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Whiteboard · South Jordan, US · Founded 2010

Lucidspark

Lucid Software's whiteboard with the Lucid AI assistant, breakout boards and tight Lucidchart integration

Overall score
6.4

Overview

Lucidspark is the whiteboard product from Lucid Software (makers of Lucidchart) — an infinite canvas with sticky notes, voting, timer, breakout boards, the Lucid AI conversational assistant (prompt-to-board, clustering, summaries), and bidirectional sync with Lucidchart for diagrams. Strong enterprise posture inherited from Lucid: SSO/SAML, SCIM, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001/27701, FedRAMP, GDPR, and US/EU/AU data residency.

Best for: Engineering and PM teams already on Lucidchart who want sticky-note retros and brainstorming on the same platform — and whose security review favours a SOC 2 / ISO 27001 vendor.

How Lucidspark describes itself

Lucidspark pitches itself as the virtual whiteboard for collaborative thinking — sticky notes, brainstorming, voting and AI-assisted clustering, sitting alongside Lucidchart in a unified Lucid Suite.

"The virtual whiteboard where ideas ignite."

The buyer narrative is platform consolidation: if your team already buys Lucidchart for diagrams, Lucidspark is a natural add-on. The 2026 push is Lucid AI — a conversational canvas assistant that builds structured boards from a prompt, takes voice/video input, sorts stickies into categories and summarises a session. Pricing tiers (Free / Individual / Team / Enterprise) follow Lucid's standard structure; SSO/SAML and SCIM sit on Enterprise.

Our take

Lucidspark is a competent whiteboard pick if Lucidchart is already in your stack. Breakout Boards are genuinely useful for parallel-track retros and workshops, the integration set covers the major issue trackers and chat platforms, and Lucid's enterprise posture (SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001/27701, FedRAMP, US/EU/AU residency) is among the strongest in this category. The Lucid AI assistant is a real step up over the old one-off clustering — prompt-to-board setup and session summaries actually save facilitator time.

But it's a whiteboard, not a retro tool. The gaps that matter to agile teams remain: no anonymous input, no health checks, no recurring retros, no action carryover or cross-team reporting, and the AI is general brainstorming rather than retro-aware (no sentiment, no action-item extraction, no trend lines across cycles). Retro template depth trails Miro and Mural.

Best fit: engineering and product teams already paying for Lucidchart who want a same-vendor whiteboard with enterprise-grade compliance. Thin as a standalone retro tool.

Score breakdown

Ease of Use 7.0
Retro Toolkit 4.5
Value 5.0
Fun Factor 6.0
AI & Insights 6.0
Integrations 7.0
Enterprise-grade 9.0

Pros

  • + Tight integration with Lucidchart — switch between diagram and whiteboard on the same canvas
  • + Breakout Boards let you split a workshop or retro into parallel rooms
  • + Strong enterprise posture: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001/27701, FedRAMP, GDPR, SSO/SAML, SCIM, US/EU/AU data residency
  • + Generous integration set: Jira, Slack, Teams, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Asana
  • + Free tier exists and is enough to evaluate the tool

Cons

  • No native anonymous voting — names always visible on stickies
  • No health checks, recurring retros, action carryover or cross-team rollup
  • AI is general brainstorming/clustering, not retro-aware — no sentiment, action-item extraction or trend insight across retros
  • Free tier is restrictive: 3 boards and 100 shapes/board limits real use beyond evaluation
  • Brand is best known for diagramming; retro template depth trails Miro and Mural

Features

Retrospectives

Templates Custom templates Private/public retros· Private boards on paid plans

Facilitation

Meeting timer Action items· Sticky notes can sync to Jira Presentation mode Screen-share mode @mentions Drag-and-drop grouping Facilitator-only grouping· Breakout Boards control who sees what Async mode Whiteboard

Voting

Independent dot voting Custom vote count

Engagement

Mobile friendly· Web-first; mobile app usable but cramped Polling Icebreakers GIFs Custom backgrounds Planning poker· Via templates

AI

AI grouping / clustering AI summary

Reporting

Facilitator meeting notes

Enterprise

SSO / SAML· SAML SSO on Enterprise SCIM provisioning· Enterprise tier SOC 2 Type 2 GDPR compliant Audit logs· Enterprise tier Facilitator-only role Guest / observer roles· Guest collaborators on paid plans Meeting history· Boards persist with revision history Email domain restrictions· Enterprise tier Uptime SLA / dedicated support· Enterprise tier Multi-year contracts ISO 27001 certified Public API Data residency · United States, European Union, Australia (Enterprise tier only) Languages · 10 (English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, +5 more)

Integrations

Jira Azure DevOps Asana Slack Microsoft Teams Confluence Notion· Embed/share boards in Notion pages

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