Comparison

Miro vs Obsidian

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

Head to head
About

Miro

This visual workspace empowers distributed teams to brainstorm, design, and build ideas together on an infinite canvas. It offers tools for online meetings, idea generation, document annotation, and agile workflow management, accessible anywhere.

Highlights
  • Infinite visual canvas
  • Real-time team collaboration
  • 200+ pre-made templates
  • Document and PDF annotation
  • Agile workflow planning
  • Digital note-taking
  • Scan and convert sticky notes
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

Obsidian

Organize your thoughts and knowledge with a powerful, local-first note-taking app. Build your personal knowledge base using plain text Markdown files, accessible across devices. Customize your experience with themes and plugins for a truly personal workflow.

Highlights
  • Local Markdown file storage
  • Customizable toolbar
  • Graph view for connections
  • Community plugins
  • Themes
  • Sidebar pinning
  • iCloud vaults
Features
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Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. It is a second brain, for you, forever. Now available on the go for iOS! Features include: - Customizable toolbar - Pull down quick actions - Graph view - Community plugins - Themes - Sidebar pinning for tablet - iCloud vaults

Screenshots

Miro4 screens
Obsidian4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Obsidian at 62% against Miro's 39%. Obsidian also leads on chart position (#134 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Miro's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Miro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5.9K and 2.8K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 39% of Miro's written reviews are positive against 62% of Obsidian's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Miro ships an update fortnightly, Obsidian every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 15, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Miro versus Obsidian: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMiroObsidian
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (5.9K ratings) — better4.5 (2.8K ratings)
Positive reviews39.1% of reviews62.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.9K — better2.8K
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#134 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRealtimeBoard Inc.Dynalist Inc.

Customer experience

Miro

All ratings5,870 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral2.5%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews974 reviews
Positive39.1%
Neutral14.2%
Negative46.7%

Obsidian

All ratings2,818 ratings
Positive85.5%
Neutral4.0%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews1,365 reviews
Positive62.1%
Neutral11.9%
Negative26.0%

User reviews

Miro

From 5.9K 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

Obsidian

From 2.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Powerful features
  • 👍 Customizable and flexible
  • 🔒 Secure and private
  • 💡 Innovative note-taking approach
  • 🚀 Smooth mobile experience

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Sync issues and unreliable iCloud integration
  • 🔋 Slow startup and performance issues on mobile
  • 👎 Steep learning curve for new users
  • 👎 Limited sorting and organization options
  • 👎 Lack of WYSIWYG editing on mobile

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

Obsidian

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Sync issues leading to data loss
  • Freezing and crashing on mobile devices
  • Editing bugs and text input issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved sorting and organization options
  • WYSIWYG editing on mobile
  • Better integration with other cloud storage services
  • More intuitive onboarding process for new users
  • Native mobile widgets and share sheet integration

In-app purchases

None

Miro

No in-app purchases

None

Obsidian

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Miro free?
Miro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Obsidian free?
Obsidian is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Miro or Obsidian?
Miro is rated higher. Miro averages 4.7 out of 5 from 5.9K ratings, while Obsidian averages 4.5 from 2.8K ratings.
Do Miro or Obsidian have ads?
Neither Miro nor Obsidian shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Miro or Obsidian?
Miro ships an update fortnightly, and Obsidian every 3 weeks. Most recently, Miro was updated on November 15, 2026 and Obsidian on November 15, 2026.

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