- The best Miro alternative depends on what your team needs after the whiteboard session — whether visual planning and work execution should live in one system or two, which in turn affects vendor count, governance, and AI costs.
- The main alternatives fall into three groups: visual collaboration platforms (Mural, Lucid), collaborative work management platforms with a whiteboard (Wrike, Monday.com, ClickUp, Atlassian), and meeting whiteboards (Microsoft Whiteboard, Zoom Whiteboard).
- Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Miro on September 10, 2026, with the deal expected to close in Q4 2026. No Miro pricing, roadmap, or product changes have been announced.
Bending Spoons has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Miro by the end of the year. Though Miro will continue to operate independently until the deal closes, you might currently be reassessing whether your visual collaboration stack aligns with how your team works.
Ultimately, the answer to that question depends on what you need after the whiteboard session. Here, the Miro alternatives split into three broad groups:
- Visual collaboration tools built around the canvas, like Mural and Lucid Suite
- Work management platforms that include native whiteboarding, such as Wrike, Monday.com, and ClickUp, where the ideas from a session can become tracked work in the same place
- Meeting whiteboards like Microsoft Whiteboard and Zoom Whiteboard, where the whiteboard feature comes embedded in the core meeting solution
This article outlines the eight main alternatives from these groups, and compares each option by use case so you can match a tool to how your team actually works.
Miro alternatives quick comparison
The Miro alternatives below are organized by use case rather than ranked as a single “best for everyone” order. Make sure you verify current plan details on each vendor’s site before making a decision.
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Alternative |
Best fit |
Main strength |
Work execution depth |
Main consideration |
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Mural |
Design-thinking workshops, facilitator-led |
Facilitation tools for live sessions |
Low: Focused on the canvas |
Needs a separate system for tracked work |
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Lucid |
Collaborative diagramming and whiteboarding |
Precise, structured diagrams with brainstorming capacity |
Low to medium |
Execution depends on wider Lucid tools and integrations |
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Wrike |
Advanced visual collaboration capability native to a work management platform |
Infinite loop between the whiteboard and the work items |
High: Projects, dependencies, resources, approvals, reporting |
A visual workspace where the work happens and remains connected to execution |
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Monday.com |
Monday.com board ideation |
Sticky notes become Monday.com tasks |
Medium |
Deep execution lives in the wider Monday.com product |
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ClickUp |
ClickUp ideation |
Sticky notes become ClickUp tasks |
Medium to high |
A broad feature set that can add setup complexity |
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Atlassian |
Whiteboarding as part of the documentation process |
Sticky notes convert into structured Confluence pages and Jira issues |
Medium (via Jira) |
Very relevant for the Atlassian ecosystem |
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Microsoft |
Embedded whiteboard for ideation during a live meeting |
Native feature of Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 |
Low |
Limited project execution features |
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Zoom |
Embedded whiteboard for ideation during a live meeting |
Native feature of Zoom Meetings |
Low |
Support for live meeting light ideation |
Why are teams reviewing Miro alternatives in 2026?
Two things are driving current interest: an ownership change at Miro and the ongoing question of whether visual planning and work execution should live in one system or two.
Miro’s agreement to be acquired by Bending Spoons
As mentioned above, Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Miro on September 10, 2026. The transaction assesses Miro at a $1.355 billion enterprise value, implying roughly $1.79 billion in equity value. The companies expect the deal to close in Q4 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
Bending Spoons publicly describes an acquisition model that can involve changes to teams, technology, interfaces, product development, marketing, and monetization. However, no pricing, roadmap, support, or product changes have been announced yet. Miro has stated that nothing will change in how it operates before the deal closes, as it will continue operating independently until then.
Where should the work execution live?
The bigger question for many teams is architectural, and goes beyond Miro’s acquisition — should visual collaboration and work execution live in one system or two? Running a dedicated whiteboard alongside a separate work or project management platform means output has to move between them, and context can be lost at the handoff.
