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Miro Reviews: 4.8/5 — Highly Rated
Miro is a whiteboarding platform online that facilitates collaboration in real-time. The platform allows teams to work together seamlessly and gives them access to customizable templates and supports integrations with tools such as Slack.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
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Miro is the default online whiteboard, and its free plan gives you three boards. Not three per month, three in total, permanently. That single number is what converts most Miro users into paying ones, and it is worth understanding before you build a workshop practice around the free tier. The product itself is excellent, with a 4.6 to 4.7 rating across more than 14,000 reviews.
- What it is: An infinite-canvas collaboration tool for team workshops and planning, covering diagrams, sticky-note sessions, roadmaps, and prototypes.
- Best for: Distributed teams running workshops, product discovery, retrospectives, and systems design.
- Pricing: Free for 3 boards. Starter €8 and Business €20 per member per month billed yearly. Enterprise is custom from 30 members. Verified in July 2026.
- The honest catch: The free plan’s three-board cap arrives fast, and performance degrades on very large boards heavy with images and PDFs.
What Is Miro?
Miro is an infinite canvas that a team works on together in real time. In practice that means the digital equivalent of a wall covered in sticky notes, except distributed teams can use it and nothing gets lost when the room is cleared. It has become the default tool for remote workshops, and for many teams it is the only reason anyone still runs a retrospective.
The scope has widened considerably. Alongside freeform canvas work there are diagrams, data tables for roadmapping, interactive prototypes, and, in 2026, AI workflows and agents. Miro also exposes Model Context Protocol endpoints, metered per plan, which lets AI assistants read and act on board content directly. Few tools in this category have gone that far.
The independent ratings are strong on a very large base: roughly 4.7 out of 5 on Capterra across 1,681 reviews and 4.6 on G2 across 12,674. Praise concentrates on the canvas, speed, templates, and integrations; criticism concentrates on price and on performance at scale.
How Miro Works
- The infinite canvas. The core, and what people mean when they say Miro. Sticky notes, shapes, freehand drawing, images, and embeds on an unbounded surface.
- Templates. A very large library covering retrospectives, user story mapping, service blueprints, and most standard workshop formats.
- Structured formats. Docs, tables, slides, and Kanban, so a board can hold structured artefacts as well as freeform thinking.
- Diagramming and prototyping. Technical system visualization and interactive prototypes on Business.
- AI and MCP. AI credits per member per month, plus MCP calls metered daily at 500 on Starter, 2,000 on Business, and 10,000 on Enterprise.
- Integrations. 250+ including Jira, GitHub, and Azure, which reviewers specifically cite as a strength for engineering teams.
Miro Pricing
Four tiers, metered mainly on boards, workspaces, AI credits, and MCP calls. Figures verified on Miro’s pricing page in July 2026, billed yearly. Miro localizes currency, and the euro figures correspond numerically to its dollar pricing.
| Plan | Per member/mo (yearly) | Boards | AI credits | MCP calls/day |
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| Free | €0 | 3 editable | Explore AI | — |
| Starter | €8 | Unlimited and private | 25/member/mo | 500 |
| Business | €20 | Unlimited, plus unlimited workspaces and guests | 50/member/mo | 2,000 |
| Enterprise | Custom, from 30 members | Unlimited | From 2,500/month | 10,000 |
What decides your cost:
- Three boards is the free plan’s real limit. Not storage, not members, not time. Three editable boards, and a workshop practice generates boards quickly. This is the single most common reason teams upgrade, and reviewers say so plainly.
- Starter unlocks the thing most people want. Unlimited private boards, visitor editing, and high-resolution exports at €8 per member. For most small teams this is the plan.
- Business is for guests and structure. Unlimited workspaces and unlimited guests, which matters for agencies and consultants running client sessions, plus prototypes and AI workflows.
- Enterprise requires 30 members minimum. Below that headcount, Business is your ceiling regardless of which governance features you want.
- AI and MCP are metered per plan. If you intend to drive Miro from AI assistants, the daily MCP call limits are the number to check, and they differ tenfold between tiers.
Who Should Use Miro
- Distributed teams running workshops. The clearest case and the reason Miro exists. Retrospectives, planning sessions, and discovery work translate to the canvas better than to any document.
