Echometer
5.5Psychology-backed retros and team health checks for engineering teams
Echometer is a German retrospective and 1:1 meeting platform built around recurring health-check pulses, structured retros, and longitudinal team development tracking. It pitches itself to engineering managers, scrum masters and agile coaches who want research-grounded surveys rather than a blank whiteboard.
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Miro
7.0Innovation Workspace where retros happen on the same canvas as discovery and planning
Miro is the dominant online whiteboard, now repositioned as an AI-powered Innovation Workspace. It pairs an infinite canvas with a huge template library (300+ retro formats among thousands of community templates), AI clustering by sentiment/keyword/author, Sidekicks (AI teammates) and Flows (multi-step AI workflows), real-time + async collaboration, and a 250+ app marketplace including Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear, Confluence, Slack and Microsoft Teams.
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Echometer scores 5.5 overall and is best for engineering managers and agile coaches who want recurring health-check pulses tied to retros, with EU data residency and a research-flavoured question library. It offers a free tier.
Miro scores 7.0 overall and is best for large product, design and engineering orgs that already run discovery, planning and retros on one canvas and want AI clustering plus deep Jira/Azure DevOps/Asana sync. It offers a free tier.
Echometer leads on ease of use, retro toolkit and value. Miro leads on fun factor, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Miro edges ahead with an overall score of 7.0. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Echometer | Miro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Whiteboard |
| Team size | Mid-market | Enterprise |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Starter: 1 team, 25 workspace members, 1 retro/month after trial, 2-retro archive per team | 3 editable boards, ~10 AI credits/mo, full template library, 250+ app marketplace; no private boards or two-way integrations |
| Starting price | €29/team/mo | $8/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | €87/mo billed annually (3 teams × €29 Pro) | $192/mo billed annually (Starter, 24 seats) |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2019 | 2011 |
| HQ | Münster, Germany | Amsterdam, NL |
| Data residency | Germany | United States · European Union · Australia |
| Languages | 2 (English, German) | 8 (English, Spanish, German, …) |
| Export formats | PDF · Markdown · Email | Image · PDF · CSV |
| Features | 44 | 37 |
| Integrations | 1 | 11 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Echometer | Miro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓note | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓note | ✓ |
| AI action items | ✓note | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓note |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | ✓ | ✓note |
| Action dashboard | ✓ | — |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓note |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | — | ✓note |
| Health Checks | ✓ | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | ✓note |
| Azure DevOps | — | ✓note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | ✓ |
| Confluence | — | ✓ |
| GitHub | — | ✓note |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓ | ✓note |
| Linear | — | ✓note |
| Microsoft Teams | — | ✓ |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | ✓ |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | — | ✓ |
| Trello | — | ✓note |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓ |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | ✓note |
| ISO 27001 | — | ✓ |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | ✓ |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | — | ✓note |
Echometer — pros
- + Health-check question library grounded in University of Münster psychology research
- + Strong longitudinal pulse and team-radar reporting tied to retros
- + EU-only data residency (Open Telekom Cloud, Germany) with GDPR DPA
- + AI Co-Pilot clusters ideas and proposes SMART action items
Echometer — cons
- − Thin chatops integrations — no native Slack, Teams or Confluence
- − No SOC 2; relies on ISO 27001 datacenters and EU residency
- − 1:1 meetings and the deepest AI live in a separate paid product
- − No native scheduling or recurring retros — sessions start manually
Miro — pros
- + Enormous template library (5,000+) and Miroverse community for retro formats
- + AI clustering groups sticky notes by sentiment, tag, author and keyword; Sidekicks and Flows extend AI deeper into the canvas
- + Best-in-class integration catalog (Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, Confluence, Slack, Teams) with two-way card sync
- + Enterprise-grade SSO, SCIM, audit logs, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 (AI governance) and EU/US/AU data residency
- + Same canvas works for discovery, planning and retros — no context switching
Miro — cons
- − Per-seat pricing: a 24-person org pays ~$192/mo on the Starter tier (annual), well above retro-native tools at that headcount
- − No native health checks, mood tracking or longitudinal team-pulse
- − No recurring retros, scheduling, action carryover or cross-team rollup — facilitators rebuild structure each sprint
- − Full two-way card sync (Linear, ClickUp, Azure DevOps) and SSO sit behind the $20/user/mo Business tier; SCIM and audit logs only on Enterprise (30-seat min)
- − No built-in retro report or action-tracker dashboard
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