Mural API
Mural offers a public OAuth 2.0 REST API plus a GA Enterprise API for SCIM, audit logs, and reporting. App registration is self-serve through the developer portal. The public API has sat in beta for years with breaking changes possible, and access tokens expire every 15 minutes.
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Mural scores A on the API Report Card. Mural offers a public OAuth 2.0 REST API plus a GA Enterprise API for SCIM, audit logs, and reporting. App registration is self-serve through the developer portal. The public API has sat in beta for years with breaking changes possible, and access tokens expire every 15 minutes.
Mural has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Mural (legal entity Tactivos, Inc. d/b/a Mural, San Francisco; founded 2011 by Mariano Battan and Agustin Soler in Buenos Aires) is an AI-powered visual collaboration platform built around an infinite shared canvas.
Vertical: misc, horizontal visual collaboration / online whiteboarding for the enterprise. Not a vertical SaaS in any Supergood-named vertical. Design-thinking workshops using the LUMA System of 36 methods (Affinity Clustering, Rose-Thorn-Bud, Importance/Difficulty Matrix, Statement Starters, etc.).
High inside its category, but the category is horizontal/saturated. Mural is one of the three category-defining whiteboards alongside Miro (overall enterprise share leader) and FigJam (default for design-led orgs already on Figma).
Data that flows through / lives inside Mural on behalf of customer organizations: Mural (board) contents: sticky notes (text, color, author, tags, votes), shapes, connectors, text blocks, freehand drawings, embedded media (images, video, file attachments), frameworks, templates, areas, outlines, tables.
Founded 2011; product launched ~2012; major enterprise pivot from 2018 onward. Modern web architecture (real-time multiplayer canvas, WebGL/Canvas rendering, presence/cursors).
Public API has been in **beta** for years with no firm GA date; breaking changes possible. Access tokens expire after only 15 minutes, forcing aggressive refresh logic in long-running integrations. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Miro, FigJam (Figma), Lucidspark (Lucid Software), Microsoft Whiteboard, Klaxoon, Conceptboard. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.