Comparison

Miro vs Microsoft Whiteboard

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

Head to head
About

Miro

This app provides a collaborative visual workspace for teams to brainstorm, design, and build projects together. It offers a limitless digital canvas for idea visualization, note-taking, and workflow management, accessible from anywhere.

Highlights
  • Limitless digital canvas
  • Online meetings and workshops
  • Brainstorming and idea generation
  • Document and PDF annotation
  • Digital note-taking
  • Agile workflow management
  • Pre-made templates
Features
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Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to dream, design, and build the future together. With the magic of Miro's Intelligent Canvas™, visualizing concepts, ideas, and solutions as a team can happen anywhere — no dry-erase markers needed. Sync, flow, and feel the connection of working side by side with your team — even in remote, distributed, or hybrid work environments. The Miro app for iPad and iPhone gives you the tools to collaborate with boards that put projects and context all in one place. Our customers love using Miro to: • Run online meetings and team workshops • Brainstorm new ideas and designs on a limitless board • Edit, annotate and mark up documents and PDFs • Take digital notes with an Apple Pencil (and reduce paper use!) • Easily collect resources, photos, docs, links, and references • Plan and manage agile workflows and scrum rituals • Create user journeys, map processes, and develop personas • Teach and facilitate interactive classes in a collaborative space • Create a vision board of ideas and inspiration Miro allows you to create anytime, anywhere. With over 200+ pre-made templates, a drag-and-drop interface, and no limit on collaborators, working on a Miro board is fast and fun. With Miro’s mobile app, you can: • Scan paper post-it notes and convert them into editable digital notes • Create, view, and edit all your boards • Capture and organize your ideas on the go • Share boards publicly or invite team members to edit • Upload images, pictures, docs, spreadsheets, and more • Share boards and invite team members to edit • Review, add and resolve comments On tablets, you can also use Miro to: • Draw concepts and sketch new design ideas with an Apple Pencil • Convert pencil or stylus drawings into shapes, notes, and diagrams • Set up your tablet as the second screen with Zoom or Microsoft Teams - Create Mind Maps to visualize your ideas • Use Lasso to select and move sketches, drawings, or text anywhere on the board • Use Highlighter to capture the attention of your team during a meeting If you enjoy using Miro for collaboration, please leave us a review. If something’s not working right or if you have a question or comment, get in touch with us using this form: https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?referer=store

About

Microsoft Whiteboard

This app offers a freeform digital canvas for individuals and teams to brainstorm, create, and collaborate visually. It supports touch, type, and pen input, allowing for seamless real-time teamwork from anywhere. Your work is automatically saved to the cloud for easy access across devices.

Highlights
  • Infinite freeform canvas
  • Real-time team collaboration
  • Touch, type, and pen support
  • Pre-built templates
  • Shapes and lines library
  • Sticky notes and notes grids
  • Automatic cloud saving
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Update : The App performance has been significantly improved & there are also a ton of other features which have been added. Check out the “What’s new” section for more details!! Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform intelligent canvas where individuals & teams alike can ideate, create, and collaborate visually via the cloud. Designed for touch, type & pen, it lets you write or draw as smoothly as you would with ink, you can even type in text, add sticky notes or notes grid to express your ideas & use reactions to visually communicate your thoughts. It enhances teamwork by allowing all team members to edit the canvas in real time, no matter where they are. Get started quickly by inserting a pre-built template or draw your own flowchart using our expansive shapes library. No matter what your use case, we have the right set of tools for you and all your work stays safe in the cloud, ready to be picked back up from another location or device. -- Create freely, work naturally – Microsoft Whiteboard provides an infinite canvas where imagination has room to grow: draw, type, add a sticky note or a notes grid, move them around – it’s all possible. The touch-first, pen-first interface frees your ideas from the keyboard, and the intelligent inking technology transforms your doodles into great-looking shapes and lines that can be copied, pasted and combined with other objects. Moreover, you can also, ink on your sticky notes & text boxes and magically see the ink get converted to text using Apple Scribble functionality (on iPads with Apple Pencil). --Collaborate in real time, wherever you are— Microsoft Whiteboard brings every member of a team together working from their own devices across the globe. On the Whiteboard canvas, you can also see what your teammates are doing in real time and start collaborating on the same area. It’s about getting everyone on the same page – or board. --Save automatically, resume seamlessly – Forget having to take photos of your whiteboards, or marking them with “Do Not Erase.” With Microsoft Whiteboard, your brainstorming sessions are saved automatically to the Microsoft cloud, so you can pick up where you left off, whenever – and wherever – inspiration strikes next. What’s new: • Improved App Performance & Reduction in crashes which has been a strong customer ask. • Modern look and feel: 1. Streamlined user experience - an unobtrusive app UI maximizes your canvas space. 2. Creation gallery - a highly discoverable, simple way of finding and using objects and features in the application. • Interactive content features: 3. 40+ customizable templates – get started quickly and collaborate, brainstorm, and ideate with brand new templates. 4. Shapes & Lines - Choose from an expansive library of shapes & lines to visually collaborate & ideate with your team members 5. Reactions - provide lightweight, contextual feedback with a set of fun reactions. • Inking features: 6. Apple Scribble – Ink on text boxes & sticky notes and see your ink strokes magically convert to text (on iPads with Apple pencil) 7. Ink arrows – smoothly draw single and double-sided arrows using ink to better facilitate diagramming. Dichiarazione di accessibilità: https://www.microsoft.com/it-it/accessibility/declarations

