The best Miro alternatives for personal use

Koi 2.0 has an endless board that works like Excalidraw, drawn by the Mac app itself. It sits on your wallpaper as a widget, under every window and on every Space, showing the board as you left it. Click it and it grows into a big window; Esc or ⌘W folds it back. Shapes with a hand-drawn look, arrows that stay connected, a pen, text, sticky notes with the date, frames, groups, photo frames, stickers and paper backgrounds. Export as PNG, PDF or SVG.

Each board is a file on your Mac, never uploaded. Like any window, Koi's AI sees a board on screen when your screen goes with a question. Like Miro's, it has a chat bar at the bottom where you ask Koi to draw, change or explain the board, and it draws there itself; that, Text to diagram and Wireframe to code use Koi's AI only when you ask, and count against your plan's Koi usage. Tables and ten templates are built in.

Where Miro is better: Koi's board is for one person on one Mac. No team, no sharing by link, no templates, no sync, no iPhone or iPad. It isn't sold on its own: Koi is $20 a month or $7 for a first week, or Lifetime, paid once, with dictation, call recording and an assistant in the same app.

Freeform is free and made by Apple, on macOS 13.1 or later. Boards sync through iCloud to your iPhone and iPad, and you can invite people to work on one in real time. It exports a board as a PDF. For personal boards on Apple devices, it's the obvious free pick.

tldraw is a free whiteboard at tldraw.com, and tldraw offline is a free desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux. The desktop app needs no account and no server, and saves boards as files where you pick.

Excalidraw is free in the browser, with unlimited collaborators on its free version, one infinite scene, and export to PNG, SVG and file. Excalidraw+ is $6 per user a month. Your drawing is kept in the browser unless you save a file. More in our Excalidraw alternatives.

FigJam is Figma's whiteboard, the closest to Miro for a team. Starter is free with limited access. A Collab seat is $3 a month on the Professional plan, and $5 a month on Organization and Enterprise, billed yearly.

Milanote is a board for notes, pictures and links. The free plan holds 100 notes, images or links and 10 file uploads. Paid is $9.99 a month billed yearly, or $12.50 month to month.

Muse is now called Allume. It runs on Mac, iPad and iPhone and calls its data local-first, with sync. The free plan has 2 workspaces, 100 cards in each and one collaborator. Unlimited is $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, and it's in Setapp too.