Miro Reviews: 4.8/5 — Highly Rated

We are a tight-knit Group and moving almost 200 people out of the office for safety reasons was my first priority. Once we were semi-settled now how do you stay in a constant improvement groove that the agile framework has done for our group. Well, I stumbled upon Miro and after using it just a little I could see the business plan and how things were well thought out. so what I like 1. you can do quick and dirty mock-ups while collaborating with many people we have even swarmed problems where each person or group puts ideas on the same board with a time box. 2. You can do much more detailed Mind maps and funnels really helping to get your point across. The bottom line is you can be really bad with it and it's simple enough you can get your point across or you can learn to use it really well and do rockstar presentations and collaborations and anything in between.

I would like to have a 1 on 1 tutor to make me a rock star especially for some of my people who something like this just looks intimidating because you can.do so much

It's the new remote office Foe so much I keep finding new ways to use it.

We're a creative company that has been using Miro for over a year now. Whereas in the past we might have filled a "war room" with Post-Its, whiteboard sessions, and printouts, now we are able to capture and collaborate all our work in one place. The templates are super helpful from respected sources. Most importantly, we've been able to get all our team members working in one place, including external clients and partners. We won't be going back to a messy "war room" after this! We've tried other whiteboard tools like Mural, but Miro has a more intuitive interface and better feature set.

We use the boards so heavily, sometimes if we copy paste many high-res images and have many people (dozens) on at once, it can get a bit laggy... but we're power-users, so that's an extreme situation. Also, not a dislike, but a feature request - it would be useful to have multiple options to export or archive the boards, ie. one page per frame, or, the entire board as a single PDF, or other options... As we use these boards routinely, we will need a way to share and archive them in our company file management (outside of the Miro platform).

We are a tech consultancy, and so we use the boards to organize projects, plan tasks, brainstorm ideas, host workshops with clients, capture research findings, and present our recommendations. We practically live on Miro!

Miro enables our virtual team collaboration.

There's so much it can do-takes time to appreciate

Miro gives us a way to collaborate in a virtual space successfully, while keeping team activities like retros fresh and interesting with a variety of tools and templates.

I love seeing all my colleagues and team members in one place. Watching our tiny "cursors" interacting virtually feels almost more natural than a Zoom meeting! We can see each other pointing, gesturing, and moving around as we review each other's ideas. As a creative agency, we use Miro to develop our bar-napkin-seeds-of-an-idea into full-blown 360-degree marketing campaigns for our clients. Copywriters, art directors, producers, project managers, and digital team members can all interact in one place, and we can refer back to the whole history of the job with one high-level glance.

It's splitting hairs at this point, but I wish we could somehow combine Zoom and Miro into one teleconferencing experience, as we still require both to have a collaboration session. We don't use Zoom for screen-sharing since everyone is inside the Miro board at once, but we do need it for the actual call. I would love to see Miro further develop its platform to support meetings, calls, and teleconferencing.

We are solving the problems at which the pandemic has hurled our agency (along with countless others), which is the loss of the in-person collaboration experience. Whiteboarding with content strategy and customer experience teams has also been "saved" by Miro; as I can recall, in the early days of working-from-home, we attempted to use Zoom's whiteboard feature, which pales by comparison. It's also been an incredible tool for meeting with our clients and having workshops with them, whereas before the pandemic, we would be traveling for in-person sessions across the country, wherever our clients were based.

How fluid and flexible the experience is

a little frustrated with the wireframing

I've been using it mostly for team workshops or workshops with clients. It helped me communicate ideas and brainstorm easily with others It's been very useful because it's accessible to everyone

The infinite whiteboard and the templates

No integration with GitHub tools! User Experience difficulties.

Great for discussions, brainstorms, and ideations Excelente way to show ideas to everyone in the team Fantastic to show flows and other artifacts to end customers

I love the intuitive design, which allows us to have workshops with non-digital natives without lots and lots of onboarding tasks. Also, the ultra-fast rollout of customer-centric features.

Not a lot to mention here. I would love Miro to have a more diverse video call setup where people can actually share their screens.

Remote workshops with clients. Documenting the project progress without any documenting overhead. Fun at work. Retros. Sprint Plannings. Basically: a lot.

I love the flexibility of Miro, Whether it's mapping out potential social media campaigns, collating hardware options, design feedback or just doing busines model canvas designs and software requirements Miro has the flexibility and intuitiveness that means people get it very quickly. That short learning curve but the limitless possibilities is a key benefit.

