FigJam
7.3Figma's whiteboard with AI sticky clustering, an official MCP server that reaches FigJam boards, and a $3 Collab seat — free tier caps at 3 boards
FigJam is the whiteboard product inside Figma — sticky notes, timer, music, stamps and emotes, voting sessions, one-click AI that sorts and summarises stickies, and 300+ ready-made templates including community retro boards. Design and product teams already living in Figma get retros without buying a second tool, backed by Figma's SAML/SCIM, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and Enterprise data residency in the EU, Australia, India, Brazil and Japan. Figma's official MCP server reads FigJam boards on every plan; letting an agent write to them is a beta that needs a Full seat. Voting sessions, open guest sessions, audio chat and webhooks all require a paid team; publishing custom templates requires Organization.
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Neatro
5.5Structured retros built around psychological safety
Neatro runs retrospectives through a guided four-step framework with optional per-comment anonymity, AI grouping suggestions, an automatic ROTI survey, and Team Radar health checks aimed at distributed agile teams.
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FigJam scores 7.3 overall and is best for design and product teams already on Figma who want retros on the same platform as their design files, with playful engagement, AI sticky clustering and an agent-accessible canvas. It offers a free tier.
Neatro scores 5.5 overall and is best for scrum Masters who want a guided, safety-first facilitation flow with built-in team health tracking. It offers a free tier.
FigJam leads on fun factor, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade. Neatro leads on ease of use and retro toolkit.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, FigJam edges ahead with an overall score of 7.3. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | FigJam | Neatro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Mid-market |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Starter: 3 FigJam files per team (unlimited personal drafts), 150 AI credits/day up to 500/month, 300+ templates, timer, music, AI Sort/Summarize/Generate, REST API and 20 MCP tool calls/month, 30-day version history — no voting sessions, audio chat, open (no-account) sessions or webhooks | Free forever for 1 team of up to 10 members (no guest links): unlimited retrospectives and Team Radars, all 30+ ready-to-use templates, 1 custom template, 40 of the 400+ Question Game icebreaker questions, basic facilitation tools, 30-day data history — no exports, integrations or AI grouping |
| Starting price | $3/user/mo (Collab seat, billed annually; $5 billed monthly) | $23.20/team/mo billed annually ($29/team/mo billed monthly), USD |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $72/mo (24 Collab seats × $3, billed annually; $120/mo billed monthly at $5) | $69.60/mo billed annually (3 teams x Premium at $23.20; members per team are unlimited) — $87/mo if billed monthly |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2012 | 2020 |
| HQ | San Francisco, US | Quebec, Canada |
| Data residency | United States · European Union · Australia · IN · BR · JP | Canada |
| Languages | 7 (English, Japanese, Korean, …) | 2 (English, French) |
| Export formats | PDF · Image · CSV | PDF · CSV · Jira |
| Features | 42 | 33 |
| Integrations | 10 | 5 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | FigJam | Neatro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓note | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | — | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | ✓ |
| Action tracking | — | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓note |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| Independent voting | ✓note | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓ | — |
| Icebreaker games | ✓note | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | ✓note |
| AI action items | ✓note | — |
| AI Summaries | ✓ | — |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| In-meeting AI assistant | ✓note | — |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓note | ✓note |
| Azure DevOps | — | ✓note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | ✓note | — |
| GitHub | ✓note | ✓note |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓note |
| Linear | ✓note | — |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓note | — |
| Monday.com | ✓note | ✓note |
| Notion | ✓note | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓note | — |
| Trello | ✓note | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | — |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | — |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | ✓ | — |
| Webhooks | ✓ | — |
| MCP server | ✓ | — |
FigJam — pros
- + Cheap $3/user/mo Collab seat (billed annually; $5 monthly) unlocks unlimited boards and full FigJam editing without a Full Figma seat
- + Free Starter tier includes real AI credits (150/day, 500/month), 300+ templates, the timer, music and AI Sort/Summarize
- + Playful, engaging UX — stamps, emotes, high-fives, music, cursor chat — lifts retro fun factor
- + Best open platform of any whiteboard here: REST API on every plan, webhooks on paid, and an <strong>official MCP server that reads FigJam boards</strong> on every plan
- + Strong enterprise posture inherited from Figma: SAML, SCIM, activity logs, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and Enterprise data residency in the EU, Australia, India, Brazil and Japan
FigJam — cons
- − No native action-item tracking, recurring retros or health checks
- − Anonymity is weak — votes reveal who voted once the session ends, and live cursors show who is writing even when a sticky's name tag is switched off
- − Action items leave the board only by hand: the Jira, GitHub and Asana widgets turn selected stickies into tickets, but Confluence, Linear and Notion are embeds only and there is no Azure DevOps
- − Free Starter caps a team at 3 FigJam files and excludes voting, audio chat, no-account guest links and webhooks; publishing custom templates needs Organization
- − Built primarily for designers — the canvas paradigm is fiddly for structured retros, and large boards get sluggish
Neatro — pros
- + Guided four-step framework with optional anonymous commenting and a timer on every step
- + Team Radar is a proper recurring health check with up to 10 custom dimensions, not a repurposed template
- + AI grouping suggestions at Step 2 that the facilitator accepts or rejects one at a time — assistive, not automatic
- + Action Kanban board, an automatic ROTI survey and a prompt about last retro's open actions keep follow-through visible
- + Cheap per head — <strong>$23.20/team/mo covers unlimited members</strong>, and the free tier runs 10 members forever
Neatro — cons
- − No native Slack or Microsoft Teams integration — reminders and summaries land wherever you paste the link
- − AI stops at grouping suggestions; no summaries, sentiment analysis, or AI-extracted action items
- − Free tier has <em>no exports, integrations, guest links or AI grouping</em> — all start at Premium
- − Per-team pricing gets awkward past a handful of squads — volume discounts only start at 20+ teams
- − No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 of its own (the security FAQ points at Azure's), Quebec-only hosting, and no SCIM, audit logs, public API or cross-team rollups
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