Bolste vs. Miro

Bolste is best suited for companies that rely on team work and e-mail communication within/between departments

I would recommend Miro for any situation where teams are mostly/completely remote and need to collaborate deeply within/across each other AND have a dedicated facilitator who can put time into setting up/maintaining the board. I think teams that are more strapped for time and resources will end up being too scrappy and not putting in the time to use Miro to it's full potential. Additionally, teams that are largely in person or mostly in person might get more value out of just using whiteboards and stickies.

Incentivized

• Keeps everybody on the same page.
• Easy to access/use.

• Great for projects discussion and meetings while screen sharing.
• Brainstorming is great. Makes it easy to map out ideas and workflows.
• Remote workshop. To effectively understand how mind mapping works and helps to bring ideas into real projects.
• Helps us to plan out our sales launch and boost sales strategies through our clients engagement process.

Incentivized

• There is only 7GB of storage in the Plus Pack.

• Privacy mode to allow participate to create cards that are hidden by facilitator.
• Polls or voting that is simplified.
• Allow the facilitator to separate background/structure items (that cannot be moved) from other items that everyone can interact with (that can move), thus preventing error movements in boards.

Incentivized

Miro is very good but still too basic. It would be great to have more precision and some advanced tools. More control over the text size and objects alignment is a need for our design team. Also, the experience on the tablets is not so good. Many dead clicks and problems while trying to select objects and tools.

Incentivized

It's pretty easy to use. My gripes are with some small idiosyncrasies with selection behavior with objects and editing text. When I move an object, it automatically de-selects it when I am not done with it. I have to click to select again. Text control is challenging and could be improved. It could use a little more styling capability. It's also weird that it behaves differently in a shape then when using the text tool.

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I have never had a problem with the availability

Incentivized

Most of the time pages load quickly but occasionally it does take time to point you to the area that you initially worked on.

Incentivized

I have personally not required support when something was broken but used the training slides provided to get more knowledge of the tool

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Not applicable as never had in person training

Incentivized

Superb. very well explained videos. Really helps get the knowledge up on the product. The slides are divided into the topics of usage. I have enjoyed following and implementing all of these slides. The videos are well explained and it is easy to follow. There are tutorials that you can take yourself later. It would be nice however if more training modules were added.

Incentivized

We learned as we went when we first started with Miro. Most of the controls and functions were easy to understand right away. Some of the functions were less intuitive but we figured them out. I appreciate that Miro offers virtual walkthroughs of its functionality to help get new users up to speed

Incentivized

Against draw.io Miro is next generation tool, but we are still using draw.io because of its simplicity for drawing AWS diagrams and exporting them, and it is free.

There is also a competitor not mentioned on the list, excalidraw. It outperforms miro when it comes to drawing mind maps and simple stuff.

I think, when miro shines is the whiteboard collaboration.

Incentivized

The product is being used across the company and still no issues with the same.

Incentivized

• Miro makes it super easy to collaborate in a hybrid working environment.
• Allows teams to work together on different projects, interactive workshops easily.
• Saves time and cost. By allowing us to ideate engage and hold meetings in virtual room which enhances productivity and efficiency of all our employees.

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