




MURAL team collaboration





Supported Operating System(s):
Web browser (OS agnostic), Windows 10About MURAL
MURAL is a collaboration platform designed to help organizations capture and analyze ideas and create custom workflows to handle project management operations across teams. The platform includes scheduling capabilities, which enable administrators to set timers for tasks, lock content, invite members and define role-based access, allowing members to view or edit specific sections of the whiteboard.
MURAL lets managers schedule and run brainstorming sessions in a digital workspace using online workshops, customer journey mapping and strategy evaluation. Features include polls, post-meeting debriefs, custom templates, single sign-on (SSO), IP whitelisting, thinking canvas and more. Additionally, users can organize information in documents using flowcharts, list...
MURAL team collaboration
Supported Operating System(s):
Web browser (OS agnostic), Windows 10Average User Ratings
Overall
Ease-of-use
4.5
Value for money
4.5
Customer support
4.5
Functionality
4.5
Likelihood to Recommend
Not likely
Very likely
March 2019
Daniel from Bedtime for Big Monsters
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Design
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
March 2019
No other Product Even Comes Close
This tool achieves many problems and is suitable for everyday use, personal use, small groups, and large working groups. Personal Use: visual organization and planning Small Groups: can quickly move ideas into visual representations that make it very easy to share with other people. MURAL's often become the foundation for projects which people come back to time and time again. It is very satisfying to collaborate with colleagues in this way as much of the applications we use day to day are only design for single users. Workshops: MURAL is powerful when put in the hands of a facillitator who can then guide a group of people through experiential learning and discussions which lead to emergent thinking and non-intuitive insights. Visual Documentation: Over the years I have become very proficient as a visual note taker in mural and can listen to speaker or meeting proceed and capture the meeting in a visually engaging way.
Pros
Mural is hands down the most versatile visual communication tool available today. What I love the most is that I can use the tool every day and that its easy enough for most people to get the hang of within a few minutes, allowing anyone to interact in high fidelity.
Cons
The one thing I don't like about Mural is that some people aren't pro users—I wish everyone were =) Also wish that MURALs could be a first class object in GSuite's Drive =)
July 2020
Andrew from HPE
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Computer Hardware
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Functionality
4.0
July 2020
An excellent team collaboration and brainstorming platform
Despite some of the functionality having an additional learning curve, Mural serves as an excellent way for remote teams (and even teams just wanting a more 'digital' brainstorming experience) to collaborate.
Pros
I love how easy Mural makes the process of visual 'mind-mapping' among remote co-workers. If we want to do an exercise, for example, that requires virtual 'sticky-notes' for brainstorming process improvements, Mural facilitates this process seamlessly.
Cons
Mural does take a little time to get up to speed on using it. You can definitely jump right in on some of the basic features, but to use some of its more advanced features (keyboard shortcuts, for example), it will take some time to learn them.
Reasons for Switching to MURAL
Cost - For the limited use that we were planning on using it, Miro's price would not have been justified.
December 2020
Özen from Turkish Petroleum Refineries Co.
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Oil & Energy
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
December 2020
Makes Online Meetings More Effective
Before Mural, longer online workshops were not effective. Many attendees were losing their focus and the meetings were transforming into inefficient gathering activities. With Mural, we keep all attendees alive and interactive. You can reach working canvas where ever you are and especially voting feature makes easier to get mutual decisions in a democratic environment.
Pros
It allows all participants to work together and collaboratively at the same time. It is easy to use
Cons
I would like to have more templates to use. An open library would be beneficial to adopt this software easier.
August 2018
Katherine from IBM
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
3.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
3.0
August 2018
Nice try but RTB is still better
It works, it's better than not having a digital whiteboard product if you have remote teams working together, but it's not the best digital whiteboard product out there.
Pros
I like the concept of a digital whiteboard, and the collaboration tools are on the spot.
Cons
No infinite canvas, wayfinding for rooms is awful, not enough customization for layouts and colors of things. Too restrictive sometimes on what you can create(like creating "areas" in Real Time Board).
November 2020
Gianluca from Dos Design
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Design
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
3.0
November 2020
A great tool with some improvement needed
Mural is a great tool, generally speaking I am happy with it. It misses some feature (sometimes basic ones) that would make our work easier and faster especially in the configuration of new murals and organization of large rooms.
Pros
As a designer I use Mural daily to run co-design workshop with dozens of people. The simplicity of the tool makes it easy to understand and use even for people that are not much into technology. A couple of features I particularly appreciate are the content library (even though should be improved) and the possibility to multiple templates from different companies. Also che call feature looks interesting even though I never used it so far.
Cons
There are things that needs improvement fast. I'll list a few. 1. Rooms should allow to sort murals in alphabetical order and to have a simple list visualization. Also names should not be cut like they are now (the only way to see the full name is via the tooltip) 2. Rooms and archive in my opinion are not enough to organize murals. It would be way better to have rooms and then the possibility to organize murals in folders inside a room. 3. It should be much easier to change the room/mural permissions. We often have sessions with dozens of people but only a few of them should have the possibility to edit. At the moment there is no bulk way to change the view only/edit permission 4. Grouping elements inside a mural should be enhanced. At the moment you cannot have a group of groups and that makes it harder to keep a logical architecture of the elements in a mural 5. At the moment there is no specific feature to create schemes or diagrams. We really would love that. 6. It would be much easier sometimes to have the possibility to specify the object size manually. 7. Content library needs to be improved to be really useful. Elements needs folders for a better organization.
Reasons for Choosing MURAL
When we initially purchased Mural we were not aware of other alternatives. Over time we considered Mirò but Mural gave us the impression to be more solid.