Mural

Mural is a long-established visual collaboration platform — an infinite canvas with sticky notes, voting, timers, private mode, hundreds of retro templates, AI clustering and summary, and a Facilitation Superpowers toolkit (Outline, Timer, Voting, Private Mode) that's been refined for over a decade. Strong enterprise posture with SSO, SCIM, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and EU/US data residency.

Mural pitches itself as a visual work platform for human-led collaboration — workshops, retros, design sprints and brainstorms on an infinite canvas. The 2026 messaging emphasises Facilitation Superpowers (Outline, Timer, Voting, Private Mode) and AI features that summarise sticky notes and suggest groupings.

"Where your best ideas live, work, and grow."

Mural targets workshop-led teams — design, product, agile coaching, consulting — that need polished facilitation tooling and enterprise-grade compliance. Free tier exists, but the meaningful collaboration features and SSO sit on Team+ ($9.99/user/mo) and Business ($17.99/user/mo).

Mural is the most polished facilitation canvas on the market. Where Miro feels like a Swiss-army knife, Mural feels like a tool a workshop facilitator designed: Private Mode, Outline, Timer and Voting all just work, and the template library is curated for retros and design sprints rather than every possible use case. Enterprise posture is genuinely first-class — SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, SSO, SCIM, EU residency.

The trade-offs are the same as Miro's: no native health checks, no recurring retros, no action carryover, no cross-team rollup, and SSO/SAML gated to the $17.99/user/mo Business tier. AI features (clustering, summary) are present but trail Miro and dedicated retro tools in depth. Best fit for design and agile-coaching teams that already prize facilitation craft and want compliance baked in. Overkill if you just need a sticky-note retro every two weeks.