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Mural
Formerly Mural.ly

Overview

What is Mural?

MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) from Tactivos (DBA MURAL) in San Francisco is described by the vendor as a digital workspace and visual collaboration tool, designed for creative teams to make the process of design more efficient for distributed teams, working remotely.

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Mural is the tool that allows you to interact with people from different cultures and ways of thinking/acting.

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 1, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Mural is the tool that allows you to interact with people from different cultures and ways of thinking/acting.Mural is the tool that allows you to express yourself and what yo...
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Valerio Alba
Manager - Product Management
Value Streams Transformation Lead
Stellantis N.V.
Mural4 years of experience

Easy to use and powerful, Mural is a GO!

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 24, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
When the pandemic started , all my clients asked me to continue the facilitation work on Zoom. At the time , Zoom did not have any comprehensive tools to interact apart form P...
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François Lavallée
Professional - Human Resources
president
Aliter Concept
Mural3 years of experience

Ideal space for collaboration

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 2, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Mural for multiple purposes. We use it as a remote collaboration tool (it allows team members to collaborate in real-time on a shared canvas, making it easier to work t...
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Verified user
Consultant
Mural3 years of experience

A great whiteboarding software for any team in any industry

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 6, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Several of our teams used MURAL to help us planning and organize our work in our sprints and plan our roadmaps. Planning and organization tools like Jira are too process orien...
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Steve Bassette
Manager - Information Technology
Manager, Enterprise Applications
Pilot Travel Centers
Mural1 year of experience

Honest MURAL review! (The go-to collaboration tool)

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 17, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
The MURAL is a great online collaboration application for our team and many other teams in our organization. We being a team of developers, BA, Product owners troubleshoot any...
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Madhu Mundra
Engineer - Information Technology
Senior Software Engineer
Cloudwerx
Mural5 years of experience

What Mural can do for the best of agile teams

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 4, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
At our company Mural is used as a collaborative software among agile squads in order to develop customer journey maps, to draft communications destined to clients and to have ...
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Verified user
Analyst
Mural1 year of experience

AKG-Mural

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 21, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Design Thinking workshops main tool between selected customers and business partners. Default Mind Map and brain storming tool during covid times between team members and also...
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A. Kıvanç Güler
Engineer - Sales
Hybrid Cloud Automation Sales Leader, Banking & Insurance
IBM
Mural1 year of experience

feedback

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 16, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Following the team retrospective meeting, collecting feedback, creating voting section
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Burcu Ihtiyar
Engineer - Engineering
Product Design/Development Engineer
Ford Otosan
Mural1 year of experience

Mural User Experience

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 12, 2021
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Agile project management, workshops, brain storming and ideation sections we are currently using. For follow up meetings also we are using.
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Verified user
Manager
Mural1 year of experience

MURAL Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 4, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I use MURAL for remote collaboration sessions, discovery work, process mapping and shared note taking.
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Verified user
Consultant
Mural2 years of experience

Mural - a GREAT collaboration tool for teams, projects and more!

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 3, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Currently, it is being used among many departments for several different use cases. We have our strategic communications team using it for feedback on our annual report, our c...
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Ann Puckett
Employee - Finance and Accounting
Director of IT
Grand Rapids Community Foundation
Mural1 year of experience

The perfect tool for team collaboration and concrete results

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 21, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
MURAL's being widely used by some large departments, particularly related to services delivery. It's being used to addressed any kind of problems or situations, but it's parti...
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Verified user
Program Manager
Mural2 years of experience

Making life easier with MURAL (formerly Mural.ly)

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 7, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Honestly, I don't think I could do my role without MURAL (formerly Mural.ly). I use MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) to run all of my team meetings and coordinate activities with my ...
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Verified user
Employee
Mural5 years of experience

Digital Whiteboard for the 21st Century

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 2, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
It lets us visualize our collective thoughts, keeping everyone on the same page on a daily basis. It is used by certain users in our organization. For instance, each team has ...
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Berry Geller
Administrator - Information Technology
Cloud Analyst
Accenture Operations
Mural3 years of experience

Simple, Easy Digital Whiteboard

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 1, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
[MURAL (formerly Mural.ly)] is used across all consulting professionals in my organization. This includes architects, engineers, landscape architects, and planners. It is a gr...
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Brandon Woodle
Consultant - Engineering
Landscape Architect
SmithGroup
Mural1 year of experience
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$12

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
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Product Demos

Using workspaces, rooms and murals

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Sharing murals with others

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Navigating the Mural

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How to create templates in Mural

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Voting in Mural

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Product Details

What is Mural?

