Miro vs. OmniGraffle

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Miro
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Miro is the AI Innovation Workspace that brings teams and AI together to plan, co-create, and build the next big thing, faster. With the canvas as the prompt, Miro's collaborative AI workflows keep teams in the flow of work, scale shifts in ways of working, and drive organization-wide transformation.
$10
per month per user
OmniGraffle
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
OmniGraffle is a wireframing tool for Mac users.N/A
Pricing
MiroOmniGraffle
Editions & Modules
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MiroOmniGraffle
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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
MiroOmniGraffle
Considered Both Products
Miro
Chose Miro
OmniGraffle is and probably will be my goto product for creating technical diagrams. There is a great ecosystem for obtaining shapes to use in diagrams and I can create my own shapes to reuse in other diagrams. The control through boards and layers is incredible and flexible. …
Chose Miro
I appreciate how Miro strikes the balance between speed and detail. The level of detail Miro seems to "want" you to make can be made really quickly and efficiently, allowing you to focus on the outcomes/purpose of your models...not the look of the models. Miro helps designers …
Chose Miro
Miro brings together enough functionality of other specific products to enable a wide range of types of people in a business to use it. It covers much more of the needs of various teams we work with than other solutions. The collaboration features and integrations fit our tech …
Chose Miro
Online collaboration. I still feel that it's too much from someone coming from draw.io, but it's way better to collaborate.

Chose Miro
Miro is much more visual and easy for non-creatives to comprehend. We use it across teams and it's crucial for our team. We love the quick sharing links and the ability to share a specific slide on a Miro board. I also love how easy it is for other team members to add to the …
Chose Miro
Web-based collaboration tools are so much better. The fact that anyone (on any type of device) and collaborate instantly is really important. Being cloud-based, and having all of the diagrams in the cloud at all times is another huge win over these other tools. Licensing …
OmniGraffle

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User Ratings
MiroOmniGraffle
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(6074 ratings)
10.0
(18 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.4
(185 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(451 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.5
(20 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(19 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.7
(63 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
1.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(3659 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.6
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.1
(4001 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.6
(19 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
6.7
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
6.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
MiroOmniGraffle
Likelihood to Recommend
Miro
Appropriate:
Not formal presentations where you need the flexibility to show different whole ideas or concepts at the same time without changing between pages.
Workshops where you need to document all the ideation process.
Interviews.
Initial documentation of products.
Diagrams, prototypes and collaborative work.
Less appropriate:
Formal and strict presentation with strict audiences.
Long documentations: more than 5 pages.
Technical documents that need the use of equations and code.
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The Omni Group
Omnigraffle is great for documentation, mapping, flowcharting, and other technical diagramming scenarios. It's simple enough to bang out a quick illustration and powerful enough to build complex blueprints for complicated technical systems. If you need cross-platform compatibility, though, you're probably better off looking elsewhere. If you want complex integration with data sources (ala Visio's SQL Server integration for shape metadata), OmniGraffle also falls short — but those scenarios are few and far between in my experience.
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Pros
Miro
  • Makes internal coordination between admin team and tutors extremely painless. It's like a single place where everyone can drop ideas, get updates and notes without loss of context which usually happens in long email threads.
  • Versioning and board history are handled very well, which drastically reduces the workload. They help me track how a policy or math guideline has evolved, and also make it easy to revert changes if something doesn't work.
  • Comments stick exactly where they are meant to, making internal reviews much clearer. Admins don't have to guess which note refers to which rule or section.
  • Exports are clean, so even non-Miro teammates get it instantly.
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The Omni Group
  • OmniGraffle is fairly simple to use, but the one thing I think it does best is working with curved lines, particularly if you are using some of the available arc templates. Drop an arc onto your page, then tell it the dimensions it needs to be, and viola! Done. Manipulating the arcs is as simple as clicking and dragging offset points.
  • OmniGraffle has also done an excellent job in stirring up the creative minds of many people who create templates and tools to work with OmniGraffle (not that Microsoft hasn't done so either), and managed to get the bulk of those into well organized repositories.
  • What it all boils down to for me is: it just works. One doesn't need to have a computer science degree to work with it either. It is as simple or complex as you want it to be.
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Cons
Miro
  • Sticky notes: I don't know how to expand and reduce shape formats.
  • The option, when presenting, is to get everyone on the same slide I am presenting (like on the board).
  • A "hide" feature for presentations, so we can display the info as we talk.
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The Omni Group
  • I'd love to be able to keep more than one of the different tool tabs open at a time.
  • The stencils are amazing. Would be great if a whole lot more of the free ones came standard as opposed to having to download them from Graffletopia or other sites.
  • Built in tutorials would be great.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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The Omni Group
Best product for my needs on the market
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Usability
Miro
I would rate Miro an 8 out of 10 for overall usability. It's easy to use and has lots of features for making the work easier. I can drag nodes, connect ideas and comment in real time without explaining much to anyone because every member of all the teams have access. For labelling schema design and maths concept mapping, it is incredibly perfect. However, issues related to lag when many nodes introduced and absence of LaTeX making complex equation writing hectic, are of great concern. If those issues were resolved, it's an easy 10.
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The Omni Group
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Reliability and Availability
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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The Omni Group
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Performance
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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The Omni Group
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
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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The Omni Group
OmniGraffle is an excellent application for chart and diagrams development. Been using it for a while now and it's a multiple platform application.
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Online Training
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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The Omni Group
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Implementation Rating
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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The Omni Group
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Alternatives Considered
Miro
I’ve used both Excalidraw+ and draw.io. Excalidraw+ is great for quick, lightweight sketches with a clean “hand-drawn” feel, but it’s less strong for running structured workshops at scale (facilitation tools, templates, board organization, stakeholder-friendly presentation). draw.io is solid for precise diagramming (flows, architecture), but collaboration and workshop mechanics feel more “diagram-first” than “team-first.” We chose Miro because it combines strong real-time + async collaboration with facilitation features (voting, timer, stickies), easy board structuring with frames, and presentation mode—so we can go from messy ideation to a shareable narrative without switching tools.
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The Omni Group
While these other tools are great for what they are, OmniGraffle’s solid focus on and support for diagramming makes it our tool of choice for communicating workflows and concept relationships, creating documentation, and creating other diagrams. Its libraries allow us to create designs quickly, and its ease of use enables us to use the tool widely across the company without much time or effort spent on onboarding.
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Scalability
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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The Omni Group
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Return on Investment
Miro
  • The work team can find real-time updates on a specific design flow, avoiding wasting time sending emails and messages on messaging platforms.
  • Work in progress can be presented to the client, who can intervene and make corrections or give their opinion before a final document is drafted.
  • Thanks to the votes, we can avoid sending more examples or tests for testing, trying to work only on the ideas that convince us the most.
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The Omni Group
  • Omnigraffle isn't an expensive software tool, so there isn't really any negative from the perspective of raw cost. Thinking in terms of time spent using it on a project - what you create in omnigraffle will inevitably lead to a dead end. It's useful only as documentation. There are other tools like Sketch that integrate into prototyping software and can create useable visual assets for applications in addition to being able to create wireframes.
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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.