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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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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.

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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

(260)

Reviews

(1-5 of 20)

Easy to use and powerful, Mural is a GO!

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 24, 2024
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!!
  • 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
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.

Simple, Easy Digital Whiteboard

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 01, 2021
BW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
1 year of experience
[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.
  • Collaborate on a visual brainstorming session
  • Share ideas with colleagues regardless of physical location
  • Create simple diagrams and mindmaps
Cons
  • Improved accuracy of tablet drawing
  • More customizable shapes
Scenarios where I use Mural [(formerly Mural.ly)]: brainstorming meeting to generate ideas; image board for project vision, precedents, examples; mind-mapping.

Making life easier with MURAL (formerly Mural.ly)

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 07, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
5 years of experience
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.
  • Easy to use
  • Engaging
  • Templates
Cons
  • Sometimes people get lost.
  • Need to have a way to track people's comments--who added what, etc. It gets quite confusing when you have multiple people adding and moving stuff.
  • Guest users need to be given a proper name. Its cool having visiting giraffes but when it's a CEO of a customer, it's important to know that.
  • Locking and unlocking items is sometimes really painful. People pick up an unlocked frame and move it.
  • Great for team meetings
  • Customer reviews
  • Workflow sessions
  • Planning sessions
  • LUMA workshops

MURAL is my go-to collaboration tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 10, 2021
SG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
1 year of experience
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.
  • 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.
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
May 17, 2022
MM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mural
5 years of experience
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.
  • 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
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.
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