The Mural digital whiteboard is a collaboration solution that helps teams to work better and make better work, offering both a place to collaborate and guidance to hone teams' collaboration skills. With Mural, teams get to learn as they create. Mural’s built-in methods are designed to teach and strengthen habits for more engaging processes and more impactful outcomes. With Mural, there’s no prep necessary — it is designed so that users can just dive in and start practicing the collaboration habits that bring about faster progress, better ideas, happier teams, and more consistent results.

Mural Screenshots

Screenshot of the brainstorming templates that brings more minds to the table and helps turn good ideas into extraordinary work.Screenshot of energizers and icebreakers that help teams feel connected and open-minded so they can tackle big problems.Screenshot of strategic plan sharing, to improve people's sense of safety and expectation, leaving more brain space for creativity and innovation.Screenshot of retrospectives, which help teams get better and happier over time.

Mural Video

MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration.

Mural Competitors

Mural Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) from Tactivos (DBA MURAL) in San Francisco is described by the vendor as a digital workspace and visual collaboration tool, designed for creative teams to make the process of design more efficient for distributed teams, working remotely.

Miro, Stormboard, and InVision are common alternatives for Mural.

The most common users of Mural are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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MURAL has become a go-to tool for remote collaboration across various departments in organizations, especially during the pandemic. Users have praised MURAL for its ability to facilitate visually brainstorming and whiteboarding sessions with colleagues who are located in different time zones and locations. Whether it's synchronous meetings, asynchronous planning, or design sessions, teams can work together in real-time using MURAL. This software has proven to be a versatile alternative to process-oriented tools like Jira, offering teams the flexibility they need for planning and organizing work in sprints and roadmaps. Consulting professionals, architects, engineers, landscape architects, planners, and other teams within organizations have all found value in MURAL. From deep-dive discussions with customers to understanding pain points and facilitating workshops, MURAL has received high recommendations for its ease of adoption and its ability to tackle any collaboration scenario. The software has been particularly helpful in supporting remote workshops, meetings, and strategic planning sessions. Users have leveraged MURAL for brainstorming, ideation, process mapping, managing social media calendars, developing customer journey maps, drafting communications, and facilitating agile events. It has also proven essential for addressing problems, aligning team members in large departments, running team meetings, coordinating activities in program and project management, and ensuring team engagement and alignment. Additionally, MURAL has been utilized as a valuable tool for general brainstorming sessions, Design Thinking workshops, and cascading cultural change initiatives throughout organizations. By saving time for workshops and promoting collective visualization of thoughts, MURAL fosters collaboration while keeping everyone on the same page.

Easy Usability and Engaging Platform: Many users have praised MURAL for its easy usability and engaging platform that enhances collaboration and teamwork. The user-friendly interface and good graphic interface make it seamless to adopt, with some reviewers mentioning the positive experience they had while using the tool.

Effective Collaboration Space: The effectiveness of MURAL's collaboration space in brainstorming sessions, requirements gathering, and design thinking has been commended by several reviewers. They found it to be a valuable tool for promoting innovation, facilitating effective collaboration, and fostering creativity.

Large Workspace for Strategic Planning: Several users have highlighted MURAL's large workspace as ideal for strategic planning. It allows them to easily track and develop their thought processes, providing a clear overview of conversation development. This feature increases productivity, focus, and facilitates effective brainstorming.

Difficult User Interface: Many users have found the user interface of the tablet drawing feature difficult to navigate, leading to frustration. They have mentioned that it takes time to understand how to use the tools effectively, and some users reported that lines in their drawings sometimes become erratic, impacting their ability to create accurate designs.

Limited Integration with Other Apps: A significant number of users expressed a desire for more integration options with other apps. They feel that MURAL has limited integration capabilities, which hinders their workflow and collaboration process. Specifically, users mentioned popular collaboration tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams as examples where they would like improved integration.

Issues with Login and Loading Boards: Some users experienced issues with the login process and had difficulty loading mural boards. This caused difficulties in accessing their work and disrupted their productivity. These technical issues can be frustrating for users who rely on MURAL for collaborative projects.

Users commonly recommend the following three things for MURAL:

  1. Try the free starter license: Users recommend taking advantage of MURAL's free starter license to experience its visual and easy-to-use features.

