Miro

Pros

Variety of templates for project planning

Cons

Sometimes moving around the board can be challenging to move around without also moving objects.

Pros

Miro provides two absolutely amazing features that revolutionize virtual collaboration. 1. With its infinite canvas, first, it lets teams work across expanses of visual workspace, so there is no limit to brainstorming, allowing for holistic strategy making. Second, the interactive collaborative tools allow many team members to interact, edit, and contribute at the same time and break down geographical barriers with instant creative synergy.

Cons

Limited to advanced data visualization option. Ongoing complex permission management for larger team members. Occasional performance issues with extremely large boards, however. Limited native integration to generalize some specialized design tools.

Pros

Viewing a Miro board is nice to look at - it is a good way to organise a project, especially a technical one that requires a flowchart

Cons

I found the use case of the product rather simplistic, there was simply not enough use case for me to want to make flowcharts that I could not make elsewhere or view in a different way

Pros

The navigation between screens and shared viewing/user tracking are extremely intuitive and allow for co-working without requiring a restrictive experience via single-user screenshare.

Cons

The text organization and merging of mapping items could be more intuitive. For users that are particular about the cleanliness of their visuals, expect to take some time to revisit your work to create a uniform experience.

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Pros

Miro is easy to use, perfect for streamlining visual tracking and collaborative planning remotely. With Miro, we connect meeting inputs and organize workflow charts that are understandable to everyone. I loved the ready-made templates that provide the perfect starting point for any idea, ensuring ease of collecting inputs during them and organizing them in an attractive way. I loved the ease of adding updates at any time with documentation, and it is great that the ability to control permissions adds the necessary protection for boards from modifications and tampering.

Cons

Miro is free of negatives, and it is impossible to slow down when adding or collecting elements.

Pros

Miro is a great visual tool to work from! I love that it's super easy to collaborate with colleagues using it (it's really helpful to use during group sessions or workshops!) and there are a ton of different features - even after using it for a couple of years I presume I'm still only scratching the surface of its capabilities.
Besides being a fab tool for collaborative working, Miro is an all round handy platform to work from - whether that's to capture your initial draft thoughts on a project, to put together a project timeline, or to vote on actions as a group, the chances are that Miro can help you to document and achieve your goals

Cons

A frustration of mine is that large Miro boards with a lot of content on them can seemingly take forever to load, especially when you have a few of these open. Another drawback is the fact that scrolling around the board can be a dizzying experience for some users.

Pros

Easy to manage diagrams in a team project environment.

Cons

It's got a steep learning curve to be able to create complex workflows and diagrams/flowcharts.

Pros

As a designer, i used miro for prototyping, it has many icons i enjoy using when prototyping low fidelity design

Cons

the mobile version is not intuitive and easy for users

Pros

Miro is actually great. It's a visual board where we can map out what we do in the business so that everyone gets an understanding of how processes work. It is so easy to pick up and start creating straightaway. Assets can be freely moved around the board and edited at any time in the future.

Cons

It's not particularly cheap, but none of the competitors are either, and it's the best value of the bunch. The value Miro brings to everyone understanding how the the organisation ticks has to be good.

Pros

Real time collaboration is really great, intuitive, lots of features, many integrations possibilities. Easy to scale from simple board to complex projects.

Cons

Steeper learning curve, big boards can get overwhelming in the beginning. Fairly expensive.

Pros

Miro is a fantastic tool with numerous use cases for a global distributed team who is focused on staying connected. Without Miro, we do our entire OKR planning cycle which is complex processed orientated. After using many tools, Miro was the tool that our team used and validated. We use Miro for BPM across the business and we also use the collaborative power of Miro for creative brainstorming, giving our team a voice and satisfying that creative need across the business. The Miro community templates are also a massive value add giving inspiration and ideas on how to tackle a process design.

Cons

The only con for Miro is sometimes the time it takes to build maps if you are building yourself. With mind meister, you could use shift and it would automatically create more spaces in the mind map which really helps when you are brainstorming with ideas coming freely. With Miro, sometimes it takes time to build the actual map and this can prohibit the quality of brainstorming.

Pros

The ease of use and the ability for any and all to participate in discussions and ideations.

Cons

It is large and moves slowly as the boards get bigger.