Load times on very large boards can sometimes be a bit of a drag but thats really down to how much information you've put on it. A smarter loading scheduler would make this rather small annoyance disapear.

We have used Miro for Software design, data wrangling, hardware options, hardware desiugn feedback, business model canvas design and iteration. The biggest benefits we have gathered is being able to gather sometimes sprawling information and easily reorganise it collaboratively. This ensures everyone is on the same page both literally and metaphorically.

The flexibility of the workspace and the ability to capture so much in one interactive format. The ability to share and collaborate around the workspace is also vital to the whole experience. I will probably utilise Miro even when face to face collaboration is possible again. I am really happy to have discovered this collaboration tool over the last year!

Remembering to lock certain screen elements so I don't move them when trying to navigate the screen!

Miro helps me to visualise large scale business frameworks and interconnected business processes etc. The benefits are the scale that can be worked at, and the flexibility of how you can represent ideas and brainstorming. Having more freedom when building out brainstorming, and then sharing and collaborating with the wider team, have been the main benefits.

I like that you can basically do anything on Miro! They both have helpful templates or let you design a solution that works for anything you're trying to achieve. We run our retrospectives remotely using Miro, which allows the team to be creative and engaged in their responses and use words, emojis or even pictures to express their feelings on the sprint. We also keep our product roadmap there, so it's easy to keep up-to-date and accessible by anyone quickly using a simple link.

Sometimes the endless amount of possibilities makes it hard to narrow down what is the best template or solution for what you're trying to achieve.

During Covid, we're a usually co-located Agile squad of developers, designers and testers. We've been able to run most of our usual ceremonies using Miro, and it has helped keep everyone engaged and connected. The squad have fun expressing themselves using emojis, drawings and pictures during our retrospectives.

First, it's the ease of use combined with the readily available templates. I don't have to think too much about how to visualise a project, workflow, or anything I'd like to use it for - I can simply check the templates, get an idea of how I want to build it, and not spend time in doing so. Not to mention, just browsing the templates helps me get ideas on what more I can use Miro for. Second, with these drag and drop types of tools, you spend a lot of time on minimalistic details (it doesn't align as it should, you need to click 5 times to connect some pieces, etc.), with Miro I never thought to myself "wow, I'm investing so much time in just trying building", I spend most of the time just thinking what I need to add, which is amazing. And, so I don't forget - the ability to integrate to other tools and the ability to present, collaborate and save as pdf, I can't believe these are present :)

I wouldn't highlight anything specific, as my only thoughts here about extra features (but it's so feature-heavy that this is just the mindset of "when you have more than you need, you're thinking of what else could be added). So far, it's perfect.

Project planning, automation mapping and project / business visualisation. The main benefits I've seen is, we've invested so much time into trying to have it all mapped in one place, while combining the need for a workflow, plan, breakdown and a few other things that we would need to combine a few tools to make it happen or work within the limitations of other tools.

Miro has a lot of good templates. The post-it notes, backgrounds, colors and fonts are easy to use, and there's a lot of variety. It's also easy to share, and having 3 boards available in the free version is great. I'm looking forward to integrating it with Microsoft Teams/SharePoint

The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to integrate it with Teams/SharePoint. To be fair, I haven't tried.

I am using Miro to collaborate with people and map ideas at a distance both during meetings and offline at a time that's convenient for them. I used it recently to do a sort of SWAT analysis for a couple of business opportunities.

The possibility of having a collaborative board with my colleagues and a lot of tools that help us decide, share our ideas and also synthesize our thoughts. I like that it helps me when doing my mind maps when having classes and improving my professional capacitation.

It's not a very intuitive plataform, even though as I enjoy using it, I have difficulty creating my cards if I want to share with my colleagues, so I wish there were more tutorials on using it, and also I wish it has a Portuguese version for being more acessible.

We have a lot of brainstorming about our problems, do some mental maps to get on the situation and solving it. Also, there's room for everyone to collaborate and to show it with a nice view. We are solving the problem with feedback to the team and the lack of innovation in our products.

The expensive whiteboard surface has allowed my Film production team to create and collaborate in ways we never have before. Working with a Environmentalist perspective, this has allowed us to transition from paper used to virtual use, not having to take photos of a whiteboard, just to share an idea.

The coding side of things is very difficult, Especially when trying to get apps that aren't integrated into the program to work with the program. I think there could be some more streamlining towards making this software more business intuitive, so someone like myself can easily incorporate everything into this one software.

