FigJam
Mural
| Feature | FigJam | Mural |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free / from $5/mo | Free / from $9.99/mo |
| Free Plan | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Rating | 4.5 / 5 | 4.3 / 5 |
| Best For | design-teams, product-teams, workshop-facilitators, remote-teams | enterprise-teams, facilitators, agile-teams, design-thinking |
| Founded | 2021 | 2011 |
| Sticky Notes | ✓ | ✗ |
| Drawing Tools | ✓ | ✗ |
| Stamps Reactions | ✓ | ✗ |
| Templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Figma Integration | ✓ | ✗ |
| Ai Features | ✓ | ✗ |
| Voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Timers | ✓ | ✓ |
| Digital Whiteboard | ✗ | ✓ |
| Facilitation Tools | ✗ | ✓ |
| Ai Clustering | ✗ | ✓ |
| Integrations | ✗ | ✓ |
| Enterprise Security | ✗ | ✓ |
✓ FigJam Pros
- Seamless integration with Figma design files
- Generous free tier with unlimited files
- Fun and engaging collaboration features (stamps, emotes)
- AI-powered features for summarizing and organizing
- Templates for common workshop activities
✗ FigJam Cons
- Less powerful than dedicated diagramming tools
- Requires Figma account to use
- Limited offline functionality
✓ Mural Pros
- Excellent facilitation features for workshops
- Strong enterprise security and compliance
- AI-powered features for clustering and summarizing
- Built-in timer, voting, and icebreaker activities
✗ Mural Cons
- Can feel overwhelming with many features
- Performance issues with very large murals
- More expensive than simpler alternatives
The Verdict
FigJam is built for design teams and product teams, with a focus on sticky-notes and drawing-tools. Mural targets enterprise teams and facilitators and leads with digital-whiteboard and facilitation-tools.
Pricing is close: FigJam starts at $5/mo versus $9.99/mo for Mural — not a deciding factor on its own.
Both offer free plans, so you can test each with your real workflow before committing to a subscription.
This is a genuinely close comparison. If you can, sign up for both free trials (where available) and run a one-week test with your actual team tasks before deciding.
