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Mural

Freemium
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Mural is a professional-grade digital whiteboard and visual collaboration suite designed to facilitate structured workshops, strategic mapping, and agile ceremonies for distributed enterprise teams.


Visual collaboration platform for hybrid and remote teams.

Mural provides a sprawling infinite canvas where teams use sticky notes, diagrams, and media to visualize complex workflows. Unlike basic drawing apps, it features 'Facilitation Superpowers' such as timed sessions, private voting, and a laser pointer to guide participants through synchronous workshops. The platform excels in structured thinking, offering hundreds of pre-built templates for Agile Sprints, Design Thinking, and OKR mapping. Notable integrations include Microsoft Teams, Jira, and Slack, allowing teams to bridge the gap between abstract brainstorming and actionable project management tasks.

Pros

  • Includes dedicated 'Facilitation Superpowers' like private mode and a timer to manage time-boxed brainstorming and unbiased voting.
  • Offers a robust library of professionally designed templates based on proven methodologies like Design Thinking and Agile.
  • Enables infinite canvas scaling with deep zoom capabilities to organize vast amounts of interconnected visual information in one space.

Cons

  • The interface may feel overwhelming to first-time users due to the density of facilitation tools and complex permission settings.
  • Performance lag can occur on older hardware when boards contain thousands of individual elements or hundreds of simultaneous contributors.
  • Mobile and tablet applications offer a more restricted feature set compared to the robust desktop browser version.

Key features

  • Murals
  • Facilitation
  • Templates

Integrations

SlackZoomMicrosoft TeamsGoogle DriveJiraAzure DevOps

Target audience

Remote teams, Product managers, Designers, Consultants


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Active Users

1M+

Founded

2011

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Pricing Tiers

Free

Access to basic features for individuals and small teams.

Free

Team+

More murals, advanced facilitation, and collaboration features for growing teams.

$12/user/month

Business

Enhanced security, administration, and support for larger organizations.

Custom


Frequently Asked Questions


Top Alternatives to Mural

Miro

Consider choosing Miro over Mural if you require a faster-loading canvas for massive data sets and a slightly more extensive library of third-party app integrations.

FigJam

Consider choosing FigJam over Mural if your team is already heavily integrated into the Figma design ecosystem and prefers a more playful, lightweight brainstorming environment.

Lucidspark

Consider choosing Lucidspark over Mural if your organization needs a tighter integration with data-driven flowcharts and technical architectural diagrams via the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite.

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