Echometer
5.3Psychology-backed retros and team health checks for engineering teams
Echometer is a German retrospective and 1:1 meeting platform built around recurring health-check pulses, structured retros, and longitudinal team development tracking. It pitches itself to engineering managers, scrum masters and agile coaches who want research-grounded surveys rather than a blank whiteboard.
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Miro
7.1Innovation Workspace where retros happen on the same canvas as discovery and planning
Miro is the dominant online whiteboard, now repositioned as an AI-powered 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, real-time + async collaboration, and a 250+ app marketplace including Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear, Confluence, Slack and Microsoft Teams. Flows and Sidekicks ship as AI Workflows, a paid Enterprise product.
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Echometer scores 5.3 overall and is best for engineering managers and agile coaches who want recurring health-check pulses tied to retros, with EU data residency and a research-flavoured question library. It offers a free tier.
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.
Echometer leads on ease of use, retro toolkit and value. Miro leads on fun factor, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade.
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 | Echometer | Miro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Whiteboard |
| Team size | Mid-market | Enterprise |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Starter: 1 team, 25 workspace members, unlimited retro guests, 1 retro/month after trial, 2-retro archive per team | 3 editable boards, ~10 AI credits/mo, 100 MCP calls/day, full template library, 250+ app marketplace; no private boards, SSO, guests or two-way integrations |
| Starting price | €29/team/mo | $8/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | €87/mo billed annually (3 teams × €29 Pro) | $192/mo billed annually (Starter, 24 seats) |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2019 | 2011 |
| HQ | Münster, Germany | Amsterdam, NL |
| Data residency | Germany | United States · European Union · Australia |
| Languages | 2 (English, German) | 8 (English, Spanish, German, …) |
| Export formats | PDF · Markdown · Email | Image · PDF · CSV |
| Features | 43 | 39 |
| Integrations | 1 | 11 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Echometer | Miro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | — | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓ |
| AI action items | ✓note | ✓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 | — | ✓note |
| Microsoft Teams | — | ✓ |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | ✓ |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | — | ✓ |
| Trello | — | ✓note |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓ |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | ✓note |
| ISO 27001 | — | ✓ |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | ✓ |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | — | ✓note |
Echometer — pros
- + 200+ research-grounded health-check items, custom models and automated pulse rotation
- + Longitudinal team radars, heatmaps and workspace dashboards tied to retros
- + EU-only data residency (Open Telekom Cloud, Germany) with GDPR DPA
- + Open actions resurface automatically in the next retro, with email reminders to owners
- + Per-team pricing — €87/mo covers three teams of eight, billed annually
Echometer — cons
- − Thin integrations — Jira and calendar sync only; no Slack, Teams or Confluence
- − No public API or webhooks; export is PDF and Markdown only
- − No SOC 2 — the ISO 27001 certificate covers the datacenter, not Echometer itself
- − Retro-side AI stops at suggesting measures; transcript coaching is a separately-priced 1:1 product
- − No scheduled or recurring retros — you copy a past format and start each session manually
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
- + Best-in-class integration catalog (Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, Confluence, Slack, Teams) with two-way card sync
- + <strong>Engage</strong> activities — live polls, word clouds, scales, ranking — are bundled 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 (AI governance) and US/EU/AU data residency
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 and Engage — is $480/mo
- − 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 or cross-team rollup — facilitators rebuild structure each sprint
- − SCIM, audit logs, domain control and data residency are Enterprise-only (30-seat minimum)
- − No built-in retro report or action-tracker dashboard; actions only persist as Jira/Azure DevOps cards
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