Miro Reviews & Product Details

The upside of Miro is that it's a blank canvas to explore your ideas and communicate things.

Typically, communication of ideas - especially at work - was locked to a document or slides and is in a fairly rigid, rectangular format. Ideas and narratives aren't actually best illustrated that way.

The great thing about Miro is it gives you a canvas to illustrate things in the best way possible without the constraint of traditional docs or slides

Obviously, the collaboration stuff is great and really handy when you need it. But to me, that's the magic in Miro - it gives you a blank canvas. You can execute effortlessly and also impart your own styling preferences to create something that's really beautiful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find the Frames feature within Miro quite irritating.

When they work well, they mean that you can take another person on a journey across your blank canvas really easily through the frames.

However, they just go wrong regularly. I find it really hard to edit frames after they're done, sometimes the content doesn't show properly in the frame, and it would be really really hard for me to articulate all of this, but the frames are just fraught with bugs and errors and they never work properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a software/data engineer, I find Miro to be an incredibly useful tool for collaboration, data architecture planning, and workflow visualization. Here’s why it stands out:

Excellent for Data Pipeline Design – Miro’s infinite canvas makes it easy to map out ETL workflows, data flow diagrams, and architecture blueprints. The drag-and-drop functionality helps in quickly structuring data pipelines before implementation.

Great for Team Collaboration – Real-time collaboration allows seamless brainstorming sessions with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders. No more back-and-forth emails—just instant updates.

Apart from the above, I am now using Miro for my presentations too :) Unlike Powerpoint, it is much easy to put a lot of stuff there for presentation.

In short, it’s a powerful whiteboarding and architecture planning tool that improves team productivity as it is very easy and light to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can Get Cluttered – If multiple people work on a board without proper organisation, it can become a bit messy. Keeping a structured approach is key.

However, one can overcome the above by using a structured approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is a great tool for diagraming ideas, because it gives a feeling of an infinite white board. I like how I can move things around to arrange space between items and how easy it is to add something in the middle of a diagram to expand it. This is great both for early stage ideas and large boards. Also, being able to collaborate with the team in real time makes it perfect for online meetings, like when brainstorming or documenting. I've been using it almost every week for projects or personal brain dumps. I think it's easy to start working on it because it uses most of the common keybindings and mouse controls you'd expect for navigating the interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Cannot easily align items (no magnetic placing), which can be really annoying to people who like to perfectly align items in the board.

- Sometimes the arrows simply don't go the way I want them to go

- I find the formatting options a little limited and buggy (mainly with the colors), for example you cannot see the color names in the color picker, which is a problem for a colorblind like myself and if a collaborator selected a custom color, it doesn't appear in the quick selection for the rest of the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That’s a long list, so I’ll make it shorter for readers benefit.

- Finally having a non-physical space to map my (and others) thoughts.

- Ability to coordinate actions real-time. This is something that Miro really excels at.

- A ton of useful presets. I either do simple things on my own or things that are more complex but there’s already a template for it.

- Integrations. A lot of them and they work very well (I was totally surprised that you can embed a Google Doc directly in Miro). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think it would be nice to have a different mode for using tablets/touch devices that you can write on. More of a sandbox mode, where you don’t have or can’t to interact with objects like arrows, notes, shapes.