- Product and design teams. Story mapping, journey mapping, and prototyping in one surface, with Jira and GitHub connectivity that engineering teams value.
- Consultants and agencies. Unlimited guests on Business makes client workshops practical without buying seats for everyone.
- Anyone whose meetings need a wall. The straightforward test: if your team used to fill a physical wall with sticky notes, Miro is what replaces it.
It fits poorly for teams needing three boards or fewer, who should simply stay free, for very large media-heavy boards, given the performance complaints, and for cost-sensitive individuals, since per-member pricing adds up and reviewers in non-dollar economies specifically flag it as expensive.
Honest Pros and Cons
Strengths
- The best infinite canvas available. Fast, fluid, and the reason it became the category default.
- An enormous template library. Most workshop formats you would want already exist.
- Excellent integrations. 250+ including Jira, GitHub, and Azure, cited by developers as a genuine differentiator.
- Strong ratings on a huge sample. 4.7 on Capterra and 4.6 on G2 across more than 14,000 combined reviews.
- Serious AI investment. AI workflows, agents, and metered MCP access for assistant-driven work, ahead of most competitors.
- Unlimited guests on Business. Genuinely valuable for client-facing work.
Limitations
- Three boards on free. The hard constraint, and the reason most upgrades happen.
- Performance degrades on large boards. Consistently reported across G2 and Capterra for boards heavy with images and PDFs.
- Per-member pricing adds up. Frequently raised by freelancers and small businesses, and particularly by users outside dollar economies.
- Enterprise has a 30-member floor. Governance features are out of reach for smaller organizations.
- MCP and AI limits vary tenfold by tier. Easy to miss, and material if you plan agent-driven workflows.
- It can become a dumping ground. Not a product flaw exactly, but unlimited boards without conventions produces sprawl.
Miro Alternatives and How It Compares
- FigJam is the natural comparison for design teams already in Figma, cheaper and less feature-dense.
- Notion covers documents and databases rather than canvas work, and the two are complements more than substitutes.
- monday.com manages structured work; Miro handles the unstructured thinking that precedes it.
- Mural is the closest direct competitor, similarly workshop-focused, often chosen on procurement rather than features.
- Framer overlaps only on prototyping and is a website builder rather than a whiteboard.
For a broader view, browse our project management directory.
The Verdict
Miro deserves its position. The canvas is fast, the templates cover nearly every workshop format worth running, and the integration depth means it fits into how engineering and product teams already work. A 4.6 to 4.7 rating across more than 14,000 reviews is about as strong a signal as this category produces.
Plan around two numbers. The free plan gives three editable boards, which sounds workable and is not, because any team running regular sessions generates boards faster than that. Treat free as an evaluation tier and budget for Starter at €8 per member, which is where unlimited private boards live and where most teams should be.
The second number is board size. Performance degradation on large, media-heavy boards is the most consistent functional complaint, and it is worth designing around: split big workshops across boards rather than building one enormous canvas. Do that, and Miro is close to the best tool available for distributed collaborative work. Ignore it, and you will eventually be the team waiting for a board to load while everyone watches.
FAQ
How many boards do you get on Miro’s free plan?
Three editable boards, permanently. This is not a monthly allowance or a trial limit, it is the total, and it is the most common reason teams upgrade. Any team running regular workshops or retrospectives will reach it quickly, so treat the free plan as a way to evaluate Miro rather than as a working tier.
How much does Miro cost in 2026?
Billed yearly, Starter is €8 per member per month and Business is €20, with Enterprise custom priced and requiring at least 30 members. Miro localizes currency, so its dollar pricing corresponds numerically. Starter adds unlimited private boards, visitor editing, and high-resolution exports; Business adds unlimited workspaces and guests, prototypes, and AI workflows.
Does Miro slow down on large boards?
Yes, and it is the most consistently reported functional complaint across both G2 and Capterra. Boards heavy with images and PDFs degrade noticeably. The practical mitigation is to split large workshops across several boards rather than building one very large canvas, which is good practice for navigability regardless.
Is Miro worth paying for over FigJam or Mural?
For teams that run workshops as a regular practice, usually yes: the template library, integration depth, and AI capabilities are ahead. FigJam is cheaper and a natural fit if your team already lives in Figma. Mural is the closest direct competitor and is often chosen on procurement terms rather than feature differences.
