Six Miro alternatives in 2026 and what each one gives up

Someone on your team hits the three-board limit on Miro's free plan and asks in Slack whether there's something else. Twenty minutes later you have six tabs open, and every comparison article you find ranks its own product first.

This one does too, sort of. We make Prompt Board, so read what follows with that in mind. I've tried to make it useful anyway. Every claim about another product below comes from that vendor's own website, checked in October 2026, and anything I couldn't confirm there is left out. I also don't quote other vendors' prices, because they change often and a stale number helps nobody.

Where Miro or one of the others beats us, I say so.

What you're replacing when you leave Miro

Miro is a big product. Its pricing page lists four plans, and the free one gives you three editable boards. Voting, the timer and private mode start on the Starter plan. SAML single sign-on starts on Business. Beyond that it has thousands of templates, more than 250 integrations, desktop apps for macOS and Windows, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and a trust centre listing certifications such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II.

Most teams use a small slice of that. Before you compare anything, write down what your team does on a board in a normal week. For many teams it's a retro, a brainstorm and the odd flowchart. That list will decide more than any feature grid, including the one we keep at /compare/miro.

Prompt Board

Prompt Board is a new online whiteboard built around one idea. You type a sentence, and the AI drafts the board for you. In board mode you get sections of sticky notes inside frames. In diagram mode you get a flowchart of shapes joined by connectors. Then you edit by hand. The AI can also cluster selected stickies into themed frames and summarise a selection into a single sticky.

Who it suits. Small product and engineering teams, consultants and teachers who want a usable board in a minute and don't need the enterprise side of Miro.

Free tier. Version one is free with unlimited boards and every editing and collaboration feature. AI is capped at 20 generations per user per day. A share link carries a view or edit role, and people who only view need no account.

Limits. We're new, and the gaps are real. There are 47 templates, against Miro's thousands, though you can save any board as your own. There's no voting, no timer, no file upload beyond images, no video and no integrations yet. There are no native apps and no SSO. Live sync works by polling about once a second, so cursors move in small steps rather than gliding. Export covers PNG and SVG, with no PDF.

FigJam

FigJam is Figma's whiteboard, and Figma describes it as an online collaborative whiteboard for teams. It comes with every seat on every Figma plan, and Figma has a free Starter plan. The FigJam page mentions more than 300 templates, stamps and emotes for reacting to ideas, and AI that can create meeting templates and timelines from a prompt, sort stickies into themes and summarise a session into action items. Figma's help centre says the timer works on any plan, while voting sessions need a file in a paid team. You can also invite outside people to contribute for 24 hours without them logging in.

Who it suits. Teams that already work in Figma. Everyone already has an account and nobody learns a new tool, which settles the question for a lot of product teams.

What it gives up. FigJam sits inside Figma's seat model. If nobody on your team uses Figma, you're adopting a design platform's account structure to get a whiteboard.

Excalidraw

Excalidraw is an open source whiteboard with a hand-drawn look, released under the MIT licence. According to its GitHub README, the app at excalidraw.com offers real-time collaboration, end-to-end encryption, read-only share links and autosave to your browser. The Excalidraw+ site says no account is needed to start drawing. The paid Excalidraw+ tier adds a cloud workspace, live presentations, more sharing options and upgraded generative AI, with a 14-day trial.

Who it suits. Engineers sketching architecture, and anyone who wants a quick diagram with zero sign-up. The hand-drawn style keeps diagrams looking like drafts, which I find makes people more willing to criticise them in a review.

What it gives up. It's a drawing tool first. The free app saves to your browser, and the cloud workspace for keeping a team's boards in one place belongs to the paid tier.

tldraw

tldraw is two things, and people mix them up. tldraw.com is a free collaborative whiteboard. tldraw.dev is a React SDK for building canvas apps into your own product. The SDK's licence page calls it source available and says it "would not be Open Source by any definition". It's free in development, but production use needs a licence key. There's a 100-day trial, and a hobby licence for non-commercial projects that requires a "made with tldraw" watermark on the canvas.

Who it suits. Developers who want an infinite canvas inside their own app. For a team that just needs a board, tldraw.com works as a fast sketchpad.

What it gives up. Seeing the code on GitHub doesn't make it open source. If your company's policy depends on that distinction, read the licence before you build on it.

Mural

Mural calls itself an AI-powered visual workspace for team collaboration, and its pages lean hard on workshops and facilitation. Its pricing page lists timer, voting, private mode and summon as available on all plans, the free plan included. That free plan has unlimited murals with three editable at a time, plus unlimited members and visitors. Business adds SAML single sign-on. Enterprise adds SCIM, audit logs, data residency and bring-your-own-key encryption.

Who it suits. Facilitators, consultancies and large companies that run structured workshops. If you want voting and a timer without paying, Mural is the strongest option on this list.

What it gives up. The three-editable-murals limit on the free plan works much like Miro's board cap.

Lucidspark

Lucidspark is Lucid's virtual whiteboard. Its product page lists voting sessions, breakout boards, hundreds of templates and more than 100 integrations, Slack, Jira and Google Workspace among them. Its AI generates ideas, groups themes and summarises brainstorms. Together with Lucidchart it forms the Lucid Suite, and the page invites you to sign up free.

Who it suits. Teams that already diagram in Lucidchart, or that split large workshops into breakout groups.

What it gives up. I couldn't find the free plan's limits stated on Lucid's own pages, so check them before you move a team over.

Where Miro is still ahead

On breadth, nobody here matches it. Miro counts its templates in the thousands where FigJam and Lucidspark count theirs in the hundreds. Its integrations list runs past 250, the security certifications are published, and there are native apps for desktop and mobile. If your company needs SSO and audit logs before a tool is even allowed, Miro and Mural both list them on their pricing pages. Prompt Board doesn't compete there yet, and I'd rather say that than have you find out in a security review.

Where we fit is the blank board. Say the retro is in ten minutes and nobody has set it up. You type "sprint retro for a five-person mobile team after a late release" and get four frames with starter stickies, ready for people to overwrite. The retrospective template gives you the same layout without the AI if you prefer to start clean, and the flowchart template covers the diagram side.

A ten-minute way to choose

Answer these honestly and the list shrinks fast:

• Does anyone require SSO or audit logs? Look at Miro or Mural.
• Does the team already live in Figma? Use FigJam.
• Do you need voting and a timer on a free plan? Mural.
• Do you mostly draw architecture diagrams and hate sign-up forms? Excalidraw.
• Are you building a canvas into your own app? The tldraw SDK.
• Do you want the board drafted from a sentence, free, with unlimited boards? Prompt Board.

Feature lists only get you to a shortlist. Run next week's real meeting in your top two tools and see which one the team opens again without being asked. That's the comparison worth trusting.