Miro

Miro has become the default visual collaboration platform for distributed teams, and for good reason. The infinite canvas concept works brilliantly for brainstorming, planning, and workshopping, giving teams a shared visual space that replicates and often surpasses the experience of gathering around a physical whiteboard. With over 60 million users worldwide, Miro benefits from a massive template library and a mature feature set refined over years of real-world use. The template library is one of Miro's strongest competitive advantages. Whether you need a sprint retrospective, customer journey map, affinity diagram, or strategic planning framework, there is likely a professional template ready to use. This saves significant setup time and helps teams adopt best practices for facilitation and visual thinking. Facilitation tools like voting, timers, and presentation mode transform Miro from a simple whiteboard into a workshop platform. Real-time collaboration is smooth and responsive, with visible cursors showing where each team member is working. The integration ecosystem connects Miro with project management tools like Jira and Asana, communication platforms like Slack and Teams, and design tools, making it a natural hub for cross-functional collaboration. The free plan is genuinely useful, supporting unlimited team members with 3 editable boards, which is sufficient for small teams or occasional use. The Starter plan at 8 dollars per member per month removes the board limit, and the Business plan at 16 dollars per member per month adds private boards, advanced facilitation tools, and SSO. Enterprise pricing is custom. The primary limitations emerge at scale. Very large boards with hundreds of elements can experience performance degradation, and complex projects can become visually cluttered without disciplined organization. Miro is also primarily a visual thinking tool rather than a detailed diagramming solution, so teams needing precise technical diagrams may prefer Lucidchart or draw.io. For remote and hybrid teams that value visual collaboration, workshop facilitation, and agile planning, Miro is the market leader for a reason. Its combination of ease of use, template depth, and collaboration quality is unmatched.