SmartDraw vs Miro

SmartDraw is a more complete, all-in-one app with fully-featured diagramming, whiteboarding, and data visualization

Miro Pros

  • Great for whiteboarding
  • Designed for remote collaboration
  • Enterprise admin controls like SSO and document control

Miro Cons

  • Limited diagram abilities
  • No data visualization
  • No ability to use your existing 3rd party storage

SmartDraw is Fully Featured for Diagrams

Miro is primarily a digital whiteboard tool built for collaboration. Miro's toolset reflects this. You get creative brainstorming tools, but only very basic diagramming capabilities. Building diagrams in MIro can feel tedious and slow.

SmartDraw on the other hand specializes in diagramming with tools that makes creating even complex diagrams is easy. It's the only app that provides both flexibility and automation specific to the type of visual you're creating. SmartDraw makes it easy to add shapes, add text, and move shapes so everything remains formatted as expected. SmartDraw also applies these smarts to building digital whiteboards. You'll get both diagramming and whiteboard capability in a single tool.

Diagrams collage

A Complete Set of Templates and Symbols

SmartDraw has wealth of templates and symbols that let you create diagrams of all kinds.

Easily create:

  • Flowcharts
  • Org Charts
  • Mind Maps
  • Software Design Diagrams
  • Project Charts
  • Floor Plans
  • Marketing Diagrams
  • Network Designs
  • and Much More!

Unlike Miro, which relies on basic shapes or requiring you to know which additional apps to install to get more symbols, SmartDraw's extensive symbol library is already docked to every template and easily searchable for all the technical, custom symbols your diagram may require.

SmartDraw Also Offers Digital Whiteboarding

Like Miro, SmartDraw also offers a seamless workspace that lets you combine multiple different visual types. You can do free-form brainstoming while also adding a roadmap or discussing a retrospective with your team.

  • Sticky notes
  • Kanban board
  • Mind map
  • Roadmap
  • PI board
  • Plus: flowcharts, org charts, and more

You can even bring in visuals based on external data. For example:

  • Jira cards
  • Network configurations like AWS and Azure
  • Database schema
  • Class diagram
Multi-diagram whiteboard

SmartDraw Has More Intuitive Tools

SmartDraw whiteboarding AI works behind the scenes to make your team's collaborative experience seamless. Add sticky notes and containers will automatically expand and make room for new ideas without any manual repositioning. Double-click in a brainstorm to add a sticky note automatically. Move notes around the board and any other shapes will adjust automatically. You'll never have to pause brainstorming to draw or reformat your board.

SmartDraw Has Powerful Data Visualization

Taking automation to the next level, SmartDraw can even build certain types of diagrams from data including org charts, class diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams, and more.

You can also assign any shape a set of fields and values to enhance your diagram with shape data. This lets you or anyone you share your visual with drill down into details without cluttering the diagram visually. Exporting this data can help generate manifests for office plans, network designs, and more.

Shape data can also be used to change the appearance of your diagram dynamically to communicate to your team if a task is at risk or if a person in an organizational chart is underperforming.

Miro doesn't have anything that compares.

Smart Integration

SmartDraw integrates fully with the tools you already use. You can export your diagram directly to Word®, Excel®, PowerPoint®, or any Google Workspace™ app or Atlassian's Confluence or Jira. Create a presentation or report with better visuals and impress your clients.

  • Microsoft Office®
    • Word®
    • PowerPoint®
    • Excel®
  • Microsoft Teams®
  • Google Workspace™
    • Google Docs
    • Google Sheets
  • Atlassian™ apps
    • Confluence
    • Jira

Effortless Collaboration

Miro was built for collaboration, but SmartDraw also makes collaboration easy with comments, notes, and custom templates that help keep your team on the same page.

Unlike Miro, SmartDraw also lets you collaborate on a visual by letting you connect to where you already collaborate and save files in your organization. You can work on visuals from OneDrive®, SharePoint, Google Drive™, and more.

There is no need to create a parallel set of common folders and permissions, SmartDraw can just save files directly into your existing set up.

Features Comparison in Detail

SmartDraw Miro®
Diagrams
Flowcharts
Org Charts
Mind Maps and Planning
Cause and Effect
Decision Trees
Project Charts
Software Design
Strategy and Marketing
Network Design
Floor Plans
Data Visualization
Build AWS and Azure Network Diagrams from Data
Build Org Charts from Data
Build Class Diagrams from Data
Build ERD from Data
Build Decision Trees from Data
Shape Data
Open API
Whiteboarding
Seamless Workspace
Whiteboard Templates
Sticky Notes
Emojis
Notes
Comments
Sharing and Presenting
Co-Editing
Integrations
Add-On for Google Workspace™
Save to Google Drive™
Save to Dropbox®
Save to Box®
App for Confluence®
App for Jira®
Power-Up for Trello®
Microsoft Teams®
Slack
Enterprise
SSO with Popular IDPs
Shared Templates
Adminisitrative Controls
SOC2
GDPR
CSA
SmartDraw
Diagrams
Flowcharts
Org Charts
Mind Maps and Planning
Cause and Effect
Decision Trees
Project Charts
Software Design
Strategy and Marketing
Network Design
Floor Plans
Data Visualization
Build AWS and Azure Network Diagrams from Data
Build Org Charts from Data
Build Class Diagrams from Data
Build ERD from Data
Build Decision Trees from Data
Shape Data
Open API
Collaboration
Notes
Comments
Sharing and Presentig
Co-Editing
Integrations
Add-On for Google Workspace™
Save to Google Drive™
Save to Dropbox®
Save to Box®
App for Confluence®
App for Jira®
Power-Up for Trello®
Microsoft Teams®
Slack
Enterprise
SSO with Popular IDPs
Shared Templates
Adminisitrative Controls
SOC2
GDPR
CSA
Visio®
Diagrams
Flowcharts
Org Charts
Mind Maps and Planning
Cause and Effect
Decision Trees
Project Charts
Software Design
Strategy and Marketing
Network Design
Floor Plans
Data Visualization
Build AWS and Azure Network Diagrams from Data
Build Org Charts from Data
Build Class Diagrams from Data
Build ERD from Data
Build Decision Trees from Data
Shape Data
Open API
Collaboration
Notes
Comments
Sharing and Presentig
Co-Editing
Integrations
Add-On for Google Workspace™
Save to Google Drive™
Save to Dropbox®
Save to Box®
App for Confluence®
App for Jira®
Power-Up for Trello®
Microsoft Teams®
Slack
Enterprise
SSO with Popular IDPs
Shared Templates
Adminisitrative Controls
SOC2
GDPR
CSA

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