IdeaBoardz
3.1Free shared brainstorming boards
IdeaBoardz is a long-standing free brainstorming and retrospective board: pick one of five presets (Retrospective, Star Fish, Six Thinking Hats, Pros and Cons, Todos) or name your own 1-10 sections, share the URL, add ideas anonymously, upvote, and export to PDF or Excel. The app still works and is still in daily use, but development stopped years ago — the public source repository's last feature commits date to April 2020 and the Terms have not been revised since.
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TeamRetro
8.7Retrospectives, health checks and agile estimations in one suite
TeamRetro pairs structured retrospectives with longitudinal team health checks and planning-poker estimations, aimed at agile organisations running multiple teams under a coach or programme. An in-meeting AI assistant (trAI) and a GA MCP server sit on top of all paid plans.
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IdeaBoardz scores 3.1 overall and is best for throwaway retros and quick distributed brainstorms when nobody wants to sign up. It offers a free tier.
TeamRetro scores 8.7 overall and is best for agile coaches and engineering managers running ongoing health-check programmes alongside sprint retros. It offers paid plans from $20.83/mo billed annually ($25/mo billed monthly) — Single Team, 1 team, 25 members.
IdeaBoardz leads on value. TeamRetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, TeamRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 8.7. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | IdeaBoardz | TeamRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Any |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | Fully free, no paid tier | No free plan — 30-day trial, no credit card required |
| Starting price | Free | $20.83/mo billed annually ($25/mo billed monthly) — Single Team, 1 team, 25 members |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | Free (no paid tier) | $50/mo billed annually ($60/mo billed monthly) — Small Organization plan, a 3-team bundle with unlimited members |
| Enterprise | No | Yes |
| Founded | 2010 | 2017 |
| HQ | Pune, India | Australia |
| Data residency | — | United States · European Union |
| Languages | English only | 29 (English, Arabic, Bengali, …) |
| Export formats | PDF · Excel | Excel · CSV · PDF · Markdown · Email · Image |
| Features | 10 | 68 |
| Integrations | 0 | 15 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | IdeaBoardz | TeamRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓note | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | ✓ |
| Action tracking | — | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Whiteboard | — | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polling | — | ✓ |
| Icebreaker games | — | ✓note |
| Agile Estimations | — | ✓ |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓ |
| AI action items | — | ✓ |
| AI Summaries | — | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | ✓ |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | ✓note |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | ✓ |
| Azure DevOps | — | ✓ |
| Basecamp | — | ✓ |
| ClickUp | — | ✓ |
| Confluence | — | ✓ |
| GitHub | — | ✓ |
| GitLab | — | ✓ |
| Jira | — | ✓ |
| Linear | — | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams | — | ✓ |
| Monday.com | — | ✓ |
| Notion | — | ✓ |
| Shortcut | — | ✓ |
| Slack | — | ✓ |
| Trello | — | ✓ |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓note |
| GDPR | — | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | — | ✓ |
| SCIM provisioning | — | ✓note |
| ISO 27001 | — | ✓note |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | ✓note | ✓note |
| Webhooks | — | ✓ |
| MCP server | — | ✓ |
IdeaBoardz — pros
- + Genuinely free — no paywall, no paid tier, no trial clock
- + No signup required to participate — just share the URL
- + Five one-click presets (Retrospective, Star Fish, Six Thinking Hats, Pros and Cons, Todos), or type your own 1-10 section titles
- + Drag one sticky onto another to merge them; the votes are added together
- + PDF and Excel export on every board, plus a working phone view
IdeaBoardz — cons
- − The presets only pre-fill column titles — there is no timer, no phases and no facilitator flow behind them
- − No action-item tracking, no owners, no due dates, no carry-over between boards
- − Unlimited anonymous upvotes with no per-person vote budget
- − Zero integrations, no SSO, no SOC 2 and no published privacy policy — the URL is the only access control
- − No product work since April 2020; support is a Gmail address and a Twitter handle
TeamRetro — pros
- + Health checks and maturity models as a first-class module — custom dimensions, radar charts, trends across sprints
- + Three modules on one subscription: retrospectives, health checks, planning-poker estimation
- + SAML SSO, RBAC and US-or-EU hosting on <em>every</em> plan, not just Enterprise
- + GA MCP server, team-level API keys and HMAC-signed webhooks on all plans; 15 native agile-stack integrations plus Zapier and n8n
- + <em>trAI</em> in-meeting assistant on trial and paid plans, plus 12 native in-meeting icebreaker games on every account
TeamRetro — cons
- − No free tier — 30-day trial, then a paid plan
- − The SOC 2 Type 2 report is Enterprise-only; lower tiers get the SOC 3 report instead
- − SCIM, IP allowlisting, domain capture and guest/observer roles are Enterprise-only, and audit logs are on request rather than self-serve
- − Cross-team insights, reports and programs (team-of-teams) require Enterprise
- − ISO 27001 is inherited from AWS, and hosting is US or EU only — no APAC region despite the Australian HQ
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