FigJam
7.2Figma's whiteboard with AI sticky clustering, voting sessions and a $3 Collab seat — free tier caps at 3 boards
FigJam is the whiteboard product inside Figma — sticky notes, timer, music, expressive cursor stamps, voting sessions, an AI co-pilot that clusters and summarises stickies, and 300+ ready-made templates including community retro boards. Design and product teams already living in Figma get retros without buying a second tool, backed by Figma's SAML/SCIM, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and EU data hosting on Organization and Enterprise plans. Voting sessions, audio chat and no-account guest links all require a paid team.
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LetRetro
5.6The retro tool that thinks with your team
LetRetro is a young, AI-forward retrospective platform built around retros wired into sprint data. Its headline differentiator is now shipped rather than promised: an official MCP server lets Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other AI clients read and drive boards directly. Real-time collaborative boards, AI-generated retro documentation, sentiment/trend analysis and a team health checker sit on flat (pooled-seat) pricing rather than per-user, with Jira, GitHub, GitLab and Linear card linking to close the loop.
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FigJam scores 7.2 overall and is best for design and product teams already on Figma who want retros on the same platform as their design files, with playful engagement and AI clustering. It offers a free tier.
LetRetro scores 5.6 overall and is best for developer-leaning agile teams and startups that want AI-assisted retros wired into their sprint data and dev stack — Jira, GitHub, GitLab and Linear card linking, plus an official MCP server their AI clients can drive — with health and sentiment tracking and no enterprise overhead. It offers a free tier.
FigJam leads on fun factor, open platform and enterprise-grade. LetRetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, value and AI & insights.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, FigJam edges ahead with an overall score of 7.2. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | FigJam | LetRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Starter: 3 FigJam files per team (unlimited personal drafts), 150 AI credits/day (500/month), templates, timer and music, 30-day version history — no voting sessions, audio chat or open (no-account) sessions | 3 boards, 1 team, 20 pooled seats, 2 AI docs/mo, 5 exports/mo, community support |
| Starting price | $3/user/mo | $15/mo (Pro, flat) |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | ~$72/mo (24 Collab seats × $3, annual) — more if hosts need Full seats | $15/mo (Pro — flat plan covers unlimited teams within its 200 pooled-seat cap; 24 users fits) |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2012 | 2025 |
| HQ | San Francisco, US | Bengaluru, India |
| Data residency | United States · European Union | — |
| Languages | English only | English only |
| Export formats | PDF · Image · CSV | — |
| Features | 39 | 21 |
| Integrations | 10 | 6 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | FigJam | LetRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | — |
| AI action items | ✓note | ✓note |
| Action tracking | — | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | ✓note |
| Polling | ✓ | ✓note |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓note |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓note |
| Anonymous input | — | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓note | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Health Checks | — | ✓note |
| Team Kudos | ✓note | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓note | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | ✓note | — |
| GitHub | ✓note | ✓ |
| GitLab | — | ✓ |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓ |
| Linear | ✓note | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓note | — |
| Monday.com | ✓note | — |
| Notion | ✓note | ✓ |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓note | ✓note |
| Trello | ✓note | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓note |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | — |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | ✓note |
| Public API | ✓ | — |
| Webhooks | ✓ | — |
| MCP server | ✓note | ✓note |
FigJam — pros
- + Cheap $3/user/mo Collab seat unlocks unlimited boards without a full Figma editor seat
- + Free Starter tier includes real AI credits (150/day, 500/month), 300+ templates, the timer and music
- + Same login and platform as Figma — zero friction for design-led teams
- + Playful, engaging UX — stamps, emotes, high-fives, music, cursor chat — lifts retro fun factor
- + Strong enterprise posture inherited from Figma: SAML, SCIM, activity logs, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, EU data hosting on Enterprise
FigJam — cons
- − No native action-item tracking, recurring retros or health checks
- − Anonymity is weak — votes reveal who voted once the session ends, and stickies always carry a name
- − Official connectors embed Figma files in Jira/Confluence/Linear/Notion rather than pushing action items out; GitHub-issue creation is a community widget; no Azure DevOps
- − Free Starter caps a team at 3 FigJam files and excludes voting sessions, audio chat and no-account guest links
- − Built primarily for designers — the canvas paradigm is fiddly for structured retros, and large boards get sluggish
LetRetro — pros
- + Flat pricing — $15/mo Pro covers unlimited boards and teams within a 200 pooled-seat cap, so a growing org isn't billed per head
- + AI is a genuine focus, not a bolt-on: retro-doc generation, sentiment/trend analysis, key takeaways and improvement suggestions that cut the post-retro write-up burden
- + An <strong>official MCP server actually shipped</strong> in July 2026 — one-command install, 17 tools, 11 clients — so Claude, Cursor or VS Code can read boards and file cards without a bespoke script
- + Dev-stack card linking is real and reasonably deep: Jira, GitHub, GitLab and Linear, with inline issue editing, comments and one card linked across several providers at once
- + Built-in team health checker and sentiment-over-time trend dashboards — longitudinal signal many cheap retro tools skip
LetRetro — cons
- − Thin enterprise story: Google and Microsoft sign-in but no SAML SSO, SCIM only 'in progress', no audit-log access, no LetRetro-held SOC 2 or ISO 27001; on-premise and SLA sit behind a quote-only Enterprise tier
- − Solo-founder micro-SaaS — the team page lists one person (Dhanush Kandhan, Bengaluru) still recruiting, and independent coverage is almost nil (9 Product Hunt upvotes, 2 reviews) — a real durability risk for procurement
- − The vendor's own pages contradict each other on connectors: the homepage badges Jira, Confluence and Asana 'Coming Soon' while the integrations page and comparison FAQ list all three as live. Verify anything you're depending on
- − Retro toolkit lacks facilitator staples: no confirmed timer, recurring/scheduled retros, parking lot, team agreements or async-first mode — it's built around live, real-time sessions
- − No public REST API and no webhooks, and the export formats behind the metered '5 exports/mo' limit aren't documented anywhere — MCP is the only programmatic route in
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