Consolidation also raises practical questions. One vendor means fewer separate contracts to manage and fewer governance conditions to reconcile, since the canvas and the resulting work all live under the same regulations. Moreover, as AI features become standard across these tools, teams are also weighing the cost of AI capabilities in each system.
There is no single right answer. Teams whose needs stop at the canvas may prefer a specialized tool, while teams that run structured work after the session often want fewer systems to govern.
What should you look for in a Miro alternative?
For effective decision making, compare tools against the factors that matter for your team’s use cases. This means the criteria should go beyond the canvas experience, specifically on how you use it through brainstorming, training, or problem-solving sessions, and how the ideas flow into actionable tasks and projects afterward.
Visual collaboration and facilitation
Look for an infinite canvas, sticky notes, diagrams, and drawing tools. Real-time multi-user collaboration, voting and polls, timers, and facilitation features also matter for teams that aim at running productive workshops. To save time on preparation, a robust template library can also speed up recurring activities such as retrospectives, planning, and brainstorming.
Turning ideas into structured work
Ask what happens after the brainstorm, or whatever collaborative session you run on your whiteboard. The gap between a good session and delivered work is where many teams lose momentum. Check whether the tool can turn ideas on sticky notes into owned tasks with deadlines and workflow states, and whether that work stays linked back to the original board so context is not lost.
Project and work management depth
Assess support for projects, tasks, dependencies, scheduling, workload, and resource management, approvals, portfolios, and reporting. Miro now includes standard structured planning capabilities such as tables, Kanban, timelines, and parent-child hierarchy, so any valid alternative should offer at least the same level of depth you already have. A dedicated work management platform already covers those features and provides an advanced portfolio management layer with resource management, governance controls, and dedicated reporting.
Integrations and tool consolidation
There are two models to weigh. The first connects a separate whiteboarding tool to a separate work management system through integrations. The second runs ideation and execution natively in the same platform. Both can work; however, it’s worth noting that the native model reduces handoffs between systems, which matters most for teams tired of moving output from one tool to another.
Total cost and licensing model
Consider the full cost, not just the whiteboard seat price. Count duplicate tools, per-seat licensing, integration maintenance, and admin overhead. Ask yourself this question: after the brainstorm, do you still need a separate system to actually run the work? Consolidating two tools into one can change the math, though savings depend on your current stack, so verify before you assume them.
8 Miro alternatives to consider in 2026
Standalone whiteboards for effective visual collaboration
Mural: A Miro alternative for facilitated workshops
Best fit: Teams that run structured, facilitated workshops and standalone visual collaboration sessions
Why consider it: Mural is built specifically for visual collaboration and brainstorming. Its facilitation features allow for collecting ideas privately, revealing them, grouping similar notes, running a vote, and confirming priorities.
Timers, private mode, and templates support real-time sessions well, and its facilitation tooling is aimed squarely at people who run recurring workshops such as retrospectives, design sprints, and planning sessions. Mural also puts effort into guiding participants with a library of advanced methods powered by Luma.
Where it differs from Miro: Mural stays focused on facilitation, while Miro has expanded into structured planning with tables, Kanban, timelines, and hierarchy. Miro’s canvas leans toward a broader set of use cases, from diagramming to lightweight planning, while Mural’s product consistently favors the person leading a live workshop.
Considerations: Mural needs a separate system to turn session output into tracked work. Teams that want workshop results to become owned, scheduled tasks in the same place may prefer another alternative. For teams that mainly need facilitation and already have an execution system in place, that tradeoff is often acceptable.
Lucid: A Miro alternative for visual collaboration and diagramming
Best fit: Teams that brainstorm on a canvas and also need structured diagrams
Why consider it: The Lucid suite pairs diagramming in Lucidchart with the whiteboard strength of Lucidspark. That makes it a good fit when a session moves from sticky notes into flowcharts, process maps, or system diagrams.
