MURAL Reviews & Product Details

Mural's non-complicated interface makes whiteboarding in a creative way super easy. It's a showstopping tool that clients love and it helps us to facilitate meaningful conversations with small to large-sized groups easily. As a platform if you know how to add branding, you can make your murals look really impressive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The downsides to mural is that it's not made for in detail content, the sticky format only goes so far and the text inputting can be quite difficult sometimes. There's also no table function which makes it quite hard to have comparible data and information all in one space. It also is slightly glitchy sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MURAL helps our teams recreate all the things they would do around a whiteboard in the office. Since March our Agile feature teams have been working remotely due to COVID. Although video conferencing software and Jira/Confluence help a lot, the true value of fast progress and a shared understanding comes from visual real-time collaboration. For me, MURAL is the market leader in this respect. It's intuitive to use, and with infinitely sizeable boards, you can just keep extending or zooming in as you need more space. The output is pretty and can be easily transferred to presentations etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be nice to export to image direct from the app. Also version control would be good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mural is really intuitive and user-friendly. It has also been planned quite well, but is not unnecessarily designed in such a way that innovations are not blocked by excessive capital. I love how it helps teams to build their own way of working, and it also feels cohesive. The training resources are excellent, in particular the frequency of live training and backstage training is incredibly useful for fast on-board training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can't copy and paste between wallpaper, or can't I just do it. It will also be helpful to ask users, when they uninstall a board, to affirm their choice. There is a learning curve to navigate the screen easily and to do what you want. To get it down, it will take some time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's perpetual availability and the limitless possibilities it provides our teams, wherever they are located, to come up with solutions and innovative ideas. We've run dozens of projects and every time we use it there's some new and exciting way to leverage its technology. It has saved hundreds of hours of back-and-forth emails, calls, and meetings simply by allowing us to have our own shared desk/whiteboard/chat. Probably the most notable improvement is how simple it is to capture nuances and ideas that before were lost in conversation, letting everyone time to digest and contribute at their own pace and time zone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a bit clunky when in comes to designing new templates, the layering can use a bit of more sophistication. The current impossibility to move between workspaces makes organizing Murals complicated for the casual users, they usually get lost as soon as some other team manages their work somewhere else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Many people have experience with ideation sessions in person and in the same room. But what if you can't do that? What if you want people from different offices, states, or countries to participate without blowing the budget? Mural makes it really easy. Everyone can share idea live, break out in groups as needed, circle back to murals and rooms between sessions if needed, and feel like they are part of the greater team and greater good.

It's intuitive to use for most participants. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My nits are small by comparison: It would be great to be able to sketch in a mural and use the voting function to capture that sketch; it would be nice to have grouped items be votable and exportable as a group; it would be nice to import an image, sketch on top of it, group it as one unit, and vote on that group as one item ...

In the scheme of things, really minor issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

• Relieves the logistical pain of doing in-person sprints: Rounding up Post-Its, sharpies, rooms with whiteboard space, collecting Post-Its afterward, flying people in from other offices, and managing a large group

• Preparing a sprint space is done in minutes in a Mural rather than booking large conference rooms, carrying around supplies, and setting things up beforehand

• The entire sprint session can be laid out before the participants so they can see the progression of the ideas

• Fosters increased collaboration since it makes sprinting and group activities accessible by anyone, anywhere, without disrupting their lives

• Intuitive tools make facilitating a sprint much more accessible. I taught someone how to run a sprint session in 15 minutes this afternoon since I had all the activities prepared in one mural with instructions

• Expands capacity to run collaborative work through an increased number of facilitators Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like a library of templates for the organization/company so there is some consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MURAL is like Powerpoint, Whiteboards, and G-Suite, on Steroids. Just with out the ragey side effects. I can pretty much run any meeting or presentation in MURAL all while allowing everyone else to be active participants vs sleeping participants. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My world has yet to accept it like Google. I tell people to use it and sometimes they say, no, looks complicated. To which I say, don't knock it until you try it. But still some people refuse to try. I am waiting for one day when I wake up and MURAL has reached its tipping point as a tool to where you are the outsider if you DONT know how to use it. The other downside is many times I feel like I am giving a really kick ass presentation or workshop, and then when I ask the group for questions, or feedback, all they want to do is ask me how they can start using MURAL! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MURAL allows participants to quickly contribute to a shared workspace, enabling rapid, nuanced and frictionless collaboration.

Coupled with Zoom and/or Microsoft teams, it allows us to run co-creation sessions remotely, which is an absolute must in the post-covid world of remote working.

It's growing library of practical frameworks and templates mean that it's easy to quickly configure a workspace for even a complex and involved sessions for large numbers of participants. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the grouping tools are a little immature and the way it handles 'connected objects' , such as in workflow diagrams and flow charts are not yet at the same level as some of their competitors.

