Miro

The online whiteboard many teams use for workshops, sold per seat.

Benchmark review. Giants are reviewed rarely, to show what the tools in the directory are measured against. This one is not listed in the directory, and it is an example, not a recommendation. Scores are our opinion on the six questions, based on public sources and dated October 2026.

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The story goes that the Post-it note grew out of a glue that barely stuck, and Miro is that note with a wall that never runs out: a shared canvas in a browser where a team drops sticky notes, arrows, frames and templates and moves them around together. On its free plan you can create as many boards as you like, but according to Miro's own help page only the three most recent stay editable, and older ones turn view-only until you delete a board, copy one or upgrade.

Miro scores a 3 on self-direction and delivery, a 2 on footprint and a 1 on lock-in, power and longevity. Its export page lists images, PDF and CSV, with the free plan limited to small images and PDFs, CSV carrying only the text from notes, tables, cards and shapes, and no backup file mentioned that you could load back into an editor. An export API that produces a ZIP with the board as SVG, PDF or HTML plus JSON files for comments and collaborators is part of the Enterprise plan, and its documentation describes it as made for archiving.

The pricing page lists Starter at $8 per member per month, Business at $20 and Enterprise by quote, all billed yearly, with private boards, visitor editing and high resolution exports on the paid plans, and boards on the free plan are visible to the whole team. Miro's help article says it does not use AI interactions to train or fine-tune models and describes an admin setting called Use data for Miro AI improvements that can be switched off, and we could not tell from that page whether it starts on for free teams, so we left it out of the score.

In practice it is a wall your whole team can stand at, as long as the three boards you care about stay on top of the pile and someone keeps paying for the rest. As of November 2026 this is our opinion, based on public sources, and if you spot an error, write to hello@toolsforconviviality.org and we will check it and correct it. Compare it with the tools in Whiteboards & diagrams.

What stands out

• A hosted service on Miro's servers, sold per member
• Free plan: unlimited boards, but only the three most recent stay editable
• Exports are images, PDF and CSV, with no backup file mentioned

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