Pros

Miro has been a game-changer in my professional life. It's collaborative whiteboard features have seamlessly integrated into my workflow, enabling me to work with clients and colleagues around the country. Whether it's brainstorming sessions, organizing thoughts, or structuring strategies, Miro has been a linchpin of productivity and creativity for me.

Cons

It can be difficult to manage board access for people who aren't a part of your team. Miro offers view-only access, but I've run into trouble getting editable access for non-users.

Pros

Miro has everything to enhance the power of collaboration among team members. The whiteboard, magic pen, and ready-made elements make creating Flowcharts and Diagrams a joy. We use Miro to pin the ideas we gather during brainstorming in the right places and then assemble or reshape until we reach what is required. The presence of many templates helps us display Flowcharts, Diagrams, and other models in an organized manner capable of reflecting a great image of the team involved in creating them. I like the ease of exporting them as images to easily add to reports or presentations. I liked the value of documentation with Miro, as it is possible to know who and when the change occurred and who gave the final approval, which enhances governance throughout the steps.

Cons

There is no room for negatives with Miro, regular notifications always give us the ability to see in real time any modifications or additions and comment on them by approving or rejecting them, which keeps the workflow smooth.

Pros

No training is required. Defacto intuitive for new joiners.
Scalability (you can start from 1 board, and then create many more).
Very easy to collaborate/ brainstorm via post-its, comments.
Templates are also great for hosts/ moderators (this makes workshops pre-work simpler and more efficient)

Cons

Complex to manage licenses at the corporate level. You may end up letting business users buy 'on their own' whenever necessary.
A bit complex as well to manage access to participants.

Pros

Miro has so many digram templates, it has so many tools which can use while we have been working on flow diagrams

Miro's UX experience is very easy to use and team coloration features is too good

Cons

They should provide auto frame option while we are generating PDF or image from file

Pros

Its a great whiteboard tool with an unlimited canvas.
Supports a variety of predefined templates to choose from for sprint planning,brainstorming etc

Cons

No suits my use case I did not find any issue with miro yet

Pros

It's fairly easy to use; it has a lot of helpful functionality. We use it for personas, product inception canvases, roadmapping, integration with Jira tickets is wonderful; displaying the full roadmap with details; charts, etc. We love this tool and it's helping us be successful and collaborative in a remote world.

Cons

The security is frustrating. We have an Enterprise license and you can't even view a page unless you have a license AND you're invited as part of that specific team. All enterprise users should be able to see any board if it's shared with them.

Pros

Miro unites us when at our workplace by giving us an excellent shared workspace where we collaborate on our games development projects. It also allows us to have clear visualization of the entire games development cycle from planning to the final product. We love using it as it help us organize and plan our work using gantt charts, flowcharts and other product maps. We mainly benefit by staying committed and focused on the right and most important work. It gives us easy to use dashboards where we are able to visualize all our tasks by drawing diagrams to represent them.

Cons

Miro interface is a little complicated and we actually struggled a bit to understand it. But we are glad how the support team took us through the entire journey and they made everything get easier for us.

Pros

I use it daily for for personal ideation, running team refinements, task tracking, having fun in teambuildings, brainstorming together...there are so many use cases for this vusial multi-purposu tool.

Cons

Sometimes navigation in boards with many elemenst is messy. Would be great if there was some "back" and "formward" button or a history of visited elements so you can go here and there quickly. Also picking up a group of elements in crowded board can be a challenge.

Pros

The UI is perfect, clean, visually appealing and lag free. All in one tool which can be used for brainstorming, planning and communication. Drag and Drop functionality makes it very easy to create complex boards with ease, even if you use it for first time. There are multiple templates available as well as user created samples which help you plan ahead and get started quickly without any worry. Auto save and being able to see team members in action while working keeps everyone clear of any confusion which collaborating together.

Cons

Can be a little pricey for smaller teams, but free version is equally powerful. Offline availability and ability to export my board can be improved.

Pros

I don't know if Miro is truly the first collaborative web whiteboard or not, but it certainly feels like the best and most complete one that got sufficient traction to be widely used. It's super easy to use and that's critical because the whole point is to get your entire team engaged on the common boards, so it has to be easy enough that all your team members can participate.

