Retrospective Tools

FigJam vs SprintRetro

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing, features and integrations to help you pick the right retrospective tool.

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FigJam

7.2

Figma'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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SprintRetro

5.0

Free sprint retros, embedded in Jira

SprintRetro is a free Atlassian Forge app from Agile Pulse that runs sprint retrospectives directly inside Jira Cloud. It pulls live sprint metrics (velocity, scope change, carryover, cycle time, committed vs delivered) into a collaborative retro board, and the free listing also carries an infinite whiteboard, anonymous team-health pulse checks, timers, and an AI facilitator, alongside templates, anonymous voting, cross-sprint action tracking that can create Jira issues, GIFs, kudos, polls, and icebreakers. Both Marketplace listings are Cloud Fortified. A separate paid Pro app sits alongside the free one.

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Summary

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.

SprintRetro scores 5.0 overall and is best for scrum teams already living in Jira Cloud who want a no-cost, no-friction sprint retro tool with sprint metrics baked in. It offers a free tier.

FigJam leads on fun factor, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade. SprintRetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit and value.

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

FigJam
Ease of Use7.0
Retro Toolkit4.5
Value8.0
Fun Factor9.0
AI & Insights5.0
Integrations6.0
Open Platform8.5
Enterprise-grade9.5
SprintRetro
Ease of Use7.5
Retro Toolkit5.5
Value9.0
Fun Factor6.0
AI & Insights5.0
Integrations3.0
Open Platform0.5
Enterprise-grade3.5
DetailFigJamSprintRetro
CategoryWhiteboardRetrospectives
Team sizeMid-marketSmall
Free tierYesYes
Free limitStarter: 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) sessionsFree for unlimited users on a Jira instance (free app listing)
Starting price$3/user/mo$8.40/user/yr (Pro app; free on Jira sites of 10 or fewer users)
Est. 3 teams × 8 people~$72/mo (24 Collab seats × $3, annual) — more if hosts need Full seatsFree (within free tier)
EnterpriseYesNo
Founded2012
HQSan Francisco, USWaterlooville, United Kingdom
Data residencyUnited States · European Union
LanguagesEnglish onlyEnglish only
Export formatsPDF · Image · CSVJira
Features3927
Integrations101

Feature & integration comparison

Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.

CapabilityFigJamSprintRetro
Features
AI Summaries
AI grouping/clustering
AI action itemsnote
Action tracking
Team Insightsnote
Polling
Action dashboardnote
Custom templates
Anonymous input
Independent votingnote
Async mode
Agile Estimationsnote
Health Checksnote
Team Kudosnote
Whiteboard
Integrations
Asananote
Azure DevOps
Basecamp
ClickUp
Confluencenote
GitHubnote
GitLab
Jiranote
Linearnote
Microsoft Teamsnote
Monday.comnote
Notionnote
Shortcut
Slacknote
Trellonote
Security & Privacy
SOC 2note
GDPR
SSO / SAMLnotenote
SCIM provisioningnote
ISO 27001note
On-premises
Public API
Webhooks
MCP servernote

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

SprintRetro — pros

  • + Genuinely free for unlimited users on your Jira instance — the paid Pro app is optional, not the entry point
  • + Pulls <strong>real sprint metrics</strong> (velocity, scope change, carryover, cycle time, committed vs delivered) into the retro itself
  • + Strong action loop: unfinished actions carry into the next retro, get quality-scored, and can be pushed into Jira as issues
  • + <strong>Cloud Fortified</strong> on the Atlassian Marketplace — bug bounty, reliability SLOs, and a one-business-day response commitment on critical tickets
  • + Built on Forge: no separate login, and the vendor states no third-party API calls or external data sharing

SprintRetro — cons

  • Jira Cloud only — every participant needs a Jira licence, and there's no Slack, Teams, Confluence, GitHub, or standalone web app
  • <em>No board export at all</em> — no PDF, CSV, or image download; the only data that leaves is a Jira issue
  • No async mode, presentation mode, drag-and-drop grouping, or scheduled/recurring retros
  • No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 of its own — the trust centre shows framework logos with no status label and no attestation report behind them; no SCIM, audit logs, or cross-team reporting either
  • Free-versus-Pro split is undocumented: both Marketplace listings advertise the same feature set, and Pro is never mentioned on sprintretro.co

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