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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
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Pricing

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Starter

$12

Cloud
per month

Plus

$20

Cloud
per month

Enterprise

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Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Using workspaces, rooms and murals

YouTube

Sharing murals with others

YouTube

Navigating the Mural

YouTube

Microsoft Teams Mural Demo

YouTube

How to create templates in Mural

YouTube

Voting in Mural

YouTube
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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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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

(264)

Reviews

(1-5 of 20)

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
  • 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
Cons
  • MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) does take a little time to get up to speed on using it.
  • The sketching feature could be vastly improved to be more like concepts offers, vs the paint app on Windows computers that is currently mimics.
  • Unless you have certain permissions, it is difficult to change your name.
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.

Amazing software for online collaboration!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 29, 2021
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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
  • 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
Cons
  • Sometimes, while doing a retrospective, it's difficult to make a user anonymous
  • It also is a little painful sometimes to make a certain section move from one place to another
  • It takes time to load a mural board
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

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
  • 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.
Cons
  • People accidentally type over their own content.
  • Doesn’t work on phones/tablets.
  • Without guidance, participants will type over others notes.
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.

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
  • 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.
Cons
  • MURAL hardly has any integration with other apps so that can be improved.
  • More shapes or options
  • Sometimes a little slow
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.

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
  • 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
Cons
  • Som commands used to be less intuitive that expected
  • Especially at the beginning of the pandemic , clients had to be taught
  • Some clients just do not get how to work with this, short video tutorial directly available on the board might be useful
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.
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