Microsoft Powerpoint vs. Miro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Powerpoint
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation software designed to allow users to create slide-based presentations including video and images, as well as slide transitions and animations.
$139.99
Miro
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Miro empowers cross-functional teams to flow from early discovery through final delivery on a shared, AI-first canvas. With the canvas as the prompt, Miro’s AI capabilities keep teams in the flow of work, and scale shifts in ways of working.
$10
per month per user
Pricing
Microsoft PowerpointMiro
Editions & Modules
One Time Purchase
$139.99
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
contact sales
annual billing per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft PowerpointMiro
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsMonthly billing also available at $10 per month for the Starter plan, or $20 for the Business plan.
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Community Pulse
Microsoft PowerpointMiro
Considered Both Products
Microsoft Powerpoint
Chose Microsoft Powerpoint
The lack of widespread use on Keynote makes it less appealing. Have to convert to PowerPoint most of the time.
Miro
Chose Miro
We tried to use Microsoft Powerpoint as a similar tool with free flowing design elements but found it to be too restrictive and could not be configured to exactly what we wanted. We also tried other Microsoft products (Word, Excel) for similar uses and found it too restrictive …
Chose Miro
Miro is superior to both PowerPoint and InDesign for it's fluidity, unlimited workspace, real-time collaboration and access capabilities.
Chose Miro
Definitely better graphics than draw.io for my graphics needs,
in terms of free from presentation, Prezi is more intuitive
Chose Miro
I prefer using MIRO - Mural and Figma are other tools I have used - but not as intensively as MIRO. Our company uses MIRO, so I like to stick to one product.
Chose Miro
Miro doesn't compare, Miro is its own level\category. Miro is THE ONLY remote collaboration tool for our team because of the ease of use, features, and experience for multiple collaborators. We love Miro!I use Miro EVERY DAY in my job - to communicate with people all over the …
Chose Miro
Mural is too simple FigJam is too much for designers and devs only, not for broader business
Chose Miro
Miro basically cover the needs of all the other tools. I started using Miro extensively during the pandemic and at that point only Jamboard provided similar options and was free when collaborating in a bigger group and when not everyone had a license. This is still the main …
Chose Miro
We tried using Microsoft whiteboard on teams, the ease of use is not the same. Miro ease of use is superb in terms of post-its, visualizing & collaborating. We do have our calls on teams & go to the Miro, which would be interesting for us to start exploring the teams calls on …
Chose Miro
Those are great for deck building, but don't compare to Miro when it comes to team collaboration and longer-form, or longer-timeline projects. Those are great for quick-turn tasks, whereas Miro is ideal for teams diving into meatier projects that require discovery work and …
Chose Miro
Miro's real power lies in bringing tools and artefacts from varied sources together into a single place for better collaboration.

Miro's also the easiest to use and integrates well with other softwares. So, instead of trying to replace them, Miro complements them which drives a …
Chose Miro
We use Jira in other departments and some IT folks put content out on Confluence but I don't find it was user friendly as Miro and harder to log in and access. I use the Miro downloaded desktop app which serves me well and easier than going to a web site. I formerly was a heavy …
Chose Miro
Miro is a far more powerful and intuitive tool and it's great how you can start with a free plan.
Chose Miro
Miro provides a more intuitive, and accessible platform for collaboration, and the unlimited canvas is a game changer
Chose Miro
Miro offers a quick, multiteam member friendly, whiteboard that feels the most creative friendly. However, the two other products are stronger in the presentation area and can link to other systems used in my company.
Chose Miro
It's challenging to describe how Miro stacks up against every other product listed above. Some are more relevant at different stages of the design realisation journey, some are more hyperfocused to certain usecases.

Trello for example; I found myself creating Kanban boards in …
Chose Miro
PowerPoint can be more involved in work float and can take long then Miro.
InDesign can be helpful to link images that continually get updated. Miro seems the most fluid compared to them
Chose Miro
well we use them in combo.

it generally depends if i want to have somethign mocked up quickly or if i need to do something more specific or structured or ready to be integrated.
Chose Miro
Miro is top of list for me

