EasyRetro
5.7Improve your team with fun sprint retrospectives
EasyRetro (rebranded from FunRetro in November 2020) is a long-running indie retro tool with 100+ templates, drag-and-drop boards, an AI board summary feature added in early 2024, and recent timer, drawing-on-cards and hide-column updates through 2025-2026.
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Mural
6.4Visual collaboration whiteboard with hundreds of retro templates and AI-assisted facilitation
Mural is a long-established visual collaboration platform — an infinite canvas with sticky notes, voting, timers, private mode, hundreds of retro templates, AI clustering and summary, and a Facilitation Superpowers toolkit (Outline, Timer, Voting, Private Mode) that's been refined for over a decade. Strong enterprise posture with SSO, SCIM, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and EU/US data residency.
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EasyRetro scores 5.7 overall and is best for small to mid-size agile teams, scrum masters and consultants who want a clean, fast, low-friction retro tool without enterprise overhead. It offers a free tier.
Mural scores 6.4 overall and is best for workshop-heavy teams (design, product, agile coaching) that want a polished facilitation canvas with strong retro templates and enterprise-grade controls. It offers a free tier.
EasyRetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit and value. Mural leads on fun factor, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade.
Across our seven scoring dimensions, Mural edges ahead with an overall score of 6.4. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | EasyRetro | Mural |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Whiteboard |
| Team size | Small | Mid-market |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | 3 public boards/month, 1 survey per board, no team | 3 active murals, unlimited members and visitors, 200+ templates |
| Starting price | $25/mo | $9.99/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $75/mo | $240/mo billed annually |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2016 | 2011 |
| HQ | Brazil | San Francisco, US |
| Data residency | — | United States · European Union |
| Languages | 2 (English, Portuguese) | 9 (English, Spanish, German, …) |
| Features | 24 | 37 |
| Integrations | 4 | 6 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | EasyRetro | Mural |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓ |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| Action dashboard | — | — |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | — | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| Health Checks | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | ✓ |
| Azure DevOps | — | ✓ note |
| Confluence | ✓ | ✓ |
| GitHub | — | — |
| Jira | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | ✓ |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trello | ✓ | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓ |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | ✓ note |
| ISO 27001 | — | ✓ |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | ✓ |
| Webhooks | — | — |
EasyRetro — pros
- + Extremely easy to use with minimal setup friction and a clean drag-and-drop board
- + Library of 100+ retrospective templates spanning multiple categories and languages
- + Free tier covers basic public boards for small teams or one-off retros
- + Clean export options including Confluence, Jira (now bulk), PDF, CSV, PNG, Excel and DOCX
- + Still actively maintained — timer refresh, drawing on cards and hide-column shipped through 2025-2026
EasyRetro — cons
- − No native health checks, mood tracking or longitudinal trend reporting
- − AI is limited to a single board-summary feature — no auto-grouping, AI action items, sentiment, or template generation
- − Integration set is narrow — no Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Linear or Azure DevOps
- − Vendor itself isn't SOC 2 / ISO 27001 certified (relies on GCP); SAML SSO is gated to enterprise accounts and there's no SCIM or audit logs
- − Free plan is capped at 3 public boards per month and excludes private team boards
Mural — pros
- + Mature facilitation toolkit — Outline, Timer, Voting, Private Mode — refined over 10+ years
- + Strong template library with 200+ retro and workshop frames
- + Best-in-class enterprise posture: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, SSO/SAML, SCIM, EU/US residency
- + Two-way Jira and Azure DevOps sync turns sticky notes into tracked issues
- + Polished UX, especially for facilitators running synchronous workshops
Mural — cons
- − Per-seat pricing: a 24-person org pays ~$240/mo on the Team+ tier (annual), well above retro-native tools at that headcount
- − No native health checks, mood tracking or longitudinal team-pulse
- − No recurring retros, action carryover or cross-team rollup — facilitators rebuild structure each sprint
- − AI clustering and summary trail Miro and dedicated retro tools in depth
- − SSO/SAML gated to Business tier ($17.99/user/mo) — same trap as Miro