Teams that document technical architecture or map detailed processes tend to value Lucidchart’s precision, and the integration with the other Lucid products means a rough brainstorm can be turned into a clean, structured diagram without switching vendors. Lucid also supports data-linked diagrams, so shapes can reflect underlying data rather than static drawings.
Where it differs from Miro: Lucid’s advantage lies in its best-in-class collaborative diagramming available across its product family. While Miro provides great diagramming for most non-technical teams and broad usage, Lucid keeps its focus on diagramming accuracy. For teams whose primary output is a formal diagram rather than a planning board, that focus can be a strength.
Considerations: Lucid provides a structured visual collaboration platform focused on visual methods and diagramming. However, workflow execution capabilities depend on integrations with a separate work management tool.
Collaborative work management platforms with integrated whiteboards
These platforms include native whiteboarding inside a wider work management environment. They suit teams that want brainstorming and execution to live in the same place, while remaining deeply connected throughout the process.
Wrike: A Miro alternative for end-to-end ideation and execution
Best fit: Enterprise and cross-functional teams that need to turn the context of their whiteboard sessions into an infinite loop between the whiteboard and the work items, with structured, trackable work, and no duplicate entry
Why consider it: Wrike is an enterprise work management platform with visual collaboration built directly into the environment where teams plan, resource, execute, approve, and report on work. Wrike Whiteboard gives you an infinite canvas and real-time collaboration in the same system that manages your projects. That removes the handoff between where ideas start and where work gets done.
Where it differs from Miro: Converting sticky notes into tasks and syncing status is now table stakes, and it’s also available by pairing Miro with Wrike through the Wrike Sync integration. The difference with an integrated whiteboard is how tightly the canvas and the work live together inside one platform.
First, the structural depth stands out, since the whiteboards serve as artifacts of a task or project. You can edit a Wrike work item directly from the whiteboard, and embed dashboard widgets on the board so live work data sits next to the visual plan.
Moreover, Wrike’s AI features are more advanced since they handle the concrete project data beyond the knowledge. Wrike AI handles translation and grouping on the canvas. AI can convert whiteboard objects into Wrike work items, a natural-language assistant can generate a template from a prompt, and the Work Intelligence® Graph draws context from both whiteboard content and Wrike work items.
Around the resulting work, Wrike provides multiple planning views, automation, approvals, resource management, governance, and portfolio-level dashboards for stakeholder reporting.
Considerations: Wrike is a stronger fit for teams that want visual collaboration directly connected to project and work management, reducing the total cost of using multiple tools, each with its own contract, vendor, and governance. Teams that mainly need a dedicated visual canvas may prefer Miro or another specialized whiteboarding platform. Note: Teams that want to keep Miro can also integrate Miro with Wrike via Wrike Sync.
Monday.com: A Miro alternative for Monday users
Best fit: Teams already using Monday.com that want a canvas alongside their boards
Why consider it: WorkCanvas is Monday.com’s visual collaboration canvas. It gives users a place to brainstorm that connects to the boards where they track work. For teams already running their projects on Monday.com, that connection keeps ideation close to the boards, timelines, and automations they use every day, which reduces the friction of moving from a discussion to a task.
Where it differs from Miro: WorkCanvas is positioned as a collaborative whiteboard integrated into the broader Monday.com platform rather than a standalone visual collaboration platform. Miro is canvas-first and has invested heavily in the whiteboard experience itself, including advanced facilitation, diagramming, and its AI innovation workspace. WorkCanvas is comparatively lighter as a pure whiteboard, with its main value coming from proximity to Monday.com boards.
Considerations: The deeper execution lives within the broader Monday.com product, which has developed its own native whiteboard tool as an extension of its work management platform. Teams that only need a whiteboard, or that run execution elsewhere, tend to choose a dedicated visual collaboration platform with integrations to the execution system of choice.
