Mural
6.4Visual collaboration whiteboard with hundreds of retro templates and AI-assisted facilitation
Mural is a long-established visual collaboration platform — an infinite canvas with sticky notes, voting, timers, private mode, hundreds of retro templates, AI clustering and summary, and a Facilitation Superpowers toolkit (Outline, Timer, Voting, Private Mode) that's been refined for over a decade. Strong enterprise posture with SSO, SCIM, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and EU/US data residency.
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Reetro
6.4Fun, easy and AI-powered online retrospectives
Reetro is a lightweight retrospective tool with a generous free tier and an AI-powered Pro tier covering meeting summaries, sentiment analysis, monthly reports, customizable health checks and an action tracker. ISO 27001 is held at the vendor level; SOC 2 references on the marketing site are at the infrastructure layer rather than a Reetro-level audit.
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Mural scores 6.4 overall and is best for workshop-heavy teams (design, product, agile coaching) that want a polished facilitation canvas with strong retro templates and enterprise-grade controls. It offers a free tier.
Reetro scores 6.4 overall and is best for small to mid-sized agile teams who want a low-cost, easy retro board with AI summaries, customizable health checks and Jira/Azure DevOps export. It offers a free tier.
Mural leads on fun factor, integrations and enterprise-grade. Reetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, value and AI & insights.
Mural and Reetro are evenly matched overall. The right choice comes down to which dimensions matter most to your team.
Scores compared
| Detail | Mural | Reetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | 3 active murals, unlimited members and visitors, 200+ templates | 3 teams, 9 members per team, 10 active boards/month, 4 columns, 1 health check/month |
| Starting price | $9.99/user/mo | $29/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $240/mo billed annually | Free (within free tier) |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2011 | 2019 |
| HQ | San Francisco, US | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Data residency | United States · European Union | — |
| Languages | 9 (English, Spanish, German, …) | English only |
| Features | 37 | 40 |
| Integrations | 6 | 6 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Mural | Reetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | — |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Anonymous input | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | ✓ note | — |
| Health Checks | — | ✓ |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓ note |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓ | — |
| Azure DevOps | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| Confluence | ✓ | ✓ note |
| GitHub | — | — |
| Jira | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Trello | — | ✓ note |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓ note |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓ note | — |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-premises | — | ✓ note |
| Public API | ✓ | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
Mural — pros
- + Mature facilitation toolkit — Outline, Timer, Voting, Private Mode — refined over 10+ years
- + Strong template library with 200+ retro and workshop frames
- + Best-in-class enterprise posture: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, SSO/SAML, SCIM, EU/US residency
- + Two-way Jira and Azure DevOps sync turns sticky notes into tracked issues
- + Polished UX, especially for facilitators running synchronous workshops
Mural — cons
- − Per-seat pricing: a 24-person org pays ~$240/mo on the Team+ tier (annual), well above retro-native tools at that headcount
- − No native health checks, mood tracking or longitudinal team-pulse
- − No recurring retros, action carryover or cross-team rollup — facilitators rebuild structure each sprint
- − AI clustering and summary trail Miro and dedicated retro tools in depth
- − SSO/SAML gated to Business tier ($17.99/user/mo) — same trap as Miro
Reetro — pros
- + Generous free tier with no credit card required
- + Per-team Pro pricing ($29/team/mo) keeps costs predictable for small squads
- + AI summaries, sentiment analysis and monthly reports included on paid
- + Customizable team health checks, polls and a happiness index
- + ISO 27001 certified at the vendor level, plus audit logs (SOC 2 is infra-only, not a Reetro audit)
Reetro — cons
- − Free plan capped at 3 teams, 9 members, 10 boards/month and 4 columns, with anonymity now paid-only
- − Voting is essentially upvote/downvote — no vote-on-ideas-in-groups
- − Reporting & analytics screens (team reporting, comparative reporting, monthly reporting, PDF export) still listed as <em>coming soon</em>
- − Several quality-of-life features flagged 'coming soon' — link cards, @mentions, scheduler, icebreakers, on-premises, in-app notifications
- − No public changelog or release notes — hard to verify what's shipped recently from the outside
- − No planning poker, whiteboard, presentation mode, mobile app, or GitHub/Linear integrations