  2. Provide training and conduct workshops: Users suggest conducting workshops in smaller groups and providing training for users to fully utilize MURAL's functionality. They advise scheduling time to introduce MURAL to new users for effective and collaborative meetings.

  3. Explore templates and shortcuts: Users recommend exploring all available MURAL templates for inspiration and productivity. They also suggest learning the shortcuts and utilizing the premade templates and image/icon search repository for a better experience with the tool.

Reviews

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Mural is the tool that allows you to interact with people from different cultures and ways of thinking/acting.

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 01, 2024
VA
Valerio Alba
Value Streams Transformation Lead
Stellantis N.V. (Automotive, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
4 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Mural is the tool that allows you to interact with people from different cultures and ways of thinking/acting.Mural is the tool that allows you to express yourself and what you want to communicate, adapting to your needs and those of others. It is not just a tool, but an important means of synchronous and asynchronous interaction and communication. It can be used both for personal reasons (organising trips, activities, book reviews, study notes) and for professional reasons in teams and to support entire organisations.
Pros and Cons
  • Brainstorming session
  • Training Sessions
  • Visualize processes
Likelihood to Recommend

Easy to use and powerful, Mural is a GO!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 24, 2024
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
When the pandemic started , all my clients asked me to continue the facilitation work on Zoom. At the time , Zoom did not have any comprehensive tools to interact apart form Polls and the camera. Mural proved invaluable to allo us to share information and create lively and dynamic sessions.
This tool is too awesome!
Almost no limit to our creativity. Some clients even "complained" that they will never go back to face to face brainstorming sessions b cause this proved to be so helpful!!
Pros and Cons
  • Brainstorm sessions
  • Voting directly on the board
  • allowed to rapidly copied what used to be done manual on post its
  • Less work for our admin assistant ...no retrancriptIon!
  • Easy to capture part of the board and create slides
Likelihood to Recommend
Especially powerful for direct content creation
Less useful for very analytical people who need to digest the content prior to the creation of new ideas...but then , this is the facilitator role to prepare them.
However, for this analytical people, the board can be overwhelming when a lot a things happen at once. Again , somme préparation bu the facilitator is required.
By the same token, after years of use of this tools or similar tools, the facilitator and the group must understand the outcome. The same happens with badly prepared meetings anyway.
The use of template is amazing for recurrent uses.
OVerall Ań amazing tool but , like any other similar tool, we must think of alternative ways to conduct meetings and workshop.

Ideal space for collaboration

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
October 02, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Mural for multiple purposes. We use it as a remote collaboration tool (it allows team members to collaborate in real-time on a shared canvas, making it easier to work together regardless of location), brainstorming and ideation space, workshops, as well as planning.
Pros and Cons
  • enables easy for all collaboration especially in the hybrid environment
  • makes brainstorming better as users can create digital sticky notes, draw diagrams, and add images to visually represent concepts and ideas
  • it helps to visualize data effectively - users can create charts, graphs, and diagrams to present data-driven insights to team members and stakeholders
Likelihood to Recommend
Remote Collaboration: In a remote or distributed work environment, Mural shines. It enables teams to collaborate effectively in real-time, bridging geographical gaps and facilitating virtual meetings, workshops, and brainstorming sessions.

Workshop Facilitation: For facilitators leading workshops or team-building activities, Mural provides interactive templates and tools for engaging participants and achieving specific objectives.

A great whiteboarding software for any team in any industry

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 06, 2023
SB
Steve Bassette
Manager, Enterprise Applications
Pilot Travel Centers (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Several of our teams used MURAL to help us planning and organize our work in our sprints and plan our roadmaps. Planning and organization tools like Jira are too process oriented with too many distracting features to be very usable so we shifted to white boarding tools. At our peak usage, we used MURAL pretty intensely to collaborate in synchronous meetings, asynchronous plannings, and design. Ultimately, we replaced it with a more cost efficient option, but overall I found it a great tool.
Pros and Cons
  • It is Lightweight and Stays out of the way
  • It feels informal like a white board
  • It easy to use
  • Adding consistent sticky notes is easier than others
  • It is easy to change sticky note shapes
  • No embedded data to accidentally lose
  • The Inking works well
  • Linking within boards is really smooth
Likelihood to Recommend
I've recommended MURAL to a lot of people in a lot of fields. This is a great tool for any group of people that might stand around a white board if they were in person. Even if they are in person, I still recommend it pretty often because, unlike a white board, MURAL is virtual, so it can go offline with you. I've recommended it to other Software Teams, individual software developers, engineering teams, Sales Managers, Office Staff, Manufacturing teams, and more.