ClickUp: A Miro alternative with advanced task management
Best fit: Teams that want a canvas connected to ClickUp’s task management in one platform
Why consider it: ClickUp includes whiteboards linked to its task management, so sketches and sticky notes can become ClickUp tasks. It covers a wide range of productivity and collaborative features in a single tool, including docs, goals, dashboards, and multiple task views, which appeals to teams that want to reduce the number of separate apps they pay for. The whiteboard sits inside that broader environment, so a rough plan can move into a tracked list without leaving the product.
Where it differs from Miro: ClickUp leans toward task and work management with whiteboarding attached, rather than being canvas-first. Miro’s whiteboard is more mature as a dedicated collaboration surface, with deeper facilitation and diagramming, whereas ClickUp’s canvas is one feature within a much larger productivity suite. Teams choosing ClickUp are usually buying the wider platform, not the whiteboard alone.
Considerations: Miro users switching to ClickUp whiteboards may feel frustrated with the visual features provided by the productivity platform, which can’t compare in terms of feature depth or usability.
Atlassian: A Miro alternative for Jira users
Best fit: Teams working in Confluence and Jira
Why consider it: Confluence whiteboards is Atlassian’s built-in whiteboarding feature for Confluence, letting teams capture and develop ideas next to their documentation and also connect to Jira for work tracking.
For teams that already run their delivery in Jira and their knowledge base in Confluence, that proximity is the main draw: a brainstorm can turn into Jira issues without adding a separate vendor. Sticky notes, shapes, and connectors cover the common whiteboarding needs, and the path from board to Jira suits software and product teams working in sprints.
Where it differs from Miro: As a pure whiteboard, Miro is the strongest tool, with a broader canvas, a larger template library, and deeper facilitation and diagramming. Atlassian’s advantage lies in its connection to Jira. The Confluence-to-Jira integration is more advanced than Miro’s, with richer field mapping, bulk edits, and an embedded whiteboard view inside Jira. Atlassian’s AI also spans both Jira and Confluence rather than a single canvas, and Atlassian Guard adds security and governance controls across the suite.
Considerations: Value is strongest for teams committed to Atlassian, and the whiteboarding capabilities are less extensive than those of a dedicated canvas tool. Organizations that are not standardized on Confluence and Jira will get less out of it.
Meeting solutions with embedded whiteboards
These solutions are primarily developed for a live meeting experience and are enhanced with a visual whiteboard that lives inside the meeting tool. They’re convenient for quick visual ideation during calls, but aren’t built to run structured work.
Microsoft Whiteboard: A Miro alternative for Microsoft 365 and Teams users
Best fit: Organizations familiar with Microsoft 365 and Teams
Why consider it: Microsoft Whiteboard is a native fit for Teams and Microsoft 365. For teams already in that environment, it’s a low-friction option for quick visual collaboration during meetings, and it’s included with Microsoft 365 subscriptions, so there’s no extra vendor or license to add.
Participants can draw, add sticky notes and text, and use templates directly inside a Teams call, and boards save automatically to the OneDrive subscription, where they can be revisited later. For organizations already using the Microsoft suite, the free access to the whiteboard feature with a single sign-on experience is the main appeal.
Where it differs from Miro: Microsoft Whiteboard focuses on lightweight collaboration inside Microsoft 365 rather than advanced facilitation or work management. Miro offers a deeper canvas, a much larger template library, structured planning features, and facilitation tools that Microsoft Whiteboard doesn’t compete with. Microsoft Whiteboard is best understood as a convenient meeting companion rather than a full whiteboarding platform.
Considerations: Microsoft Whiteboard offers limited standalone project execution and fewer advanced collaboration features than dedicated whiteboards, so complex workshops or detailed diagramming can feel constrained. Teams that need to turn sessions into managed, trackable work will still require a separate work management system.
Zoom Whiteboard: A Miro alternative for Zoom-centered teams
Best fit: Teams that run most of their collaboration inside Zoom meetings
Why consider it: Zoom Whiteboard brings an infinite canvas into Zoom, so teams can sketch, add sticky notes, and diagram during and after a call without leaving the meeting tool. Boards persist beyond the meeting and can be shared and edited outside a live call, making them useful for teams that treat Zoom as their main collaboration hub.