What is Miro best for?
Distributed teams running collaborative sessions: retrospectives, planning, discovery, journey mapping, and systems design. It is the tool that replaces a wall of sticky notes, and it is strongest when the work is genuinely visual and genuinely collaborative rather than document-shaped.
Ever since I started using Miro, it has never been overwhelming to collaborate on ideas via meetings and improving innovation through brainstorming.
Never have I experienced any flaw while utilizing this program.
Expand and unleash on creative ideas by real-time brainstorming. Meetings and workshops improve teams engagement for 24/7.
>Miro helps your team go beyond brainstorming with a variety of tasks that require collaboration, in this way Miro is very helpful to avoid any biases toward any particular viewpoint because it provides multiple perspectives to use >The technique of mind mapping provided by Miro is very beneficial for structuring information and note-taking. In this way whole of your team participates with creative ideas to develop an organized structure by using key words and key images. That's why Miro is very beneficial for creative projects because it possesses endless whiteboard and a set of tools that allow you to generate ideas >Process visualization provided by Miro not only beneficial for complex projects but is also fast and making simple your decision-making strategy because we can recognize what specific data points are most important for us >Due to the wide range of capabilities, Miro is great for running sessions for marketing strategy in this way we focus on converting customers to product sales by fulfilling a demand to reach our goals.
Nothing to report because Miro live up to our expectation and It has almost all the resources to plan organize and successfully complete any projects within a given time frame
>By creating flowcharts on Miro we build flawless workflows with enhanced clarity to boost productivity throughout our organization >In short, Miro helps us plan, organize and manage resources to successfully complete any of our projects within a given time frame >Due to the wide range of capabilities, Miro is great for running sessions for marketing strategy in this way we focus on converting customers to product sales by fulfilling a demand to reach our goals.
Miro has multiple functions that facilitate applying agile methodologies and managing our software development projects. The dashboards are intuitive, and the diagrams are easy to make while we are meeting. In addition, I can use the platform in conjunction with other applications we use daily in the company, such as Zoom and Trello. Its learning curve is almost zero, so it is perfect for working with beginner programmers and developers.
Our company has employees from different countries. While most have a good level of English or Spanish, some still need to speak the five languages Miro is currently available in. It would be nice if they could incorporate more options.
It helps us to organize the different scrum ceremonies remotely and to optimize the workflow through dashboars. The organization of information and optimization of processes has helped us increase our productivity. Some customers have notices and improvement in our attention and performance and know our relationships are better.
Mir is one of the best tools for creating a marketing project from scratch. The whiteboard is perfect for visualizing team ideas and collaborating remotely. I like that the team organizes each member's tasks better. This way, we focus on the project details. It makes it easier for us to follow up on the project with new features when we update the boards. We use it a lot because it is a versatile and efficient tool.
The tool is expensive for freelancer or people who want to start a business. Its functions are limited, although they are sufficiente. I had to subscribe to a paid plan to access all the integrations.
With Miro, I have been able to work efficiently with a team. I learned how to dynamically and remotely make flowcharts, maps, and diagrams to manage marketing projects. The features are ideal for begineers and marketing experts, which has helped me advance as a professional. It is an experience I have not been able to repeat on other platforms similar to Miro.
Where I do not have to perform a save operation.
When the font size of the text is out of balance with the size of the editing screen.
The intuitive operation has largely solved the problem.
The platform offers a wide range of features, including real-time collaboration, an extensive library of templates and shapes, and the ability to import and export various file types. The interface is intuitive and user-friendly, making it easy for team members to get up and running quickly. Overall, Miro is a great tool for teams looking to improve their remote collaboration and ideation efforts.
I can't think of a single thing I would change about Miro. It has exceeded all of our expectations and has become an integral part of our team's workflow.
Our team has been using Miro for several months now and we have been extremely happy with it. We love the real-time collaboration, the wide range of templates and shapes, and the ability to import and export various file types.