Honest MURAL review! (The go-to collaboration tool)

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 17, 2022
MM
Madhu Mundra
Senior Software Engineer
Cloudwerx (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The MURAL is a great online collaboration application for our team and many other teams in our organization. We being a team of developers, BA, Product owners troubleshoot any functionality together on MURAL's whiteboard together due to it being online and easily available, and being easy to use. MURAL is used across the whole organization as I have worked on many projects and can see MURAL being used everywhere and even I use to with my team for collaborating with my team and designing any solution.
Pros and Cons
  • MURAL greatly helps in designing phase of a project
  • It has different frameworks to define different personas, Scenario maps, hills.
  • Can add own customized image by uploading them on MURAL
  • MURAL's integrated chat service is another great feature it has.
Likelihood to Recommend
MURAL has ready-to-use templates which make it very seamless for collaboration with clients or teams. It's an on-the-go platform to create or showcase solutions with its friendly images and shapes. Sometimes it gives us ideas even during the design phase, scenarios that haven't been thought of yet. Whenever we are starting a project or a new phase of a project, MURAL is the go-to app to start brainstorming for all kinds of projects or requirements. I can hardly think of a scenario where a MURAL is less appropriate but maybe it is less useful after the completion and delivery of the project.

What Mural can do for the best of agile teams

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 04, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
At our company Mural is used as a collaborative software among agile squads in order to develop customer journey maps, to draft communications destined to clients and to have brainstorming sessions and agile events where everyone can give their input. Mural easily tackles the problem of working together since we are still under a home office regime.
Pros and Cons
  • Organizing ideas
  • Give visibility to everyone's input
  • Brainstorming
Likelihood to Recommend
Mural is well suited for collaborative work where there isn't high complexity in the job that needs to be done, like drafting simple diagrams or journeys without too much information. Since the items and icons available don't allow a more dinamic or creative approach, Mural is better for day to day activities that don't require high impact presentations.

AKG-Mural

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 21, 2022
AK
A. Kıvanç Güler
Hybrid Cloud Automation Sales Leader, Banking & Insurance
IBM (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Design Thinking workshops main tool between selected customers and business partners. Default Mind Map and brain storming tool during covid times between team members and also different LOBs from the organization. MURAL is a very helpful tool in order to save time for workshops internal and also external members.
Pros and Cons
  • Collaboration
  • Templates, canvas and rich palette items
  • Export and import options
  • Industry standard support
Likelihood to Recommend
Best tool for Design Thinking
Good tool for Mind Map and Brain Storming
Should be improved for product and project management

feedback

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 16, 2022
BI
Burcu Ihtiyar
Product Design/Development Engineer
Ford Otosan (Automotive, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Following the team retrospective meeting, collecting feedback, creating voting section
Pros and Cons
  • Voting scrum master or product owner
  • collecting feedback about last sprint
  • creating teamhealth checkup section
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a very nice platform where you can collect feedback about the team. It can be used without the names of people. It also has the ability to be updated later. when one of the people on the page scrolls the screen at the same time, all the people on the screen scroll this feature can be improved.

Mural User Experience

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 12, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Agile project management, workshops, brain storming and ideation sections we are currently using. For follow up meetings also we are using.
Pros and Cons
  • Simultaneously idea registration and comments about existing ideas
  • User friendly interface and easy to use tools
  • Visual reports, classifications of ideas
Likelihood to Recommend
For example, during ideation sessions, it's hard to synchronize with others. [The] application gets slower and after modifications sometimes team members write down [on] the same page. Maybe during typing cells should be locked?

MURAL Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 04, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use MURAL for remote collaboration sessions, discovery work, process mapping and shared note taking.
Pros and Cons
  • Shared digital white board
  • Voting, affinity mapping
  • Templated exercises
Likelihood to Recommend
MURAL works well with small to medium sized group collaboration and working sessions. As well as structured exercises with templates. For very large groups (100+) there are sometimes issues.

Mural - a GREAT collaboration tool for teams, projects and more!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 03, 2021
AP
Ann Puckett
Director of IT
Grand Rapids Community Foundation (Philanthropy, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Currently, it is being used among many departments for several different use cases. We have our strategic communications team using it for feedback on our annual report, our centennial celebration team is using it for project planning, our finance department is using it for updating & reviewing goals, our program department is using it for process mapping.
Pros and Cons
  • Custom configuration of design templates
  • Easy to invite and engage guests
  • Real-time collaboration
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very well suited for virtual collaboration particularly in a situation where you would normally be in a room brainstorming in person. It works great for projects, committees or teams who need to come together to collaborate on an idea, project, process mapping, goal setting or as someone said just a place to jot down their own personal to-dos and or stick notes.

