Mural
6.6Visual collaboration whiteboard with a mature facilitation toolkit and AI-assisted sessions
Mural is a long-established visual collaboration platform — an infinite canvas with sticky notes, anonymous voting, timers, Private Mode, hundreds of workshop templates (eight of them retro-specific), AI clustering, summary and emotional-tone classification, and a Facilitation Superpowers toolkit (Outline, Timer, Voting, Private Mode) refined for over a decade. Best-in-class enterprise posture: SSO, SCIM, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and NA/EU/APAC data residency.
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Retro Rabbit
4.4Slack-first retrospectives with async note capture
Retro Rabbit is a Slack-native retrospective tool that lets teams capture notes throughout the sprint from Slack or the web app, then runs the retro on a synced board with drag-and-drop grouping, voting and assignable action items. The CarrotIQ AI layer is gated to the Pro AI plan. No public changelog and no visible feature change since April 2025 — ask for a roadmap before committing.
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Mural scores 6.6 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.
Retro Rabbit scores 4.4 overall and is best for slack-centric agile teams that want to capture retro notes continuously through the sprint and run lightweight live or async retros without leaving chat. It offers paid plans from $30/team/mo.
Mural leads on fun factor, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade. Retro Rabbit leads on ease of use and value.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Mural edges ahead with an overall score of 6.6. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Mural | Retro Rabbit |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | Unlimited murals but only the 3 most recently created stay editable (older go view-only); unlimited members and visitors; no Mural AI | 14-day free trial, no credit card required |
| Starting price | $9.99/user/mo | $30/team/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $240/mo billed annually | $90/mo |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2011 | — |
| HQ | San Francisco, US | Boston, United States |
| Data residency | United States · European Union · Asia-Pacific | — |
| Languages | 9 (English, Spanish, German, …) | English only |
| Export formats | Image · PDF · PowerPoint · HTML · CSV | CSV · Excel · PDF |
| Features | 39 | 16 |
| Integrations | 8 | 1 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Mural | Retro Rabbit |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓note |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | ✓note |
| AI action items | — | ✓note |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | ✓note | — |
| Action dashboard | — | — |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Health Checks | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓note | — |
| Azure DevOps | ✓note | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | ✓ | — |
| GitHub | ✓note | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | — |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | ✓note | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓note |
| GDPR | ✓ | — |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | — |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | ✓ | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | ✓note | — |
Mural — pros
- + Mature facilitation toolkit — Outline, Timer, Voting, Private Mode — refined over 10+ years
- + Anonymous where it counts: votes hide who voted, and Private Mode can keep sticky authors hidden even after reveal
- + Best-in-class enterprise posture: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, SSO/SAML, SCIM, NA/EU/APAC residency
- + Two-way Jira and Azure DevOps sync via interactive work-item cards 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, summary, tone Classify) helps inside a session but doesn't track trends across retros
- − SSO/SAML needs the $17.99/user/mo Business tier; SCIM, audit logs and data residency are Enterprise-only
Retro Rabbit — pros
- + Genuine Slack-first workflow — notes get captured in Slack throughout the sprint, not just at retro time
- + Reduces recency bias by collecting feedback continuously instead of in a 5-minute silent write
- + Simple, opinionated UX with drag-and-drop grouping and dot voting
- + CarrotIQ covers grouping, action-item suggestions and retro summaries on the $40/team/mo Pro AI plan
- + Flat per-team pricing with unlimited users, and CSV/XLSX/PDF export on every tier including Starter
Retro Rabbit — cons
- − Slack is the only chat/issue-tracker integration — no Jira, Teams, Confluence, GitHub, Linear or Azure DevOps
- − No health checks, team radars or longitudinal trend reporting
- − No org-level dashboards, cross-team rollups or action kanban
- − No public API, webhooks or MCP server — data leaves only as a file export
- − Enterprise controls are thin: SSO is Enterprise-tier only, no SCIM, no audit logs, and the privacy policy carries no GDPR or CCPA commitments
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