Cons

The pricing is really the only thing I can complain about. The free tier is pretty limiting, which I understand, but now that so many other office suites come with a version of whiteboarding/mind-mapping/brain storming software (even Figma now has it), it's really tough to spend this much money on Miro unless you use it as a project management or full-blown UX tool as well. It's much easier to use FigJam, for example, as your brainstorming tool, than it would be to use Miro in place of a full Figma.

Pros

This is so helpful for someone like me who makes mind mapping and flowcharts on a monthly basis. I love the whiteboard feature the most because it doesn't limit my ideas.

Cons

There are still many features I haven't discovered, so I still need time to explore!

Pros

I like that the tool allows management and working together among different projects enhancing collaboration.

Cons

The only drawback i have realized is at times the customer support is unresponsive

Pros

The creative boundaries that Miro pushes are sky high, allowing the user to make the most of their desired experience.

Cons

The eraser tool is what I liked least about Miro. It erases entire strokes of lines instead of just the portions you want to erase.

Pros

The native cloud approach. This is really a space for collaboration. More i like the versatility to "digest" any kind of information, file, image.

Cons

With complex boards it can get slow.
I also would like a function to update image links. This is something missing.

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Pros

Super easy to create idea boards, show research, and keep everything in one spot. I love inviting members of my team to collaborate in a Miro doc. It's quite an interactive experience.

Cons

Miro is slowly becoming much more than just a collaboration space. I find the bloat in the software slows things down as they update their app. Similar to how Canva is for those who can't use Adobe. Miro is becoming like a Figma for those who want to explain how to better the user experience. I'd love to see more animation and transition functionality similar to what Figma has. It would help keep the collaboration more exciting.

Pros

Miro’s endless page and a great assortment of templates offer sufficient flexibility which in turn makes it easier to design to meet varying project needs. In addition, real-time tools such as live cursors and commenting boost the quality and efficiency of teamwork, communication, and other collaborative work especially where the team members and stakeholders are distributed widely.

Cons

Despite its rich functionality, for the most part, Miro can be rather complex to understand for new users. It's easy to zoom around the whiteboard although this can be challenging for viewers when presenting during video calls. I'd recommend using frames for easier navigation during calls.

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Pros

Miro has many features and their customer service team is active to attend to you. Miro is easy to use. It also allows team to have beneficial communications.

Cons

Miro has nothing that is a miss on my side.

Pros

Miro is a wonderful workplace that has a great impact to me and it is easy to use. It helps bring ideas together inorder to solve problems.

Cons

Nothing at all l, Miro works wonderfully.

Pros

Such an amazing tool for diagramming, planning and just straight whiteboarding.

Cons

Haven’t had one yet if I’m really honest

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Pros

I like Miro because it was build to solve my problems and it is a all in one platform that has every necessary tool to make my tasks easy.

Cons

Their no complaints from me, I just love Miro.

Pros

Miro is one of the platforms that I have interacted with so far that has a pretty much clean, attractive and well-organized user interface, I would give it a 9 out of 10.

I was also happy with the ability to simultaneously work on a diagram visualization with colleagues from different devices all together.

User-friendly and realistic pricing.

Cons

At the moment, I have no dislikes about Miro simply because I have not encountered a hitch since I interacted with it from the day of deployment.

Pros

I like everything about Miro. I love its organized whiteboard that has all the ready-made elements that help us complete the boards as we need them. I love the ease of gathering approvals from team members before approving the final plan. It is great that Miro allows us to participate in real-time remotely efficiently, and this helps us keep the flow of updates going.

Cons

I have absolutely no hate for Miro with all its content. It makes the whiteboard a hub for planning and management, and has given our workflows the clarity and transparency we need.

Pros

It is really intuitive to use and has so many great features. The miroverse is amazing for finding templates for retros, and other collaboration boards created by the community

Cons

It is quite an expensive tool to use. As a company we have not been able to afford to have everyone in the company on a contributors licence which has been difficult

Pros

Easy to use, organized, multi-colored, high quality, and can be used in huge projects, sharing is allowed through my link and comments, saving what you have done and publishing it

Cons

The free version is of poor quality sometimes I did not find what I want in the search easily but in a small percentage

Pros

It is a great tool for brainstorming ideas and getting everyone from the team to pitch in. You can also easily hold votes to gauge the team's opinion on any matters. We use it a lot for creative brainstorming.