The perfect tool for team collaboration and concrete results

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
October 21, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
MURAL's being widely used by some large departments, particularly related to services delivery. It's being used to addressed any kind of problems or situations, but it's particularly used as a modelling tool for gaining common understanding, of new business flows, and team understanding and alignment of customers scenarios.
Pros and Cons
  • visual 'mind-mapping'
  • brainstorming processes
  • Very easy to use and adopt
  • Very good graphic interphase
Likelihood to Recommend
I think MURAL is great to sketch fast teams action, in a collaborative way. When a plan needs to be done, for some specific action (software go live, software trainings, etc), and a number of people needs to be part of, I found MURAL an easy and quick tool to adopt and use, almost immediately, without much further explanations. On the other hand, I wouldn't use for a more accurate or formal scenario, where you need to establish some precise and well-defined actions (industrial process, for example).

Making life easier with MURAL (formerly Mural.ly)

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
July 07, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Honestly, I don't think I could do my role without MURAL (formerly Mural.ly). I use MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) to run all of my team meetings and coordinate activities with my partners. I run programs and projects across Africa, and MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) is my go-to tool to ensure that the entire team is engaged in the process and is on the same page when it comes to execution. I've even started running my weekly team meetings on a mural, as it's a great way for the team to catch up and share ideas.
Pros and Cons
  • Easy to use
  • Engaging
  • Templates
Likelihood to Recommend
  • Great for team meetings
  • Customer reviews
  • Workflow sessions
  • Planning sessions
  • LUMA workshops

Digital Whiteboard for the 21st Century

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 02, 2021
BG
Berry Geller
Cloud Analyst
Accenture Operations (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It lets us visualize our collective thoughts, keeping everyone on the same page on a daily basis. It is used by certain users in our organization. For instance, each team has their own planning murals. These are used regularly--often daily--to show progress. The workspace also increases productivity and focus.
Pros and Cons
  • MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) has ready-to-use templates for everything to seamlessly collaborate with our clients and engage with them
  • The workspace also increases productivity and focus
Likelihood to Recommend
The main value of this software is the collaboration aspect. I love that I can bring people together regardless of their tech fluency and with one icebreaker activity, I can get them to use the main functions they will need for the next few hours. I love that you can paste a URL and it shows a thumbnail of the article.

Simple, Easy Digital Whiteboard

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 01, 2021
BW
Brandon Woodle
Landscape Architect
SmithGroup (Architecture & Planning, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
[MURAL (formerly Mural.ly)] is used across all consulting professionals in my organization. This includes architects, engineers, landscape architects, and planners. It is a great solution to the problem: how do you visually brainstorm (whiteboard) with your colleagues across offices and remote workers and time zones? Mural allows people to work together regardless of location at the same time, live, in a meeting, or whenever they can fit it into their busy schedules.
Pros and Cons
  • Collaborate on a visual brainstorming session
  • Share ideas with colleagues regardless of physical location
  • Create simple diagrams and mindmaps
Likelihood to Recommend
Scenarios where I use Mural [(formerly Mural.ly)]: brainstorming meeting to generate ideas; image board for project vision, precedents, examples; mind-mapping.

Virtual desk top for a group of dreamers to collaborate and innovate

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 30, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
MURAL [(formerly Mural.ly)] is authorized for use across the organization and is used in various forums. In particular, I've used it as a white board type space for general brainstorming, as well in more structured Design Thinking sessions with both internal and external stakeholders. Most recently we've created some workspaces relative to deriving and cascading Cultural Change content and initiatives throughout the organization, by region and LoB/team.
Pros and Cons
  • Collaboration space for brainstorming
  • Requirements gathering/definition
  • Design Thinking - innovation
Likelihood to Recommend
General brainstorming and Design Thinking activities are good application areas for MURAL [formerly Mural.ly)], in that participants can share ideas and then use the 'table top' to sort and gather them into solutions/concepts that drive to a desired outcome. Similarly can be done as a 'I Like, I Wish' type feedback board that can even remain active/available for follow-on reflection and comment.. perhaps where subsequent events are planned to build upon an initial one.

