Miro
Collaboration · Freemium
Overview
An online whiteboard with an endless canvas that many people can work on at once. Teams add sticky notes, shapes, diagrams, images, and freehand drawing in real time, which makes it useful when people are not in the same room. It was founded in 2011 as RealtimeBoard by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin, and renamed Miro in 2019. The product has grown beyond whiteboarding to include diagramming, documents, tables, simple slide decks, video walkthroughs, and AI tools that generate and organize content on the board.
What people use it for
Teams use Miro to run workshops and brainstorming sessions, especially with remote participants, where everyone adds sticky notes and clusters them together. It is used for planning work: mapping a quarter, laying out a user journey, running a retrospective, or building a project timeline. Designers and researchers use it to map flows, organize research notes, and share early concepts. Engineering and operations teams draw architecture and process diagrams on it. Product teams use it as a shared space for discovery work before anything is written up formally. Miro is also used for async input, where a facilitator sets up a board and people add thoughts on their own time before a live session pulls it together.
Key capabilities
Miro's canvas is endless and multiplayer, with sticky notes, connectors, freehand drawing, comments, voting, timers, and a presentation mode. It includes diagramming for flowcharts, mind maps, org charts, and customer journey maps, plus document, table, and slide formats on the same board. Miro lists more than 6,000 templates and more than 250 apps and integrations, including Jira, Asana, Slack, Notion, Google Workspace, and Microsoft Teams, and offers a REST API and developer platform for custom apps. Miro AI generates sticky notes, diagrams, and mind maps from a text prompt, clusters notes into themes, summarizes a board, and auto-arranges diagrams. Talktrack records a video walkthrough of a board that viewers watch while navigating it. The free plan includes 3 editable boards with unlimited members; paid plans are priced per member and remove the board limit.
Limitations
Large boards get slow and visually crowded, and a board built live in a session is often a tangle that is hard to read afterward without a cleanup pass. The free plan allows only 3 editable boards, so any real use needs a paid per-member seat, and costs grow with the team. New users face a learning curve around navigation, frames, and the many tools. Because the canvas is so open, boards drift into inconsistent structure unless someone maintains a system. Content on a Miro board does not export cleanly into documents, so findings usually have to be rewritten elsewhere. Heavy boards can also strain lower-end machines and browsers.
Insight
Miro is very good at the live session. Getting a dozen remote people to put ideas on the same surface, move them around, group them, and vote is something a video call plus a document cannot do well, and Miro handles it smoothly. What it is not good at is being the finished artifact. The board that comes out of a workshop is usually a sprawl of half-labeled notes that made sense in the moment, and anyone who opens it a week later has to reconstruct the meaning. Big boards also get sluggish. The practical pattern is to use Miro for the messy, collaborative middle of the work, then have someone write the outcome into a real document and treat the board as a scratchpad. The free plan's three-board limit means committing to per-seat pricing for any serious use.
Pricing
Freemium
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Last checked 2026-08-30