FigJam is an online interactive whiteboard from Figma headquartered in San Francisco, presently in beta (2021) but available to the public in a free trial. The vendor states that in 2022, FigJam will have plans for $0, $8, and $15 per editor, per month.
$5
per month per editor
Miro
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Miro provides a visual workspace for innovation, where distributed teams can build the future together. MIro counts more than 80 million users, who improve product development, speed up time to market, and ensure that new products deliver on customer needs.
$10
per month per user
Pricing
FigJam
Miro
Editions & Modules
FigJam Professional
$36
per year per editor
FigJam Organization
$60
per year per editor
1. Free - To discover what Miro can do. Always free
$0
2. Starter - Unlimited and private boards with essential features
$8
per month (billed annually) per user
3. Business - Scales collaboration with advanced features and security
$16
per month (billed annually) per user
4. Enterprise - For work across the entire organization, with support, security and control, to scale
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annual billing per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FigJam
Miro
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
Optional
Additional Details
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Monthly billing also available at $10 per month for the Starter plan, or $20 for the Business plan.
Positive: FigJam is cheaper than Miro and allows connecting with FigJam, where we design our user interfaces. FigJam is more complete and visually appealing than draw.io, although draw.io is free. FigJam allows calls, which both competitors do not. Negative: Miro has …
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It is similar, but it provides more usable solutions for brainstorming sessions and presentation purposes. Now empowered with AI and some new cool stuff, it may be the most dangerous competitor to FigJam. However, it will win the race if FigJam is more responsive and gets more …
FigJam works best in pair with Figma, as it allows you to keep track of your project in one place, supporting all phases of the process. The functionality is more intuitive, quick, and efficient. Visually, I also prefer it more —it’s more enjoyable and playful, making the …
Microsoft Whiteboards are better, in my opinion, but not friendly with Figma files (can't export layered assets, raster only). Better in the sense that the drawing and and marker tools felt more natural and the AI features are just better, like auto-shapes, vs. FigJam's …
I feel like Figjam is great at at what it does. It provides a great overall place to be able to use a virtual whiteboard and help teams collaborate. Especially remote teams. It actually does it better than others. There are some tools such as InVision Freehand that at the …
Jamboard is very basic and doesn't offer the same amount of functionality. FigJam seems to be on par with features but just doesn't feel the same or as easy to use.
I prefer Miro over FigJam because it offers a robust set of templates and tools that go beyond simple brainstorming, enabling me to plan complex roadmaps and strategic initiatives seamlessly. Miro feels easier to use and like it was built for non-design folks like myself. I …
It is quite similar to FigJam, but I have a feeling that it's focusing on the collaboration part, whereas FigJam is an addition to Figma, which is clearly a UI-oriented prototyping tool. It's clearer and more user-friendly than Mural. I use Miro in 90% of cases - FigJam is used …
Miro offers a better suite of tools when it comes to team sessions, and it's also easier to collaborate with cross-functional team – it's less designer-centric than FigJam.
- Jamboard was limited in comparison to Miro - I tried FigJam but I didn't have the motivation to switch to it since Miro is already good and satisfies my use cases
I like Miro a lot because it focuses on collaboration and using it as a tool for ideation. Figma I see more as a design tool that can also be used so that others can make comments on your work. FigJam is close to Miro but you do have to pay for the tool which is a disadvantage. …
Miro had better controls and fewer limitations over the canvas than Mural did when we evaluated. When it was released, we already invested too much in Miro to consider FigJam. At that point, it didn't have feature parity. If we were to start today, we would think it would …
One of the main reasons we mostly use Miro is that FigJam needs an understanding of Figma as a whole. It has a higher learning curve because of this. On the other hand, Miro is the easiest tool for outside people to use, because it can be very simple and there's no much extra …
Miro is the best tool I have used of all the tools I have used so far for team collaboration. I chose Miro because of the ease of use as well as being much more feature-rich than other tools. Moreover, Miro has consistently improved on its features and added more tools to help …
Honestly I use Miro because we have an enterprise license for it but I am very happy with the product. I would not switch to another platform even if we lose our enterprise license for some reason
Miro has company wide budget so easy because all employees have the same access. Confluence also has budget and the whiteboard feature is starting to be adopted.
Both tools are quite similar and I don't have a strong preference between one or the other however, my manager is more familiar with Miro thus we use Miro more often.
Miro has free integration with JIRA tickets, whereas Figma requires the user to use the add-on integration on a paid plan. Miro also has a taskboard functionality that can have priorities and is quite intuitive compared to Figma, which is slightly less intuitive.
If you're working in small product teams, like triads, and already using Figma, this is a no brainer for white boarding, quick/fast sketches, wireframing, collaborative doodling ... it gets less appropriate with large teams, infrequent. IMO, due to the way in which they price, it's better to keep the inner circle small-ish.
To be honest, Miro became such a natural choice for me that I use it for everything. Even when, we have to do some impromptu icebreaker in a meeting and have to write down some words, my first thought is to open Miro not Notes app. Although I do use it a lot for my research tasks, and it provides a great feature of visually laying out all the data in front of you. I would say it is less appropriate for video content and tagging that I do elsewhere, sometimes because of that I stay in the other software as it can take some time to import all the data into Miro after analysis. I would say it is great for planning, ideating and workshop design as well as facilitating meetings, workshops and anywhere where you may want to use visual cues
User-friendly environment. Once a person jumps into Miro for the first time, it is very easy to teach the basics in 5 minutes and get them to collaborate.