It can sometimes be hard to understand where items are in relation to each other and to select items which are below transparent items in front. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that multiple people can use it and it will update in live time. I also really like all of the available graphics, makes it way easier to set your board up in a way that you like. I also feel like MURAL is pretty intuitive and easy to use. Some softwares like this can make it difficult to move things around but I don't experience that issue when I use MURAL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't really found a way to apply it to my day to day. I feel like it works better for longer term projects and we have to respond back to clients within 24 hours. Also I feel like the lock feature can be a bit tricky, and sometimes I find it a little confusing on how to decide what to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mural is easy to use and allows teams to come together easily and collaborate in a visual environment where ideas can quickly come to life. Mural also makes it easy, when collaborating to work in cohort and discuss ideas as they arise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Occasionally, things get moved by the slip of a mouse. Remember CTRL+Z to undo and you will be fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I liked that our teacher was able to easily summon is back to the part of the whiteboard that we needed to be in, I kept getting lost in other areas so it was helpful to be automatically re-directed. My professor was able to set time boxes for group activities and was able to put in in different groups for various activities, I like that the system would give us warning to wrap up when time was running out for an activity as well as the bell sound that signaled the end of our break out sessions, reminded me of being in high school and hearing the bell ring at the end of recess, it was cute and helped me feel like I was actually at school. I also loved all the fun icons you can choose from to use during white board activities and how easy it was to personalize stuff by changing fonts, colors etc... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I was not able to hit return of add bullet points to a single post it, found myself having to either use multiple post its to share a list of type it outside of Mural in my computer's notepad and then just copy paste the whole thing onto a post it in Mural if I wanted to have line breaks. That was a bit annoying. The learning curve was also a bit steeper for some of the members of my online class than others but I am guessing that is because our instructor did not send us any training videos on how to use Mural prior to the course, in fact none of us knew we would be using this system until the first day of class. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The large Mural canvas allows participants to expand and grow their ideas while collaborating with peers. The ability to pull all attendees to your view is extremely beneficial to avoid lost participants. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the shapes and diagramming capability is limiting and maybe a bit restrictive when trying to explore an idea that requires "back of a napkin" type artwork. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mural provides a seamless experience for people working remotely to post ideas visually on a virtual whiteboard. What makes it better than a real white board? There's no need to take photos or transcribed the results - everything is already captured for you. I also appreciate the access to the Noun Project for icons - over 1,000,000 unique and helpful icons to add meaning to your visual collaborations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Better support for freehand drawing would be helpful to truly replace in-person whiteboard capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mural is a platform that is easy to learn and is fully customizable. It has a library of templates that can get you started. There may be too many templates to choose from but you'll eventually learn which ones would be useful for you. In any case, you can always start tabula rasa and shape the layout and content however you make it. I have a graphic design and information architecture background so maybe that helped speed up my learning curve.

I love how it helps organize ideas and involve various participants either in real-time or as-you-please-time for better consensus gathering. I've used it for brainstorming, presenting ideas, managing projects, documenting products and test results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have nothing to complain about in the year I've been using it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mural is such a critical tool for consensus forming. This is where collaboration happens when you have diverse ideas and need to work out various arguments on digital paper. On top of that, the Mural team even created fun activities you can copy, making collaboration a bit more organic despite the pandemic impact. Kudos to the Mural dev team for listening to feedback and making this product great!

Comments are my own and not reflective of IBM nor is this an IBM endorsement. This is a personal review. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like how comments can become so small, but thankfully, they've added a feature where you can navigate through comments using the right side panel. Also, there are times when it needs to be refreshed occasionally, but that is often coming from network connection stability issues.

Comments are my own and not reflective of IBM nor is this an IBM endorsement. This is a personal review. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very easy to use, minimal friction to getting ideas and thoughts down on paper Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is allot of capability and shortcuts that you have to either know or find out which can continuously take you to the next level Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MURAL is quick to pick up and has tons of resources available to up-level your game, with 60 second tips, downloadable books on facilitation, weekly "backstage passes" to some of the coolest companies using MURAL, and a great customer success team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really wish their shortcuts were more discoverable in context. It also lacks some of the personalized design options available in tools like Miro, but I honestly rarely miss them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pretty intuitive, sleek tool that helps our global organization come together during this uneasy time and collaborate as never before. It helps in breaking silos, gives everyone a seat at the table, allows for synchronous and asynchronous work, accomodating the distributed nature of our teams. MURAL team is absolutely amazing at providing support! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to see more design elements and options, especially for non-designers :) Just to make life more visually fun as we spend so much time in front of the screen.

I would like to see more templates for team building activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Before finding Mural, I had been waiting for this product for 5+ years. Precursor sites had a similar methodology, but they were single task and did not have the moderator tools to guide and direct large remote audiences. 1) Great approach to digital stickies; 2) web interface works on ipads , touch and desktop,;3) Moderator tools 4) The pre-built templates and the ability to load my own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very little.

I would like to have a protective layer that I could illustrate to point out work and then remove it.

I would like to use different voting modalities, but I have been able to use workarounds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mural has been an invaluable tool in our shift to a 100% remote workforce. Their templates and ease of onboarding for new users make it a perfect tool to use alongside meeting platforms to replace whiteboards and sticky notes papering the walls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mural has some work to do still for company admins. Their controls are not as robust as they need to be for enterprise use, and user management is a particular pain point. They have been making progress on this, but still have a very long way to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.