Miro Review
February 23, 2022
Miro Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Miro
We use it mainly for collaborative Working and discussing ideas. It's a fast way to show others the progress ones made in a project, get opinions on options, and work out strategies. Usually, we work in Groups of 3-5 People on any given board. We have different boards for each aspect of the project which makes it very easy to keep an overview of the different departments. Especially when different Teams work on different solutions for the same problems it's easy to put them next to each other and have a vote. From time to time the tool is also handy for design sprints, where we solve a given problem in a structured manner, with timers and different roles among group members. The fact that it works in any browser makes it fast for group members to drop in, work, or edit some things and then forward them to the group.
- Realtime view of the progress of everyone in the group
- Tools such as Timers, Reactions, Polls and the such
- Generating diagrams that are very easily structured and clean to read
- Making it easy for new Group members to drop in via Browser, without any installation requirement
- The chat option is almost never used in our group, kinda hidden and new messages are not made obvious enough
- Sticky notes sometimes have either real small text or are very big due to their weird scaling
- There is no default scale, it shows you the percentage at the bottom but more than once group members didn't realize they created objects at maximum zoom making them tiny, or the opposite, where they created text fields that are incredibly big. This makes it a bit harder to manage. Though the problem gets better when the Group members get used to the tool a bit more
- We accidentally stumbled across a puzzle for our video game while multiple users were drawing on the whiteboard. This made our game just that little bit cooler.
- Miro is now used as an alternative to other software like Powerpoint, saving on other licenses.
- Since the pandemic everyone worked from home, Miro saved the day, being the best alternative to a traditional Whiteboard and saving lots of time.
Especially with the pandemic hitting, everyone had to work remote. Miro was the perfect alternative to our real world whiteboard. It kept things running when Team Members could not come into the office anymore. It also made it easier to hire people from all over the country without having anyone to move here.
Do you think Miro delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Miro's feature set?
Yes
Did Miro live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Miro go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Miro again?
Yes
- MURAL (formerly Mural.ly)
Unfortunately, I wasn't really involved with selecting Miro over its competitors. We did try out some other tools but none of them were comparable to the feature set of miro. Since Miros Feature set is very exhaustive it combines a lot of different other tools I've used before in my day, so it's hard to pinpoint a specific competitor. The only thing we very briefly looked into was MURAL, they seemed good and I'm not sure what the decision process was, but what I can say for sure is that Miro is cheaper in any case.