Estimioo
4.1Free planning poker, retrospectives and standups for Scrum teams
Estimioo is a lightweight, browser-based agile-ceremony tool that bundles AI-assisted planning poker, a basic sprint retrospective board and async daily standups into one shared workspace. The product's centre of gravity is estimation; retrospectives are a real but thin module — a single <strong>went well / didn't go well / improve</strong> reflection board with session summaries, not a deep retro toolkit.
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Mural
6.5Visual 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, summary and sentiment classification, and a Facilitation Superpowers toolkit (Outline, Timer, Voting, Private Mode) refined for over a decade. <strong>Best-in-class enterprise posture</strong>: SSO, SCIM, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and EU/US data residency.
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Estimioo scores 4.1 overall and is best for small, distributed Scrum teams who mainly want fast, AI-assisted planning poker and async standups, and are happy with a simple reflection board for retros rather than a dedicated retro suite. It offers a free tier.
Mural scores 6.5 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.
Estimioo leads on value. Mural leads on retro toolkit, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade.
Across our seven scoring dimensions, Mural edges ahead with an overall score of 6.5. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Estimioo | Mural |
|---|---|---|
| Category | All-in-One Agile | Whiteboard |
| Team size | Small | Mid-market |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Up to 10 participants, 5 sessions/month, 5 AI estimates/month, 1-hour session expiry | 3 active murals, unlimited members and visitors, 200+ templates |
| Starting price | $7/workspace/mo | $9.99/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $7/mo (Team plan is flat per-workspace, not per-seat) | $240/mo billed annually |
| Enterprise | No | Yes |
| Founded | — | 2011 |
| HQ | — | San Francisco, US |
| Data residency | — | United States · European Union |
| Languages | English only | 9 (English, Spanish, German, …) |
| Features | 10 | 38 |
| Integrations | 1 | 8 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Estimioo | Mural |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓note | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓ |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | — | ✓note |
| Team Insights | ✓note | — |
| Polling | — | ✓note |
| Action dashboard | — | — |
| Custom templates | — | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | — | ✓note |
| Independent voting | — | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓note | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | ✓note |
| Health Checks | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | ✓note |
| Azure DevOps | — | ✓note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | ✓ |
| GitHub | — | ✓note |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓note |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | ✓ |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | ✓note |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | — | ✓ |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓ |
| GDPR | — | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | — | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | ✓note |
| ISO 27001 | — | ✓ |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | ✓ |
| Webhooks | — | — |
Estimioo — pros
- + Genuinely cheap — flat $7/workspace/mo Team plan (not per-seat) and a usable free tier
- + Fast, no-friction planning poker with multiple scales and hidden-until-reveal voting
- + AI story-point suggestions and estimation-accuracy tracking, powered by Claude with zero data retention
- + Guests join without signup via link or QR code — low overhead for distributed teams
- + Three ceremonies (poker, retro, standup) in one shared workspace
Estimioo — cons
- − Retrospectives are a single fixed went-well/didn't/improve board — no template library, dot voting, grouping, anonymity, timer or action items with owners
- − AI is aimed at estimation, not retros — no theme clustering, sentiment or retro summaries
- − No Slack/Teams, Confluence, GitHub, Linear or Azure DevOps integrations; Jira is a paste-URL preview for poker only
- − No SSO, SOC 2, audit logs or published data-residency — not built for enterprise procurement
- − Free sessions expire after 1 hour and cap at 5/month; no recurring retros or persistent retro history
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, summary, sentiment Classify) helps inside a session but doesn't track trends across retros
- − SSO/SAML gated to Business tier ($17.99/user/mo) — same trap as Miro