Mural
Stormboard
| Feature | Mural | Stormboard |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free / from $12/mo | Free / from $10/mo |
| Free Plan | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Rating | 4.3 / 5 | 4.1 / 5 |
| Best For | design-teams, facilitators, consultants, enterprise | facilitators, meeting-leaders, teams, consultants |
| Founded | 2011 | 2011 |
| Sticky Notes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Facilitation Tools | ✓ | ✗ |
| Voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Timers | ✓ | ✗ |
| Integrations | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ai Reports | ✗ | ✓ |
| Video Conferencing | ✗ | ✓ |
✓ Mural Pros
- Great facilitation tools
- Extensive templates
- Design thinking focus
- Enterprise ready
✗ Mural Cons
- Expensive
- Can be slow
- Learning curve
✓ Stormboard Pros
- Good for brainstorming
- Meeting templates
- AI report generation
- Easy to use
✗ Stormboard Cons
- Limited free tier
- Less polished than Miro
- Fewer integrations
The Verdict
Mural is built for design teams and facilitators, with a focus on sticky-notes and templates. Stormboard targets facilitators and meeting leaders and leads with sticky-notes and templates.
Pricing is close: Stormboard starts at $10/mo versus $12/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.
Both tools are a solid fit for facilitators, consultants — in those cases, the decision often comes down to workflow style and how your team prefers to organize work.
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.