Because it’s included in the Zoom Enterprise Workplace subscription, it’s a convenient way to add visual collaboration without onboarding a separate whiteboard vendor, and it uses the same access and sharing controls teams already know from Zoom.
Where it differs from Miro: Zoom Whiteboard is oriented around the meeting experience rather than deep facilitation, diagramming, or work management. Miro provides a far broader canvas, a large template library, structured planning features, and facilitation tooling that Zoom Whiteboard doesn’t replicate. Zoom Whiteboard is designed to complement calls rather than serve as a standalone visual collaboration platform.
Considerations: As an embedded visual tool in a meeting platform, Zoom Whiteboard provides more features than Microsoft Whiteboard. However, it has limited standalone project execution and a narrower feature set than dedicated whiteboards, so it’s better suited to lightweight visual ideation than to complex, facilitated sessions. Teams that need to turn meeting output into tracked, owned work will still need a separate work management system.
Which Miro alternative fits your use case?
Use this section as a quick side-by-side selector. The alternatives above cover each product in more detail:
A Miro alternative for project and work management
Wrike, Monday.com, ClickUp, and Atlassian are the relevant solutions, since each pairs a whiteboard with a wider work management environment:
- Wrike offers the most advanced whiteboarding features inside a dedicated enterprise work management platform, with board content converting into native work items.
- Wrike and Atlassian are both worth considering when looking for visual collaboration natively integrated with an execution platform.
- Monday.com and ClickUp are less advanced on that end, since their whiteboards are linked to work management, but are not a core capability of their respective platforms.
The right choice depends on how much execution depth, resourcing, and reporting you need.
A Miro alternative for enterprise teams
Wrike is a strong fit for enterprise teams that need a downstream portfolio execution, governance, administration, and scaling across many teams. Visual collaboration in Wrike operates under the same permissions and controls as the rest of the platform, and whiteboard output becomes governed, trackable work with approvals and reporting.
A Miro alternative for workshop facilitation
Mural is built for facilitated workshops, with private voting, grouping, and facilitation controls for live sessions.
A Miro alternative for diagramming
Lucidspark, which is connected to the wider Lucid suite, including Lucidchart, suits teams that move from ideation to structured diagrams.
Miro vs. Wrike Whiteboard: What’s the difference?
Wrike Whiteboard is a Miro alternative for teams that want to whiteboard within the same system they use to manage projects and work. While Miro remains a strong visual collaboration platform and now includes more structured planning capabilities, Wrike’s main distinction is that whiteboard content can be converted into native tasks, projects, and workflows inside Wrike’s broader work management environment.
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Area |
Miro |
Wrike Whiteboard |
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Core orientation |
Visual collaboration and AI innovation workspace |
Visual collaboration inside enterprise work management |
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Visual collaboration |
Core product capability |
Core product capability inside the Wrike work management platform |
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Work management |
Card management with tables, Kanban, and timeline views |
Task, project, and space hierarchy with customized workflows and granular permission management, advanced resource management, portfolio dashboards, and an end-to-end workflow compliance trail |
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Idea-to-work connection |
Native card management and extensive integrations with execution platforms |
Visual collaboration lives inside the operating system of record |
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AI capabilities |
Strong AI feature set applied to knowledge management. AI credit-based pricing, metered according to an action rate card (monthly allowance per plan) |
Advanced AI features applied to work management, covering both whiteboard and execution. Action-based pricing, metered in 2 tiers: AI Essentials free of charge, and AI Elite with a monthly allowance per plan |
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Best-fit context |
Teams centered on visual collaboration |
Teams that want visual collaboration tied directly to work execution |
Reminder: Teams that want to keep Miro and connect it to their work management system can also integrate Miro with Wrike for two-way syncing between Miro boards and Wrike tasks.
