FigJam vs. Miro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
FigJam
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
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 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Miro provides a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to dream, design, and build the future together. Today, Miro counts more than 60 million users in 200,000 organizations who use Miro to improve product development collaboration, to speed up time to market, and to make sure that new products and services deliver on customer needs.
$8
per month per user
Pricing
FigJamMiro
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 per user
3. Business - Scales collaboration with advanced features and security
$16
per month per user
4. Enterprise - For work across the entire organization, with support, security and control, to scale
contact sales
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FigJamMiro
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
FigJamMiro
Considered Both Products
FigJam
Chose FigJam
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 …
Chose FigJam
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 …
Miro
Chose Miro
Navigation in miro in 100 times better than in FigJam, however FigJam is much better and making it easy to design prototypes with flows while incorporating our design systems and color pallete.

Canva is great for making very nice content which is something miro could use more …
Chose Miro
Miro is the more general use one. We use FigJam for internal projects where it's just designers on the project. But for internal projects with other roles involved Miro quickly becomes the more accessible option. The simplicity is the main driver why we opt for using Miro for …
Chose Miro
We are still using tools like Figma, Trello, and FigJam now within different teams. We're really liking Miro's collaboration features. We're hoping they add more cool stuff for design and planning, so we can eventually use Miro for everything and simplify our toolkit.
Chose Miro
We adopted Miro before we moved from Sketch to Figma, which is part of why it beat out FigJam for us. It was already somewhat entrenched before FigJam became available to us.

Also the licensing model and the fact that Miro is available to and used by most everyone in our corp …
Chose Miro
Mural and FigJam always seemed a bit basic compared to Miro.

Mural also didn't have all of the features and appeared visually to be less developed compared to Miro.
Chose Miro
Initially Mural was the preferred option, but ultimately, the only benefit Mural had the double click option to spawn new stickies, so we quickly went away from it since Miro had far more features that were useful to us. It's been a while since then to be fair.

