MURAL gives distributed teams a shared canvas. Participants add sticky notes, diagrams, images, and text to a large board at the same time, and facilitators run sessions with tools such as timers, private mode for individual thinking, voting, and guided agendas. A big library of templates covers retros, roadmaps, design sprints, and strategy exercises.
AI assists with the messy part of workshops, which is making sense of dozens of notes. It can group sticky notes by theme, summarize a board, and generate ideas to get a session started. Integrations with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Jira, and Slack connect boards to the tools where work gets done.
MURAL has a free plan with limited boards and paid plans for teams and enterprises. It is focused on workshops and collaboration, more than detailed diagramming. Alternatives include Miro, FigJam, Lucidspark, Whimsical, and Microsoft Whiteboard. MURAL suits facilitators and teams running structured collaborative sessions.