Miro vs. Zeplin

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
Zeplin
Score 7.6 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
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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.
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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
4.6
4 Ratings
51% below category average
Task Management00 Ratings4.92 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings4.42 Ratings
Search00 Ratings6.24 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Miro
-
Ratings
Zeplin
7.1
4 Ratings
12% below category average
Notifications00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Miro
-
Ratings
Zeplin
4.9
5 Ratings
48% below category average
Versioning00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings3.43 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings4.35 Ratings
Advanced security features00 Ratings4.72 Ratings
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MiroZeplin
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
MiroZeplin
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(6068 ratings)
7.8
(22 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.4
(185 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(451 ratings)
7.5
(4 ratings)
Availability
9.5
(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
9.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(3659 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.7
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.1
(4001 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.7
(19 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
6.5
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
5.9
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
MiroZeplin
Likelihood to Recommend
Miro
Miro is a comprehensive visual collaboration solution that suits companies of any size thanks to its amazing capabilities. It will allow your team members to brainstorm and share ideas in real-time. You will enjoy how this visual collaboration solution will boost collaboration in your company. It is easy to implement.
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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 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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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
  • As a designer, I miss some more creative features. I can't even get really into designing small things (like paths). Many of my colleagues have already switched to the Figma board because it is possible there.
  • Things often get lost in the workflow, especially in teams. Working on the same file often leads to misunderstandings and can be frustrating. For example, if text is accidentally deleted and cannot be recovered, or if images become distorted.
  • The scale on the board is missing, which often leads to size differences.
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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
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
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Zeplin
Great tool
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Usability
Miro
I love it. It should perhaps even be a 10, but there are only minor things that get me when it comes to trying to move around the images on the page and selecting images on the page. Nevertheless, I've used this tool randomly over various years numerous times.
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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 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
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Zeplin
No answers on this topic
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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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
I use both for different things really. Figma is better for design and prototype applications with coding being enabled in Figma (which isn't part of Miro's tools). As I said earlier, I use other programmes when there is a lack in Miro, in this case the coding element. Also Miro is better suited for BAU, so I can utilise this by bringing part of the business into using it. Figma isn't collaborative enough for this purpose. Miro overall has a better user experience
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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
  • Offer infinite canvas that allow me to brainstorm, organize ideas and think visually.
  • Effective for creating prototypes and wireframes, which saves time, reduces back-and-forth, and prevents costly mistakes.
  • Features like mind mapping, kanban boards, and flowcharts help me to visualize complex projects easily.
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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.