Microsoft Teams' …
Chose Miro
Figma and FigJam tend to be the choices for the designers I have worked with, but it can be a bit intimidating for those who are not technically literate. Slack's whiteboard feature hasn't really taken off with our team, and if we do use it, it is to quickly present something …
Chose Miro
Miro is more broad, and well suited for other professional not only designers like FigJam. The learning curve is shorter, and the interface displays the most common tools for whiteboard and editing types of dynamics, in addition to other specific features.
Chose Miro
We selected Miro because it is really simple to use and it is accessible through a link with a login. I love the whiteboard feel that resembles how we used to work when work meant being in person. A lot of the other tools have more of a specific role in a project where Miro can …
Chose Miro
We were originally using Mural, but it did not satisfy our company's security standards and we also had a lot of issues with it freezing when we would have more than ~10 people collaborating on the board at once, so we made the switch to Miro back in 2020. At first, Miro felt …
Chose Miro
There are so many reasons why I prefer Miro to FigJam. The connections are essential to me articulating my thought process. I have never said this about a piece of software before, but everything I make inside Miro is beautiful. Often, I recreate visual deliverables made in FigJ…
Chose Miro
Mural and Miro seem extremely similar. I'm not as familiar with Mural but love all the tools in Miro for conducting actual sessions (timers, voting, etc.). FigJam is terrible - no comparison there.
Chose Miro
Miro is first still in my mind. Miro in my opinion has the potential to become its own operating system where with the help of better integrations can hold everything you need to perform and operate during work and possibly outside work.
Chose Miro
I think Miro is more collaborative and easier to use than other platforms. It is also more user-friendly in my opinion.
Chose Miro
Miro is the best for collaboration because it’s super fast, can host lots of people, and automatically captures feedback I can share in a single link, or specific links to specific art boards
Chose Miro
Miro is more stable and much more accessible for non-creative/non-design users.
Chose Miro
Miro is superior around actual presenting, and the features are easier to find and use overall. I think the community is also superior. Lucid Spark was much cheaper and could do 80%, but Miro shines if you are a consultant who wants to leverage the best tools.
Chose Miro
The company has worked with several people skills, and Miro is the best fit for people who are not designers.
Chose Miro
Figma is a design tool but there are some similarities to Miro. I have acquired lots of habits from it that I kind of want to carry over - like selecting a group of stickies and quickly aligning them, group, ungroup, etc. I don't think each tool needs its own way of working …
Chose Miro
Miro has all of the features required to do the job we need it to do
Chose Miro
Miro is superior to all of them. There is honestly no comparison. I feel like all of the others make adjustments to try to enhance their platform to be similar to Miro, but the ease of use is just not there.
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Best Alternatives
FigJamMiro
Small Businesses
Canva
Canva
Score 9.2 out of 10
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Canva
Canva
Score 9.2 out of 10
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Miro
Miro
Score 9.0 out of 10
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
FigJamMiro
Likelihood to Recommend
6.7
(3 ratings)
9.0
(4467 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(97 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(70 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(7 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(27 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(3272 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(3613 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
FigJamMiro
Likelihood to Recommend
Figma
It is well suited when people use it to sketch the first wireframes of the UX, like the Breadboarding technique from Basecamp. I used to work like that when modifying some UX. Our designers used to sketch over our current experience wireframe, and then we could discuss it by using the comments in Figjam or the Call feature at FigJam. That made it easy to discuss it. When building up group boards to discuss ideas, I use Miro, once it has more native pre-sets that help conducts the discussion.
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Miro
As a virtual collaboration tool its awesome- Every team meeting we have, the relevant miro board is opened and actively added to. As a final design tool its not so good. Its limited in what can be built within Miro. (I don't feel thats the intention of the tool)
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Pros
Figma
  • One file, auto updated, no need to get latest
  • Easy to preview
  • Lack of client is benefit to some (not me)
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Miro
  • Everything in Miro is shared and this makes it easy to keep everyone updated.
  • Communication in Miro is excellent, allowing a free flow of information among the team members.
  • Has top-notch diagramming and mapping tools to visualize ideas and plans.
  • Offers easy ways to share screen and whiteboards during presentation.
  • Very secure keeping all team communication and data safe.
  • Use of advanced automations to speed us diagrams.
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Cons
Figma
  • Less Rigidity
  • Ability to work with Different Documents
  • A light version of Figma
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Miro
  • I'd like to see the ability to link data or cards between boards to create dynamic dashboards
  • An auto locking feature, or a feature to lock everything that is not a notecard to prevent accidental movements
  • Being able to see the layers or create layers rather than just send to back or front - this could be improved
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Likelihood to Renew
Figma
No answers on this topic
Miro
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.
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Usability
Figma
No answers on this topic
Miro
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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Reliability and Availability
Figma
No answers on this topic
Miro
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.
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Performance
Figma
No answers on this topic
Miro
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.
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Support Rating
Figma
No answers on this topic
Miro
The support staff at Miro are fantastic. Whenever I have had an issue, they have been timely and helpful with their response. They are also very knowledgeable and go out of their way to not only help, but offer proactive training sessions on different topics and new functionality so everyone can try it out.
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In-Person Training
Figma
No answers on this topic
Miro
Not applicable as never had in person training
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Online Training
Figma
No answers on this topic
Miro
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.
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Implementation Rating
Figma
No answers on this topic
Miro
The key aspects about implementing Miro that really made the entire implementation journey so smooth was how it integrated swiftly into our existing working infrastructure which included direct integration with most of the products we were already using. Customization of Miro to match the specifications of our needs was also easily possible.
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Alternatives Considered
Figma
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 more pre-set diagrams than FigJam and they are native and easy to use FigJam is paid, while draw.io is not.
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Miro
I prefer Miro over all, but then will use certain tools for specific use cases: Lucid - process work Menti - interactive polling and facilitated sessions UserVoice - crowdsourcing Trello - kanban boards (although Miro is pretty good with this too) Slido - live polling and facilitations.
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Scalability
Figma
No answers on this topic
Miro
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.
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Return on Investment
Figma
  • I believe that creating professional projects inside a web app feels amateurish.
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Miro
  • Simplicity- it’s simplified our communication
  • It’s taken away the stress of manually documenting research with pen and paper in live design thinking sessions
  • Remote - we can host our diverse teams from all over the world in quick productive meetings without paying for travel
  • Miro has helped me design for over 8 enterprise product teams
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ScreenShots

Miro Screenshots

Screenshot of Miro's design sprint templates, used to solve big challenges, create new products or improve existing ones.Screenshot of the Sprint Planning features in Miro, that assists Development Teams in creating a transparent understanding of what can be built and how. Users can run sprints and turn a team into creative and active participants. Today, many organizations use Agile tools to manage software development and other non-IT projects.Screenshot of the PI Planning Template that brings teams toward one vision of what stories to develop. Used to manage a backlog, increase productivity, and build the foundation for a successful PI Planning event. Miro’s PI Planning Template helps to get an overview of any PI Planning event, with step-by-step frames to guide the process.Screenshot of diagrams, concept maps, and system mapping templates used to communicate complex flows and create a shared understanding. Users can check off all the essential steps of the diagramming process and gain a complete overview of operations with Miro's diagramming templates collection.