Mural vs Box Events
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mural
This app provides a digital whiteboard for real-time and asynchronous team collaboration. It allows users to brainstorm, ideate, and align on projects from anywhere, fostering business-driving outcomes. Capture inspiration and share it with your team on the go.
- Real-time and asynchronous collaboration
- Digital whiteboard for ideation
- Freehand drawing and concept mapping
- Sticky notes, shapes, and text boxes
- Icon library for visual thinking
- Voting sessions and reactions
- Export murals as PDF, image, or zip
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Mural is a collaborative intelligence company powering effective ideation, innovation, alignment, and team building at 95% of the Fortune 100. Work together in real-time or asynchronously with a digital whiteboard and collaboration features designed to inspire better collaboration that leads to business-driving outcomes. The Mural app for iPhone and iPad keeps you connected to your team and enables you to capture and share inspiration on the go. Innovative teams at IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, GitLab, Steelcase, Thoughtworks, and Atlassian use Mural to collaborate from anywhere. Use the Mural iPhone and iPad apps to: * Bring your best ideas to life, wherever you work best * Invite your team to a collaboration session no matter where they are * Review content and provide feedback to keep work moving forward * Spark creative thinking with freehand drawing * Map concepts and ideas with your Apple Pencil Mural meets security standards for enterprise organizations with mobile device management and secure sign in supported by our Microsoft Intune Mobile Application Management integration. With the Mural app for mobile devices, you can: * Create a new mural * Add content in sticky notes, shapes, and text boxes with a variety of formatting options at your fingertips * Draw ideas and sketch notes with a number of colors and line sizes * Invite collaborators to your murals and easily change link permissions * Add, edit, delete, and mention other collaborators in comments * Enhance your visual thinking with a library of icons * Participate in a voting session * Share excitement and visual feedback with reactions * Export a mural as a PDF, image, or zip file * Add images from your photo library, take in the moment photos, or upload files * Send a mural to a touchscreen display for hybrid collaboration sessions * Organize content and ideas with frameworks * Change mural settings * Digitize physical sticky notes with Mural Scan or Post-it® App integration * Easily present with outline and presentation mode To use the Mural app, an account and sign-in is required. Learn more at www.mural.co.
Box Events
Enhance your event experience with real-time updates, networking opportunities, and detailed session information. Connect with other attendees, explore exhibitor details, and personalize your event schedule.
- Real-time updates and interaction
- Activity feed with trending sessions
- Detailed event agendas and speaker info
- Attendee networking and connection
- Exhibitor exploration
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Explore event agendas, access session information, create personalized schedules, interact with other attendees and expand your network to get the most out of each Box event. Features: * Update: share photos, leave comments and ask questions in real time * Activity feed: view attendee comments, event photos, trending sessions and other topics * Agenda: view full event agendas and related information (session time, room number, speaker information, etc.) * Users: see who’s at the event and connect with them on the app * Exhibitors: explore Box partners in the Partner Pavilion (when applicable)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Box Events at 5.0 against Mural's 2.3. Box Events also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.5). Mural's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (73 vs 5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Box Events holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mural has 73 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mural ships an update every 5 weeks, Box Events every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Mural | Box Events |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (73 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tactivos Inc. | Box, Inc. |
Customer experience
Mural
Box Events
Bugs and requests
Mural
Reported bugs
25 issues- App crashes on launch or when opening boards
- White/blank screen on startup
- Stuck on logo screen indefinitely
- Login failures and authentication errors
- Microsoft authentication process hangs
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- App won't open on iPad Pro
- Forced logout during editing
- Sticky notes disappear after creation
- Text input hidden by UI elements
- Pencil drawing lag and delayed rendering
- Board resizing during pencil use
- Images appear blurry or pixelated on mobile
- Fonts not rendering correctly
- Paste function not working in text fields
- Objects snap unexpectedly to grid
- Shapes change color inexplicably
- Connector handles not functioning
- Zoom and pan gestures not responsive
- App freezes when scrolling dense boards
- Connection timeouts and reconnection loops
- Content not loading on boards
- Synchronization issues between devices
- Automatic zoom on sticky edit causes frustration
- Camera permission dialog creates unescapable state
- Placeholder text not clearing on input
Requested features
20 requests- Google and Apple login options
- Full desktop feature parity on mobile
- Proper keyboard and trackpad support
- Folder visibility and management on iOS
- Search functionality for murals
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- Outline feature on mobile
- Object linking and grouping
- Landscape mode support
- Better Apple Pencil pressure sensitivity
- Undo/redo functionality
- Multi-object selection
- Template access on mobile
- Activity log viewing
- Improved pen tool options (thickness, color, style)
- Browser access without app redirect
- Language localization options
- Full-screen mode without UI buttons
- Copy/paste functionality improvements
- Image import from device
- Subscription management in app
Box Events
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mural
No in-app purchases
Box Events
No in-app purchases









