Lucidspark
6.4Lucid Software's whiteboard with the Lucid AI assistant and tight Lucidchart integration — voting, timers and facilitator tools start at the Team tier
Lucidspark is the whiteboard product from Lucid Software (makers of Lucidchart) — an infinite canvas with sticky notes, private-mode brainstorming, anonymous voting sessions, timers, the Lucid AI assistant (prompt-to-board, magic sort, board summaries) and bidirectional sync with Lucidchart for diagrams. Free and Individual get static dot voting only; the timer, private voting and facilitator tools start at the Team tier, and Breakout Boards plus the Lucid Cards sync to Jira/Azure DevOps/monday.com are Enterprise-only. Strong enterprise posture inherited from Lucid: SSO/SAML, SCIM, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701/42001, FedRAMP Moderate, IRAP PROTECTED, GDPR, and US/EU/AU data residency.
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Reetro
6.3Fun, easy and AI-powered online retrospectives
Reetro is a lightweight retrospective tool with a genuinely free tier and a shipped app that runs well ahead of its own marketing site. Three board types — standard, phased (Reflect/Group/Vote/Discuss) and RoundUp, an async video, voice or text interview with AI-generated questions — sit alongside health checks, polls, a happiness calendar and an action tracker. AI meeting summaries, sentiment and emotion trends, auto-grouping and AI action items are quota-limited rather than paid-only, so Free gets a taste. SSO, the Scheduler, anonymous retros and data retention start on the $10/team Pro plan; Pro Unlimited is billed at $49/month per organisation. ISO 27001 is claimed at vendor level; SOC 2 is listed as compliant, not certified.
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Lucidspark scores 6.4 overall and is best for engineering and PM teams already on Lucidchart who want sticky-note retros and brainstorming on the same platform — and whose security review favours a SOC 2 / ISO 27001 vendor. It offers a free tier.
Reetro scores 6.3 overall and is best for small to mid-sized agile teams who want a cheap, AI-assisted retro board — SSO, health checks, the Scheduler and anonymous retros at $10/team/mo, or $49/mo flat for the whole org — and who don't need an API or ClickUp/GitHub/Linear. It offers a free tier.
Lucidspark leads on integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade. Reetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, value and AI & insights.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Lucidspark edges ahead with an overall score of 6.4. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Lucidspark | Reetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | 3 editable boards, unlimited shapes per board, basic Visual Activities, presentation mode, Lucid AI and static dot voting — no timer, private voting or facilitator tools | 3 teams, 9 members and 10 active boards per team, 6 columns, 50 guests plus unlimited read-only users, 1 health check/month, and limited AI (1 meeting summary, 3 auto-groupings, 3 AI action items per month) |
| Starting price | $9/user/mo (Individual, billed annually) | $10/team/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $240/mo (Team plan, 24 users at $10/user billed annually) | Free (within free tier); $30/mo if all three teams need Pro |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2010 | 2019 |
| HQ | South Jordan, US | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Data residency | United States · European Union · Australia | — |
| Languages | 12 (English, German, Spanish, …) | English only |
| Export formats | Image · PDF · CSV · JSON | CSV · Word · Excel · PDF · Email · Jira |
| Features | 39 | 47 |
| Integrations | 8 | 6 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Lucidspark | Reetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓note |
| Health Checks | — | ✓ |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | ✓note |
| Independent voting | ✓note | ✓note |
| Polling | ✓ | ✓note |
| Icebreaker games | — | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | ✓note |
| AI action items | — | ✓note |
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓note |
| Team Insights | — | ✓ |
| In-meeting AI assistant | ✓note | — |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓note | — |
| Azure DevOps | ✓note | ✓note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | ✓note | ✓note |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓note |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | ✓note |
| Monday.com | ✓note | — |
| Notion | ✓note | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓note |
| Trello | — | ✓note |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓note |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | — |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-premises | — | ✓note |
| Public API | ✓note | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | ✓note | — |
Lucidspark — pros
- + Tight integration with Lucidchart — switch between diagram and whiteboard on the same canvas
- + <em>Private mode</em> works on every plan, free included: it hides sticky note contents and authors, and the facilitator can keep authors hidden permanently
- + Strong enterprise posture: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701/42001, FedRAMP Moderate, IRAP PROTECTED, PCI DSS, GDPR, SSO/SAML, SCIM, US/EU/AU data residency
- + Official Lucid MCP server is GA on every plan and shipping monthly — search boards, summarise them, generate synced Jira cards from Claude or ChatGPT
- + Lucid AI is included on every tier today, free plan included
Lucidspark — cons
- − Timer, private voting and facilitator tools start at the $10/user Team tier — Free and Individual get static dot voting and nothing else facilitator-shaped
- − Breakout Boards and the Lucid Cards sync to Jira, Azure DevOps and monday.com are Enterprise-only; audit logs need the paid Enterprise Shield add-on on top of Enterprise
- − No health checks, recurring retros, action carryover or cross-team rollup
- − AI is general brainstorming/summarising, not retro-aware — no sentiment, action-item extraction or trend insight across retros
- − Retro template depth trails Miro and Mural; the REST API needs a Team or Enterprise account and there are no outbound webhooks
Reetro — pros
- + Genuinely free tier, no credit card — 3 teams, 9 members, 6 columns and 50 guests, plus quota-limited AI (1 meeting summary, 3 auto-groupings, 3 AI action items a month)
- + <strong>SSO, data retention, the Scheduler and anonymous retros all start on the $10/team Pro plan</strong>, confirmed by the app's own upgrade copy
- + Pro Unlimited is genuinely org-wide — the app bills it at <em>$49/month per organisation</em>, not per team
- + RoundUp collects async video, voice or text feedback with AI-generated, editable interview questions — a real async mode, not just a board left open
- + AI meeting summaries carry sentiment, emotion trends (joy/trust/fear/sadness) and participation metrics, and roll up into cross-team comparison views
Reetro — cons
- − The marketing site understates the product: PDF and XLSX export, @mentions, link cards and comparative reporting are all live in the app yet tagged <em>coming soon</em> on the pricing page
- − No public API, no webhooks and no MCP server — nothing can drive Reetro programmatically
- − Confluence and Trello are export-only; Reetro hands you a Word or CSV file and links the other vendor's import instructions
- − Icebreakers are still unshipped — the in-app 'Icebreakers & Games' tiles are badged coming soon and link to a subdomain that no longer resolves
- − No published Reetro-level SOC 2 Type 2 audit (the trust portal lists SOC 2 as 'compliant', ISO 27001 as 'certified'), and no SCIM
- − Anonymity is paid-only, and the Pro Unlimited plan card still reads PER TEAM while the FAQ and the app both say per organisation
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