Comparison

Mural vs IMPACT MINDS

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

IMPACT MINDS

Connect with event attendees, speakers, and the community through an exclusive social network. Access the agenda, rate content, provide feedback, and participate in surveys to enhance your event experience.

Highlights
  • Exclusive social network for event participants
  • Connect and message other attendees
  • Send questions to speakers
  • Access event agenda
  • Rate content and provide feedback
  • Participate in surveys
Features
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Latimpacto will host its 5th annual conference, Impact Minds: Collective Makers. With this app, you can access an exclusive social network for the event, make new connections, send questions to speakers, exchange messages with other participants, and engage with the event community. In addition, you can check the agenda, rate the content, provide feedback, and answer surveys.

Screenshots

Mural4 screens
IMPACT MINDS3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: IMPACT MINDS at 4.7 against Mural's 2.4. IMPACT MINDS also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks) and monetization model (ad-supported vs freemium). Mural's advantage is ratings volume (68 vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

IMPACT MINDS holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mural has 68 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mural ships an update every 5 weeks, IMPACT MINDS every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Mural versus IMPACT MINDS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMuralIMPACT MINDS
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (68 ratings)4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews16.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings68 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB145 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTactivos Inc.RED LATINOAMERICANA DE INVERSION SOCIAL Y FILANTROPIA ESTRATEGICA

Customer experience

Mural

All ratings68 ratings
Positive26.5%
Neutral10.3%
Negative63.2%
Written reviews210 reviews
Positive16.2%
Neutral9.0%
Negative74.8%

IMPACT MINDS

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

IMPACT MINDS

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mural

No in-app purchases

None

IMPACT MINDS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mural free?
Mural is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IMPACT MINDS free?
IMPACT MINDS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mural or IMPACT MINDS?
IMPACT MINDS is rated higher. Mural averages 2.4 out of 5 from 68 ratings, while IMPACT MINDS averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Mural or IMPACT MINDS have ads?
Neither Mural nor IMPACT MINDS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mural or IMPACT MINDS?
Mural ships an update every 5 weeks, and IMPACT MINDS every 4 days. Most recently, Mural was updated on October 16, 2026 and IMPACT MINDS on October 10, 2026.

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