Miro vs OpenDesign
Miro and OpenDesign are both design and whiteboard software. Miro is a commercial product from Miro. OpenDesign is open source under Apache-2.0, with 106k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Miro when
- Distributed teams run workshops or planning sessions and need a shared visual canvas.
- Pick OpenDesign when
- A product team wants an open alternative to Claude Design or Figma Make for AI-generated prototypes.
Side by side
An online whiteboard for workshops, brainstorming, diagrams, retrospectives and planning, with templates and sticky notes.
A local-first workspace where a team and AI agents create prototypes, websites, dashboards, slides, images and videos, with design systems and bring-your-own-key models or paid credits.
Boards turn into clutter without care, and paid seats add up for occasional participants.
Six months old despite a huge star count, and the company is pushing paid credit plans.
Production-ready
Experimental
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
Desktop app and cloud service
Not published
TypeScript
Closed source, sold by Miro
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
2k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
106k GitHub stars
Not known
Young: started 6 months ago, latest release open-design-v0.26.1.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.