Screenshots

Miro4 screens
Microsoft Whiteboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Microsoft Whiteboard at free against Miro's freemium. Miro's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Miro against 4.6 for Microsoft Whiteboard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5.8K and 12K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 39% of Miro's written reviews are positive against 36% of Microsoft Whiteboard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Miro ships an update fortnightly, Microsoft Whiteboard every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Miro versus Microsoft Whiteboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMiroMicrosoft Whiteboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (5.8K ratings) — better4.6 (12K ratings)
Positive reviews39.5% of reviews — better36.1% of reviews
Number of ratings5.8K12K — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRealtimeBoard Inc.Microsoft Corporation

Customer experience

Miro

All ratings5,782 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative5.4%
Written reviews957 reviews
Positive39.5%
Neutral14.4%
Negative46.1%

Microsoft Whiteboard

All ratings11,067 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral3.4%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews352 reviews
Positive36.1%
Neutral13.1%
Negative50.9%

User reviews

Miro

From 5.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great whiteboard app
  • 👍 Infinite whiteboards and thumbnails
  • 👍 Collaboration features
  • 👍 Versatile and useful
  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Laggy and performance issues
  • 🐛 Sync and connectivity problems
  • 🐛 Keyboard and UI issues
  • 🐛 Crashes and freezes
  • 🐛 Lack of offline support

Microsoft Whiteboard

From 12K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Convenient collaboration
  • 💡 Versatile canvas
  • 🎨 Good customization options

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy and unstable
  • 🤯 Poor UI/UX design
  • 🔍 Lack of basic features
  • 🔌 Connectivity issues
  • 💤 Laggy performance

Bugs and requests

Miro

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Keyboard keeps popping up
  • Pen/pencil issues and unreliable drawing
  • Boards not saving properly
  • Boards not duplicating correctly
  • Inability to edit note descriptions
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  • Login and authentication problems

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add color brown
  • Ability to flip drawings
  • Opacity slider
  • Infinite zoom in/out
  • Easier invite process
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  • Support for Magic Keyboard and trackpad
  • Offline mode
  • Better iPad optimization
  • Mathematical formula input
  • Collapsible mindmaps

Microsoft Whiteboard

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent crashes and freezes
  • Unsaved work loss
  • Unreliable sync and loading
  • Inconsistent behavior across devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add offline support
  • Improve palm rejection
  • Implement handwriting recognition
  • Allow font and color customization
  • Add locking/anchoring options
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  • Enhance sharing and export capabilities

In-app purchases

None

Miro

No in-app purchases

None

Microsoft Whiteboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Miro free?
Miro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Microsoft Whiteboard free?
Microsoft Whiteboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Miro or Microsoft Whiteboard?
Miro is rated higher. Miro averages 4.7 out of 5 from 5.8K ratings, while Microsoft Whiteboard averages 4.6 from 12K ratings.
Do Miro or Microsoft Whiteboard have ads?
Neither Miro nor Microsoft Whiteboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Miro or Microsoft Whiteboard?
Miro ships an update fortnightly, and Microsoft Whiteboard every 6 weeks. Most recently, Miro was updated on September 23, 2026 and Microsoft Whiteboard on September 24, 2026.

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