Writers block, creative Block, and overall cross platform communication has been streamlined And I find that my deliverables are now on time and far more refined because it's easier to make mistakes and grow from them. My stories are now interested, we're fine, and less destructive to the environment, which for me is a huge thing.

One of the main advantages is the desktop app compared to web clients, nevertheless, webbrowser can be used as well. There are many tools available and vast workspaces – practically unlimited space. Miro is a multipurpose tool, für presentations, groupwork, seminars, brainstorming, documenting ... allowing a mix of structure and unstructured data.

The license schemes are somehow less helpful, if you are involved in different teams, because you need a licensed seat in any team.

Miro is a tool for different purposes: We use it as a typical whiteboard, but we also collect documents, links, papers into the miro boards, this makes it to a project hub. Presentations can be done out of Miro, in a flexible and dynamic way.

This is an amazing tool for creative teams. The fact that you can have a video call and work on the boards in realtime works so well. In our organisation we produce large, complex exhibitions and Miro helps us all have the same understanding of where we're at. We can work both with text and visual production, and when work gets intense, like in the run-up to an opening, the fact that we can send quick comments or confirmations to each other on the board makes the workflow seem supersmooth. The presentation-tool works really well - you make frames directly on the board, and you can custom your frames to suit your presentation needs. This was everybody is looking at the same area of the board when you are working remotely. Collegues who are not involved in the main project production are able to have a look around on the Miro-board and quickly get an understanding of both core-elements and an overview of the complexities of the project, and pick out the bits that are relevant to them. Yeah, cannod reccomend this enough.

If there was anything to dislike is the cost. But it's worth it! You pay for a yearly subscription and after that per seat on the board.

The problems we are solving has to do with the various levels of large scale exhibition-productions. Without Miro it is difficult to get a grasp of the complexity and many levels of understanding, but in Miro you could do a quick sketch on a board to explain your meaning. Just like picking up a pen and paper to explain an idea in 3D quickly. This is essencial in our workplace.

A few things about why I'm hooked on miro: * UX is great - the navigation and controls are very intuitively designed * Contextual menus are all excellent * Infinite scrolling is very helpful, as is the capability to frame groups of elements * Speed and performance of the canvas

I do wish the following features existed - Ability to share "life frames" between miro boards, similar to embedding Youtube. This would make it possible to have portions of a drawing in a common board, and see that in any other board - More diagram widgets - something a bit closer to LucidChart would be great - Hierarchical lanes in Swimlane diagrams. This would be possible to do, and should be similar to Custellence - Wish there was a faster way to extract images and put them into Google Docs - even as an embedded image in a document (similar to Google Drawings in a Google Doc)

- Colloborative diagramming - Diagrams added into Google Docs and other documentation tools - Very complex layered drawings with very large canvases. This is possible with other tools in theory, but the speed of Miro is impressive

Very intuitive and numerous fewtures to collaborate with

Less options for free trial Task management should be easy and available like trello

User story mapping Brainstorming Mapping ideas

Easy to use. Miro also offers free training which is extremely useful.

lack of awareness of Miro- have to train attendees in meetings

Online meeting brainstorming

diversity of templates. very user friendly

only the colours are not so friendly :))

business plans, new projects, working with clients

All you need for great visuals and effective real-time team collaboration. Just Fab!

Nothing to dislike in Miro. It's intuitive to use and great fun also. Thank you for this great tool!

Visual Boards, Mind map, team Collaboration. Fun!

Flexible format, can be adapted for presentations and recording in person whiteboarding sessions. A fabulous planning tool.

Used to be a bit easier to share boards with non-members to comment, seems to have closed this option. We are using it a lot all across the business though and seats are cost-effective for the value brought so happy to expand use

Strategic planning, journey mapping. Using in conjunction with teams for remote planning sessions too.

Miro reduces the distance between people! Miro sustains an experience very similar to the one you have in the office because it is the same as being in front of a whiteboard. It can be even better because you can have a genuine parallel interaction between participants: they all can write, add and remove contents from the board simultaneously, without the impediments they would have in the physical space. Finally, with Miro, you have the advantages of digital supports: you can easily store and copy-paste the material you produce during your working sessions.

I am a fan of Miro, and there is nothing special that I do not like. I believe they can improve the way Miro manages the permissions and visibility for the boards.

I use Miro to have workshops with my team: they are working session with a collaborative style that accelerate the understanding of a problem. Also, I use it for documentation and knowledge sharing or to explore some ideas personally, with schematics and brainstorming.

I like the function of having people view your view when presenting. So useful

Nothing. I like it all. I really don't not like anything.

