Comparison

Miro vs Passing Thoughts

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

Passing Thoughts

Features
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Your notes stay with you. Transcription, search, and all AI reasoning run on your iPhone, and the app never sends your notes anywhere. Passing Thoughts is the voice notes app that remembers for you. Speak a thought and watch the words appear as you talk; Passing Thoughts saves it instantly, cleans up the transcript, gives it a proper title, and finds it again when you ask. WHAT IT DOES • Capture instantly — words appear on screen as you speak, and the recording is saved first, always. • Read it clean — messy dictation is groomed for readability, with the original transcript one tap away. • Ask your notes — type or dictate a question and Passing Thoughts shows the notes that answer it, in your own words, with the answering sentence in bold. It never writes an answer of its own, so it has nothing to make up. • Ask about time — "What's on this week?" or "What's on my schedule next month?" shows the notes dated in that period, reading "next Tuesday" from the day you wrote it. • Siri, when you want it — record, save a typed note or ask what's on this week by voice. Siri reads your notes out only if you turn on "Siri can read my notes"; it is off until you do. • Stay on top of things — open tasks and pending decisions surface for review, and an optional reminder can nudge you before a decision's deadline. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No account. No analytics. No tracking. Passing Thoughts has no server and never sends what you record or type anywhere. All AI runs on Apple Intelligence, on-device. Siri can read your notes only if you turn that on; Siri is Apple's, and may use Apple's Private Cloud Compute to answer. HONEST BY DESIGN Passing Thoughts never pretends. If a note is too long or not in English for AI features, it says so with a quiet label. Ask shows only your own notes, and when none of them answers, it says so instead of guessing. Requires iOS 26. AI features require Apple Intelligence.

Screenshots

Miro4 screens
Passing Thoughts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Passing Thoughts at weekly against Miro's fortnightly. Miro's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Miro ships an update fortnightly, Passing Thoughts weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Miro versus Passing Thoughts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMiroPassing Thoughts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (5.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews39.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings5.9K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRealtimeBoard Inc.CALIN AURELIAN GRECU

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

Passing Thoughts

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Miro

No in-app purchases

None

Passing Thoughts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Miro free?
Miro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Passing Thoughts free?
Passing Thoughts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Miro or Passing Thoughts have ads?
Neither Miro nor Passing Thoughts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Miro or Passing Thoughts?
Miro ships an update fortnightly, and Passing Thoughts weekly. Most recently, Miro was updated on November 11, 2026 and Passing Thoughts on October 31, 2026.

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