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, clustering, summaries) and bidirectional sync with Lucidchart for diagrams. Voting, timers and facilitator tools start at the Team tier; Breakout Boards and the Jira/Azure DevOps card sync are Enterprise-only. Strong enterprise posture inherited from Lucid: SSO/SAML, SCIM, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001/27701/42001, FedRAMP, IRAP, GDPR, and US/EU/AU data residency.
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Retrium
4.7Guided retrospectives and Team Radars for scrum and agile teams
Retrium is a long-running, retrospectives-only tool that emphasises guided five-phase facilitation, anonymous brainstorming, voting, a persistent action plan, and Team Radar health checks for distributed teams.
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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.
Retrium scores 4.7 overall and is best for scrum masters and agile coaches who want a focused, retro-only tool with strong facilitation guardrails and a built-in Team Radar. It offers paid plans from $39/mo.
Lucidspark leads on fun factor, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade. Retrium leads on ease of use, retro toolkit and value.
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 | Retrium |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Mid-market |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | 3 editable boards, unlimited shapes per board, basic Visual Activities, presentation mode and Lucid AI — no voting, timer or facilitator tools | No free plan — 30-day trial of column-based techniques and Team Radar |
| Starting price | $9/user/mo | $39/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $240/mo (Team plan, 24 users at $10/user) | $117/mo |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2010 | 2014 |
| HQ | South Jordan, US | Washington, D.C., USA |
| Data residency | United States · European Union · Australia | — |
| Languages | 10 (English, Spanish, German, …) | English only |
| Export formats | Image · PDF · CSV · JSON | CSV · Jira |
| Features | 38 | 26 |
| Integrations | 7 | 2 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Lucidspark | Retrium |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | — |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | ✓ | — |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓note |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓note | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Health Checks | — | ✓ |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓ | — |
| Azure DevOps | ✓note | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | ✓ | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓note |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | ✓note | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓note |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | ✓note |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| 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> hides sticky note authors until the session ends, and a voting session can be set fully anonymous
- + Strong enterprise posture: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001/27701/42001, FedRAMP, IRAP, GDPR, SSO/SAML, SCIM, US/EU/AU data residency
- + Official Lucid MCP server is GA 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
- − Voting, timers and facilitator tools start at the $10/user Team tier — the free plan's three boards can't run a facilitated retro
- − Breakout Boards and the Lucid Cards sync to Jira/Azure DevOps are Enterprise-only
- − No health checks, recurring retros, action carryover or cross-team rollup
- − AI is general brainstorming/clustering, not retro-aware — no sentiment, action-item extraction or trend insight across retros
- − Retro template depth trails Miro and Mural, and the REST API needs a Team or Enterprise account
Retrium — pros
- + Battle-tested five-phase guided facilitation flow
- + Anonymous brainstorming and grouping by design
- + Persistent team-room action plan that carries forward between retros
- + Team Radar health check — up to seven customisable spokes, anonymous 1–5 scoring
- + Per-team-room pricing with unlimited users on every plan
Retrium — cons
- − No free plan — 30-day trial only, and the Fishbone technique stays paid-only during it
- − Integrations stop at Jira Cloud and a <em>still-beta</em> Slack app — no Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear or Confluence
- − <strong>No AI features at all</strong> — no summary, clustering, action-item extraction or sentiment
- − The only API is an Enterprise-gated SCIM 2.0 user-provisioning endpoint; no webhooks, and export stops at CSV and TXT
- − No published product updates since <strong>August 2024</strong> — the help centre's yearly updates series ends at 2024
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