Facilitate workshops, map ideas, and keep team boards moving from a focused desktop canvas.

Browser tabs bury workshop boards under email, docs, and chat noise. Facilitators still need sticky walls, frames, and timers — but they also need a dedicated surface that opens straight into workspaces they already join. Switching contexts mid-retro costs energy the group cannot spare during a packed agenda. Miro Desktop exists to close that gap: a desktop canvas for boards belonging to teams you are part of, without treating every session as another overloaded browser window full of unrelated tabs.

Miro Desktop solves one specific problem: giving facilitators and contributors a stable desktop entry point to collaborative whiteboards they already have permission to use with their teams. Frames, stickies, and workshop tools stay reachable so retros, journey maps, and brainstorms for groups you belong to stay on schedule and finish with clearer outcomes.

If you already run or join planning sessions on shared boards, Miro Desktop is for you. Once the canvas feels like a room instead of a tab, facilitation stops fighting the browser and becomes part of how your team's workshops actually finish with decisions captured in place.

• Agile coaches — Run retros on boards for squads they facilitate using Miro Desktop.
• Product managers — Map journeys with stakeholders in workspaces they belong to via Miro Desktop.
• Design facilitators — Host critique frames for teams they lead with Miro Desktop.
• Workshop trainers — Keep timed activities on canvases they prepare inside Miro Desktop.
• Remote teammates — Contribute stickies on boards shared with groups they join through Miro Desktop.
• Strategy leads — Capture SWOT and roadmap walls for orgs they work in using Miro Desktop.

1. Get Miro Desktop — Download the desktop client and sign in to an account you already use.
2. Launch — Open Miro Desktop and browse boards in workspaces you belong to.
3. Open a board — Enter a canvas prepared for a session you are facilitating or joining.
4. Frame the agenda — Lay out sections so participants know where to work in Miro Desktop.
5. Facilitate — Add stickies, timers, and reactions during the live workshop.
6. Capture outcomes (optional) — Cluster notes and export summaries from boards you have access to.
7. Work normally — Keep Miro Desktop pinned; jump into the next team board without hunting tabs.

Miro Desktop brings collaborative whiteboard tools into a dedicated desktop shell:

• Infinite canvas — Space for stickies, shapes, and media on boards you are invited to use.
• Frames — Structured sections for agendas and activities you facilitate in Miro Desktop.
• Workshop tools — Timers, voting, and private mode for sessions you run with your teams.
• Templates — Starting layouts for retros and maps common to groups you belong to.
• Comments and @mentions — Async follow-ups on boards shared inside your workspaces.
• Desktop focus mode — Fewer browser distractions while facilitating live in Miro Desktop.

Together they keep Miro Desktop centered on collaborative boards you already have a right to edit with your teams during live and async workshop work.

Scenario 1: Sprint retrospective without tab chaos
Open the squad board, frame icebreakers and columns, then run voting live. Miro Desktop keeps facilitation in one window while chat stays elsewhere for the team you coach.

Scenario 2: Customer journey workshop
Invite stakeholders from a workspace you share, map stages in frames, and cluster pain points. Miro Desktop holds the wall while the group you belong to decides next experiments.

Scenario 3: Design critique wall
Pin frames for each flow under review by a team you lead. Miro Desktop lets reviewers drop stickies beside mocks without losing the agenda structure.

Miro Desktop does not require:

• Opening a browser for every sticky on boards you already access
• Abandoning workspace permissions already granted to your account
• A separate timer app for workshops you facilitate
• A workstation GPU — Miro Desktop runs on typical office laptops

Miro Desktop replaces scattered browser boards with a facilitation-ready canvas for workspaces you belong to. Keep agendas framed, keep stickies moving, and keep team workshops finishing on time without fighting a dozen unrelated tabs during the session you are hosting for your group.

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