Miro: Online whiteboard Reviews

Miro has the best concept for all sorts of collaboration and note taking. I personally would pay good money for Miro if everything worked the way it is supposed to. I run into way too many bugs to the point where I cant even access the User Interface to undo or select the pencil tool. My screen often times becomes glitchy where the screen flickers on panning around the canvas or using the pencil my pen strokes flicker. I use Miro for most of my work but I face these bugs way too often to the point that I am writing an online review. Half the time the User Interface doesn’t even appear on the board, I have to force restart multiple times for it to finally reset, and it doesn’t last long until the UI disappears again and I can’t access any tools or navigation icons. I hope to see changes in the near future because I really like the idea of vector based pen strokes and unlimited whiteboard space for scratch notes, as well as online collaboration with team members. I am hopeful for this app to fix this and I hope these bug fixes are not prolonged for much longer because I simply cannot work efficiently, as I am spending more time restarting Miro than I am actually working. (I use this app on an iPad Pro 2020)

I’m really liking Miro so far. I definitely don’t use it as much as many of the other people whose reviews I read, but what keeps me from using it more is that in contrast to most of the other apps I use on my iPad, this one has a constant feeling of clunkiness.

Load times take a while, the interface is packed, and there are not many gestures or quick access to some of the most commonly used functions apart from searching for them on the side. I very much like Miro , it’s already pretty minimalist for a program, but it’s a different situation if you put it into the context of the rest of the iPad apps that I use, which makes it so that I don’t really use it that often. If it were more in line with the design, optimization, and minimalist approach that many other apps have adopted, I think it would be much better, and much more fun to use.

I just started using this app recently to create board plans for my English class. I am seriously impressed with the creativity that this app gives me, it seems like everything I need is just a click away.

As a retired engineer, I appreciate this app’s drawing capabilities as well. It has the feel and some of the functionality of design software. Every day this week I have discovered something new to love about this app. My goals are to automate my lessons and spend less hours planning and more time teaching.

This product is from the minds of brilliant engineers.

Miro has been one of the most amazing tools I’ve ever used for work. I’m starting a small business, and the organizational capabilities, from mind-mapping to wire framing, to simple brainstorming, are truly impressive. Miro still has a way to go in terms of optimization, with some crashes when too many items are on a board, but I’m guessing those will be ironed out.

I highly recommend this.

The whiteboard itself is a great concept, and I use it a lot! However, when using Miro , any time I tried to draw on the whiteboard, the entire board would disappear, and I would have to reopen it, only for the cycle to continue over and over. I definitely recommend this whiteboard over others, but the website/desktop version is much easier to use without the board suddenly disappearing every time I try to scroll around the board and make an edit to it.
TLDR:
Love the board, just not Miro iteration of it. I recommend the desktop and website versions over this.

Miro works very much like the desktop application, but it could be so, so much better if it embraced the Apple Pencil more fluidly. It basically just treats your pencil like your finger. You’re constantly having to click into toolboxes to select a new tool. Once you use the tool once, it defaults back to “move the canvas around” rather than “keep doing what I was doing when I lifted my pencil from the screen.” Little announces like that just keep reminding you that you’re using a tool, rather than allowing you to fluidly get your ideas on the board.

For the most part, using this app on iPad feels as fluid as I would hope for (2020 iPad Pro 12.9” just to be specific), and is almost a stellar example of what working on an iPad should be like.

A few improvements would take it all the way:

1. It often opens to a blank screen and won’t load until I force close Miro .
2. TWO-FINGER TAP TO UNDO PLEASE. This is a big enough deal to lose a star, it absolutely kills my working flow every time I have to hunt down the undo button, and it’s a staple gesture for this kind of app.
3. Video chat is a complete mess, I got stuck in a full screen video that I couldn’t close when I tried it.
4. It doesn’t take advantage of the gesture shortcuts on the keyboard in iPadOS, which makes text editing more difficult than it should be. Specifically, I can’t two-finger tap on the keyboard to select all the text in a text frame or post-it.

