can get cumbersome. The nav map helps, but perhaps make it larger.
Miro is Miro-culous!
- Organize notes via visualization
- Use templates
- Take notes during meetings in a unique way for requirement gathering
- Templates are sometimes hard to customize
- Not a super secure for internal
- AI and beta are still a little buggy
Visual collaboration made easy
- Collaborative tools
- Visually pleasing
- Easy to use
- Integrations with other products
A great solution for our global product team
As a team manager I often use it to map out and solve organizational and structural challenges and work through various solutions.
We use this to evaluate and compare different options for various problems we may be trying to solve.
We use it for virtual ideation, brainstorming and whiteboarding sessions that we run within our PD team as well as collaborating with other teams throughout our org.
- Visualize options - many different options for how to show process and organize thoughts is very helpful
- Miroverse/templating is great to draw from and be inspired by
- Opportunities to contribute to the Miroverse is fun - we have a team member who was recently published and it was an exciting moment for her and our team.
- Sometimes hard to know where to start for what you're trying to accomplish - as a manager I am not in there day to day and sometimes I just need some easy-to-go templates to help me lay my thoughts out. Sometimes the Miroverse can be too much to sort through, and a blank slate can be overwhelming - help me get started!
- It would be amazing to have a guide to say... what are you trying to do today? And then give me some starting options that may just be nicely positioned and coordinated colored boxes that don't make me think. i spend too much time thinking about things like shapes, colors, post-it vs. text box vs shape and it can be frustrating
- More targeted organization of the Miroverse. There's a lot there and it would be helpful to get some more targeted recommendations
- Color palettes - help non-designers make it beautiful without having to think too hard about it.
- Organize and find my boards - i have lots and it's hard to remember which ones i want for which purpose and have been shared... it can be too much.
Best collaboration tool
The problem we are trying to solve was to have a tool that allow us to freely contribute our ideas in an unlimited space, that facilitate collaboration and many ways of capturing information.
With Miro, all the above mentions desires are fulfilled! This tool is so easy to use and have all useful features that suit all occasions.
Once you have started it you won't want to change to other tool.
- Collaboration
- Voting
- Unlimited space
- Private mode
- Private mode
- Add an actual Anonymous feature
- More music
Emoji feature and the ability to add more app is very helpful to allow a wide range of options for my retro sessions.
Great tool for product and user flow planning
- Easy navigator and board visibility
- Common shapes and elements that I need to use are available
- Resizing makes it very flexible
- I'd love to see Grammarly (or some sort of autocorrect tools) on top of Miro
- Arrows and lines are not easy to use and sometimes drag my frames
- I'd love to see more real product shapes and full components (not just buttons)
- Benchmarking please! ideas for wireframes etc
I also like to use it for brainstorming, when everyone can access and put their notes on a shared board.
It could be enhanced in that sense and allow more collaborative options such as voting
Miro for design thinkers
- Generating sticky notes - most people can figure that out w/ no/little orientation
- process diagraming - this has gotten much better in the last year
- wireframing websites and user interfaces
- icons - they used to stink, but now they are WAY better - a small but important thing
- Some objects that support text don't support formatting (i.e. bullets) and that can be annoying, especially when you don't test it first and then all of the sudden you need them. I wouldn't expect support for stickies, but pretty much all other objects.
- the product is doing a really good job of releasing new features, i'm not really sure I have more suggestions
It's not quite yet fully supportive of interactive prototypes though, that's the direction I'd like to see it go. Something akin to Adobe XD's capabilities in that space.
- Ability to create clear mind maps for ideas visualizing.
- Create and run successful online meetings.
- Ability to plan and manage projects and workflows.
- Drag-and-drop interface.
- Seamless team collaboration.
- There is no aspect of Miro that fails to accomplish all my needs because it's fully-featured and functional.
Miro is a great collaborative planning tool
- Brainstorming
- Collaboration
- Mindmaps
- I'd like to see some better timeline options or ways to automate counting down or backwards when trying to plan timelines for projects ( easier to use visual calendars, etc.)
It is also helpful for mapping out processes to help others on the team visualize a new process.
It has also been helpful to track team progress towards goals and to document where we are stuck and if we have any additional to-dos that we are getting hung-up on.
