Comparison

Mural vs Usme

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

Usme

Features
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Usme remembers what you'll forget. It turns your voice notes, typed thoughts, calendar, photos, and shared links into a memory you can question in plain language — and it answers with a citation to the exact thing you saved. THE PROBLEM ISN'T SAVING. IT'S FINDING. You already have a system: notes, voice memos, screenshots, links kept for later. Capture is solved. Recall is not. Six weeks on, you can't find it, because you search with the words you're thinking now and you saved it in the words you were thinking then. You ask "what did my doctor say about my cholesterol?" and the note reads "Dr. Yilmaz — LDL 164, cut the red meat." Not one word in common. Keyword search cannot bridge that, so the note may as well not exist. And the failure that actually costs you something isn't search at all. It's the promise you made on Tuesday, meant to keep, and heard about on Monday. CAPTURE, FROM WHEREVER YOU ALREADY ARE Speak it, and watch it transcribe on your device as you talk. Type it. Send it from any app with the share sheet — links, PDFs, images, text. Connect your calendar so meetings become memories. Import photos and the text inside them is read here on your phone, so a receipt, a whiteboard, or a business card becomes searchable. There's a Home Screen widget, a Lock Screen button, and a Control Centre control that open Usme already listening. Shortcuts and Siri work too. IT READS WHAT YOU SAVE Every memory is read for the people, companies, projects, and places in it, and for anything you promised. Names resolve to one person, so "John", "John Carter", and "JC" stop being three strangers. You never file anything, tag anything, or pick a folder. ASK IT ANYTHING Ask the way you'd ask a friend. Usme searches three ways at once — the words, the meaning, and the people involved — and answers in a sentence or two, showing the memories it used and why each one surfaced. Tap any of them to read the original. If it doesn't know, it says so. IT TELLS YOU BEFORE YOU FORGET Promises found in your own words become reminders. "You told John you'd send the pricing by Friday. That was three days ago." BUILT TO BE PRIVATE Your memories live in a database on your phone, not on our server. Speech is transcribed on device and audio is never uploaded. Photo text is read on device. There is no account and no sign-in. Capture, search, and reminders all work with no connection at all. Understanding a memory and answering a question use AI models, so that text is sent to be processed — the Privacy screen in the app names exactly which, and lets you delete anything by category or delete everything at once. USME PRO Unlimited memories understood, unlimited questions, full calendar backfill, and every reminder. $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year, starting with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you subscribe. Usme is free without it: 100 memories understood and 20 questions a month. Everything you capture is stored and searchable whatever the limit — the limit is on the understanding, never on your data. Terms of Use (EULA): https://usme.emrahsayin.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://usme.emrahsayin.com/privacy

Screenshots

Mural4 screens
Usme4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mural at none against Usme's 2. Mural also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). Usme's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks). 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. Usme sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Mural asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mural versus Usme: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMuralUsme
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (68 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews16.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings68 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTactivos Inc.Emrah Sayn

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

Usme

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mural

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Usme

Subscriptions2
  • Usme$4.991 Month
  • Usme$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Mural free?
Mural is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Usme free?
Usme is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mural or Usme have ads?
Neither Mural nor Usme shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mural or Usme?
Mural ships an update every 5 weeks, and Usme every 4 days. Most recently, Mural was updated on October 16, 2026 and Usme on October 4, 2026.

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