Mural is a cloud whiteboard sold per member, with SSO on Business and SCIM and data residency on Enterprise. Pages here cover replacing it with self-hosted Nextcloud Whiteboard or Excalidraw.
Comparing Mural with self-hosted Excalidraw: real-time collaboration through excalidraw-room, the open .excalidraw format, templates and facilitation features Mural has that Excalidraw lacks, and running it for a whole organization.
Comparing Mural with Nextcloud Whiteboard, which is built on Excalidraw and keeps boards in Nextcloud: sharing and permissions, SSO through Nextcloud, facilitation features, and when an existing Nextcloud makes it the easy choice.
Moving teams off Mural: exporting murals as PDF or PNG for the archive, deciding which boards to rebuild, setting up Nextcloud Whiteboard with its collaboration backend, and replacing templates used in workshops.
Cost of ownership by component: Mural per-member plans with SSO on Business and SCIM on Enterprise, against Nextcloud Whiteboard or Excalidraw with no license fee, servers, setup, identity integration and support.
What Mural lets you take with you: PDF and PNG exports delivered by emailed link, what static exports cannot carry such as editable objects, and how to archive boards in bulk before the subscription ends.
Mural stores data in the United States on Azure by default and offers regional residency only on Enterprise. This page compares that with self-hosted whiteboards on your own servers, and what to check for GDPR and sovereignty requirements.
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