The problem is expressing creative ideas to a remote team - solved.

I love the miroverse! When I'm stuck on how to push ideas or project management, I draw inspiration from the different templates that are categorized/tagged perfectly. Borrowing from ready designs from credible organizations gives me a boost of confidence and creativity. I also think the Kanban feature on Miro is unique! I've tried other collaborative whiteboards and none yet have integrated this type of feature. In addition, I think the tables on Miro are also packed with functions compared to other whiteboards. While others focus on more visual components, Miro has the same features but packs in functionality as well.

At times, my slides I upload on my Miro board don't fully load. This has been problematic when I planned to present using Miro and my audience see pixelated slides. In addition, since I work in the non-profit space, I think other similar products offer free use of their platforms for accredited non-profits. This is the only reason why the organization I work at uses a competitor over Miro since we can use all features which was particularly helpful in training and working with volunteers.

Currently, we use Miro to document the strategies, design, and growth of our organization. I'm also using Miro as a whiteboard that I can keep updating for big research projects. Being able to just drop a sticky note in a dedicated space when an idea or an insight pops up has been helpful. In addition, the kanban boards are a unique feature to Miro that its other competitors don't have!

There are tons of templates to choose from, so I can find something for every need. I'm a PM, and I can go from a brainstorming session to a team's task list.

There aren't predecessors for Gantt charts. That's the one downside. I can do pretty much everything in Miro, but I have to use a separate tool that allows predecessors to update the timeline.

Brainstorming sessions are an essential part of our business. Since we can no longer meet in person for a whiteboard session, Miro provides the tools we need to be effective.

Miro is freedom in the framework of content capture. I like best that I can template, copy and paste, while editing each object and placement in real-time collaboration with my team.

Specific to me - Miro has no specific environment for task management. I have used the kanban templates but I would like to manage tasks outside of the 'board' itself.

De-centralization of team members in one location. Boring zoom calls just looking at one another talking. Benefits realized = I can moderate with all eyes on the same content and keep everyone on track.

Templates with additional mechanics implemented. It's not an online collaboration tool anymore

I find it hard to find something. Maybe lack of permissions to frames, but it's unfair to expect it from the free version.

Collaboration on modeling, brainstorming, documenting, and strategy description.

What I like best about Miro is it was able to replace the traditonal whiteboard and stickes but still retain that tactile feel of having the physical board. The biggest improvement by far is the flexibility that was recently given to allow non-license users to collaborate with a board. There are times when we need that level interaction with teammates or customers but don't need a full user license so you can get the vital feedback. Miro is also very easy to use and provides continous updates that make the tool indepensible for a company of our size. We started to use this just for Development teams but I gave our UX team a license and they were hooked on the ease of the tool versus what they have been using before. I also appreciate the number of templates that are offered by Miro to get you started on a board. There are times where you are overwhelmed with how to approach the design of a board so it is nice to lean on the templates to give you a jump start. I also like the Apps that are available to give a fuller experience with utilizing the tool. Managing a board is also a plus. The ease of being able to select a group of cards and then move them around to create good looking boards without having to move them one by one is tremendous.

What I dislike about Miro is sometimes navigating can get tricky especially for a first-time user. When you have a good amount of boxes on the screen that you want to navigate sometimes using the mouse vs. directional keys took a little getting used to. It would also be helpful if the font size would allow you to go beyond or below the current limits. There are time you want something to stand out or need a little more room for it to be on a card without having to expand the size of the cards.

The problems we have solved the most with Miro is being able to do virtual Story Boarding and Braining Storming. As mentioned before having to do that on physical boards was the way we operated but that comes with its downfalls. For example, the board could be erased or the stickies fall off and get thrown away. Being able to have this as a virutal board that can literally be seen from anywhere was key during the pandemic. With the pandemic, working from home is now a way of life and we need a way to communicate with teammates around the country and world. Miro also allows us to have better visibility into what we are working on and gives us more transparency. As mentioned our UX department has started to use Miro to supplement what they currently use. They may eventually ditch their existing process and use Miro going forward.

The functionally is amazing, it has a really diverse range of templates and so easy to use as a Whiteboard in meetings, but we mainly use it for graphic representations for change management and strategic development. We use this tool to engage a wide range of stakeholders across the organisation.

The only issue we've found is the flashing ad's for external viewers (those that don't have a Miro log in) are very distracting and have been flagged by viewers.

Visualising the Theory of Change of Our Organisation Developing work process maps for all our departments Scoping and Designing of our new CRM system Visualising the architecture of our new CRM system for staff learing