Miro vs. Slack

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Slack
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Slack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020. The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls. The…
$0
per month per user
Pricing
MiroSlack
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 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
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per month per user
Free
$0
Pro
$7.25*
per month per user
Business+
$12.50*
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MiroSlack
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details*Per active user, per month, when paying once a year. Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
MiroSlack
Considered Both Products
Miro
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
I haven't used Mural that much but I have always liked Miro for some reason.
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
Jamboard felt very clunky compared to Miro. It was also very difficult to make your Jamboards look inviting. Conversely, Miro allows you to layer as much as you want/need. It allows you to easily create boards that work for the needs of your team - whether internal or …
Chose Miro
Miro is more user friendly than Smartsheet, and provides for a much more free-hand use and variety of expressions than all of the above.
When it comes to project management and calendar or process management, Miro is less functional and the only advantage is really that it is …
Chose Miro
I like MS Whiteboard for how it works with other of their tools, it has a long way to go before it catches to similar products.
Chose Miro
I have used Visio and Lucid in the past; they are not great. The biggest competitor, I think, is Excalidraw. It's free and works great for stuff other than the group collaboration piece. I think it might do that, too, but I don't pay for it. It beats Miro on quick and fast …
Chose Miro
Miro One is a very user-friendly, easy-to-use, and cost-effective solution for any kind of business. The customer support is unmatched. It has the ability to improve team collaboration and communication in remote areas. It offers real-time updates and cross-functional …
Chose Miro
About the same. Miro had more templates and more modern look. The design agency AJ&Smart moving to Miro in recent years was also a telling sign. I personally learned workshopping through them. If they moved from Mural, I determined it was for good reason and I could benefit also.
Chose Miro
My team is able to collaborate and communicate in real-time thanks to Miro collaborative features. It helps give a bird eye view of our projects we're working on and this also allows our clients to easily understand what we're doing and put in their contribution as well. It has …
Chose 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 …
Chose Miro
Mural has integration problems and it also has some performance limitations on large whiteboards. While Miro integrates easily with third party apps and it’s performance is far better than Mural.
Chose Miro
The amount of tools, the accessibility and the overall experience of Miro makes it a go-to compared to the others, especially given the ease of playing around all the different frames, images, etc.

I've tried Klaxoon once and I really didn't like my experience. As for Mural, I …
Chose Miro
With some workarounds, Figma can be used to replace Miro but it would require a lot of effort to do the things we usually do with Miro.
Chose Miro
The company has worked with several people skills, and Miro is the best fit for people who are not designers.
Chose Miro
It is the most universal and offers the most possibilities.
Chose Miro
For our use cases, either Miro or Lucid would do the job. However, I find Miro easier to use: with Lucid you have to know some key combinations (e.g.: zooming in or out, dragging objects, or just scrolling your screen) ALso, in a bird's eye view, I found the objects in Miro to …
Chose Miro
Overall, we found that Miro was easier to use and provided more proactive guidance and templates. Also, more people were familiar with the Miro brand and had used it in previous roles.
Chose Miro
To be honest, I used a really short amount of time, and I didn't know Miro back then. When I started working in another company that is using Miro and has a license, I met with Miro. So, I don't have a lot to share about Whimsical. But I didn't think of using it after Miro.
Slack
Chose Slack
The level of complexity for Power users is unparalleled in Asana. The only advantage Google Chat has is its linkage with Gmail, another indispensable tool.
Google's meetings are better and connectivity-related issues are fewer.
