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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Trune.io
4.3Structured online retrospectives with team radar
Trune (formerly Fraankly) is an EU-built retrospective and team-feedback tool with pre-built and custom templates, anonymous cards, drag-to-group clustering, dot voting, action tracking, and team radars including the Spotify Squad Health Check. Hosted in Frankfurt with EU-only application data, and exports results to Excel, CSV or an emailed PDF.
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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.
Trune.io scores 4.3 overall and is best for small EU-based agile teams that want a simple, <strong>GDPR-aligned</strong> retro tool with templates, grouping, voting, and team radars — and don't need SSO, cross-team rollups, or AI analysis beyond a chat assistant. It offers a free tier.
Mural leads on ease of use, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade. Trune.io leads on retro toolkit 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 | Trune.io |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Unlimited murals but only the 3 most recently created stay editable (older go view-only); unlimited members and visitors; no Mural AI | 5 free sessions, full Premium features, no credit card |
| Starting price | $9.99/user/mo | $19/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $240/mo billed annually | $57/mo |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2011 | — |
| HQ | San Francisco, US | Vienna, Austria |
| Data residency | United States · European Union · Asia-Pacific | Germany |
| Languages | 9 (English, Spanish, German, …) | 2 (English, German) |
| Export formats | Image · PDF · PowerPoint · HTML · CSV | Excel · CSV · PDF |
| Features | 39 | 19 |
| Integrations | 8 | 9 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Mural | Trune.io |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | — |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | ✓note | — |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Health Checks | — | ✓note |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓note | ✓note |
| Azure DevOps | ✓note | ✓note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | ✓ | ✓note |
| GitHub | ✓note | ✓note |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓note |
| Linear | — | ✓note |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | ✓note |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | ✓note | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓note |
| Trello | — | ✓note |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | — |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | — |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | ✓ | ✓note |
| 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
Trune.io — pros
- + EU/Frankfurt data residency and GDPR-first posture — even the AI assistant runs on an EU-hosted function
- + Per-team (not per-seat) pricing: $19/mo covers unlimited members, and the free tier gives 5 full sessions
- + Native two-way Azure DevOps sync — action items out as work items, Done status back in
- + Team radars include the Spotify Squad Health Check plus fully custom radars
- + Exports cards, action items and radar results to Excel, CSV or an emailed PDF
Trune.io — cons
- − No SSO, SCIM, SOC 2, or audit logs — not enterprise-ready
- − The native iOS/Android apps are gone from both app stores, though the site still advertises them as new
- − AI stops at truneGPT, a ChatGPT-4 chat assistant — no clustering, summaries, action extraction, or sentiment analysis
- − Azure DevOps is the only native connector, and it needs the pricier Professional tier; everything else is a single one-way Zapier trigger
- − No recurring retros, async mode, parking lot, or agenda planner; reporting stops at team level with no cross-team rollups
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