I’ve been using this app for almost 3 years now and it has been a game changer. While I mostly use for brainstorming and ideation I also get to collaborate with others and not have to be in the same room. I’m not missing out on key information which is extremely important when you’re working on a Distributed team. this app is not perfect but with each update it’s getting better. Wish there was an offline mode, way better graphs and tables and the video function needs some improvement.

I use Miro for architecture school and find myself using other apps to draw. It would be so convenient to be able to move the side menu and have easy access to the menu while drawing. Being left handed, it is so inconvenient. This is my only complaint! I love how my boards sync across all my devices, Mac, iPad, and phone. It’s so fun to be able to show peers my progress and work from my phone on a whim.

Great app. Please make the menu moveable!

I love this product, on web and on mobile. It really helps collaborating and keeping a single source of data from research to wireframes to mockups and everything in between.

However, unless there’s a hidden function, I cannot leave a board I no longer wish to be involved with. I have three past collaborations that I am plain sick and tired of seeing and I cannot remove them.

Please, please, please make a simple function to leave a board if one wishes to do so!

This is great. I’ve been searching for an app like this for so long.

There are many premade maps for getting started.
You can print or export pages or preset sized options. You can customize the colors and text.

Creating a map of stickie notes on a wall can be annoying and harder to edit or they fall off eventually.
I love that you can zoom out and create a huge map with different colors and options. Linking ideas with arrows or connections is much easier than in other apps I’ve tried.

I’m much more productive with Miro on a computer with a mouse/Wacom tablet but it is great to have the option of portability.

The lag on zooming in and out makes Miro unusable for any serious user. This is why I left it last year. I’ve been trying it again for the last few days, but nothing has changed. Things only work when the board is really small. The infinite part is a joke on the ipad, because it would take infinity to navigate through the zoom levels. And it’s not like my board is really big.

I love this app as a service, complete game-changer for teams working collaboratively and the constant updates keep adding new, useful features. The iOS app has had a couple of bugs; the biggest of which is that Miro freezes up and needs to be force quit if you don’t use it regularly, but reporting them to developer results in rapid improvements and changes, which is fantastic!

this app - like Notion - has become an everyday app for me, for work and personal use. Brilliantly easy to learn the basics with for beginners yet profoundly powerful for power users. And it keeps getting better at a rapid pace. Support and learning options are robust and well-designed. Just a splendid app!

No matter the scenario, this app supports how you get work done. I could be working on a project individually or with a team that’s located in different parts of the world and this app is the tool that so clearly promotes collaboration.

I like that I can organize my thoughts and see the full picture of projects in real time.

To make the most of this platform it requires you to dig around and explore what templates and integrations can help you become even more productive.

The other thing to be aware of is how much is too much on one board? It’s an infinite canvas - so it’s under the discretion of you and your team to figure out when it’s time to move to a new board.

Overall I love that this app holds everything in one place and encourages all of us to work better together.

love your app so much, I even bought an iPad to work in this app on it while having online meetings. but it appeared to be a disaster: Miro is not built for using on iPad. adding stickers is awful, selecting several items is impossible. it even can’t define when I’m drawing or scrolling (iPad system settings are not applied here)
Please consider fixing iPad version, or a lot of users like me will drop subscription and find more usable app

I was really disappointed. I really loved Miro. I do not work on a team so really did not need all the upgrade features. And it was to expensive monthly for just me. I built out my first project and really loved using it but when I went to download the project I was very shocked to see that the only option to download your work is a low quality jpeg that looks terrible. You have to upgrade to get a decent looking download. That’s it for me. There is no reason for me to keep using an app that I cannot download my work when I’m done.

I tried downloading it into pdf and when i opened it everything was blurry so i tried downloading as photo and the same thing happened. I have been trying to clear the pdf up from blurs because of Miro for 3 hours now. Mind maps yes you can create and that’s good and all but the fact that all the conversions are horrible is just marking you feel like this was a waste of time. If you have to download it after you have done it don’t use Miro find another one!

