Comparison

Mural vs DIRECTIVE73

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

DIRECTIVE73

Features
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MOTIVATION IS NOT CONTENT. IT'S A PROTOCOL. Every motivation app is a slot machine wearing a gym shirt — infinite quotes, zero weight. DIRECTIVE73 issues one order per day, at the hour you set, from men who earned the right to be quoted. You read it. You execute. You come back tomorrow. ONE ORDER PER DAY Delivered at your reveille — the time you choose. Harvey Specter to Marcus Aurelius, Rocky Balboa to David Goggins. Curated, sourced, never random noise. Scarcity is the feature: no feed, no infinite scroll, no doomscrolling at 1AM. THE VAULT Every order you've received, archived with dossiers and field notes: who said it, where, and what it cost him. Context free quote apps don't have. DISCIPLINE LOG An unbroken streak you won't want to break. Your record lives on your device and your iCloud — nowhere else. SHARE ASSETS Every quote exports as a poster — hazard stripes, barcode, directive number. Send it to the men who need it. BUILT LIKE A BUNKER No account. No email. No analytics. No ad SDK. No trackers. Your streak, your saved orders, your call sign — stored on your device and your private iCloud. We can't sell your data. We don't have any. THE ARSENAL FILM — Specter, Balboa, Corleone. BOOKS — Willink, Goggins, Gregorek. STOIC — Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus. GRIND — Ali, Lee, the SEALs. AND MORE. Show up tomorrow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Mural4 screens
DIRECTIVE734 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mural at none against DIRECTIVE73's 3. Mural also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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. DIRECTIVE73 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Mural asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mural versus DIRECTIVE73: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMuralDIRECTIVE73
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (73 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews16.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings73 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTactivos Inc.Oleksii Kyrychenko

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

DIRECTIVE73

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mural

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

DIRECTIVE73

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly — Field Rate$1.991 Month
  • Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Mural free?
Mural is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DIRECTIVE73 free?
DIRECTIVE73 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mural or DIRECTIVE73 have ads?
Neither Mural nor DIRECTIVE73 shows ads.

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