Mural Reviews & Ratings 2025

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Description: MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration.

Starting at $12 per month

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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.

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...

Valerio Alba

Manager - Product Management

Value Streams Transformation Lead

Stellantis N.V.

4 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...

François Lavallée

Professional - Human Resources

president

Aliter Concept

3 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...

Verified user

Consultant

3 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...

Steve Bassette

Manager - Information Technology

Manager, Enterprise Applications

Pilot Travel Centers

1 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...

Madhu Mundra

Engineer - Information Technology

Senior Software Engineer

Cloudwerx

5 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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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

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Navigating the Mural

YouTube

Microsoft Teams Mural Demo

YouTube

How to create templates in Mural

YouTube

Voting in Mural

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Product Details

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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.

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MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration.

Mural Competitors

Mural Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No

Frequently Asked Questions

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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MURAL is the preferred collaboration solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 29, 2021

Michael Burniston

Technical Lead

RBC (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

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.

Most Important Features

Easy to share.
Highly flexible for anything you want to use it for.
Quick learning curve.

Return on Investment

Provided a reliable and flexible alternative to whiteboarding when the entire workforce was forced to go remote.
Allowed for continued productivity.

Alternatives Considered

Miro and Lucidchart

Easier to use and more flexible.

Other Software Used

Webex Meetings, Miro

A great whiteboarding software for any team in any industry

Rating: 9 out of 10

July 06, 2023

Steve Bassette

Manager, Enterprise Applications

Pilot Travel Centers (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

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

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

Cons

Frames cannot be nested
It was easy to move notes while panning
Lines sometimes go crazy
It is sometimes laggy (especially when working with Indian teams)

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.

Most Important Features

Lightweight
Accessibility
Easy

Return on Investment

Improved planning throughput
Reduced communication costs
Increased conversation
Increased topic understanding

Alternatives Considered

Miro, Lucidspark and FigJam

I like it better than Miro because MURAL's more informal feel makes it encourage conversation and use. Miro also let's you bury too much information "inside" the notes making it really easy to lose sight of important data. I like MURAL better than Lucidspark because of how fast the pages load, especially links within the board. Any app is better than Microsoft whiteboard which is appalling unusable and feature incomplete.

Usability

Overall, MURAL is really easy to use, but there are a couple downsides. It's really easy to make areas of the board consistent because double clicking adds stickies that match those around the current one. It's really easy to connect the elements. And it's really easy to organize elements. Inconsistent controls, Panning, Line Connections, and latency are the only issues I had. My biggest issue is that the MURAL mouse buttons are very different from most similar software. This always causes me problems switching to a graphics software or 3D modelling software. Because MURAL uses the same button to pan and move elements, it's really easy to move things when panning around. The lines can also be a (sometimes huge) problem because thew will occasionally disappear or connect to things incorrectly. I think this is tied to latency issues which, in addition to causing phantom lines, can sometimes cause confusion to your team.

Easy Tasks

Adding stickies
Organizing sticky notes

Difficult Tasks

Panning requires care
Mouse Controls are Awkward

Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions

MURAL Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 04, 2021

Verified User

Consultant in Other

Management Consulting Company, 51-200 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

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

Shared digital white board
Voting, affinity mapping
Templated exercises

Cons

sync with audio / video tool
licensing and free user access and guests
very large groups

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.