Easy to use and learn. Lots of ad-hoc widgets to add to board
Nothing comes to mind. Can't think of something to add here
Transparency of tasks, over program operating model
The best thing about Miro from my perspective is the Jira integration as we work with software. We also like the amount of elements we get out of the box that allows us to create customised boards for all needs. The artists and PMs want fancies stuff, us devs like to keep it simple. The ability to dynamically scale infinitely (or at least that's the perception) is also great as people don't need to be concerned about performance when dropping many super unoptimized assets on the board.
Don't think there is something i dislike to be honest. There are things that could be done better maybe but i don't feel like any of the elements is counterproductive.
The problem Miro is solving is: shared space for collaboration for multidisciplinary teams. We also work with a hybrid model so physical meetings are almost never possible so we needed a replacement for the standard whiteboards in the digital space.
The number of templates available and the instructions in them.
Sometimes navigation around the screen can be tricky, zooming in and out I've "lost" things.
Offering templates and problem-solving methods.
It's a tool that allows you to throw whatever you like on a board. Planning a workshop, designing a website, mapping a process.. I've used Miro for all of those cases and it's simple, straight forward and also quite fun to use.
I haven't really found a downside yet. The only challenge at times is that some colleagues haven't used it yet, so they don't really know what it is at first but since it's fairly straight forward, that's usually not a big hurdle!
It helps me visualize information and complex ideas in a way that it's easy to understand for everyone. Planning a workshop, designing a website, mapping a process are the use cases I had so far.
Easy to get started, very intuitive. Easy to share the board, even during a meeting (hassle-free last minute invites) Lots of templates available to be productive and to use as a starting point when you're uninspired Great replacement of an actual whiteboard with a lot more space
Some bugs here and there have popped up, but other than that, there isn't much to complain about. The dot-voting functionality for a lot of Miro-suggested templates aren't using the dot-voting system, which is counter-intuitive and made it somewhat harder to get acquainted with the feature when most templates just use copy-pasted circle shapes instead. I'm guessing that the fact that dot-voting is a paid feature plays a role in this...
Getting a real whiteboard with stickies and even visualization tools in a virtual workspace is hard to find. Miro solves this and allows teams to bring the workshop experience online. On top of that, Miro also helps you clean up and structure the output of a workshop with several features. Whether it is cleaning up the stickies by grouping them, exporting stickies and tables to csv/excel is a great help when closing up a workshop and saves a lot of time.
Whether your needs are simple or complex Miro helps me accomplish my goals.
Only negative I've encountered so far is that Miro's integration with Rally Software is limited.
I use Miro on a regular basis for developing workshops, roadmaps, and organizing and facillitating sessions with customers and colleagues.
I usually use the miro to work in a group here at the Vale do Rio Doce company. The tool is fast, practical, intelligent, versatile and very accessible.
They lack a simplified environment for express sharing of links, without having to log in. To ask simple questions or brainstorm.
I work remotely and often need to brainstorm and share ideas with the online team around the world. Miro suited me perfectly
>Miro offers you the flexibility to integrate with your favorite 100+ tools to align your teams and make your work more efficient >On Miro, you can easily create a visual illustration that develops the style of your business which complements your branding >The immense number of activity templates, marker colors, custom icons, voting, commenting, cms integration, and document collaboration not only unlock your creativity, but you're able to conduct workshops effectively
Nothing to report overall because by taking Miro, we are able to visualize any conversation that helps us to enhance various aspects of our company's performance.
Our collaboration is more efficient and we are able to quickly access our relevant business data due to the real-time analytics provided by Miro. In this way, Miro helps us to improve workflow within the business. That is why our organization has always made informed business decisions.
We love that Miro is a one-stop interactive board! We use it as a short-term and long-term project calendar, information storage, message center, and more! It is so simple to use, but features many robust features at the same time.
One thing we haven't found a simple way to do is to share items our team has created in Miro with members of our organization who are not on our Team. We'd love an option to Export a frame and its contents as an image file that could be emailed or posted on our organization's website.
With the nature of our team, we have a lot of projects going on at once, and Miro allows us to see what is coming up and schedule our staff accordingly. Having a clear project board has helped us not let projects fall through the cracks, and therefore has increased satisfaction across our entire organization.
Miro improves performance for distributed teams through synchronous and asynchronous collaboration.
It's been a while ever since I encountered an error when using this program.
Miro enables us to innovate rapidly through brainstorming and cross-functional discovery with the help of canvas, prebuilt templates and widgets.