Cons

It has so many functionalities that it can feel a bit cumbersome and hard to use at times, specially for older team members.

Pros

Really helps agile working in the business and has a clear way to support idea generation

Cons

It has slightly less functionality for offline tools.

Pros

The collaboration within this product is very effective, nontheless the good amount of possibilities to share comments, notes, links, images and the intuitive use of the tools present give us good moment since we are mostly remote workers. We use it for all kind of meetings from brainstormings to task management, but we surely prefer use it for brainstormings than for showing static contents.

Cons

The most met problem is rendering time, I suppose there are a specific set of settings for the board, but it makes screen sharing very tedious sometimes, using the desktop app sometimes solves the problem but even passing from a tab to another make people nervous.

Pros

Easy to use, great collaboration tool, and awesome pre-made templates

Cons

Miro doesn't have many flaws that I can think of to be honest. It's my favorite, most used tool.

Pros

Miro makes it super easy to work on team planning designs, whether it's visual charts outlining website and email workflows or designing web pages for feedback from multiple team members.

Cons

Some of the design elements in Miro aren't all that customizable such as font selection or adjusting the border radius of shapes.

Pros

It is not necessary to download the app to use Miro. Inviting unfamiliar people is an excellent opportunity because it makes it easier for them. Also, it generates a lot of confidence in not having to install it if you don't know it.
It is also a scalable and flexible software. From a couple of users to ten or more can collaborate without affecting functionality.

Cons

The way of sorting the tabs feels very clumsy. It's impossible to save them in folders or sort them to make them more accessible according to individual needs, which sometimes makes me uncomfortable.

Pros

I like how Miro is a versatile and efficient collaborative tool which enables us to foster our interactions, creativity and thinking.
It has amazing customer support.

Cons

Miro makes my professional life better and productive, nothing that I dislike towards it.

Pros

The platform's real-time collaboration features facilitate simultaneous work among team members, fostering quick updates, discussions, and feedback exchange.

Miro's allows for various use cases, from project management and agile workflows to design thinking, allowing for diverse templates and frameworks.

Enables teams to brainstorm, plan, and organize ideas in a visual format.

Cons

Some times as boards grow in size or complexity, the performance might decrease, leading to slower load times or potential lags in responsiveness.
Beginners might initially find Miro's interface and features slightly overwhelming, requiring some little time to get use to it.

Pros

Miro offers a vast number of options and the highest flexibility. Tons of templates, automations, sharing options and AI support are great features.

Cons

The complexity of the systems requires some time to get used to it. It is an unavoidable downside when you want the most functional system.

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Pros

Bringing teams together has been my greatest achievement using Miro. Creativity emanates from togetherness. Eventually, goals are set and achieved without struggles. Miro is a blessing to me.

Cons

Miro has not shown any signs of disappointments. It works just fine and accurately. Good work.

Pros

-Its flexibility for brain storming and planning visually.
-quick and easy to pick up
-multiple people can see and edit the same board, providing feedback and posting new content.
-very colourful and simple UI

Cons

-some features that you may need would require purchase. However once subscribed, miro can become a strong and key tool for the creative pipline.

Pros

Easy to invite free users to a workshop/session and it is so easy for them to participate and contribute. Totally hassle free to start working with.
And the use cases are so many. We do a lot of SCRUM meetings. We do wireframes, brainstorming, workshops, idea management and more.

Cons

Tried doing a Product Roadmap and it is very visible but a hassle to do and update so I don't use it for that anymore.

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Pros

I think Miro's endless canvas is its strongest suit because it allows users to quickly and easily turn their thoughts into eye-catching visuals. The canvas is an enormous creative playground that may accommodate endless brainstorming sessions, mind mapping, and team projects.

Cons

The learning curve for Miro's more advanced capabilities can be steep, but the app is a powerhouse for visual collaboration. You might need to go a little deeper to comprehend some of the more complex features, particularly if you're working with complicated processes or connectors.

Pros

first choice for collaborative brainstorming, designing, creation and discussion of concepts. Love the flexibility, and the continuous innovation of the platform.

Cons

it is tough to stay up to date with all the recent feature additions and capabilities.