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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Visual Studio Code

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft offers Visual Studio Code, an open source text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.

    $0

    Miro

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AMiro is a web-based Collaborative Whiteboard platform that provides teams with an infinite digital canvas for visual planning, diagramming, and workflow mapping. The platform integrates a spatial user interface with automated drawing tools and natural-language processing (NLP) to structure freeform ideas into defined project workflows and database schemas.

    $10

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeMiro
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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 Visual Studio CodeMiro
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Monthly billing also available at $10 per month for the Starter plan, or $20 for the Business plan.
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeMiro
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Miro
    Chose Miro
    I think Miro is much more feature rich and flexible.
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    The main alternative we run into is Microsoft Whiteboard, served via teams. While it is functional, the experience is lacking against Miro.

    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    MS Visio used to require it to be installed on the computer to use it but Miro can be used via the browser no client installation is required.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    Miro beats all of these for ease of use and having the functionality we need without any extra cruft. By far the best tool I know of for going from an idea in my head to a visualization I can share with others quickly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    i prefer Miro because it offers better flexibility for both design and team collaboration. miro has a broader canvas than Figma. and it definitely offers better and more features than jam board. as a ui ux designer these are very important for me
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    Considering the alternatives, Miro is the absolute best option for real time collaboration between people who may be separated by geography. It's easy to share content, and it's easy to collaborate with clients and partners, including when the client or partner does not have a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    Notion is an extremely useful tool, but we found that the immediacy and the remote collaboration of Miro makes it far more useful than a tool like Notion which we felt was much more suitable for a Knowledgebase or other relatively static website. Notion can do these things, but …
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    Each of the above products is also used in our environment, and has individual selling points:
    - Microsoft Visio is suitable for diagramming and flowcharting,
    - Microsoft Powerpoint is suitable for creating an illustrated narrative, and
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    Miro is by far my preference. It's so much easier to get a clean result out of quickly, and the collaboration tools are the best.

