Miro vs. Zeplin

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Miro
Score 9.1 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
Zeplin
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Zeplin, from the company of the same name, is a platform supporting collaboration in application development by engineers and designers by providing an API with popular collaboration, development and prototyping tools and creating a space where productions can be shared and reviewed.
$15
per month
Pricing
MiroZeplin
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
Free
$0
up to 1 project
Advanced
$15
per month per seat (up to 50 projects)
Basic
$15
per month per project
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MiroZeplin
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
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.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
MiroZeplin
Considered Both Products
Miro
Chose Miro
Miro is a great tool for collaboration, Zeplin as well. Zeplin is a tool more used among developers to manage code, style guides, application layouts, etc. Although Zeplin could be used to create roadmaps, it is best used to design how a particular website or application should …
Chose 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 …
Chose Miro
Its a good product for a wider range of user types/users from a range of teams. It does a wide scope of functionalities. From whiteboarding, presentation creation, workshopping, onboarding space, and more!
Chose Miro
Miro has more tools; -modern UI; -easier collaborate; -and no need to learn the program.
Chose Miro
When looking around for collaboration tools, we also tried MURAL. Though being very complete in terms of features, I think it has quite a steep learning curve in order to be able to use it at its full potential. Miro proves easier to access also for non-frequent users in the …
Chose Miro
While Miro has a wide set of research synthesis-oriented tools, Figma is relatively simple But FigJam is free to a limited scope which helps folks to adopt it when in small teams getting an advantage on the learning curve. Miro makes it difficult for small team collaboration …
Chose Miro
About even, Lucid is probably more featureful.
Chose Miro
I found Miro accurate and better compared to other remote collaboration tools. there is everything you need and that is its core purpose. Other products try to imitate it or simply expand their functionality to try to steal users, but I believe certain features are unbeatable …
Chose Miro
I've used Mural before in training as a guest user, and I've found that the user experience seems to be easier than with Miro. Looking at Klaxoon, I used it a few times as a guest user and I liked it, especially the feature of being able to follow the facilitator of the session …
Chose Miro
its an interactive tool and the best part is all kinds of teams can use this for multiple purposes. e.g. our web designers use it for designing, digital production uses it for creative project management tools with powerful search mechanisms, leaders use it for providing …
Zeplin
Chose Zeplin
Zeplin is used for us purely as a handoff tool. It keeps it clean and clear for devs and product managers what is completed. It has some good labels and other organizing features. The different levels of access are also super helpful to give the correct people the view they …
Features
MiroZeplin
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Miro
-
Ratings
Zeplin
4.7
4 Ratings
48% below category average
Task Management00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings4.52 Ratings
Search00 Ratings6.14 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Miro
-
Ratings
Zeplin
7.2
4 Ratings
10% below category average
Notifications00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Miro
-
Ratings
Zeplin
5.0
5 Ratings
46% below category average
Versioning00 Ratings7.42 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings3.53 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings4.45 Ratings
Advanced security features00 Ratings4.62 Ratings
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User Ratings
MiroZeplin
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(6080 ratings)
7.6
(22 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.4
(185 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(452 ratings)
7.6
(4 ratings)
Availability
9.4
(20 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(19 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.7
(63 ratings)
9.5
(4 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
8.5
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.1
(4002 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.6
(19 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
6.8
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
6.1
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
MiroZeplin
Likelihood to Recommend
Miro
For me, Miro works best for messy internal processes. One of the instances include there are updates in math guidelines or reorganizing how topics should flow. I can put everything on the board, drag things around, color code it, and suddenly everything actually makes sense. It's also a common interacting space for the team to think out loud. Keeps everyone aligned without different documents floating around. It has a downside too. When the board gets big and full of screenshots or reference files, it slows down and I have to wait for things for so long.
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Zeplin
I still have some issues, especially with color integration between the style guide and also project. When we update the colors, it's not automatically sync to every project. Aside from that, zeplin solves my problem for hand-off design from design to developer. I set zeplin is source of truth design file
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Pros
Miro
  • Makes it easy to design and visualize different label hierarchies which keeps labelling rules unbiased and intact.
  • It has unique unique feature where team members can jump onto same board, edit and comment in real time. Makes it efficient.
  • Built in templates in Miro really helps in making quality board layouts fast making it easy to organize sections.
  • Its infinite canvas never runs out. Helps me in mapping many interconnected topics or focusing on future model.
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Zeplin
  • Ease in automatically building design style guides, saving time that might be spent on building style guides in another tool (such as InDesign).
  • Users can use Mac, PC, or web versions of this app to collaborate on a single project, enabling us to work with a wider pool of contractors.
  • Accelerates the design-to-development workflow, as it’s very easy to import Sketch or Photoshop files through plug-ins, and HTML/CSS codes are automatically created based on designs.
  • Provides cross-platform specifications for web, iOS, and Android, which can save developers time in figuring out specifications beyond the “main platform" on their own.
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Cons
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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Zeplin
  • The uploading and syncing of assets is great for sketch and photoshop but we use illustrator and that can be cumbersome/tedious at times.
  • There are certain elements that have been a bit confusing to navigate at times, but for the most part, it's pretty user-friendly
  • More integrations
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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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Zeplin
Great tool
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Usability
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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Zeplin
Zeplin's component management and style guide help us to be consistent across whole product and it so easy to use for non-technical person. It is now easy to collaboration for designes between different teams like stackholders, product owner, UI/UX, developers and testers. Now there is only one point of reference is Zeplin so it is so easy to get details without asking designer or developer again and again.
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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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Zeplin
No answers on this topic
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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Zeplin
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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Zeplin
Zeplin has classic support with a chat from the website. It's working fine, and we're also getting the support needed when needed. However, Zeplin is very good at closing the incidents and moving on. It was a while ago we had a case with their support so that it might have improved since then.
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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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Zeplin
No answers on this topic
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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Zeplin
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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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Zeplin
Zeplin is great to inspect and share user interfaces, specifications and assets, perfect for developers. Tools like InVision and Marvel are much better to create prototypes for both developers, coworkers and even stakeholders, but they don't have this kind of feature (inspection) as Zeplin does. So each of them can be used for different purposes, offering different approaches to share and interact with layouts for apps and websites.
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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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Zeplin
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
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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Zeplin
  • Development time has reduced as the design updates are communicated in real time to developers and they don't have to write the boilerplate code as it's already generated.
  • Employee engagement has improved as every stakeholder is aware about the design changes from the beginning and can give their inputs.
  • Designers save a lot of time as they don't to explicitly communicate when the update or publish their designs and also it just takes a couple of clicks to publish their designs. Also, lot of rework is saved as every stakeholder is involved right from the beginning.
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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.