Miro
The most recommended of 3 whiteboard apps
People recommend Miro as a digital whiteboard for diagrams, flowcharts and team collaboration, often calling it a good replacement for a physical whiteboard. The most common caveat is that boards get cluttered and hard to organize.
People recommend Miro as a digital whiteboard for diagrams, flowcharts and team collaboration, often calling it a good replacement for a physical whiteboard. The most common caveat is that boards get cluttered and hard to organize.
34 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 18
- criticize it
- 16
- approval share
- 53%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 18 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.1 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Good for diagrams and flowcharts
“We use UMLs and flow charts in miro to diagram things from both a high level (for product to understand) to intricate details. It works great!”
Comment from 28 Nov 2025 in “Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving” “Using Miro's MCP I draft a solution to a problem and have Miro diagram it.”
Comment from 22 Feb 2026 in “How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution” “probably one of the best design tools I've ever used”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B” Replaces a physical whiteboard
“a fantastic alternative to a physical whiteboard”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B” “It's really a digital whiteboard.”
Comment from 19 Apr 2026 in “I'm Coding by Hand” “really a white board replacement”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Boards become cluttered and unmanageable
“inevitably you spend more time organizing the board than actually getting work done”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B” “I have a miro board as a notepad, I constantly add new stuff but at the same time its unmanageable.”
Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers”
Other whiteboard apps people recommend
The two most recommended other whiteboard apps, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiroThis page | 18 | 16 | 53% | 7 | — | — |
| tldraw | 10 | 10 | 50% | 8 | — | — |
| Apple Freeform | 7 | 6 | 54% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
33 of the 35 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I’m sad for what is about to happen to Miro…”
“this is a horrible outcome”
“it has strong vendor lock-in”
“their demand offloaded the work of recording post-it note outcomes onto attendees”
“it wasn't offensive and I only somewhat preferred LucidChart over it”
“insisted we all bring laptops and work on the boards online”
“I found it a bit bloated, but it was ok”
“I shudder every time some product manager sends out a miro link.”
“Great whiteboarding tool though.”
“inevitably you spend more time organizing the board than actually getting work done”
“really a white board replacement”
“the moat they have makes it nearly impossible to take your data elsewhere”
“Another dead tool whose users will be sucked dry.”
“a fantastic alternative to a physical whiteboard”
“probably one of the best design tools I've ever used”
“they tried to cater to too many use cases at once, missed the AI train, and focused too hard on enterprise”
“I was tired of dragging boxes/arrows around in Miro”
“getting adapted tool will tremendously help IMHO”
“for me it still just doesn't click in my brain like writing it down”
“essentially having no version management at all”
“I have a miro board as a notepad, I constantly add new stuff but at the same time its unmanageable.”
“vibe-coding a diagram/vector graphics tool with UX I would enjoy rather than tolerate”
“makes zero sense whatsoever as an enterprise user”
“they combine a zoomable UI, allowing you to navigate through your content that's meaningfully grouped”
“To this day I find Miro etc. distracting”
“It's really a digital whiteboard.”
“Miro.com is one of the few SaaS products that our team's collaboration could not live without.”
“Using Miro's MCP I draft a solution to a problem and have Miro diagram it.”
“I didn't like Miro's pricing model”
“they only create artifacts for someone else to code up”
“Miro and Figma eat that cake nowadays.”
“We use UMLs and flow charts in miro to diagram things from both a high level (for product to understand) to intricate details. It works great!”
“Miro is also very expensive (at least here in Brazil)”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.