    In addition to the tools listed, I've also used Excalidraw, and TLdraw, While I love these two in particular, they're not things I'd introduce to a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    I think the Miro UI is a lot more intuitive. Miro has a better suite of additional features above the core "virtual whiteboard" offering.
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    Ease of use.
    Simple & easy to navigate UI
    Personal & Private boards.
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    I think Miro is more intuitive and easy to use. MURAL, is also a really good tool.
    I haven't tried more tools like this since Miro is the one offered in my work. But I think it is also the best, that is an assumption but I feel really comfortable working with it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    They are similar products, one company I worked at used Miro whilst the other used MURAL. Both are good at what they do.
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    I found MURAL very clunky in comparison to Miro. The design was nowhere near as friendly and the transitions did not seem as smooth. Miro had a real collaborative feel to it whereas MURAL seems a bit more individual. Overall, Miro is a cleaner and better thought-out product.
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    We tried Microsoft and Google Board. The advantage of those items are that they have better integration with other products that we use (ex: Teams). But Miro has an advantage in feature set and pricing, so we decided on Miro.
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    Miro has a better featureset than either of these products and is designed as a standalone tool with collaboration at its heart- not an afterthought added on to some other existing collaboration product or a product designed to function for a single user where collaboration was …
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    Jamboard is a bit flat compared with miro. It's a lot harder the make the board look how I want it to on jamboard. The feature set is less than miro, significantly. The real-time collaboration is not as fast (delayed).
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    I think Miro shares some use cases with Powerpoint or Google Docs/Slides, and it is really superior in terms of facilitating collaboration.
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    Miro is better than Jamboard, the tools available make it much easier to build out whiteboards Miro is about on par with Lucidchart. In some ways Lucidchart is better, especially for more technical diagrams and designs which have more permanance. However collaborating on Lucidch…
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    Still really simple and versatile.
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    our UI designers use Figma for app design. to me they seem like totally different use cases. i don't think i would use miro for what we use Figma for. if you can do the same stuff in miro as you can in Figma, i had no idea. not sure
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    Actually, it doesn't stack up against them, as we're using all of them. Jira is much more tailored toward backlog, ticket, and sprint management, and although we tried to use Miro for it, it didn't have features packed that Jira is on that specific point, but what it lacks on …
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    Miro is like MURAL but with way more integrations, and it just generally has expanded functionality beyond what MURAL can offer.
    Incentivized
    Chose Miro
    draw.io: It's nice for (smaller) diagrams to quickly sketch together, but lacks the power of collaboration that Miro offers. It's more or less a small subset of what Miro brings to the table. MURAL: Similar in features, but feels much more "clumsy". Nothing feels really …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeMiro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (104 ratings)
    9.0
    (6390 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    9.2
    (199 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (21 ratings)
    8.5
    (771 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (24 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (24 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (23 ratings)
    7.1
    (71 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.9
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (11 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (3660 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (19 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4001 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (24 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.9
    (12 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (13 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeMiro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    As a general workhorse IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio Codee is unmatched. Building on the early success of applications such as Atom, it has long been the standard for electron based IDEs. It can be outshone using IDEs that are dedicated to particular platforms, such as Microsoft Visual Studio Code for .net and the Jetbrains IDEs for Java, Python and others. For remote collaborative development, something like Zed is ahead of VSCode live share, which can be quite flakey.
    Incentivized
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    Miro
    We work on a lot of materials across different media. Sketches could be on real paper and later scanned, or on iPad and photoshops. Prototypes could be digital CAD models or 3D-printed models and later captured with cameras. Renderings be in another programs. So having Miro as whiteboard and being able to put all kind of materials (in forms of pictures or links) in one place and arrange them in a structural way is a huge productivity advantage for us.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Integrate with the git repository very well.
    • Integrated copilot chat is very helpful to write code snippets and helps beginners to start with coding and development.
    • Great library of available extensions is one of the best features in Microsoft Visual Studio Code.
    • Dedicated Testing option to configure pytest and others are quite handy to use.
    Incentivized
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    Miro
    • Offer excellent structure to our meetings and planning sessions.
    • Impressive collaboration tools.
    • The range of available templates makes it easy to start working without starting from scratch.
    • Great for pulling ideas in a more visual way.
    • Simple to create interactive presentations.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • The customization of key combinations should be more accessible and easier to change
    • The auxiliary panels could be minimized or as floating tabs which are displayed when you click on them
    • A monitoring panel of resources used by Microsoft Visual Studio Code or plugins and extensions would help a lot to be able to detect any malfunction of these
    Incentivized
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    Miro
    • Sometimes locating information on a bigger board is quite difficult as the information starts to look less sorted. So there can be a little bit of improvement in terms of bigger boards
    • Complex features are hard to navigate and implement without a proper hand. A little bit of intuitivity can help fix that, especially for beginners
    • In my opinion, a few more formatting tools for a legal workflow would really be a great add on
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    Solid tool that provides everything you need to develop most types of applications. The only reason not a 10 is that if you are doing large distributed teams on Enterprise level, Professional does provide more tools to support that and would be worth the cost.
    Incentivized
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    Miro
    Miro saves my day. I would spend at least 4x more time on documenting my projects and work without this tool. It support my day to day role and helps me be successful while saving my capacity. It is not only very easy to start working on it without additional training required, but also adapts to any use case that I might need to implement
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Visual Studio Code earns a 10 for its exceptional balance of power and simplicity. Its intuitive interface, robust extension ecosystem, and integrated terminal streamline development. With seamless Git integration and highly customizable settings, it adapts perfectly to any workflow, making complex coding tasks feel effortless for beginners and experts alike.
    Incentivized
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    Miro
    What elevates usability for me is how easily the software keeps everyone on the same page during the live session. When a team member is explaining a complex diagram, I can simply click on their avatar to instantly track their cursor and see the exact same perspective they are looking at, which is awesome.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    Overall, Microsoft Visual Studio Code is pretty reliable. Every so often, though, the app will experience an unexplained crash. Since it is a stand-alone app, connectivity or service issues don't occur in my experience. Restarting the app seems to always get around the problem, but I do make sure to save and backup current work.
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    Miro
    I have not encountered events where Miro is not available. It is quite nice and reliable to be fair, even on my freemium version (startup) I don't have reliability issues. It does have sometimes where the screen refresh or "freezes" or "consumes a lot of data" and we have to rewind windows and the likes, this instances are very less
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Visual Studio Code is pretty snappy in performance terms. It launches quickly, and tasks are performed quickly. I don't have a lot of integrations other than CoPilot, but I suspect that if the integration partner is provisioned appropriately that any performance impact would be pretty minimal. It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles (unless you start adding plugins left and right).
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    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
    Microsoft
    Active development means filing a bug on the GitHub repo typically gets you a response within 4 days. There are plugins for almost everything you need, whether it be linting, Vim emulation, even language servers (which I use to code in Scala). There is well-maintained official documentation. The only thing missing is forums. The closest thing is GitHub issues, which typically has the answers but is hard to sift through -- there are currently 78k issues.
    Incentivized
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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
    Visual Studio Code stacks up nicely against Visual Studio because of the price and because it can be installed without admin rights. We don't exclusively use Visual Studio Code, but rather use Visual Studio and Visual Studio code depending on the project and which version of source control the given project is wired up to.
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    Miro
    I like that Miro is something that anyone from any department can pick up, use and understand. You do not need specific domain knowledge. Miro has clean UI so running complex exercises becomes easier and can be easily shared across tools/platforms. Managing large number of participants on Miro is easier. FigJam on the other side is simpler and suits the needs of quick and simple brainstorm
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    It is easily deployed with our Jamf Pro instance. There is actually very little setup involved in getting the app deployed, and it is fairly well self-contained and does not deploy a large amount of associated files. However, it is not particularly conducive to large project, multi-developer/department projects that involve some form of central integration.
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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
    • Saves money by replacing suites of tools such as Visual Studio, IntelliJ, etc.
    • Speeds development time and developer environment setup time
    • Strengthens code quality with integrated autoformatting and linting
    • Strengths Git practices by keeping version control tightly connected with the code
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    Miro
    • Miro has helped increase productivity within teams because all the brainstorming, planning, and collaborative tasks can now be done within one tool.
    • Conversations about projects and decision-making processes are now quicker, allowing teams to plan and document their work much faster.
    • Working remotely has become much better because everyone can collaborate through Miro, eliminating communication gaps.
    • It has become easier to create documentation and follow up on meetings, saving time during the process.
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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.