Miro is great for all kinds of visual thinking. No matter if you are creating the wireframes for your new website, analysing user research or creating a marketing strategy for your new product, Miro's got your back. It's powerful enough so that you don't feel limited when expressing your ideas - in fact, Miro, can help you express them with the variety of tools & plugins it supports - but also simple enough that you don't feel overwhelmed and can focus on the work.
I don't see any downsides for myself - but it can be difficult to onboard others into Miro, especially if they are not that tech-savvy OR have older computers since the tool can be pretty demanding performance-wise.
As a designer, Miro is helping me in all parts of my work. Planning research, analysing it, putting together strategies, using different design frameworks such as the Opportunity Solution Tree, and creating mockups - all of this is done easily in Miro, and I consolidated several tools I used before that into just one.
-Miro makes it ridiculously simple for teams to work together on projects and interactive workshops in a hybrid work environment. The applications are nearly limitless. - Miro's large canvas allows me to utilise the same board for numerous sessions and return to it for reference. - Miro's presentation mode is an excellent tool for taking charge and presenting to the entire team. - Small yet important features like voting and timers boost efficiency. - Work on new ideas and workshops involving each team became easy. -Great choices of templates to start working and initiating ideas
-it's more difficult to discover a certain tool you want to use, but with a short search on Google, you'll readily find it again and never forget. -tracking history functionality, allowing collaborators to directly change someone's work while displaying what has been changed
It enables interactive instances with a large number of people, it is used for product presentations, research activities, it is used to have a canvas grouped by projects, and it enables free management of canvas permissions to add external to the project. Considering the way we can share information having a work from home structure almost like we are in there, having those tools that aid to increase communication, we have our project planning meetings done very rapidly with this.
Intuitive and easy to use for international teams.
There is nothing I can think to change about Miro, at the moment.
Miro helps Snowmarkets address a number of concerns at the same time. We can openly share ideas, organize, and structure our plans.
We use Miro mainly for internal workshops. Thanks to the many ready-made templates, a worksheet is quickly prepared. Working together is great fun and very easy, even with a large team. The tool itself is super intuitive to use.
Miro can seem quite overwhelming at first because so much is possible. However, the work is very intuitive relatively quickly. I am not aware of any disadvantages. Miro does exactly what it is supposed to, works, is intuitive and is constantly evolving.
Miro is an infinite digital whiteboard on which I can easily collaborate with other people. Perfect for any project work. Or working together with colleagues & customers.
>By creating flowcharts on Miro, we determine the flow of market surveys for a better internal understanding. Sharing it within the team and collaborating with different departments makes life easier too. >Tracking and scheduling your marketing campaigns allows us to thoroughly analyze our marketing efforts as well as gather information about our audience, product, and market >In short, Miro is an initiative digital whiteboard tool with so many out-of-the-box capabilities like a lot of features CMS integration >Customer support
Nothing to dislike but I would recommend making improvements to ease of use for new users and the price structure for the premium subscription
>By using mind mapping, we not only visualize our ideas but get an overview of our entire sales and marketing projects which is very helpful in the selection process and the process of our prioritization. >Seamless integration with our daily used tool Google Meet in this way, we are in the same room by using the Miro whiteboard >A perfect tool for organizing a workshop in order to solve a particular problem like project planning, sales cycle, customer journey mapping, etc.
The simple features and many templates to work with helps to materialize an idea from scratch regardless of the knowledge area. Being capable of sketching almost anything to share with the team and easily collaborate.
For the uses I give to Miro, I don´t have any dislikes, but maybe some improvements that could be made in terms of performance in the Miro APP, at least on my Mac is better to use on the Web than in App
Right now is solving the lack of a centralize documentation for every process inside the company , So all teams can have access to it and begin to understand what they are actually doing on their daily basis.
We have integrated Miro with Teams as an Add-On. Wherever possible, we are using the whiteboard feature in Complete flexible, collaborative Environment. It's beneficial for remote work as well. Its Integration with Jira is very simple and makes the entire Project management as smooth as possible. As a customer support representative, it's very useful for tracking Change Requests and Service Requests.
Nothing to report, if we have different pricing models that will be helpful for Freelancers and Entrepreniers. If Add-On is available for Zoom Meetings also, that will be helpful.
