I can't live without Miro, and you can, too.
January 09, 2025

I can't live without Miro, and you can, too.

Bryna Kirzner, Force Multiplier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Miro

I use Miro across multiple companies to help founders and entrepreneurs build and create businesses, align high-performing teams, help CEOs mature their operations, and assist executives and mid-career technologists with their organizational issues and career transitions. Examples are creating stakeholder registries, exploring product features, planning change curves, creating targeted resumes, video production planning, retirement planning, time management, prioritization, road mapping, retrospectives, event planning, newsletters, social media marketing plans, and brand explorations.

Pros

  • Miro has the most intuitive UI of all the infinite whiteboard offerings, allowing rapid onboarding for teams to collaborate quickly with minimal training.
  • Miro never fails. 99.99% of issues experienced in real-time are resolved by refreshing the browser tab.
  • Stickies are the most consistent and reliable way to get thoughts out of your head. The "Type and hit TAB" action unlocks everyone and allows for flow.
  • The "arts and crafts" interface makes work fun and less overwhelming, allowing for a visual perspective that no other method provides.

Cons

  • Users must create an account to collaborate, and some tools remain embargoed from non-signed-in users. The Miro signup process can take up to 15 minutes to complete.
  • Working with chunks of text can be difficult. The 6000 character limit is frustrating but understandable, as Miro is best for rapid text prototyping, and other programs like Google Docs do those things better.
  • Locating all of the tools takes some looking. Miro has plenty of help videos to help you get started, and the Miro community is a good source of learning about new features.
  • Using a Miro board as an Obeya for a business decreases time to on-board a new executive to the leadership team by 66%.
  • The time it takes for a musical artist and a designer to collaborate -- from ideation to printing -- on an album cover decreased from 2.5 weeks to 2.5 hours.
  • Marketing planning now takes hours instead of weeks.
The implementation of Miro in our org was simple. I started using it 5 years ago and never looked back. I take it with me everywhere and implement it in multiple orgs.
It's pretty great, but we still don't have a way for Google Calendar to intake card dates.
It's all we do. Every meeting is in Miro. All of our meetings are workshops. Everyone shows what they're doing and shares it in every meeting and asynchronously.
Zoom's thing, Figma, Mural, Slack's Canvas, their UI aren't as intuitive as Miro's. They aren't as robust of offerings, and no one has the community Miro has. I try them all and find more reasons to love Miro.

Do you think Miro delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Miro's feature set?

Yes

Did Miro live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Miro go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Miro again?

Yes

Miro is best for mind mapping organizational difficulties, designing a talk or webinar, planning an event, doing any calendar-based planning and road mapping, designing rapid prototypes and proof of concepts, and bringing teams together in any collaborative activity. Miro is not well suited for word processing, specifically beyond 6000 characters, and for document formatting on a larger scale. Miro is not a good spreadsheet, especially if you need formulas, calculations, conditional formatting, etc.

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