The Kanban + the Cards are my preferred way to organize my tasks and projects.
The sticky notes I use in every workshop it is just the best way to register thoughts, ideas
Voting and Polling. I love this function as it makes it easier to bring meetings to a conclusion, make decisions, help prioritize, etc.
It misses easy-to-use pre sets of diagrams. The ones presented seem to be not native and hard to use. Miro is a good benchmark.
Navegating throught projects in the main page is confusing, specially when people are not admin users.
It should suggest ways of organizing the pages designers do, specially when the project is big and have many pages and sections.
It could have, for example, a draft version for every page, so that one can hide it when they finish the work, but can open it whenever something needs to be modified, versioning the job.
Highlighting Post-its with emojis or symbols is a challenge. For example I may have a post-it that I want to highlight and come back to for a specific reason. When I use emojis now, it places it in the post-it like text. I want to be able to place a fire or #1 emoji "on-top-of" a post-it so I can visually see what I need to go back to.
Offline Mode - This one really bothers me. I travel a lot and those are amazing opportunities to knock out focused undistracted work. Unfortunately unless the airline has internet and I pay for it, I can't work on anything that I've used for Miro. This is by far the most important thing that holds Miro back.
Organization - I have noticed an update that appears to provide a way to better organize my boards. I have fully dug into it yet but that's an area that needs work. A better way to organize my different boards would be amazing and eliminate the chaos.
Additional Templates - I have a few businesses, one of them being a marketing agency. It would be nice to have templates that are related to content creation.
There is no other tool like Miro for process Mapping in particular. I've tried PowerPoint, Word, and other programs, but when collaborating virtually on how to improve a process, Miro has all of the tools and more to enable successful mapping. The colors, different types of shapes and text books, along with the ability to integrate different documents and other functionality, make it ideal for this purpose. In a virtual world, it's a must-have.
I don't use it often, because the organization I work in uses a different environment on a commo basis. This is rather used between the designers, who prototype the solutions in Figma - they just have it as a workbook/notebook for their ideas. However, if those need to be shared with stakeholders or other organization members, the designers are expected to use a different environment.
I would rate Miro's overall usability a 10 as well. The platform's intuitive design and user-friendly interface make it incredibly easy to navigate and use, even for those who are new to it. The drag-and-drop functionality, along with a wide range of templates and tools, allows for seamless collaboration and creativity. Additionally, the real-time collaboration features enable our team to work together efficiently, regardless of location. The integration with other tools we use daily further enhances our workflow, making Miro an indispensable part of our toolkit. Overall, Miro's usability has significantly improved our productivity and collaboration, making it a top choice for our team.
I only give a 9/10 because of the speed at which it loads. I have never experienced issues with Miro logging me out early, or some other technical issue causing the program to crash, or even it just loading in perpetuity without ever actually coming up (unlike other programs such as SFDC). It take a minute for all of my boards to come up after I click on it in my favorites, but besides that, it's all good.
I took the loading quickly to be related to availability which I commented on before, so ditto with those comment on load time here. Although to reemphasize, Miro doesn't crash or just refuse to load like some other programs. The weak point of Miro for me is integration of files like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint (especially the later two). When you embed these, it gets slow, and complicated to bring them up while you're in the application.
We have never reached out to or contacted support because Miro's platform has been incredibly intuitive and user-friendly. The comprehensive resources available, such as tutorials, documentation, and community forums, have provided all the guidance we needed. The seamless integration with our existing tools and the reliability of the platform have ensured that we rarely encounter issues that require external assistance. This self-sufficiency has allowed us to focus more on our projects and collaboration without interruptions. Overall, our experience with Miro has been smooth and efficient, eliminating the need for additional support
There was a series of webinars which Miro hosted with our organization that went over the basics, then progressively became more advanced with additional sections. The instructors were knowledgeable, and provided examples throughout the sessions, as well as answered peoples' questions. There was ample time and experience on the calls to cover a range of topics. The instructors were also very friendly and sociable, as well as honest. Of course Miro isn't a "God-tool" that does absolutely everything, but the instructors were aware and emphasized the strengths where Miro had them and sincerely accepted feedback.
We had some struggles to get the right people as our Enterprise account admins, which cost us around two weeks. Other than that, our Account Manager, as well as the Support team, have been really responsive and supportive. Also, the migration of all independently created company accounts to one SSO enterprise account was seamless and fast.
FigJam works best in pair with Figma, as it allows you to keep track of your project in one place, supporting all phases of the process. The functionality is more intuitive, quick, and efficient. Visually, I also prefer it more —it’s more enjoyable and playful, making the experience much more engaging.
Miro had better controls and fewer limitations over the canvas than Mural did when we evaluated. When it was released, we already invested too much in Miro to consider FigJam. At that point, it didn't have feature parity. If we were to start today, we would think it would simplify our software suite.
Miro is great for scaling. In every department and subdivision across my entire organization, there is someone using it. From Sales to marketing, to manufacturing and operations; and even in legal and finance, there isn't a process or a department that is not using Miro, and if they aren't, they're missing out! Even at the highest to the lowest levels of the organization, it is essential for virtual collaboration.
FigJam saves a lot of time ... it's nice to have all my visual notes/sketches within Figma itself where a lot of design work lives
The project organization and other features contribute to the ease of answering that age old question ... "where can I find that mockup?"
Dev Mode is pretty cool. Not many use it, so some designers may spend unnecessary time spec'ing out things that no one will appreciate, let alone look at.
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.
