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Excalidraw vs Miro
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Excalidraw and Miro — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shared themes:diagramming
Excalidraw vs Miro: at a glance
What is Excalidraw?
Excalidraw library cadence is glacial — v0.18 in March 2025, then silence; feed is mostly GitHub-profile noise.
The captured changelog tracks the npm library at github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw, not the hosted app at excalidraw.com. The library has shipped four substantive releases over two-and-a-half years: v0.16.1 (Sep 2023), v0.17.0 (Nov 2023), v0.17.3 (Feb 2024), and v0.18.0 (March 2025). The latest entry is from April 2026 but is a GitHub-profile scraping artifact, not a release. Half the feed is GitHub user-profile pages ('Sorry, something went wrong') that landed instead of release content.
What is Miro?
Miro is turning its canvas into an AI prototyping surface, now wired to coding agents.
Miro is concentrating its release energy on the Prototypes add-on, steadily converting the whiteboard into a design-to-prototype workspace. Recent updates add prompt-driven prototype generation, screenshot- and Figma-based flow expansion, and an MCP bridge that pulls work straight from coding agents onto the canvas. The core diagramming product still ships incremental shape, markdown, and theming improvements alongside.
Excalidraw vs Miro: editorial side-by-side
Excalidraw
1.3COLLAB
Excalidraw library cadence is glacial — v0.18 in March 2025, then silence; feed is mostly GitHub-profile noise.
◆ Current state
The captured changelog tracks the npm library at github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw, not the hosted app at excalidraw.com. The library has shipped four substantive releases over two-and-a-half years: v0.16.1 (Sep 2023), v0.17.0 (Nov 2023), v0.17.3 (Feb 2024), and v0.18.0 (March 2025). The latest entry is from April 2026 but is a GitHub-profile scraping artifact, not a release. Half the feed is GitHub user-profile pages ('Sorry, something went wrong') that landed instead of release content.
◆ Where it's heading
v0.18.0 was the high-water release — command palette, multiplayer undo/redo, editable element stats, text wrapping, and laser pointer. Since then the library has been quiet for over a year while the hosted app at excalidraw.com presumably continued to evolve through unversioned deploys. This pattern suggests the team has shifted investment toward the SaaS product and integrations, with the open-source library treated as a stable embedding target rather than the frontier of feature work.
◆ Prediction
The library will likely see another minor release rather than going dormant — there is too much downstream embedding (Notion, Obsidian, etc.) for it to fully fall behind the SaaS app — but expect months between releases, not weeks. The feed-source issue is fixable: the crawler should target the GitHub Releases API or RSS, not the HTML release pages and contributor profiles that produce the current noise.
Miro
6.3COLLAB
Miro is turning its canvas into an AI prototyping surface, now wired to coding agents.
◆ Current state
Miro is concentrating its release energy on the Prototypes add-on, steadily converting the whiteboard into a design-to-prototype workspace. Recent updates add prompt-driven prototype generation, screenshot- and Figma-based flow expansion, and an MCP bridge that pulls work straight from coding agents onto the canvas. The core diagramming product still ships incremental shape, markdown, and theming improvements alongside.
◆ Where it's heading
The direction is clear: Miro wants the canvas to be where teams explore, compare, and align on product directions before code is committed. Tying the canvas to coding agents over MCP positions it upstream of the build process rather than as a parallel sketchpad. Expect the Prototypes add-on to keep absorbing AI capabilities that were previously the domain of dedicated prototyping tools.
◆ Prediction
Next likely move is deeper agent round-tripping — pushing canvas prototypes back into code or design tools — building on the MCP and Copy-to-Figma groundwork already shipped.
Alternatives to Excalidraw and Miro
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Recent activity from Excalidraw and Miro
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 5d agoMiroWeekly Update: Prototype Variations
- 19d agoMiroWeekly Update: Code to Prototype ⚡
- 26d agoMiroWeekly Update: Prototyping from Screenshots and Figma
- 2mo agoMiroWeekly Update: Styled buttons and URL-based theming for prototyping
- 2mo agoExcalidrawGitHub profile scrape (feed artifact, not a release)
- 2mo agoMiroWeekly Update: New diagram shapes, markdown import, and flexible scaling
- 2mo agoMiroWeekly Update: New diagram shapes, markdown import, and flexible scaling
- 1y agoExcalidrawv0.18.0 (2025-03-11) ⚡
- 1y agoExcalidrawGitHub profile error page (feed artifact)
- 1y agoExcalidrawv0.18.0 (duplicate feed entry)
- 2y agoExcalidrawv0.17.3 (2024-02-09)
- 2y agoExcalidrawv0.17.3 (2024-02-09)
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Excalidraw and Miro?
Both compete on the same themes — diagramming — within Collab. Miro is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 1.3), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Excalidraw better than Miro?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Miro is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 1.3), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Collab products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Excalidraw?
Top Excalidraw alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Excalidraw alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/excalidraw for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Miro?
Top Miro alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Miro alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/miro for the full list with editorial commentary on each.