How Miro helps me be a better designer
- Offer unlimited space on their boards
- Enables colaborative work
- Provides conversion of content to other formats
- It keeps dislogging from time to time and relogging on is time consuming
- Large boards take a long time to load
- The drawing of shapes is quite limited
Miro - A great tool to bring together a company
- Organization
- Templates
- Collaboration
- Different Shapes
- Saving Brand Colors
- Deleting out presaved colors
Miro & Me
- There is a wonderful variety of template layouts relevant to project needs
- Project access and organization are paramount to ensuring the right people see the right things
- Miro promotes both real-time engagement and updates to make sure people in other time zones can access the most updated information
- If the organization has boards divided up by department, it can be confusing to know where to put a new board/how to make sure it winds up in the correct place for teammates to access based on their permissions
- In some cases, users may not understand the best template to use to meet their needs. For example, I used the mind-map template frequently, but a colleague had no clue how to use it and felt there was no hint or "pro-tip" on how they could benefit from using it.
- This is purely aesthetic, but if more colors could be implemented into things like the sticky notes, that would be great. Sometimes, there were more people working on a project than there were colors available to differentiate between who was sticking what feedback in the project.
Excellent product / truly increases productivity
- Presentation
- Collaborative ideation (whiteboarding)
- Infinite canvas that no Microsoft product can handle
- Starter Templates
- AI integration
- I always try to start with a template, but often can't find something that really matches what I need
- Maybe add more to the Kanban tools or make a special Kanban, but we could use nested cards (to represent hierarchies such as Epic-Feature-Story-Task levels)
- My main customer, the Veteran's Administration is blocking Miro on their firewall (but Mural is not blocked)
Whiteboarding (pure ideation)
Training
Miro Review
- Its the only tool that my organization permits (that does what it needs to do)
- Somewhat-simple interface
- Infinite "space"
- AI - "delete background" tools work well for sketch uploads
- Sticky notes
- Video formats not supported
- Multi-uploads not supported
- Sketching directly in Miro is horrible (ie "Pen" tools are basically useless). Look to Procreate for a better experience
- Connection lines default to snap to image - very annoying!
- Zoom/ Pan hotkeys could be more obvious (for novice users)
Not well Suited - Manually creating timelines. Grouping, aligning and moving objects feels clunky. Also not well suited for scenarios when sharing many LARGE images - it tends to slow down my entire computer when I open a Miro with too much content.
Why Miro Board in Staffing?
- Has a lot of options when creating the board.
- Once you get the hang of it, it is easy to use.
- Giving people access is easy to do as well.
- I think being able to edit the board is easier and not having to switch to the cursor on the board every time you want to move across it.
- Sometimes the board randomly gets messed up, and I'm not sure why.
What A Friend We Have In Miro
- Sync ability between individuals and devices.
- Ease of use.
- High level of functionality.
- Tutorials for beginners.
Less appropriate: Training on industry specific skills.
* Presentations and providing visual cues - Have been using the board instead of making slides for team presentations
* Use GenAI features on the board for make diagrams and also writing meeting note and summarizing it for wide audience
* Sprint planning
- Tools provided for use
- GenAI intergtaion
- Templates provided for use
- Sometimes depending upon zoom level line looks very thin and not visible to remote audience
- Background color change (ignore if already there)
- Ability to draw professional diagrams like LucidChart
Sprint planning meeting and online voting
Use of GenAI features to write meeting notes, generate pictures to be used in slides
Less approportaite - use on iPad. Drawing expeirence is not good there. If I draw on Ipad and then see it on Mac the aspect ratio changes and so does the drawing. Freeform is better in that case for me
- Fast brain-to-whiteboard transfer
- mind mapping
- templates
- close to being able to use for some design tasks, but not there yet
- export stickies to CSV could be a lot better
- Ability to remove background from images would be nice
- Mind maps are not as flexible - ex. you can't have a 2 way mind map with 2 endpoints
Not as appropriate for design tasks. I'll often have the information organized how I want on Miro, but then have to move to Figma or Canva to get it presentable. Also not as appropriate for data analysis which I think could be fixed with better export to CSV. It is extremely frustrating to have all of the data down on sticky notes but needing to manually re-enter onto a spreadsheet