Should you switch from Miro after the Bending Spoons acquisition?
The acquisition agreement alone isn’t a reason every Miro customer needs to switch. No changes to Miro pricing, roadmap, or support have been announced yet. However, an ownership change is a natural point to review your requirements, renewal timing, tool overlap, and available alternatives.
When reviewing alternatives may make sense
- You’re paying for Miro plus a separate work management system.
- Whiteboard output regularly has to be moved to another platform.
- Teams need deeper resource or portfolio management.
- Renewal is approaching, and you want to reassess the stack.
- Procurement wants to reduce vendor and tool sprawl.
When staying with Miro may make sense
Staying might be the right call if your main requirement is visual collaboration, the current workflow works well, the switching cost exceeds the current problem, or existing integrations already cover your execution needs. In that case, keeping Miro and connecting it to your work management system through an integration such as Wrike Sync is a practical approach.
Ready to bring visual collaboration and work management together? Explore Wrike Whiteboard or book a demo to see how whiteboard ideas become tracked work in Wrike.
Miro alternatives FAQs
What is the best alternative to Miro?
The best alternative depends on your team’s use of Miro and whether you want to go beyond the whiteboard experience and connect it to your actual work execution. If you need advanced visual collaboration and work management in one system rather than two that sync, Wrike is the only option here that does both natively.
Mural and Lucid solutions are more focused on standalone visual collaboration (like Miro), with facilitated workshops for Mural and effective diagramming for Lucid. Microsoft Whiteboard and Zoom Whiteboard are best for teams that mainly need a whiteboard in their meeting tool. Finally, Monday.com, ClickUp, and Atlassian pair a whiteboard with their respective broader work management environments.
What is a good Miro alternative for project management?
Wrike is a good alternative to Miro for project management. It combines a powerful whiteboard with an advanced work management platform, so that a session can move straight into structured delivery. Beyond turning board ideas into tasks, Wrike supports project scheduling and Gantt charts, task dependencies and milestones, resource and workload management, approval workflows, automation, portfolio views, and dashboards for stakeholder reporting. Whiteboards act as artifacts of a task or project, and you can edit Wrike work items and view dashboard widgets directly on the board.
ClickUp, Monday.com, and Atlassian are other options that connect a canvas to structured task management within their environments, though the depth of scheduling, resourcing, and reporting varies between them.
Is Wrike an alternative to Miro?
Yes. Wrike is an alternative to Miro, specifically for teams that want visual collaboration plus broader work execution in a single platform. Wrike Whiteboard provides the native canvas, and the rest of Wrike handles execution, resourcing, approvals, and reporting.
If your team is happy with visual collaboration only, sticking to Miro or visual collaboration pure players might be the best fit. On that end, Wrike integrates with Miro through Wrike Sync.
Can Wrike Whiteboard replace Miro?
Yes, for teams looking for more than a visual collaboration platform. Wrike Whiteboard is a full visual collaboration canvas that includes an infinite board, diagramming, live voting, and engagement analytics. It’s embedded directly in the platform where the work is actually planned, assigned, and governed, rather than living as a separate tool.
Note that Wrike Whiteboard is not available as a standalone product, so for teams that only need to power visual collaboration, it can’t replace Miro.
Does Miro have project management features?
Yes. Miro has expanded beyond pure whiteboarding and now includes card management with tables, Kanban, and timeline views. It has grown from a visual collaboration platform into one that also supports more of the project lifecycle with basic hierarchy management. However, it doesn’t cover the full execution cycle as Wrike does.
Who is acquiring Miro?
Bending Spoons is acquiring Miro under a definitive agreement announced on September 10, 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions (Bending Spoons).
When will the Miro acquisition close?
Bending Spoons and Miro expect the deal to close in the fourth quarter of 2026 (Miro).
Will Miro’s pricing change after the acquisition?
No future changes to Miro pricing have been announced as of publication. Miro has stated that nothing changes in how it operates before the deal closes.
