Kaavit vs Mural: a Mural alternative for small teams
Mural is an online whiteboard built around facilitation: timers, anonymous voting, private mode and hundreds of templates, with services for large companies behind it. Kaavit is a smaller, newer whiteboard: a shared board, AI that turns a prompt into a diagram, and sharing that is generous on the free plan.
If you are looking for a Mural alternative, here is how the two compare, fact by fact, with a link to where each fact about Mural comes from.
At a glance
| Topic | Kaavit | Mural |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free, with no card: 10 boards, 5 members, and a one-time AI trial for the organisation. | Free, “for unlimited members”: “Unlimited murals with 3 editable murals at a time”. Source |
| Paid plan | Team: €8 per member a month, billed monthly, plus VAT. Unlimited boards and members. | Team+: $9.99 per member a month billed annually, or $12 billed monthly. Business: $17.99 billed annually. Enterprise: on request. Prices are shown in US dollars. Source |
| People outside the team, on the free plan | Guests invited by email (3 per board), who can comment or edit, and share links people can view or edit through with no account. A link that lets people edit lasts up to 7 days. | “Unlimited visitors with view-only rights”. Visitors who can edit are listed from Team+, and guests from Business. Source |
| AI | Draws diagrams and boards from a prompt, groups and sorts notes into frames, and changes what you select. Kaavit lays out what it draws, and any generation can be reverted in one step. | Mind maps, clustering and organising sticky notes, summaries, classifying notes by sentiment, and generating ideas. Source |
| AI and the plan | A one-time trial for the organisation on Free; credits for every member on Team. | “Mural AI” is listed among the Team+ plan's features. Source |
| Voting, timers and private writing | Voting and timers on every plan. Private drafts in a timed round, revealed together, on Team. | Timer, anonymous voting, private mode, a facilitator lock and an outline whose steps stay hidden until you reveal them, “available on all plans”. Source |
| Templates | Twelve, for retrospectives, brainstorms, meetings, kanban, prioritisation, roadmaps, project hubs, customer journeys, story maps, business model and lean canvases, and incident reviews — and the AI sets up other boards on request. | “250+ expert Mural templates”, or your own. Source |
| Integrations | One, on every plan: AI tools like Claude Code connect over MCP to read boards and draw on them. | Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom, Jira Cloud, Google Workspace, Slack and more. Source |
| AI tools over MCP | On every plan, with a daily limit on a tool's changes on Free. What a tool adds appears on the board; a change to what somebody else put there arrives as a suggestion for a person to accept, and a tool can delete only what it drew itself. | Mural MCP: “Use your AI chatbot to create and edit content directly on your Mural canvas.” Source |
| Where boards are stored | In the EU (the Netherlands), on every plan. | “Data residency” is listed under the Enterprise plan. Source |
| Single sign-on and audit logs | Neither yet. People sign in with an email address and password, Google or GitHub. | “Single sign-on (SSO) (SAML 2.0)” is listed under Business, and “Audit logs, downloadable reports, and reporting APIs” under Enterprise. The page also lists “In-house customer success professionals”. Source |
Facts about Mural were read from Mural's own pages on , viewed from Finland. Prices and plans change, and some depend on where you are: follow the links for today's. Spotted something out of date? Tell us at privacy@kaavit.com.
Where Kaavit is different
Sharing on the free plan. Kaavit's Free plan lets you invite guests by email to comment or edit, and make a link that lets anyone edit for up to 7 days; on Mural's Free plan visitors are view-only, and guests are listed from Business.
AI that you can take back. Everything Kaavit's AI draws is ordinary sticky notes, shapes and connectors, laid out by Kaavit rather than placed by the model, and a whole generation reverts in one step — only where nobody has changed it since.
AI tools that suggest. Both products let an AI tool work on a board over MCP. In Kaavit, what a tool adds appears on the board, and a change to what somebody else put there arrives as a suggestion for a person to accept, change by change.
When Mural is the better choice
If facilitation is your work — workshops, design sprints, large sessions — Mural has more for it, on every plan: private mode, a facilitator lock, an outline with steps you reveal, and more than 250 templates.
If your company needs single sign-on, audit logs, a choice of where data lives, integrations with Teams, Zoom or Jira, or people to help roll it out, Mural has all of them and Kaavit does not yet: Kaavit is new, and run by one person in Finland.
Moving from Mural
Kaavit cannot import murals. Most teams start new work in Kaavit and leave finished murals where they are; for one you want to bring across, paste its text into the AI prompt and ask for it as a board.
Questions
Is Kaavit cheaper than Mural?
Kaavit's Team plan is €8 per member a month, billed monthly, plus VAT. Mural's Team+ plan is shown as $9.99 per member a month billed annually, or $12 billed monthly, in US dollars, as viewed from Finland on the date below. The currencies differ, so check both pricing pages for your country and taxes.
Does Kaavit have a private mode?
On the Team plan, as a timed round: everyone writes drafts only they can see, and the drafts are revealed together when the time is up. Voting and plain timers are on every plan.
Does Kaavit have Mural's AI features?
Some. Both group sticky notes into themes and make mind maps, and Kaavit also draws flowcharts, architecture diagrams and org charts from a prompt. Mural lists summaries and sentiment classification as features of their own; in Kaavit you would ask the AI for them in your own words.
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