Miro vs FigJam: One Stands Alone, One Needs Figma

FigJam is a good whiteboard tool. Miro is a better one. But "better" comes with an asterisk: if your team already lives in Figma, FigJam's integration might make it worth the trade-off.

For teams evaluating a whiteboard tool from scratch, Miro wins.

What FigJam is

FigJam is Figma's collaborative whiteboard. It looks like Figma, shares the same collaboration infrastructure, and lets your team move seamlessly between a FigJam brainstorm and a Figma design file. You can embed live Figma frames directly in a FigJam board and they stay in sync.

If your design team is already on Figma Professional, FigJam is $3/editor/month — that's on top of your Figma seat.

For starter accounts, FigJam is free with limits.

What Miro does better

Miro has been building whiteboard software since 2011. The template library reflects that experience — there are hundreds of templates for retrospectives, product roadmaps, customer journey maps, sprint planning, design sprints, and user research synthesis. These aren't just visual shells; they come with facilitation guides, sticky note structures, and voting tools built in.

The facilitation tools in Miro are more developed. You can run a timer, use voting sessions, do dot-voting, and track participation — the features of an actual workshop tool, not just an infinite canvas.

Miro also integrates with more external tools. Jira, Confluence, Asana, Slack, Microsoft Teams — Miro has native integrations with the project management and communication tools that non-design teams use. This matters if your whiteboard sessions involve PMs, engineers, and stakeholders who don't have Figma seats.

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The case for FigJam

FigJam's strongest argument is proximity to your design work. If you're running a design critique, a component architecture session, or any whiteboard activity that will immediately feed into Figma designs, keeping everything in the same tool is genuinely useful. You don't switch apps, you don't export and import, you just open a FigJam file next to your Figma file.

The interface is familiar if you already know Figma. Your design team can jump in without learning a new tool. Sticky notes, connectors, shapes, emoji reactions — the basics are all there and they work well.

For pure design team activities — critique sessions, design sprints, component planning — FigJam is sufficient and convenient.

Pricing

Miro: Free for 3 boards, $8/member/month (Starter), $16/member/month (Business)

FigJam: Free with limits, $3/editor/month add-on if you're on Figma Professional

If you're on Figma Professional at $15/editor, adding FigJam is $3 more for a total of $18. Miro Starter is $8/member. So the pricing isn't dramatically different, but Miro's $8 gives you a standalone product with no dependencies.

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Who should use each

Use FigJam if:

• Your team already pays for Figma Professional
• Your whiteboard sessions are design-focused and feed directly into Figma work
• You want to avoid adding another tool subscription

Use Miro if:

• You need a whiteboard that works for the whole company, not just designers
• You run structured workshops and need facilitation tools
• You want deeper integrations with Jira, Confluence, or Microsoft Teams
• You're evaluating a whiteboard tool without an existing Figma commitment

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