Comparison

Marvel vs Miro

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

Head to head
About

Marvel

Bring your app ideas to life quickly by turning sketches and mockups into interactive prototypes. Easily design, link screens, and share your app demos on various devices. Perfect for visualizing and testing new concepts.

Highlights
  • Design apps on iPhone/iPad
  • Turn sketches into interactive prototypes
  • Link screens with touch areas
  • Add mockups from cloud services
  • Share prototypes via email, SMS, Twitter
  • Syncs to web account
Features
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Just had the next billion-dollar app idea? Grab a pen and within minutes your idea will come to life. Marvel lets you design apps on your iPhone or iPad! Turn sketches, mockups and wireframes into interactive, tappable app prototypes that allow you to demo your ideas and share with others. Play with your app ideas on the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch! It’s super simple to get started, all you need is an idea and some pen and paper. How it works: - Draw your app screens on paper, then take photos or add mockups from Dropbox/Creative Cloud (including Photoshop files!). You can even draw directly on the screen! - Link each screen together using touch areas to form your app demo…then press play! - Ready to show the world? You can share prototypes using Email, SMS or Twitter and send to any phone or desktop. Everything is synced to your Marvel web account too, so you always have access to your prototypes no matter where you are.

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

Screenshots

Marvel4 screens
Miro4 screens

Verdict

The call

Marvel and Miro both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 86% of Marvel's written reviews are positive against 39% of Miro's. Marvel also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and device support (4 vs 2). Miro's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Marvel against 4.7 for Miro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.6K and 5.8K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Marvel's written reviews are positive against 39% of Miro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Marvel ships an update monthly, Miro fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Marvel versus Miro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarvelMiro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.6K ratings)4.7 (5.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.8% of reviews — better39.2% of reviews
Number of ratings2.6K5.8K — better
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBallpark Labs LtdRealtimeBoard Inc.

Customer experience

Marvel

All ratings2,557 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral3.6%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews1,139 reviews
Positive85.8%
Neutral4.5%
Negative9.7%

Miro

All ratings5,824 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral2.5%
Negative5.4%
Written reviews966 reviews
Positive39.2%
Neutral14.3%
Negative46.5%

User reviews

Marvel

From 2.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Quick prototyping
  • 💡 Intuitive interface
  • 🔍 Useful for testing ideas
  • 👌 Great for beginners

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs
  • 🔗 Syncing and linking issues
  • 🔍 Limited functionality
  • 🖼️ Trouble with image handling
  • 🤔 Unintuitive in some areas

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

Bugs and requests

Marvel

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Prototype playback not working
  • Disappearing links and hotspots
  • Compatibility issues with newer devices
  • Trouble uploading and editing images

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more transition options
  • Improve collaboration features
  • Implement scrolling and fixed elements
  • Allow more customization and branding
  • Integrate with more design tools

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

In-app purchases

None

Marvel

No in-app purchases

None

Miro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Marvel free?
Marvel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Miro free?
Miro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Marvel or Miro?
Miro is rated higher. Marvel averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.6K ratings, while Miro averages 4.7 from 5.8K ratings.
Do Marvel or Miro have ads?
Neither Marvel nor Miro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Marvel or Miro?
Marvel ships an update monthly, and Miro fortnightly. Most recently, Marvel was updated on October 14, 2026 and Miro on October 15, 2026.

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