This might be a hard one - selecting objects, copying them and knowing what you’ll be pasting might not be always that intuitive. Unless that’s already solved, maybe having the ability to batch select objects only on the top layer of your selection area would be useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use Miro with an org team of 40+ people and I'd say we get a lot of value out of it. It is our default diagramming tool, for which its openness and shareability knock Office/Sharepoint apps out of the park. I haven't used many other whiteboard tools (e.g. FigJam) but I'd say that the focus on whiteboard features helps to keep Miro sleek and not overburdened with design choices. It's a refined experience. It's easy for a lot of users to collaborate; we use it for jam sessions with 20+ participants. I have also led presentations and videos driven from Miro and found that to be a good experience. The keyboard shortcuts are very good once you learn them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Other users in my team tend to experience a learning curve and their muscle memory from other illustration/whiteboarding apps doesn't carry over. Text sizing is a bit of an unsolved problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really liked the opportunity for each person on our team to have their own colored sticky note. I like the variety (though I would ask for more color options even) of colors to use. I like being able to grab and move groups. And, I just started using different template options. But, most significant is the ability for our team to be on the board at separate and multiple times and also working together to move items around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes I got lost in the connecting arrows but I figured it out after a bit. I would also ask you to allow for text orientation on the arrow with text in it. If I point the arrow from left to right, the orientation is correct but when flipped, I couldn't figure out how to turn the text so that it wasn't upside down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am Product Manager, and today I manage more than 8 projects in the same time. The main value for me, is that I can see every update and concepts in the same page.

- I use a lot of sticky notes to track fast thinking, and connect them with arrows.

- I use cards, kanban and timeline to communicate stakeholders and manage tasks.

- I like to user every kind of forms to show ideas and wireframes.

- I update my boards every day, and encorouge every team member to create and update boards.

- Mindmaps also help me to structure ideas and transform simple thoughts into actions.

- I use doccuments to track important changes to report my leaders.

- Oftenly I use boards to direct internal and external dynamics.

The way Miro helps me visualizing everything linked, makes me feel really confortable.

I never needed support since day one. The software is easy to start and share. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only think that block me is the feature table. The feature is pretty nice for simple listing, but there is no formula into it. If there is a way to import Google Sheets, in a way that users can calculate things, it would be the perfect productivity tool. Notion is a pretty good app that can make it, but the sense of freedom in Miro is way bigger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a UX designer who does design and research, I find that Miro is really amazing in helping me in my work – be it creating moodboards, organising information, creating user flow diagrams, planning timelines, taking notes in user research sessions or doing research synthesis. It's super intuitive to use. I love the many templates available, be it created by Miro or by the community. Miro is innovative and keeps launching new features too, such as the Timeline feature, Tshirt sizing, voting, reactions and more. I can't wait to see more features! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Miro AI photo generation tool can be improved.. It was quite glitchy to be honest, it's not on par with Midjourney, Leonardo AI or other AI image generation tools out there. This would be useful because I tend to create personas in Miro and being able to do everything in one place would be more convenient for me. Also, maybe Figma and Miro can have a two-way sync. so when I update a frame on Figma, the frames I copy and pasted onto Figma can also be updated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Helps our teams and clients collaborate - especially with most people working from home still, and others in offices around the country.

As a habitual whiteboard user for hashing out ideas and diagramming to analyse and design solutions, Miro boards are invaluable to how we work now.

The templates are widely used in our organisation, and I've found that throwing together diagrams like flowcharts are as usable and intuitive in Miro as in dedicated diagramming software, with the benefit of having the diagram stored in the same place as all the other collaboration artifacts, on the one project board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hard to think of any. Only occasional usability things, like copy-pasting a table into Excel only seems to work by saving as csv first. That's a minor issue though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simplicity - it's very easy to get up and running immediately, the interface is simple and intuitive enough to hit the ground running

Versatility - you can use it for nearly anything - presentations, virtual meetings, brainstorm sessions, marketing. It can be an easily navigable repository for project information. If you can imagine how something can be visually represented, Mira can do it

Collaboration - you have control of how collaborative your boards are. Full inclusion of others, view only, no access - you decide and you control it.

I use it daily, often one of the first apps I open each day, as it contains all my thoughts, notes, plans for my projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Occasionally if I get overzealous when navigating, the "select and drag" tool doesn't let go of the board, and I end up jumping to another section of the board. This is probably 99% my own error. If I release the mouse button before the mouse goes off screen, it doesn't happen. Like I said - it's when I'm overzealous navigating to another section of the board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.