Product
Kromdraw vs Miro
Miro is a good product and most of the people reading this already use it. Here is where the two differ.
Choose Kromdraw if
You want a fast canvas for a few people, it matters to you that the company holding your work answers to a European court, and you want to be able to leave with everything you made.
Choose Miro if
You run facilitated sessions for more than a handful of people, your team lives inside its integrations, or a procurement checklist needs certifications Kromdraw does not have.
| Kromdraw | Miro | |
|---|---|---|
| A checklist on the board | Yes. K drops a card with nested tick boxes and a bar counting what is done | A checklist inside an expanded card, or one card per task in Miro's checklist template. The individual boxes are not ticked directly on the board |
| Guests who look, draw or comment | Free and with no account. Looking and commenting always; drawing when you set the link to edit | Free to look with no account. Commenting or drawing needs the owner on a paid plan |
| Company jurisdiction | Netherlands | United States |
| Where your work sits | EU, and every subprocessor is European | EU by default on every plan — but not logs, sharing settings or profile data |
| Export | Whole account, folders preserved, opens in another tool | Board by board; bulk export is Enterprise only |
| Template library | None | Thousands |
| Integrations | None | Most of what a company already runs |
| Who answers when it breaks | The person who built it | A support tier |
What Miro is better at
Templates, and a lot of them. Integrations with the tools a company already runs. Ten years of facilitation features, timers and voting and private mode and breakouts, that Kromdraw does not have and is not building this year. If you run structured workshops with fifty people in them, use Miro.
It also has the thing that never shows up on a feature list. Everybody already knows it, so sending a Miro link to a client costs you no explanation.
Data residency and jurisdiction are two questions
Miro will keep your data in the EU, and that is worth having. It is a different question from which country's courts can compel the company holding it. Since Miro is incorporated in the United States, the answer to the second question doesn't change when the bytes move. Kromdraw is made by Ronkatil B.V., a Dutch company with nothing above it, so there is no American entity in the chain to serve an order on.
Where your data lives names every machine, and the subprocessor list names every company that touches it. There are five and they are all European.
Billing
As of August 2026, Miro's published pricing starts at $8 per user per month billed annually, with a free tier capped at three editable boards. The complaint that comes up over and over in public reviews is not the number. It is being billed for people who only came to look at a board.
Kromdraw is €9 a month per member, or €90 a year, and somebody who came to look at a board is a guest rather than a member. The pricing page has the commitments that come with the number.
What Kromdraw has that is different in kind
Sticky notes that carry the name of whoever wrote them. Checklists you drop on the board beside the drawing they came out of, with the list you already wrote pasted in whole. 609 animated stamps, deployed with the app rather than fetched from Google when you place one. Comment threads pinned to the canvas that a guest can join from a link, with no account. Rest the pointer on a shape and everything it connects to lights up. The standalone canvas has the drawing tools in it, with no account.
What Kromdraw doesn't have
No template library. No integrations. No mobile app, and on a phone it's cramped enough that I wouldn't plan a session around it. No SSO, no ISO 27001 certification, no third-party penetration test. There is no Miro importer either, so an existing board has to be rebuilt.
It is one person, and some of those boxes will stay empty for a while.
Can I bring a Miro board across?
No. There is no Miro importer.
Miro's own board backup is a .rtb file that restores into another paid Miro team
and does not open anywhere else, so even the file you can export is not one another tool can
read. An existing board has to be rebuilt by hand.
Going the other way is the part worth checking before you commit to anything. Kromdraw exports your whole account — every board, in folders, as files that open in any Excalidraw-compatible editor. You can test that on the free canvas before you trust it.
Questions people ask
Is Kromdraw cheaper than Miro? +
Kromdraw is €9 per member a month, or €90 a year. Miro's Starter plan is $8 per member per month billed annually as of August 2026, so the two numbers are close and the difference is who counts as a member: on Kromdraw somebody who joins from a link is a guest, and a guest is free and never becomes a seat.
Can someone look at a board without a Miro or Kromdraw account? +
On both, yes. Miro calls that person a Visitor and lets them view a public board free on any plan. The difference is what happens next: on Miro, letting that person comment or draw requires the board's owner to be on a paid plan, while on Kromdraw commenting works on any link and drawing works whenever the link is set to allow it.
Does Miro keep my data in the EU? +
Yes, and by default on every plan at no extra cost, with the primary data centre in Ireland. The limit is what residency covers: board content, but not logs, sharing settings, organisation configuration or user profile data. The company itself is RealtimeBoard, Inc. in San Francisco, which is the separate question this page's jurisdiction section is about.
Can I export everything out of Miro if I leave? +
Board by board, in image, PDF, CSV or Miro's own .rtb backup format. The .rtb file is not available on the free plan and restores only into another paid Miro team. Enterprise accounts have a bulk eDiscovery export of up to a thousand boards per job, which needs a specific admin role and is built for legal hold rather than for leaving.
What does Kromdraw not have that Miro does? +
Templates, integrations, a mobile app, SSO, ISO 27001 certification and a third-party penetration test. It is one person, and some of those will stay missing for a while.
Try it before you decide.
The standalone canvas lets you draw without an account and without giving anybody an email address.
Last verified: 30 August 2026. Everything stated here about Miro comes from Miro's own pricing page, help centre and terms of service, and is quoted rather than characterised wherever the wording matters. If any of it has gone out of date, tell me and I will correct it.