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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ScatterSpoke
5.7AI copilot for team feedback
ScatterSpoke was rebuilt from scratch as v3 in August 2026: retro boards, static and agent-run surveys, a Signals engine that detects morale, burnout and psychological-safety patterns in feedback text, and an Ask layer that answers questions with cited evidence. An official OAuth MCP server is included on every tier, including Free.
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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.
ScatterSpoke scores 5.7 overall and is best for engineering orgs that want AI to synthesise feedback across many teams and surveys — and agent builders who need a survey backend over MCP. It offers a free tier.
Miro leads on value, fun factor, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade. ScatterSpoke leads on ease of use, retro toolkit and AI & insights.
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 | ScatterSpoke |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 seat; unlimited static surveys and responses; 10 Agent Surveys and 50 Ask queries one-time; 5 of 15 signal rules; MCP connection but no reading results over it |
| Starting price | $8/user/mo | $29/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $192/mo billed annually (Starter, 24 seats) | $814/mo on Business (includes 5 seats; 19 extra seats at $35/seat/mo) — Pro is capped at 5 seats |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2011 | 2019 |
| HQ | Amsterdam, NL | USA |
| Data residency | United States · European Union · Australia · JP | — |
| Languages | 8 (English, Spanish, German, …) | English only |
| Export formats | Image · PDF · CSV | CSV · PDF |
| Features | 40 | 46 |
| Integrations | 12 | 3 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Miro | ScatterSpoke |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓note |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | ✓note |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓note |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓note | ✓note |
| Icebreaker games | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | ✓note |
| AI action items | ✓note | ✓note |
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | ✓ |
| In-meeting AI assistant | ✓note | ✓ |
| Action dashboard | — | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓note | — |
| Azure DevOps | ✓note | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | ✓note | — |
| Confluence | ✓ | — |
| GitHub | ✓note | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓note |
| Linear | ✓note | — |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monday.com | ✓note | — |
| Notion | ✓note | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trello | ✓note | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓note |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | ✓note |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | ✓ | ✓note |
| 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
ScatterSpoke — pros
- + Official MCP server on every tier including Free — OAuth, no API keys to mint; reading results is where the paid line sits
- + Signals engine with fifteen built-in rules and a detect-then-critique pass before anything is recorded
- + Ask names the survey or retro behind every answer, and cross-retro theme trends ship on paid plans
- + Unusually precise public docs — a per-tier entitlement table that names exactly what each plan gates
- + Guest join by verified email or open link, and guests never consume a seat
ScatterSpoke — cons
- − $814/mo for 3 teams of 8 on Business (5 seats included, then $35/seat); Free is a single seat
- − <strong>Action items are no longer part of the v3 retro flow</strong> — the Review phase records outcomes as card comments
- − Manual grouping was removed; clustering is AI-only and board columns are fixed at creation
- − The v3 integration entitlement covers only Slack, Teams and email — no Jira, GitHub or Azure DevOps setup is documented
- − One CSV export from a closed retro; audit logs, data retention and org-wide AI are Enterprise-only
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