Miro

Shared canvas for whiteboarding, diagramming and running workshops

Miro is a collaborative whiteboard: a shared canvas where a team works together on sticky notes, shapes, diagrams and frames at the same time, with everyone's cursor visible. Alongside free-form boards it carries structured formats — Docs, Tables, Timelines, Kanban and Slides — on the same canvas, so a workshop can turn into a plan without moving tools. It ships over 7,000 templates, facilitation tools like a timer, voting and private mode for running sessions, and AI that generates diagrams, tables and summaries and clusters sticky notes. It connects to more than 250 tools including Microsoft, Slack, Google and Adobe, and an MCP server links boards to Claude, Cursor or Copilot with context flowing both ways.

  • Shared canvas with live cursors, sticky notes, shapes and frames
  • Docs, Tables, Timelines, Kanban and Slides right on the canvas
  • Over 7,000 Miro and community-made templates
  • Diagramming with a shape library and Mermaid on the canvas
  • Timer, voting and private mode for running workshops
  • AI generates diagrams, tables and summaries, and clusters stickies
  • MCP server connects boards to Claude, Cursor or Copilot
  • 250+ integrations including Microsoft, Slack, Google and Adobe

Based on what people have said

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What are the primary use cases for Miro?

Users employ Miro for a variety of tasks, including live whiteboard sessions, project planning, building ideas or pitches, and maintaining long-term project archives. Some users also utilize it for creating large layouts, mind maps, and connecting nodes or models to generate custom plans.

6 mentions · r/Design · r/ClaudeAI · r/MachineLearning · r/GameDevelopment · r/agile · r/comfyui · Aug 2026 – Sep 2026

Is Miro free to use?

Miro offers a free plan that allows users to create up to three boards and access various tools for diagrams and lines. However, some users note that export capabilities are limited on the free tier.

2 mentions · r/AskGameMasters · Aug 2026

How does Miro handle mind maps and editing?

There is disagreement regarding the editing of mind maps. Some users describe them as living documents that remain editable within the workspace, while others suggest that mind-map-specific content may not remain editable after a live session concludes.

2 mentions · r/ClaudeAI · Aug 2026

Can Miro be integrated with other software?

Yes, users report integrating Miro with external tools, including Jira, to support their workflows.

2 mentions · r/projectmanagement · r/Notion · Aug 2026 – Sep 2026

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What people are saying about Miro

69% neutral
“My team keeps a growing Miro board throughout the life of any significant project. Every sketch, draft, revision, and note is preserved. At the end of the project the Miro is a great archive.”
OaklandPanther · reddit ·
“Miro with the Jira plugin.”
nborders · reddit ·
“We keep ours alive but clean it in sections miro's infinite canvas makes that pretty easy because discovery can stay on one side while current flows and decisions have their own area.”
ReuirementtSignal912 · reddit ·
“Maybe Miro could work for you?”
table_o · reddit ·
“A bit slower to fill than Miro, every NPC is a real page, but then the same NPC sits on the map, in the family tree and in the relations graph, all pointing at one page.”
Lumpy_Ad_4432 · reddit ·
“Because in the Miro workspace mind maps are living documents that can be edited.”
bvknight · reddit ·
“If you want a live whiteboard session with a room of people, Miro is still probably the better choice. Just don’t expect the mind-map-specific stuff to stay editable afterward.”
Infamous-Decision876 · reddit ·
“The miro connector is amazing. I had that “holy shit” moment the first time I used it. I took a project plan that it had created in markdown format and simply asked “map this project plan out in miro” and 5 minutes later it spit out a fully interactive masterpiece.”
aka_nighthawk · reddit ·
“Miro. I use it for rather large layouts like this.”
rizzlybear · reddit ·
“Check out Miro. You can have up to three boards for free and there are tons of stuff you can do for free with lines, diagrams etc.”
TheZyborg · reddit ·
“Miro has a free plan as well, though exports are limited [https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017730373-Free-Plan](https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017730373-Free-Plan)”
ben_straub · reddit ·
“In my last 6 year stint in the CS I barely used PowerPoint, we largely used Miro.”
regprenticer · reddit ·
“At work we use miro-board as whiteboards. For personal projects I just use notepad.”
Icarium-Lifestealer · reddit ·
“Do you treat html and markdown as text? And could this be extended to handle diagrams like Miro and Figma?”
6x9isthequestion · reddit ·
“Pinterest and Instagram for bringing ideas in, Miro for visually organizing them. Google Sheets for logistics organization.”
Particular-Set-3960 · reddit ·
“I personally build my ideas/pitches for projects on whiteboard apps like canva or Miro. Maybe one of them has a mobile app”
Empty-Translator-310 · reddit ·
“The fact that the .canvas JSON spec is open source is amazing. For someone with visual OCD, it scratched the exact itch of being able to manually move, segment, and group pieces together on an open plane in a way that intuitively made sense.”
Mothemansour · reddit ·
“Miro”
averosz · reddit ·
“I have seen Miro/Mural used for this.”
churnate · reddit ·
“So, firstly I try to remove this uncertainty by put my idea on ground - it can be miro with “paper design”. For example, my idea about island and how a character surviving on that island. I make a new board in miro, create an island and put my character on that island and try to figure out why this character needs to survive.”
Both_Introduction_28 · reddit ·
“however if you use Miro for screenshot, it doesn't really have that "Canvas" feeling. will definitely be looking for feedback once the app is out though, and bookmarks are on the roadmap !”
John-Da-Editor · reddit ·
“I just have my notes in a dirty google doc right now that I load in as a pypanel for me to paste my snippets and a separate pypanel for Miro to paste my screenshots. I really need a better more indexable system.”
chibitotoro0_0 · reddit ·
“Miro’s own docs also say mind maps aren’t a supported diagram type there. Flowcharts, ER diagrams and sequence diagrams are supported, while mind maps render as pictures.”
NoCherry1596 · reddit ·
“My go tos: Miro and Trello (or similar).”
RiverForgeGames · reddit ·
“I can understand if I get asked "How is this different from Miro?" "How is it different from Mermaid AI?", and the thing is, those are apps for whiteboards or diagrams using AI, they have a large userbase, but you still have to modify some of the content yourself.”
Which-Journalist-352 · reddit ·
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