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Miro
Collaborative whiteboard
Free tier + paidDesign tools, color & typemiro.com
What it is
Large-canvas collaboration platform built around workshops: sticky notes, voting, timers, diagrams, docs, tables and 7,000-plus templates. The free plan lets you create unlimited boards but keeps only the three most recent editable. Deep integrations with Jira, Slack and similar tools.
Why it earns a slot
It is where clients and stakeholders already are. When someone books a discovery workshop or a retro, the invite is a Miro board, and insisting on your own tool means swimming upstream.
Know before you commit
The free-tier rule is subtle: older boards go read-only rather than vanishing, so a client board from months ago may be locked exactly when you need to edit it.
Neighbourhood
How Miro sits against the rest of the atlas — swaps, companions and the tools builders actually save alongside it.
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