I use this app at work. I really like being able to edit board on an iPad. I find it faster and more intuitive. However, when starting a task flow on the desktop and picking it up on an iPad the arrows are wildly out of place - the desktop and iPad version of the same board are different (and, yes, I am definitely looking at the same board). It’s completely fouled up a lot of work that needs to be redone. Backup your work first!

I really like the idea of Miro, and it almost works perfectly. However, the “add text box” button and the things to change font size are very glitchy as it doesn’t let me do it withou erasing the text; the whiteboard often becomes unresponsive, and I have to exit back to the boards menu and reload it; and several times it has froze on the loading screen with the logo, and I have to reload Miro .
If the devs fixed this, I’d give it 5 stars. Until then...

Miro is fairly new, so all that is supported is viewing your boards and commenting on elements of the board. For someone who is using this personally and not with a large team, Miro is useless since I am not commenting on my own work. Beautiful and simple functionality as of now, and hopeful for more features to come.

Miro struggles withboards that are denser, taking almost 30 seconds or more to download boards, which occurs each time Miro is opened. I don't understand why there is no caching occurring to speed up this process. There's also a noticeable lag when panning around the board, and this is on an iPhone XS Max.
Besides this, I love the ux and the product as a whole.

Thanks guys for Miro. Use it everyday for different tasks. But with this update for iPad, my iPad mini on iOS 9 show only empty white screen. Please fix it.
Thanks again.
P.S. Still blank white screen after last update (2.7.8).

If Apple/Microsoft/Google doesn’t buy this company. It would be a shame. I’ve never experienced a better collaboration tool especially for a globally distributed team.

And... oh so beautiful UX . I am inspired. Looks spectacular.

It’s a stunning piece of innovation and art.

Too much crashing on ipad pro 10.5 when the canvas gets to a certain size. Clicking the toolbar will cause it to disappear and remain gone unless the canvas size is smaller (so that it reloads back if left alone for a minute). Cant use this to collaborate with my two other colleagues and impedes workflow.

For every board I opened, it went back to the log in session. I love the web version, but please fix the bug on Miro.

Why? Big blank bar at the top takes up so much needless space when in landscape. Please, better alternative. Love the desktop app tho!

Felt exactly like the browser version on my iPad but crashed at least three time in five minutes before I gave up and went back to the browser.

I was looking for something like this for ages

Opens half the time

Why your web app promoting downloading an app that not functional ? Waste user time!

Awesome classroom whiteboard replacement. I’m a Math teacher and Miro / software is awesome for allowing students to save whiteboards, get help after-hours (on one’s own time or in real-time), and to log in remotely to join a class. We airplay mirror from an iPad that gets passed around the room and students who are home sick can still log in through their phones / computers to join the class... they can also save the board for studying later. I can save copies of boards for other classes as well. The online app can run on Chromebooks too. Very cool!

My only wish is for portrait mode support in the mobile app since larger smartphone screens are just big enough to use in that orientation.

Excited for an iPad specific app.

I’ve tried a lot of whiteboards and this is one of the best (speed, fluid recording of the stylus, ease of interface, ability to download boards as pdf, good hotkeys, multi-platform).

It might be worth putting up with the half-baked user experience IF there was an iPad version.

Unfortunately there is no version for the iPad or iPad Pro. After my team wasted a number of hours trying to learn to deal with the quirks and shortcomings of the UI on both the browser and the iOS versions I’m pulling the plug and deleting Miro . It joins the scrap heap with a long list of poorly executed shared whiteboard / pin board / post-it board apps. So many people want something like this. Why, why, why hasn’t any developer made something that actually works well? Especially for the iPad Pro where I would think such an app could be done very very well.

Tried this on iPad mini 4. Only supports portrait, no rotation, and iphone 4 or earlier resolutions as far as I could tell.
I've used the web version which is feature rich - honestly it has too much on the screen and the menus don't close and context menus don't change by context, drop down menus are messy and difficult to retract. The context help conflicts with the menus and isn't easily dismissible so getting to work is filled with popups and distractions.
This one looks good, but the UI is a mess when you try to actually use it in multiuser.