Amazing software for online collaboration!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 29, 2021
AD
Aakanksh Dabhade
Business Analyst
ThoughtWorks (Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) is not just limited to a department or a project; rather, it's being used across the whole organization to do deep-dive discussions with the customers to understand the client pain areas.

Every client interaction in the very beginning where we do workshops goes through MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) for white-boarding exercises.
Pros and Cons
  • Ability to follow other users' cursors makes it easy for a group to understand what a particular person is explaining
  • Drag-and-drop components for ease of use
  • Quick and easy way to provide access to internal/external users as MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) is a SaaS product
Likelihood to Recommend
The tool MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) is best suited for performing any kind of white-boarding exercises both internally and externally to include participants up to 50.
Online collaboration has become very easy during the pandemic when we do not have a chance to meet people in person.

Mural is less appropriate when the number of user might be more than 50

Best Tool for Collaboration

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 29, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It lets us visualize our collective thoughts, keeping everyone on the same page on a daily basis. For instance, each team has their own planning mural. These are used regularly--often daily--to show progress. It helps everyone on the team imagine together to unlock new ideas, solve hard problems, and innovate faster.
Pros and Cons
  • It's a large, virtual wall you can solve problems on visually.
  • You can interact with your content in new ways in MURAL (formerly Mural.ly).
  • MURAL is a standalone tool that does not directly integrate with other tools.
Likelihood to Recommend
When one of my designers needs me to review something, we set up a MURAL and I can sketch over their designs or leave post-it notes, plug in images for inspiration, anything.

MURAL is the preferred collaboration solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 29, 2021
MB
Michael Burniston
Technical Lead
RBC (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
MURAL is being used in various departments across our organization. It was adopted to assist with collaboration, particularly to address the challenges posed by remote working when the pandemic struck. MURAL is an exceptional tool that enables teams to share ideas, organize work and track progress. It is flexible enough to tackle any scenario requiring teams to collaborate. It is very easy to adopt and has tooling built-in to allow for more sophisticated interaction. Highly recommended.
Pros and Cons
  • Kanban boards
  • Brainstorming
  • Mind mapping
  • Voting for prioritization
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for team collaboration and visualizing ideas.

MURAL is my go-to collaboration tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 10, 2021
SG
Susan Gregory
Founder, Corporate Trainer, Meeting Facilitator
Best Work Yet (Professional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use MURAL with multiple clients. It helps with collaboration, engagement, and learning online. I’ve used it to teach communication skills, to run strategic planning meetings, brainstorming sessions, and focus groups. I’ve created a calendar to manage social media. People miss being able to get together in person to share ideas around a flip chart or whiteboard. MURAL fills that gap. It’s much easier to use and more flexible than other whiteboard functions (such as whiteboard in Zoom). People can use it simultaneously or for asynchronous collaboration.
Pros and Cons
  • Strategic planning: You can build up the thought process on a large workspace and easily see how your conversation has developed.
  • Brainstorming: Easy for people to get started and add lots of ideas at the same time. Easy to move ideas around to see themes.
  • Focus groups: Participants can easily see their ideas being captured.
Likelihood to Recommend
Particularly suited for detailed collaboration with multiple aspects or steps to the conversation. Because there is a learning curve, it is less suited to simple topics such as a short document review or to capture a short conversation. It’s best suited to groups that are open to learning new technology.

Get the most from online collaboration

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 30, 2020
FS
Faye Sadler-Clark
Principal Consultant
Gobeyond Partners (Management Consulting, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Many of my colleagues and I use Mural when working with clients remotely; we have been using it for several years. It's a fantastic way of working with geographically dispersed teams and has been particularly helpful in supporting collaboration during the Covid 19 pandemic. It is used to run remote workshops and meetings where our clients are open to using the tool.
Pros and Cons
  • It allows you to build from independent work to group exercises and discussions and using brainstorming and the voting tool to drive decision making and action.
  • It has functionality that allows you to bring your audience to different areas of the whiteboard using the 'summon everyone' function, and move between delivering material with 'presentation mode' and interactive exercises where students contribute ideas or suggestions.
  • It offers an interactive and engaging platform for collaboration and costs can be kept low because people can join sessions as visitors.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great when you need to drive real decision making and action; the voting tool is particularly useful in this regard. It's a great tool to use when you want to hear all voices, and not just from the loudest individuals. I've used Mural extensively over the last two years, and I've developed an online course in how to use the tool. I've run hundreds of participative workshops with it too, it's my 'go to' for running engaging remote workshops.
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