FigJam
7.3Figma's whiteboard with AI sticky clustering, an official MCP server that reaches FigJam boards, 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 sorts 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 Enterprise data residency in the EU, Australia, India and Brazil. Figma's official MCP server reads and writes FigJam boards on every plan, including free. Voting sessions, open guest sessions, audio chat and webhooks all require a paid team; publishing custom templates requires Organization.
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LetRetro
6.0The retro tool that thinks with your team
LetRetro is a fast-shipping, AI-forward retrospective platform aimed at engineering teams rather than Scrum Masters. AI clusters the cards, writes the board summary and drafts action items that open as Jira, GitHub or GitLab issues; Voice Mode lets anyone speak a card straight into the right column; and an official MCP server lets Claude, Cursor and VS Code read and drive boards. Excalidraw-style Canvas boards, sentiment trend analyses and a team health checker sit on flat pooled-seat pricing — $15/mo for up to 200 seats — rather than per user.
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FigJam scores 7.3 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, AI sticky clustering and an agent-accessible canvas. It offers a free tier.
LetRetro scores 6.0 overall and is best for developer-leaning agile teams and startups that want AI-assisted retros wired into Jira, GitHub and GitLab, an official MCP server their AI clients can drive, and flat pricing that doesn't grow with headcount — and that don't need a timer, recurring retros or a procurement-grade security story. 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 7.3. 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 up to 500/month, 300+ templates, timer, music, AI Sort/Summarize/Generate, REST API and 20 MCP tool calls/month, 30-day version history — no voting sessions, audio chat, open (no-account) sessions or webhooks | 3 boards, 1 team, 20 pooled seats, 1 canvas, 2 AI docs/mo, 5 exports/mo, 10 voice cards/mo; no integrations and no MCP requests; community support |
| Starting price | $3/user/mo | $15/mo (Pro, flat) |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $72/mo (24 Collab seats × $3, billed annually; $120/mo billed monthly at $5) — more if facilitators need $16 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 · Australia · IN · BR | — |
| Languages | 7 (English, Japanese, Korean, …) | English only |
| Export formats | PDF · Image · CSV | PDF · Markdown |
| Features | 40 | 27 |
| Integrations | 10 | 5 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | FigJam | LetRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓note | ✓note |
| Anonymous input | — | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | ✓note |
| Action tracking | — | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | ✓note |
| Independent voting | ✓note | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓ | ✓note |
| Icebreaker games | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Team Kudos | ✓note | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI action items | ✓note | ✓note |
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | ✓note |
| In-meeting AI assistant | ✓ | — |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓note |
| 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 | ✓ |
| 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 |
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, music and AI Sort/Summarize
- + Playful, engaging UX — stamps, emotes, high-fives, music, cursor chat — lifts retro fun factor
- + Best open platform of any whiteboard here: REST API on every plan, webhooks on paid, and an <strong>official MCP server that reads and writes FigJam boards</strong> on all plans
- + Strong enterprise posture inherited from Figma: SAML, SCIM, activity logs, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and Enterprise data residency in the EU, Australia, India and Brazil
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, audio chat, no-account guest links and webhooks; publishing custom templates needs Organization
- − 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 24 users costs exactly what 4 do
- + AI is the product, not a bolt-on: card clustering, board summaries, action items organised by owner, a sentiment snapshot, 50 trend analyses a month, and <strong>Voice Mode</strong> — hold Shift+Space, say a sentence, and it lands as a card in the right column with a priority and due date
- + An <strong>official, MIT-licensed MCP server</strong> — one-command install, 17 tools, 11 clients, and its own component on the public status page — so Claude, Cursor or VS Code can read boards and file cards without a bespoke script
- + Dev-stack card linking is real and deep: Jira, GitHub and GitLab with inline issue editing, comments, MR/PR status, and one card linked across all three at once
- + Ships genuinely fast — AI summaries, MCP, GitLab, Canvas boards, 2FA and Voice Mode all landed between June and August 2026, each documented in a changelog that has matched the product every pass
LetRetro — cons
- − The integrations and comparison pages sell Linear, Asana, Confluence and Snowflake. The shipped app has setup pages for six connectors only — Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Notion and Google Docs. Verify anything you're depending on
- − Thin enterprise story: Google and Microsoft sign-in but no SAML, SCIM still 'working on', no customer-facing audit log despite the homepage's <em>immutable audit trails</em> claim, and 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 still lists one person (Dhanush Kandhan, Bengaluru) — and independent coverage is negligible. A durability risk for procurement whatever the shipping cadence
- − Facilitation staples are missing: no timer, no recurring or scheduled retros, no async-first mode, no parking lot and no team agreements. It's built around live sessions
- − No public REST API and no webhooks; MCP is the only programmatic route in, and it — like every integration — is Pro-only. Documented exports are PDF and Markdown, metered at 5/mo on the free tier
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