I moved to Miro as it was a welcome change and everyone in my team adapted ( noteasy unless platform is great )
Chose Miro
Miro is a whiteboarding tool for real time collaboration and workshops, while TheyDo is only specifically meant for journey management practices and use of automated performance metrics integrated into TheyDo helps to visualize the upward and downward trends. TheyDo also helps …
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User Ratings
Microsoft PowerpointMiro
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(63 ratings)
9.1
(6075 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(184 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(10 ratings)
8.6
(447 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.4
(20 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(19 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(4 ratings)
7.7
(63 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(3659 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(14 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(4002 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(19 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
6.9
(7 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
6.1
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft PowerpointMiro
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
The learning curve with Microsoft Powerpoint is not too steep, and most everyone can create really nice-looking presentations. The thing I like most about the new advancements in Microsoft Powerpoint comes to formatting. If you are creating a newsletter, don't get bogged down by all of the annoying formatting rules and issues you would have if creating in Publisher or Word. Microsoft Powerpoint makes it very simple. You can add text boxes and move them anywhere on the page. The templates are a nice touch, but they could use more, as most of these are outdated. I believe there are many free websites for downloading more templates.
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Miro
Miro works best for me when I am running visual QA on labelled math problems before it is sent out to production. The infinite canvas helps all the members of the team to give valuable feedback, suggestions, etc. I can instantly spot inconsistent logic or misapplied labels. However, once the board exceeds a large number of nodes, lag creeps in, system freezes. Small formula edits without LaTeX becomes really frustrating. Even with all these cons, it is kind of one of the best products yet.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Insert Photos from my computer and from the web with ease.
  • Auto arrangement of graphics and texts is made available through suggested formatting.
  • Spell check as I type is very valuable to me. It autocorrects many words. I like for my presentation to be accurate.
  • The ability to change any font or any size of font is very valuable to me.
  • The ability to cut and past from Microsoft Word is valuable to me. It also allows me to import tables I have already created in Word.
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Miro
  • Especially useful project planning with functions like whiteboard and great collaboration features.
  • Miros presentation mode is great for walking people through and explaining a concept.
  • If someone can’t join a meeting, we record a Talktrack. Its like a mini-presentation that people can watch later. Can be extremely useful at times.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • 3D objects that can be manipulated in slideshows by presenters
  • AI tool to cleanup presentations
  • AI tool to create graphics
  • AI tool to create photo-realistic images
  • AI tool to create vector art
  • AI tool to create videos
  • Blender 3D object importer
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Miro
  • Sticky notes cannot be easily resized. It would often be useful for them to transform into workspaces, because they become actual text content rather than just notes.
  • Perhaps there is no option to sort the work boards according to specific criteria (such as alphabetical order or date).
  • The various functions available should perhaps be explained clearly with a tooltip or something similar while you are working with the various tools. I often don't realise that certain things can be done.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Miro
I have advocate for the renew of Miro quite few times, however, it is not under my control as the decision is made in another team with their own budget. I would buy for my own entrepreneur projects (1-2 members) as I do know the value and work there 100%. So, I would pay out of my own pocket to get the value. However, If I wouldn't know the value it provides, it would be hard to decide with the current freemium features
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Usability
Microsoft
It’s great overall! I can think of a few improvements that would make it a 10, for example: better Smart Art graphs, automatic distribution of columns and rows in tables, and being able to more easily save templates for graphs. For example, if I could determine that a same brand name in all graphs would have a specific color, it would be great
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Miro
Solid usability, we transitioned from Mural, so some of it is a learning curve from what we were used to in the prior tool. As previously mentioned, the scrolling feature and moving around the board is not as intuitive as I would like. Outside of that, the functionality seems to mee the expectations we have for a collaboration tool
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
I've never had any issues with its availability. As it is installed on my machine, it's ready when I need it, online or offline. Creating large slide decks with complex elements like video and audio doesn't affect its stability. The only limitation would be the capability of your own computer, as far as I can tell.
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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
Microsoft
The performance is very strong. It loads reasonably quickly. Large presentations load relatively quickly too, given their complexity, and once loaded each slide is readily available. It's easy to scroll up and down through your slide deck and go to the slide you want. Videos, pictures and music all load on demand, controllable by clicks.
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Miro
Sometimes it gets quite slow and there is a correlation between this and the size of the board. Hence we are trying to segment the boards based on product stages or projects so that the size doesn't go big. When you go from discovery to delivery on a simple board, it will get large and difficult to load, even crash or go white screen
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Support Rating
Microsoft
I have never had to use the actual support. Most of my questions are "how to" questions and there is a rich internet full of users sharing their tips and tricks with this application. Sometimes I find the answers on Microsoft support site but often I don't
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Miro
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
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Online Training
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Miro
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.
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Miro
Easy to learn, Miro has a series of videos on YouTube that effectively taught this program to my team members and me. The program is drag-and-drop and works excellently. People pick up on how to use it efficiently, and it's great for organizing ideas more freely. This product is more challenging for some older audiences who are not accustomed to using a touchpad, but for most, it was very easy to use.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Adobe Illustrator is an excellent software but it's not easy to use for [everyone without] having any training or previous experience in working with illustrator. Microsoft Powerpoint is very easy to use and it's fantastic as it saves time more than illustrator. Another thing is it takes small space while illustrator takes a significant amount of space in the business machine
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Miro
While not as feature rich to be honest as some of these focused tools, it still replaces a vast majority of them. It is enough to make it easily replace the listed tools if you wish to do so. This not only saves time pivoting between tools, but also money with licensing which is an easy sell to my management.
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Scalability
Microsoft
Scaling up use of Microsoft Powerpoint would be a simple case of buying further licences. The software is intuitive and therefore training demands from scaling it to more departments or more individuals would be relatively straightforward. Google Slides may be easier to share among those organisations that use Google's suite of apps, however.
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Miro
Maybe is possible now so... Could be useful to manage in some way source code for the projects? not to edit so when we make solutions with different components in MIro, maybe each component could redirect to the source code of this component
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Helped reduce time we spend modifying and sharing back and forth different versions.
  • Saved us the frustration of having to work with an online program with limited functionalities.
  • Macros make it easy to share data in one excel file and automatically update presentation.
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Miro
  • We did a dynamic activity based on actionable insights from a research study that I conducted. It was great to see people interacting, and one of the proposals was successful, resulting in a 6 million (in local currency) contribution to the company!
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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.