SmartDraw is a more complete, all-in-one app with fully-featured diagramming, whiteboarding, and data integration
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 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 and has all the modern collaboration tools you want. Your team can build anything from diagrams to whiteboards in real time in a single tool.
SmartDraw has wealth of templates and symbols that let you create diagrams of all kinds.
Easily create:
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.
Like Miro, SmartDraw provides a collaborative workspace where teams can effortlessly combine visuals and whitboarding activities. Whether brainstorming ideas, building a roadmap, or conducting a retrospective, you can work together in real time and use tools like a freehand pen, highlighter, and a meeting timer. This ensures every team member has the opportunity to contribute and your team remains on the same page.
You can even bring in visuals based on external data. For example:
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 reformat your board.
Taking automation to the next level, SmartDraw can even build certain types of diagrams from data including org charts, AWS and Azure network architectures, 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 under-performing.
Miro only has limited AWS visualization capabilities and nothing else.
SmartDraw integrates fully with the tools you already use.
SmartDraw lets you control your own data by saving files directly to 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.
Miro only lets you save files to Google Drive.
You can also export your diagram directly to Word®, Excel®, PowerPoint®, or any Google Workspace™ app or Atlassian's Confluence or Jira.
Both Miro and SmartDraw let your team work on the same diagram in real time. You can add comments in both apps to help keep your team on the same page.
Like Miro, SmartDraw also has freeform pen and highlight tool to help draw attention to a discussion or item and can use a timer to manage brainstorming.
Discover for yourself why SmartDraw is the most complete visual app.
