Add hand-drawn visuals to Miro with Drawify

What is Drawify for Miro?

Drawify for Miro is an app that brings Drawify's hand-drawn visual library into the Miro workspace. It helps you add people, objects, arrows, frames, backgrounds and other illustrated elements to a board without drawing them yourself.

Miro remains the collaborative board where your team maps, discusses and develops ideas. Drawify provides visual material you can use on that board.

The integration is useful when words, sticky notes and shapes need a more human or memorable visual layer.

What can you do with Drawify in Miro?

Find hand-drawn illustrations without leaving your board

Open Drawify images from the Miro Creation toolbar and look for illustrations that support the point you want to communicate. The library includes characterful people, objects and visual building blocks such as arrows, frames and backgrounds.

Use your saved Drawify content

When you connect a Drawify account, the Miro app can give you access to illustrations you have marked as favourites, projects you created in Drawify and images you uploaded to your Drawify account.

Bring a composed Drawify project into Miro

Some ideas need more than a single image. You can first combine illustrations, text and other elements as a project in Drawify, then bring that project into your Miro board through the Drawify app.

This gives you a way to prepare a visual story and use it as part of a wider collaborative board.

See how Drawify works if you want to understand the broader Drawify creation workflow.

Build on the visual inside Miro

After adding Drawify content, place it alongside the notes, frames, diagrams and other material on your board. Your team can continue working with the board using Miro's own collaboration and facilitation tools.

How to use Drawify for Miro

1. Install the Drawify app

Open the Drawify Images listing in the Miro Marketplace and connect the app.

You can also find apps from the Add more apps option in Miro.

2. Review and allow the requested permissions

On first use, Miro shows an Allow permissions for "Drawify images" screen.

The current Miro dialog says the app can read and modify boards the user has access to and read profile information for the current user. Review the permissions and your organisation's app policy before selecting Allow. Miro then returns you to the board.

3. Launch Drawify from a Miro board

Open a board and select Drawify images from Miro's Creation toolbar.

4. Choose how you want to start

Browse the images available through the app, or sign in to your Drawify account for access to your saved Drawify content.

If you sign in through the Drawify website during this flow, you are returned to Miro afterward.

5. Find a visual for the idea

Look for an illustration or visual element that represents the message, activity or relationship you want people to notice.

6. Add it to the board and provide context

Place the visual near the relevant notes, steps or discussion area. Add a short label or sentence so participants understand what the image represents in this particular board.

7. Refine the board with your team

Arrange the visual with the rest of the board content and continue the workshop, planning session or presentation in Miro.

Practical ways to use Drawify on a Miro board

Workshop agendas

Give each stage of a workshop a visual cue so participants can see where they are, what activity comes next and what outcome the group is working toward.

Strategy and planning

Use illustrations to distinguish a current situation, a future direction, an obstacle, an opportunity or a stakeholder.

The images support the story; your board still holds the evidence, decisions and actions.

Customer journeys and service maps

Add people and objects to make roles, moments and environments easier to recognize across a journey. Pair every illustration with a clear label so the board remains precise.

Ideation and brainstorming

Use visual prompts to open up a conversation, group related ideas or help participants express a thought that is difficult to capture with a short text note.

Presentations in Miro

Add hand-drawn elements to frames that you plan to present. Use them to direct attention or explain a relationship, rather than decorating every available space.

A simple workflow for clearer Miro boards

1. Decide what the board needs to communicate.
2. Build the board's basic structure in Miro.
3. Identify the moments where a visual would improve recognition or understanding.
4. Find individual illustrations in the Drawify app, or create a composed project in Drawify.
5. Add the Drawify content to the relevant part of the board.
6. Label the visual and check that it supports the message.
7. Test the board from a participant's point of view before the session.

For more guidance on structuring visual communication, see the visual storytelling guide .

When should you create the visual in Drawify first?

Use an individual illustration directly from the Miro app when you need a person, object, arrow, frame or other simple visual element.

Create a project in Drawify first when the visual needs its own composition: for example, a small process, a before-and-after story or a scene made from several illustrations and text.

You can then bring the completed Drawify project into Miro and place it within the broader board.

What do you need?

You need an active Miro account and permission to install or use apps in the relevant Miro workspace.

Availability can depend on your organisation's Miro app settings. Miro identifies Drawify images as an app developed and maintained by an external party and displays its requested permissions before access is allowed.

A Drawify account is not required to begin with the free images described in the Miro Marketplace listing.

Connecting a Drawify account unlocks the account-based workflow, including access to saved favourites, Drawify projects and uploaded images.

Check the current Drawify pricing page and Miro Marketplace listing for plan details and terms before relying on plan-specific features.

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