Miro

Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard. Teams use its infinite canvas to brainstorm with sticky notes, map processes and customer journeys, plan projects, run workshops and retrospectives, sketch diagrams and organise research, working together in real time or asynchronously. It became a staple of remote and hybrid work. When in-person workshops moved online, teams needed a shared space that felt like a wall of sticky notes, and Miro's combination of freeform canvas, templates and facilitation features filled that role. It is used across product management, design, engineering, agile coaching, consulting and education, often by people who are not designers. The template library is a major strength, with ready-made frameworks for user story maps, journey maps, kanban boards, mind maps, retrospectives, flowcharts, org charts and many more, plus a community of shared templates. Facilitation tools such as timers, voting, private mode, attention management and presentation mode make it practical for running live sessions with large groups. Diagramming features, embedded documents, tables and integrations with Jira, Asana, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Zoom connect boards to daily work. AI features help generate ideas, cluster sticky notes, summarise boards and create diagrams. Miro offers a free plan with a limited number of editable boards, and paid plans per member for teams and enterprises with advanced security and administration. The trade-offs are that large, busy boards can become slow and cluttered without discipline, and costs grow with team size; it is also a whiteboard rather than a precise diagramming or interface design tool. Alternatives include FigJam, Figma's whiteboard, ideal for teams already in Figma; Mural, a close competitor focused on facilitation; Microsoft Whiteboard for Microsoft 365 organisations; Whimsical for fast flowcharts and wireframes; Excalidraw and tldraw for lightweight sketching; and Lucidspark and Lucidchart for whiteboarding plus formal diagrams. Choose Miro when your team needs a versatile shared canvas for workshops, planning and visual collaboration.