Miro

Pros

Simple, easy to pick up and to demonstrate to others

Cons

No cons for Miro at the moment based on what I use it for

Pros

The endless canvass for planning purposes.
Accessibility for multiple people to work on a plan at the same time in real time.

Cons

The switching between the pointer and the hand to move the canvass around is slow, along with the sliders being very small to move the canvass.

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

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

It has helped us to collaborate efficiently with other team members.
Has made it easy to share ideas and brainstorm with others.

Cons

I did not experience any cons while using it, it is a great product.

Pros

The variety of templates and the ability to work in real-time with a team makes it perfect for any creative project

Cons

One downside is that it can get a bit cluttered when you have too many elements on the board

Pros

A wide variety of templates and tools for brainstorming, project management, and diagramming. The visual and interactive interface makes collaboration intuitive and engaging, even for remote teams.

Cons

The interface can feel overwhelming at first, requiring some time to get comfortable. Performance slows down on heavily populated boards, which can be frustrating during key meetings.

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

Is a very intuitive platform and for doing chart is one of the most complete

Cons

The amount of email users received when they complete the enrollment

Pros

As a developer, I really liked the ability to collaborate in real-time. Also, it was convenient for users because the remote team was useful for brainstorming and project progress together.

Cons

Complex projects can lead to overcrowding of canvases and less legible.

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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Reasons for Switching to Miro

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

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 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

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, 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

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

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 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

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

There is a lot more that we are able to do with Miro from collaboration, planning and organizing our work, mapping and visualizing our work and much more and this allowed us to reduce the number of products we are having at our infrastructure since we solving multiple problems with just one product. Miro allow us to strategize our work and lay straightforward plans using Gantt chart to direct us on how to go about it. Also, it helps us to map our projects in terms of flowcharts and diagrams for better understanding of how we are supposed to have a systematic flow of work delivery.

Cons

It being a robust product with multiple functions in it, sometimes it get a little confusing on which features you are supposed to choose for your work.

Pros

The simplicity and recently the addition of AI. I love that feature. Also Miro is really good at tiny gaps in consumer journeys and filling them. The shortcuts are great and the library of templates is love! I have used it so many times as a starting point. Always a great inspiration

Cons

The zooming in and zooming out is great but the text size is limited. So If I have zoomed out and have created a big font sentence, then I can't make a bigger header without making everything one size small. Also the size of the new element(post-it, text) should be adjusted to the board size and not it's default size.

Pros

I like the sharing aspect and the whiteboard

Cons

It can be hard to workout where you are on the board, following along can be tricky if there's a lot of content

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

- Very intuitive UI that unlocks efficient diagramming
- Wide range of templates that optimize the time you spend diagramming
- Very versatile, you can do a number of things for remote and on-site teams

Cons

- The zooming in and out with mouse can trip me up sometimes,and cause some frustration
- I do wish there were more options to 'label' grouped items together or that when adding a background to a section, the background moves with the section

Pros

A great means to create representations for processes.

Cons

I don't really have a con thus far. I'm in love 3 years deep.

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 gets the work done perfectly and in the right way. It is easy for any one who is new to Miro to understand how to use Miro because it has a user-friendly interface. Managing products with Miro is simple and this makes my work easy.

Cons

I haven't had challenges with Miro for me the journey is smooth.

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

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

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

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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Reasons for Switching to Miro

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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Reasons for Switching to 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

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

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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Reasons for Switching to Miro

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

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

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

So many built in objects for creating the perfect board, with more seemingly added on a regular basis. Gets the basics right, such as basic diagrams and flowcharts - but also integrates deeply with Jira etc. Good tool for doing interesting team retrospectives.

Cons

Organisation and discoverability of other boards or boards you've created in the past - hard to find your old work!

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

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

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

-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

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.

Pros

I use miro on a daily basis for process mapping by using the large variety of predefined flows and templates which are ready to use.The miro app is great for collaboration while working remotely

Cons

Miro is a an overall good product no issues faced

Pros

It's really helpful to use especially for floorplans as a designer I can navigate through everything to design the floorplan

Cons

Nothing really, I like that you can see how everyone is active and what they are doing incase they change something