How to copy from Miro to WhimsicalCopied!Link to this section

There’s no export file, import step, or plugin. It's a simply copy and paste between the two apps.

1. Open your Miro board and select what you want to bring over. It can be all the content, a single object, a whole frame, or a mixed selection all work.
2. Copy it with Cmd + C (Mac) or Ctrl + C (PC).
3. Open a Whimsical board and paste with Cmd + V (Mac) or Ctrl + V (PC).

What comes acrossCopied!Link to this section

Each Miro object is rebuilt as its closest Whimsical equivalent, keeping its position, size, rotation, and nesting.

ObjectsCopied!Link to this section

• Shapes, including flowchart shapes like decision diamonds, cylinders, etc.
• Sticky notes
• Text
• Callouts and speech bubbles, which become Whimsical annotations
• Frames and groups, with everything inside them staying inside them
• Connectors, including their labels
• Tables and grids, with rows, columns, empty cells, and cell formatting
• Documents placed on your board, which are imported as frames with editable text inside
• Slide decks, where the container becomes a section and each slide becomes its own numbered section, in slide order

FormattingCopied!Link to this section

• Connector routing, arrow direction, dashed lines, and label position
• Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, links, bullet and numbered lists, indentation, and blank lines
• Text alignment, vertical alignment, and relative text size
• Colors, matched to the closest color in your board’s palette

Everything can then be editable within Whimsical. You can change the text, recolor it, move it around, and connect it to something new.

LimitationsCopied!Link to this section

A few things do behave differently. None of them will break your board, but they’re worth knowing before you paste a large selection.

• Images don’t come across yet. Images arrive as empty placeholder rectangles in the right position and at the right size. Your layout stays intact, so you can drop the real images back in afterwards without moving anything around.
• Some objects become plain rectangles. Anything without a direct Whimsical equivalent, like embeds, videos, cards, or app widgets, is kept as a plain rectangle at the correct position and size rather than being dropped. Your layout stays readable and you can decide what to replace.
• Mind maps and wireframes come across as shapes. Miro mind map nodes arrive as individual shapes with the connectors between them, rather than as an editable Whimsical mind map, so you won’t get auto-layout or collapsible branches. Miro wireframe elements like buttons and inputs arrive as plain rectangles carrying their labels.
• Colors are matched, not copied exactly. Whimsical boards use a curated palette, so each Miro color is matched to the nearest available color in your board theme. The result looks consistent, but a specific brand HEX won’t always survive the trip unchanged. You can, however, always update your color theme in Whimsical to match your brand colors.
• Custom fonts aren’t carried over. Whimsical does not support custom fonts so your text will be displayed in our Dinsical font.
• Connector endpoints are simplified. Custom endpoint styles like circles and diamonds become a standard Whimsical arrow. Direction and dashed styling are preserved.
• Board metadata stays behind. Tags, comments, votes, reactions, and timers aren’t part of what Miro puts on the clipboard, so they won’t paste across.
• There’s a size limit per paste. A single paste handles up to 2,000 objects, and tables up to 2,000 cells.

Tips for a smooth migrationCopied!Link to this section

• Work frame by frame. It keeps each paste well under the limits and makes it easy to check the result as you go.
• Copy tables one at a time rather than several in a single selection.
• Paste into a fresh Whimsical board so your existing work isn’t affected while you get a feel for it.