T-Bank has launched its own free analogue of Miro

Previously, the platform was used only by T-Bank employees. Now the company has opened free access to Unidraw for all users.

The service is an online interactive whiteboard for team collaboration. The platform features tools for creating graphics, tables, stickers, etc.

The online platform allows you to transfer data from Miro and continue working with it in Unidraw. Authorization can be completed using the T-ID service.

T-Bank cites a number of differences between Unidraw and “similar Russian developments.” Thus, the service features a personal account that allows you to manage boards and projects, as well as archive them; infinite spaces; version history, export of boards as charts or a list of stickers, rotation of any object and other functions.

The service was created for internal use by T-Bank employees in 2022 against the backdrop of Miro’s announcement about the closure of the Russian branch and the cessation of new sales in Russia and Belarus. The T-Bank team, according to a press release, “did not find satisfactory alternatives.”

According to the bank’s own data, Unidraw receives more than 15,000 unique users from among its employees every month, and the total number of registrations is 30,000.

Who else is working on a “Miro analog”?

After Miro announced that the company would stop providing services to clients from Russia and Belarus, major players in the IT sector began to massively offer analogues of this solution.

Thus, Yandex has started working on creating a platform for online “forums” for collaboration, Interfax reported. VK has also introduced its version of the Miro analogue – the service is called “VK Board” and is currently in beta testing mode.

Another solution was presented by the corporate communication platform DION, from the T1 holding company. Its online interactive whiteboard is called DION.Whiteboard. The company Webinar Technologies announced that it has improved the import of Miro projects into its own MTS Link Boards service.

What happened to Miró?

• Remote collaboration platform Miro was founded in 2011 by Perm natives Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. The company started out as RealtimeBoard but changed its name in 2019. The platform’s first office was located in Perm.
• The company is working on a service for holding virtual meetings and seminars, as well as sharing photos, videos and documents for distributed teams. In January 2022, Miro raised $400 million and its valuation reached $17.5 billion.
• Also in 2022, Miro began to withdraw from the Russian market. The company then began the process of liquidating the Russian division. The project also stopped sales in the Russian and Belarusian markets.
• On August 14, 2024, Miro announced that it would stop providing services to clients from Russia and Belarus. The company made this decision against the backdrop of new US sanctions, which will come into force on September 12 and include a ban on providing Russians with IT consulting services, cloud services for business management, and software for design and production.
• Later, on August 21, Miro clarified that it will continue to provide services to those customers from Russia and Belarus who use the service’s free services.