Miro
7.1Innovation Workspace where retros happen on the same canvas as discovery and planning
Miro is the dominant online whiteboard, now sold as an AI Innovation Workspace. It pairs an infinite canvas with a 7,000+ template library (300+ retro formats among them), AI clustering by sentiment/keyword/author, Engage live polls and word clouds (included with Business since June 2026), Blueprints for reusable multi-board workflows, real-time and async collaboration, and a 250+ app marketplace with first-party two-way card sync to Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear and ClickUp. An official MCP server runs on every plan under per-tier daily call quotas.
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Neatro
5.5Structured retros built around psychological safety
Neatro runs retrospectives through a guided four-step framework with optional per-comment anonymity, AI grouping suggestions, an automatic ROTI survey, and Team Radar health checks aimed at distributed agile teams.
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Miro scores 7.1 overall and is best for large product, design and engineering orgs that already run discovery, planning and retros on one canvas and want AI clustering plus deep Jira/Azure DevOps/Asana sync. It offers a free tier.
Neatro scores 5.5 overall and is best for scrum Masters who want a guided, safety-first facilitation flow with built-in team health tracking. It offers a free tier.
Miro leads on fun factor, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade. Neatro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit and value.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Miro edges ahead with an overall score of 7.1. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Miro | Neatro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Enterprise | Mid-market |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | 3 editable boards, limited AI credits, 100 MCP calls/day, full 7,000+ template library, 250+ app marketplace; no private boards, SSO, guests, Blueprints or two-way integrations | Free forever for 1 team of up to 10 members: unlimited retrospectives and Team Radars, all 70 ready-to-use templates, 1 custom template, 40 Neatroverse community templates, basic facilitation tools, 30-day data history — no exports and no integrations |
| Starting price | $8/user/mo | $23.20/team/mo billed annually ($29/team/mo billed monthly), USD |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $192/mo billed annually (Starter, 24 seats) | $69.60/mo billed annually (3 teams x Premium at $23.20; members per team are unlimited) — $87/mo if billed monthly |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2011 | 2020 |
| HQ | Amsterdam, NL | Quebec, Canada |
| Data residency | United States · European Union · Australia · JP | Canada |
| Languages | 8 (English, Spanish, German, …) | 2 (English, French) |
| Export formats | Image · PDF · CSV | PDF · CSV · Jira |
| Features | 40 | 30 |
| Integrations | 12 | 5 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Miro | Neatro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | ✓ |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓note |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓note | — |
| Icebreaker games | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | ✓note |
| AI action items | ✓note | — |
| AI Summaries | ✓ | — |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| In-meeting AI assistant | ✓note | — |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓note | ✓note |
| Azure DevOps | ✓note | ✓note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | ✓note | — |
| Confluence | ✓ | — |
| GitHub | ✓note | ✓note |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓note |
| Linear | ✓note | — |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | — |
| Monday.com | ✓note | ✓note |
| Notion | ✓note | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓ | — |
| Trello | ✓note | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | — |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | — |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | ✓ | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | ✓note | — |
Miro — pros
- + Enormous template library (7,000+ board templates, 300+ retro formats) plus the Miroverse community gallery
- + AI clustering groups sticky notes by colour, tag, author, keyword and sentiment — real time saved on a 60-sticky board
- + First-party two-way card sync to Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear and ClickUp, so a sticky becomes tracked work in one click
- + <strong>Engage</strong> activities — live polls, word clouds, scales, ranking — are included with Business; participants join by QR code with no Miro account
- + Enterprise-grade SSO, SCIM, audit logs, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 42001 and US/EU/AU/Japan data residency; official MCP server on every plan
Miro — cons
- − Per-seat pricing: 24 people cost $192/mo on Starter (annual). The tier that actually matters for retros — Business, with two-way Jira sync, SSO, guests and Engage — is $480/mo
- − Recent G2 reviewers' loudest complaint is billing, not the canvas: guests converted to paid licences and prorated mid-cycle seat charges
- − No health checks, mood tracking or longitudinal team pulse; Engage Scales reads the room once, it doesn't draw a trend line
- − No recurring retros, scheduling, action carryover, cross-team rollup or action dashboard — facilitators rebuild structure each sprint, and actions only persist as Jira/Azure DevOps/Linear cards
- − SCIM, audit logs, domain control and data residency are Enterprise-only, and Enterprise starts at 30 seats
Neatro — pros
- + Guided four-step framework with optional anonymous commenting and a timer on every step
- + Team Radar is a proper recurring health check with up to 10 custom dimensions, not a repurposed template
- + AI grouping suggestions at Step 2 that the facilitator accepts or rejects one at a time — assistive, not automatic
- + Action Kanban board, an automatic ROTI survey and a prompt about last retro's open actions keep follow-through visible
- + Cheap per head — <strong>$23.20/team/mo covers unlimited members</strong>, and the free tier runs 10 members forever
Neatro — cons
- − No native Slack or Microsoft Teams integration — reminders and summaries land wherever you paste the link
- − AI stops at grouping suggestions; no summaries, sentiment analysis, or AI-extracted action items
- − Free tier has <em>no exports and no integrations</em> — both start at Premium
- − Per-team pricing gets awkward past a handful of squads — volume discounts only start at 20+ teams
- − No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 of its own (the security FAQ points at Azure's), no GDPR statement, and hosting is Quebec-only
- − No cross-team rollups, org health dashboard, SCIM, audit logs, public API or webhooks
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