/// COMPARE /// MIRO & FIGJAM

The local Miro & FigJam alternative

OmniFolder is a local Miro alternative for the thinking half of whiteboarding: an offline infinite canvas stored as a file next to your docs, tasks and code - not a board floating alone in a browser tab.

Miro and FigJam are excellent at what they are for: real-time workshops, facilitation, dot-voting, a room full of people on one board. Nothing local replaces that when the point is the room.

OmniFolder is for the other kind of canvas - the diagram that explains a design, the sketch that is not words yet. Here it is a layer of the same node as the description and the decisions, stored on your disk, linked to the tasks and code it describes.

Miro & FigJamOmniFolder
Where boards liveTheir cloud, in a browser tabOn your disk, as a layer of the node it belongs to
OfflineOnline-first; offline is not the design goalFully offline - the canvas opens with no network at all
Connection to the workA standalone board you link from elsewhereThe canvas sits beside the text and tech layers of the same node, in one graph
Real-time workshopsThe core competency: live co-editing, facilitation, voting, timersNot the job - OmniFolder canvases are for thinking, not facilitating
PrivacyBoards live under their terms and telemetryNo telemetry, no account, nothing leaves the disk
PriceFree tiers, then per-seat subscriptionsFree for personal use; commercial is a one-time purchase
CLAIMS LAST REVIEWED 2026-08-29

Miro & FigJam keeps evolving - and so does OmniFolder. This table describes both products as we could verify them on the date above, and a comparison is a snapshot, never a contract: where reality has moved on, reality wins. Spot a drifted claim? Tell us on the Discord and we fix it.

Where OmniFolder wins

The canvas lives with the work

A sketch is a layer of the same node as the text and the tech decisions, linked to the tasks and code it describes - not a board floating in a tab.

Offline and private

Canvases open with no network and no account, and nothing leaves your disk.

One tool fewer

The diagram, the docs, the plan and the code graph share one window and one licence - bought once, not rented monthly.

Where Miro & FigJam wins

Workshops and facilitation

Templates for retros and workshops, voting, timers, a cursor per participant - running a session with people is what these tools are for.

Real-time co-editing

A distributed team sketching on one board at once is a solved problem there. OmniFolder canvases are single-user files.

Template libraries

Both ship huge kits of ready-made frames and diagrams. OmniFolder gives you an empty surface and gets out of the way.

/// THE HONEST VERDICT

Pick Miro or FigJam for the workshop. Pick OmniFolder for the diagram that has to live with the design, the tasks and the code - offline, in a file you own.

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