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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

(265)

Reviews

(1-5 of 20)

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
  • 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.
Cons
  • The only thing that used to bug me about Mural was the fact that you couldn’t identify participants who joined as visitors (one time collaborators appear as anonymous animals). I noticed recently that visitors can now add their name which is really useful. I expect this change came from Mural user feedback, they do seem to develop the features over time.
  • Sometimes participants can't see images that you add to the whiteboard. There's a way around it but it's a little frustrating and I'm not sure why it happens.
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.

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
  • Kanban boards
  • Brainstorming
  • Mind mapping
  • Voting for prioritization
Cons
  • Having some login issues recently.
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for team collaboration and visualizing ideas.

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.

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.

The perfect tool for team collaboration and concrete results

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
October 21, 2021
Verified User
Program Manager in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
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
  • visual 'mind-mapping'
  • brainstorming processes
  • Very easy to use and adopt
  • Very good graphic interphase
Cons
  • It'd be nice that the zoom regulation could be easier to manage
  • The advanced features are a little bit easy to adopt. Why not adding some agile trainings, or some other tools to facilitate their adoption
  • A faster and easier way to Integrate with ms office
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).
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