Mural Alternatives

Miro is the online whiteboard most teams compare with Mural, and the swap that asks the least of your facilitators. Its canvas holds sticky notes, mind maps, diagrams, Kanban boards, docs, tables, timelines and slides, and Starter adds the workshop layer: timer, voting, private mode and notes. It counts 7000+ Miro and community templates and 250+ integrations, including Microsoft, Slack, Google and Adobe, and our Miro with Zapier page shows how to automate boards from other tools. Our Miro review covers the product in depth, and if Miro itself starts to feel heavy, our Miro alternatives look at the other direction.

How the price reads against Mural: Starter costs $8 per member per month billed yearly, or $10 billed monthly, against $9.99 and $12 on Mural Team+. Ten members on Starter pay $960 a year, $238.80 less than on Team+. Business, with unlimited guests, SSO and unlimited workspaces, costs $20 per member per month billed yearly, or $25 monthly, which is $2.01 more per member than Mural Business. So Miro saves money for internal teams, and costs a little more once clients join as guests.

Tip: Miro's Mural importer reads a PDF export, and it works on Starter, Business, Education and Enterprise, not on Free. Buy one month of Starter for the migration, export each mural to PDF, then check the result: Miro's own guide says the PDF importer primarily matches basic shapes and lines, and crowded boards import less accurately. Starter also includes 25 AI credits per member per month, about 12 document summaries, so heavy AI users hit the cap before the end of the month.

Lucidspark is the whiteboard of Lucid, the company behind Lucidchart. It covers sticky notes, freehand drawing, emoji reactions, comments and Visual Activities, and on its Team plan it adds the facilitator layer Mural users expect: voting, timer, call others to me, laser pointer, guest collaborators and collaborator colors. Its strength against Mural is what happens after the workshop. On Enterprise, the universal canvas includes Lucidchart, so a brainstorm can become a structured process diagram without changing tool. Teams moving away from Lucidchart itself should read our Lucidchart switching guide first.

How the price reads against Mural: Team costs $10 per user per month when billed yearly, one cent more than Mural Team+, so a team of 10 pays $1,200 a year against $1,198.80. Individual costs $9 per month billed yearly but is built for solo work. The Free plan matches Mural on volume, with 3 editable boards and unlimited shapes per board.

Tip: voting and the timer are on the Team plan, not on Individual. Lucid describes Team as adding chat, voting, timers and more facilitator tools to the Individual features, so a facilitator who buys Individual to save a dollar loses the two tools a workshop needs most. Breakout boards, which split a large group into sub-boards, sit on Enterprise. And the free trial lasts seven days and asks for payment details at sign-up: set a reminder, it bills automatically when the trial ends.

FigJam is the whiteboard inside Figma. It covers sticky notes, diagramming with shapes and connectors, tables, code blocks, stamps, stickers and emotes, a music player and a shared timer, plus AI to summarize a board or draft a slide outline from it. The Collab seat gives full access to FigJam, Figma Slides, Figma Buzz and Figma Specs, with view and comment access in Figma Design files, so a product manager can run a retro and comment on the mockups in the same account. If the whole Figma subscription is under review, our Figma switching guide covers it.

How the price reads against Mural: a Collab seat costs $3 per month on Figma Professional and $5 per month on Organization and Enterprise, which are billed annually. Ten Collab seats on Professional cost $360 a year, against $1,198.80 for 10 Mural Team+ members, a gap of $838.80. That is the seat price that changes the occasional-participant math: a PM, a marketer and an engineer who join two workshops a quarter cost $9 a month together.

Tip: on Professional, seats you add during an annual term are billed as a separate monthly subscription at the monthly price, so a team that grows mid-year sees two invoices. Plan the Collab seats you need at renewal. Import works on any plan: export the mural, then import it into a FigJam file with edit access.

Klaxoon, now branded Klaxoon by Wrike, is the closest match to Mural's facilitation focus. It is built around live activities: a Board whiteboard with diagramming, mind mapping, questions and dot-voting, plus facilitation features to sync all screens, run a timer and pause, and manage access and participants. It integrates with Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Wrike and Jira on Starter, and it lists GDPR and CCPA compliance with data encryption in transit and at rest.

How the price reads against Mural: Klaxoon bills the host, called a Pro, not every participant. Starter costs $24.90 per host per month billed annually, for 1 to 4 Pros, with up to 20 contributors per activity who edit for free. Four hosts cost $1,195.20 a year, about what 10 Mural Team+ members cost, but those four can run sessions for many more people. From 5 Pros, you move to Enterprise, priced on request.

Tip: the limit to watch is the audience, the number of unique monthly contributors invited to your activities: 50 on Free and 100 on Starter. A trainer who runs five sessions of 20 different people in a month hits the 100 cap, and a sixth group needs Enterprise. The Free plan is a trial more than a plan: 1 open activity, 5 contributors per activity and 50 ideas per board. Klaxoon publishes its own guide to export whiteboards from Mural before you move.

Conceptboard is a German whiteboard built for teams with strict hosting rules. Its canvas covers boards, a template library of 150+ templates in English and German, facilitator tools, comments and board history, and its sales pitch is where the data lives: data centers in Germany on Starter, optional IONOS or StackIT hosting on Advanced, and dedicated single-tenant or on-premises hosting on its special plans. Guests can join a board without a Conceptboard account through temporary access for externals.

How the price reads against Mural: Starter costs 5 € per user per month, with monthly and yearly billing starting with 1 user, and already includes facilitator tools. Mural keeps data residency for Enterprise, priced on request, so a European team that only needs EU hosting can stop at a small Conceptboard plan instead of a quote. Advanced starts at 10 € per user per month and adds unlimited projects, board history, approval and custom branding. Prices are shown in euros and exclude VAT.

Tip: Starter caps you at 5 active projects, and Advanced asks for a 12-month contract once you have 10 or more users, while Corporate and Government runs on 24 months for 100+ users. The Free plan allows 3 active boards and 100 objects per board, which a single brainstorm can fill: use it to check the canvas, not to run a quarter of workshops.

Whimsical is a focused workspace for boards, flowcharts, wireframes, mind maps and docs, with AI that turns a prompt into a flowchart, a mind map or a wireframe. It is fast and calm, with fewer tools than Mural on purpose. Voting and a timer are included on every plan, Free included, as are unlimited guests and viewers, and Slack and GitHub integrations. It fits the team that used Mural for user flows and quick retros, not the facilitator who needs summon, private mode and a deep template library. For pure mind mapping, compare it with our best mind mapping software ranking.

How the price reads against Mural: Pro costs $10 per editor per month with annual billing and Business $20, with SAML single sign-on and private teams. Whimsical bills editors only: viewers are always free, so the people who only look at a flow cost nothing. Ten editors on Pro pay $1,200 a year, within $1.20 of 10 Mural Team+ members.

Tip: the free plan's limit is a monthly flow, not a board count: up to 50 board objects and 50 doc blocks per month. One workshop with 40 sticky notes and a few shapes uses most of a month. Free exports carry a watermark and version history covers 7 days, against 90 days on Pro. Plan to rebuild your Mural boards by hand rather than import them.