Microsoft Teams too is similar to Google Chat is …
Chose Slack
I used to like Slack better than teams for a long time. Only after using Teams for few years and returning back to Slack on another organization, I can see the main differences and between them. None of them is perfect, MS Team is more deeply connected to your SP sites and in …
Chose Slack
I think Slack is way better for chatting than Google, 100%! I think Team works great, but it might be tricky to use at its fullest capacity. Slack is more intuitive and easy to adapt to workflows. It's great that you can connect even with people outside your organization …
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Features
MiroSlack
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Miro
-
Ratings
Slack
7.8
384 Ratings
1% below category average
Task Management00 Ratings7.7238 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.061 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings7.7196 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings7.8213 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings9.2371 Ratings
Search00 Ratings8.2369 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings7.2142 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Miro
-
Ratings
Slack
8.6
394 Ratings
7% above category average
Chat00 Ratings9.6394 Ratings
Notifications00 Ratings8.9390 Ratings
Discussions00 Ratings9.1381 Ratings
Surveys00 Ratings8.2235 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings7.7235 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings8.4111 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings8.5184 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings8.3122 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Miro
-
Ratings
Slack
8.4
368 Ratings
3% above category average
Versioning00 Ratings8.0171 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings8.4324 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings8.4319 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings8.1257 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings8.1237 Ratings
Advanced security features00 Ratings8.1199 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings8.7213 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings9.0258 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
MiroSlack
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(4472 ratings)
9.3
(394 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(97 ratings)
9.4
(20 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(70 ratings)
9.8
(29 ratings)
Availability
9.4
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.8
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.4
(27 ratings)
1.0
(65 ratings)
Online Training
9.7
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.6
(3274 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
9.7
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.4
(3616 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
MiroSlack
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Salesforce
I think Slack works really well in office settings, or even for any group of people who need an easy way to communicate with each other through organized channels. It may not be the best for those who intend to use it as a social media type app, it is more geared towards business use.
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Pros
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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Salesforce
  • Automated Notifications: Integrated tools like Jira, Trello, and Google Drive to receive automated notifications and updates directly in Slack, improving visibility and efficiency within the team
  • Message Encryption: Slack encrypts the messages in transit and at rest, ensuring the security and privacy of sensitive information and making our IT team's life much easier.
  • Reminder Bots: We used Slackbot to set reminders, automate follow-up actions, and provided information based on user queries.
  • SurveyMonkey Integration: Integrated our Slack with SurveyMonkey to distribute surveys and collect feedback from team members, streamlining the feedback-gathering process which was a huge support to our HR and Admin team.
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Cons
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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Salesforce
  • The only thing I can think of is that it is easy to create too many channels. This has more to do with the team using Slack and less to do with Slack itself. maybe some direction on Slack's part on how best to utilize channels would be helpful.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Salesforce
As useful as Slack has become within our company, I feel fairly confident we will continue to use Slack as a communication tool. They continue to improve their software and add value to its use within our office. Customer service delivers, which is an absolute must. Looking forward to how they improve.
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Usability
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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Salesforce
As long as you use the basic chat features and nothing more, it really is super easy to understand and use. Once you want to take advantage of some of the more advanced features and capabilities, that's when things get complicated. Anyone who has use SMS or a chat program before will be able to figure out the basics though, so rolling this out should be relatively straightforward and not required exhaustive training. Teaching chat etiquette is something else though.
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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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Salesforce
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Performance
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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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
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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Salesforce
I've never had to contact support for Slack which is a great testament to its ease and use. Adding people outside of the organization takes a little getting used to, but ultimately allows for greater collaboration between FTE and contractors. There is no clear alternative to this software, so it's the best we can do for now.
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In-Person Training
Miro
Not applicable as never had in person training
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Online Training
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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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
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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Salesforce
It always helps if you communicate to everyone in the organization how important it is to drop whatever other chat tools they are using and jump quickly to Slack. They will all fall in love with it.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Salesforce
Slack is the superior offering for what we do and who we communicate with. The other programs offer basic features, but Slack continues to innovate and is business-first, which is very helpful for our small team. The feature set and integrations are better in Slack than other offerings we have evaluated
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Scalability
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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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
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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Salesforce
  • We have a story when one guy mentioned in a our site group with tag @here about his wedding, he didnt know that @here works only for people who are online, so most of the people missed the message, slack is not the best place to update about the important things
  • Slack helps to solve and be updated if you have an internal problems and you want to know how the solving goes
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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.