The best tool to express our Ideas, Collaborations, workplace sketches, and Graphical representations of Business ideals and Cloud Infrastructure. It's Helping me to focus and Ensure that projects are completed in a Planned Structure and Organized manner. Its Visual representation of Cloud -Infrastructructures are simple superbb!!
For the teams I work with, Miro has completely replaced whiteboards, and become an essential tool wherever we need complete flexibility in a collaborative environment. We use it a lot for ideation sessions, brainstorming work, for benchmarking and gathering screenshots, for objective setting and for visual product roadmaps. We also use it for exploring team configurations in a visual way. Remote work would be a lot more challenging without Miro.
In a large organisation actively using Miro it can become challenging to organise all the boards, and it seems that they can sometimes sprawl out. Any tool could suffer this challenge, but it feels like without active management, it's possible to generate a lot of old and out-of-date content. Also, for more formal documentation like RFCs, architectural decision documents, onboarding documents etc where we don't need the realtime group collaboration features of Miro we tend to use alternative more document-centric and database-linked collaboration platforms.
Miro gives our remote and hybrid teams high-quality, collaborative, persistent workspaces to share ideas and work together. We are more productive in our calls. It's easy to use, and onboarding is straight-forward while still having enough depth for power-users.
Wonderful collection of templates for facilitation of every kind of session. Excellent collection of tools for ideation, time keeping, design, planing and team rituals.
It was a bit awkward to share newly created boards since my team uses a browser version while I use App. However, they recently added Launch in the app so that problems are solved
Agile team rituals, design, and planning, decision-making sessions, information radiation. Real-time collaboration with our international team across the ocean.
It helps team members to collaborate efficiently in team workshops and meetings and pitching ideas
Sometimes while searching or going through Miro boards we click and some items move up and down.
Especially in team workshops, the tool is quite helpful in working collaboratively. Also the boards are available to work in the future as agile developments.
Miro is very intuitive to use and has a great template library to choose how to display the information to make collaborating online more efficient.
If Miro could develop a way to embed videos into the workspace, that would improve communication.
We use Miro for brainstorming, storyboarding, flow charting, and general sharing of ideas with and from remote employees. The benefit to Miro is the ease of collaboration across the country.
The simultaneous collaboration and amount of pre-configured templates are the best innovations of Miro. Everything works very well and in real time. I also love the intuitive way and the ease of getting ideas out of the box and into shareable materials.
Confesso que ainda não consegui utilizar todos os recursos disponíveis, além de não ter tido tempo para aprender com os workshops e webnars disponibilizados pela Plataforma. Então por hora são só elogios.
With the advent of Covid-19, we had to adapt very quickly to the new working model with people in their homes. So Miro was a complete solution for this kind of problem. I believe that to be 100% the only thing missing would be a video call option. But this is not a problem.
- I like how easy it is for me to create a visual board; it is more interactive for my team and allows others to look at information without feeling bored. - It is easy to work out the functions, I have used it for a couple of months, and it is simple for me to use. - I'm discovering more features every day; the icons feature has been a favourite, and I have added visuals to make my boards exciting and creative. - Anything I add looks professional. - I like that I can create process models; they are easy to edit and change. - I like the icons and stickers I can put on my boards - It's been great for team retrospectives - The timer and music make meetings more interactive and fun - It is unlike any application I have used; I don't know how I haven't discovered it sooner. - I like the voting options, it makes it a lot quicker than just dot voting. - It's easy to add comments and place them so they are easy for the user to see where I'm talking about.
- It is not immediately clear what some App add-ons are within Miro. Until I use it or Google it, I don't know what it's for. - My team store information in case any are accidentally deleted in Miro. - My team can't rely on having information stored on Miro only. We store information visually on Miro but also have a document with the information to back it up in case it's lost.
Miro allows me to put information from analysis on current systems within my organisation. It allows me to present the information in an easy to read and visual way for my team to understand. It makes the experience of my team looking at information much better than a long boring document. I can put visual graphs, process models, and create a journey for my team to follow frame by frame.
Ease of use for all technology levels involved.
I would like to see improvements within tagging (other than post it notes) and more interaction within other applications
keeping ides organized with the ability for team members to modify with ease