There is a specific moment that anyone who lives in Miro knows well. The workshop was great. The board is a beautiful field of sticky notes, clustered and voted on, arrows drawn between the good ideas. Then the session ends, and someone has to turn that board into a plan. So they open a doc and start retyping. The sticky note that said “onboarding is too long” becomes a bullet in a doc, then a row in a tracker, then a line in next quarter’s deck. The same thought, transcribed four times, drifting a little further from the board each time until the board itself is just an artifact nobody reopens.

Miro is excellent at the first half of that story. It is one of the best infinite canvases ever built. The problem it doesn’t try to solve is the second half: the canvas is where thinking goes to be _captured_, and then the actual work happens somewhere else. Integrity is built on a different premise — that the whiteboard, the doc, and the database should be the same thing, seen from different angles.

## Two different centers of gravity

Miro’s center of gravity is space. Everything is an object placed on an infinite plane: sticky notes, shapes, frames, connectors, embedded files. That spatial freedom is exactly why it’s so good for workshops, journey maps, and design sprints. You can see the whole shape of a problem at once, and a room full of people can point at the same wall.

Integrity’s center of gravity is the **node**. In Integrity, everything is a node in one tree — a line of text, a heading, a task, a sticky note on the canvas, an entire document, a recorded meeting. They are all the same kind of object. You can nest them, drag them, fold them, and turn a single line into a heading, a task, or a full document without ever copying it somewhere else. The tagline is _keep the thread_: the line you wrote in a meeting is the same node that shows up in your plan and on your canvas.

That difference sounds abstract until you hit the retyping moment. In Miro, moving from board to plan means recreating your thinking in another tool. In Integrity, the sticky note on the canvas _is_ the outline item. Fold the canvas away and it’s a bullet in your doc. Tag it and it becomes a row in a database. Nothing gets transcribed, because there’s nothing to transcribe — it’s one object the whole time.

## Where the database lives

This is the sharpest divide. In Miro, structured data is something you bring in or bolt on — data tables, embedded spreadsheets, two-way integrations with Jira, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, and Azure on the Business plan. The canvas talks to your database; it is not your database.

Integrity’s database _is_ the outline. It works through **supertags**. You tag any node and it becomes a row with structured fields. A collection of tagged nodes can then be viewed as a board, a table, or a timeline — and it’s the same node underneath every view. The card you drag on a kanban board is the heading in your doc is the item on your canvas. You don’t sync a whiteboard to a tracker; the whiteboard and the tracker are two views of one set of nodes.

## AI that builds, versus AI that fills the canvas

Both tools have made a serious bet on AI, and both bets are legitimate.

Miro AI treats your canvas as the prompt. Its Sidekicks and Flows read what’s on the board and generate Miro-native output: frames, timelines, kanbans, diagrams. If your problem is “I have a wall of stickies and I need it clustered and summarized,” that is a genuinely strong workflow, and it keeps the AI’s output where the work already is — on the canvas.

Integrity’s AI reads your whole workspace and builds **editable artifacts as nodes**. Ask it for a launch plan, a deck, or a database and it produces real nodes you can keep editing by hand — not an image, not a locked block, but outline items, canvas cards, and supertagged rows you own. The distinction is what happens _after_ generation. Miro’s AI is strongest at organizing and expressing what’s on the board. Integrity’s AI is strongest at turning a messy workspace into a structured artifact you then live inside and refine.

## The honest limits

Integrity is not a full infinite-canvas replacement, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. If your core job is running live workshops for a room of twenty people — anonymous voting, timers, private mode, an endless plane to spread a service blueprint across — Miro is purpose-built for that and Integrity is not. Integrity’s canvas exists so that visual work stays attached to your outline and your data, not to be the venue for a design sprint. Its canvas is for arranging and connecting nodes and dropping sticky notes, deliberately scoped, not an endless facilitation surface.

Miro also has a deep, mature ecosystem: a huge template library, 250+ integrations, diagram-as-code through Mermaid and PlantUML, and years of polish on the facilitation experience. That maturity is real and worth paying for if it’s what you need.

## Side by side

|  | Integrity | Miro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Core model | Everything is a node in one tree | Objects on an infinite canvas |
| Canvas | Arrange and connect nodes, sticky notes | Best-in-class infinite whiteboard |
| Docs | Outliner; any line becomes a heading, task, or document | Text and embedded docs on the board |
| Database | Supertags: tag a node, view as board/table/timeline | Data tables; two-way integrations (Business plan) |
| Same object across views | Yes — one node, many views | Board and external tools stay separate |
| AI | Reads the whole workspace, builds editable artifacts as nodes | Uses canvas as prompt; generates frames, timelines, kanbans |
| Meetings | Record, live transcript, AI clean notes; the meeting is a node | Not a core capability |
| Workshop facilitation | Not the focus | Voting, timers, private mode, mature toolkit |
| Publishing | Publish a page to the web with analytics | Board sharing and embeds |
| Collaboration | Real-time CRDT | Real-time multiplayer |
| Integrations | Telegram; MCP (connect AI assistants like Claude Code) | 250+ apps; Jira, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, Azure |
| Pricing | See integrity.sh | Free (3 boards); Starter $8; Business $20; Enterprise custom (per member, yearly) |

## Who should pick which

**Pick Miro** if the whiteboard is the destination. If your team’s most valuable hours are spent facilitating live sessions — workshops, retros, journey mapping, design sprints — and you want the deepest, most polished infinite canvas with a mature facilitation toolkit and a massive template and integration library, Miro is the right tool and there is no shame in the retyping tax that follows.

**Pick Integrity** if the whiteboard is one view of your work, not the whole event. If you’re tired of watching a good board decay into a plan someone retyped into a doc and then a tracker, and you want the canvas, the outline, the docs, and the database to be the same nodes — so a thought captured in a meeting flows into a plan, onto a canvas, and into a database without ever being copied — Integrity is built for exactly that thread.

Many teams will use both, and that’s fine: Miro for the room, Integrity for the work that outlives the room. But if you’ve felt the seam between “where we thought” and “where we shipped,” that seam is the thing Integrity is trying to erase. For pricing, see [integrity.sh](/content/site-root.html).

## Frequently asked

### Is Integrity a replacement for Miro?

Not for pure workshop facilitation. Miro's infinite canvas, voting, timers, and private mode are purpose-built and best-in-class. Integrity has a canvas, but it exists so that visual work stays connected to your outline, docs, and database. Pick Integrity when the diagram is one view of your work, not the whole event.

### Does Integrity have an infinite canvas like Miro?

Integrity has a canvas where you arrange and connect nodes and add sticky notes. It is not designed to be an infinite whiteboard for large workshops. Its canvas is a spatial view of the same nodes you edit as an outline or a database, so a card on the canvas is the same object as the line in your doc.

### What is a supertag in Integrity?

A supertag turns any node into a database row. Tag a node and it gains structured fields, and you can view a collection of tagged nodes as a board, table, or timeline. The node stays the same object across every view; you are not copying data between a whiteboard and a spreadsheet.

### Can I use AI in both tools?

Yes. Miro AI uses your canvas as a prompt and generates frames, timelines, kanbans, and diagrams. Integrity's AI reads your whole workspace and builds editable artifacts as nodes, such as plans, decks, and databases, that you can then keep editing by hand.

Keep the thread — try Integrity.