Mural vs Stormboard

Mural

• Facilitated workshops, retrospectives and design-thinking sessions
• Large groups on a budget: the Free plan has no member limit
• Organizations that work in Microsoft 365 and Teams
• Consultants who bring outside clients into a session

Stormboard

• Facilitated workshops that need to end in a written report
• Agile teams planning with Jira, Rally or Azure DevOps
• Teams that co-edit Office or Google files inside a board
• Small groups: the free plan allows 5 users in each Storm

Mural

• The Free plan keeps only 3 murals editable at a time, and its visitors can view but not edit.
• Mural AI is not part of the Free plan; it is available on Team+, Business and Enterprise.
• SSO and guest access start at Business, which is listed with annual billing only; monthly billing is shown for Team+.
• SCIM, audit logs, data residency and multiple workspaces are limited to Enterprise, which has no public price.

Stormboard

• The Personal plan allows 5 open Storms with 5 users each, and Microsoft Office and Google Drive files are view-only on it.
• Substorms, idea grouping, folders, and the Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Google reports all need the Business plan.
• SAML single sign-on, audit logs and the Surface Hub app are Enterprise-only, and StormAI on Business is a 30-day trial before an Enterprise upgrade.
• The vendor lists apps for Windows, iOS and Android but no Mac app, and describes the phone app as a companion with limited features.

Mural

Facilitation features on every plan

A facilitator can summon participants, run a timer, hold anonymous votes, switch on private mode, lock content, and hide steps in the outline until it is time to reveal them.

Sticky notes, drawing and diagramming

Boards take sticky notes, drawings, images, icons and connected diagrams, on either an infinite or a resizable canvas. A content library stores objects for reuse.

Templates

More than 250 Mural-made templates are included, and teams can create their own. The Business plan adds LUMA frameworks.

Mural AI

Generates mind maps, clusters sticky notes by topic, summarizes content and classifies stickies by sentiment. Available on Team+, Business and Enterprise.

Rooms, visitors and guests

Murals are organized into rooms: open on Free, private from Team+ and confidential on Enterprise. One-time visitors are free on every plan; ongoing guests need Business.

Meeting and work-tracking integrations

Murals can be worked on inside Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Webex meetings. Asana tasks import with two-way sync, and Azure DevOps work items can be laid out on a mural.

Stormboard

Storms built from sticky notes

A workspace, called a Storm, holds text, image, video, file and whiteboard sticky notes on an infinite canvas divided into sections. Index card notes open a Substorm on paid plans.

Templates and section types

More than 250 templates are included. On Business and Enterprise, a section can become a calendar, spreadsheet or matrix, and customized templates can be saved for reuse.

Reports and exports

A Storm exports as an editable Word, PowerPoint or Excel report, or as Google Docs, Slides or Sheets. These need Business; Personal has word cloud, votes and tasks exports.

Two-way agile integrations

Integrations with Jira, Rally and Azure DevOps mirror changes made in Stormboard back to the tracker, for backlog and sprint planning and for showing dependencies.

Voting, tasks and timer

Participants can vote on ideas, comment, and assign a task to a sticky note, and an assigned-tasks report lists owners and due dates. A timer is included on every plan.

StormAI

StormAI builds a template from a stated goal, suggests ideas, and summarizes sticky notes or groups them by theme or sentiment. Business customers get a 30-day trial of it.

Mural

• Free$0

  Unlimited members, 3 editable murals at a time, view-only visitors, open rooms and all core collaboration and facilitation tools.

• Team+$9.99

  per member / month, billed annually ($12 billed monthly)

  Unlimited editable murals, visitors with editing rights, private rooms, Mural AI and basic integrations such as Zoom and Webex.

• Business$17.99

  per member / month, billed annually

  Adds SAML single sign-on, unlimited guests, advanced integrations such as Azure, GitHub and Okta, LUMA frameworks, invoicing and priority support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Multiple workspaces, confidential rooms, SCIM, audit logs and reporting APIs, required 2FA, data residency, BYOK and premier support.

Stormboard

• Personal$0

  5 open Storms, 5 users per Storm, one administrator per Storm, pre-made templates, and word cloud, votes and tasks exports.

• Business$8.33

  per user / month, billed annually ($10 billed monthly)

  Unlimited Storms, Substorms, idea grouping, folders, custom templates, Office and Google reports, and live co-editing of Office and Google files.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Adds SAML single sign-on, a single-tenant option, audit logs, the Surface Hub app, volume pricing, priority support and a dedicated account manager.

Mural

• Annual discount

  About 17% lower on Team+ with annual billing

  Mural's pricing page lists Team+ at $9.99 per member a month when billed annually, against $12 per member a month when billed monthly.

Stormboard

• Annual discount

  2 months free with annual billing

  Business is $8.33 per user a month billed annually ($100 a seat per year) against $10 billed monthly. Annual subscriptions are non-refundable and do not include the free trial.

• Nonprofit

  25% off annual plans for nonprofits

  Certified non-profit organizations get 25% off annual plans by choosing a plan and then contacting Stormboard. The discount does not apply to monthly billing.