IdeaBoardz
3.6Free shared brainstorming boards
IdeaBoardz is a long-standing free brainstorming and retrospective board where anyone can spin up a shared URL, add ideas in customisable sections, vote, and export to PDF or Excel. The site is still online and the app still works, but the product appears to be in maintenance mode at best — Terms were last updated in April 2020 and there is no blog, changelog or roadmap to suggest active development.
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Sprintlio
4.1Retrospectives with accountability via Slack and Jira
Sprintlio is a retrospective tool built around <strong>action follow-through</strong>, with Slack and Jira flows so action items don't die in a board after the meeting ends. Development appears to have largely stalled — the homepage still carries a 2023 copyright, there is no public changelog, and the last Product Hunt launch was February 2019.
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IdeaBoardz scores 3.6 overall and is best for throwaway retros and quick distributed brainstorms when nobody wants to sign up. It offers a free tier.
Sprintlio scores 4.1 overall and is best for small agile teams that already live in Slack and Jira and want lightweight retros where action items get pushed back into the daily workflow. It offers paid plans from $50/user/mo.
IdeaBoardz leads on ease of use and value. Sprintlio leads on retro toolkit, fun factor, integrations and enterprise-grade.
Across our seven scoring dimensions, Sprintlio edges ahead with an overall score of 4.1. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | IdeaBoardz | Sprintlio |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | Fully free, no paid tier | No free plan or trial publicly documented on the vendor site |
| Starting price | Free | $50/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | Custom | $1200/mo |
| Enterprise | No | No |
| Founded | 2012 | 2018 |
| HQ | Pune, India | Toronto, Canada |
| Features | 6 | 12 |
| Integrations | 0 | 2 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | IdeaBoardz | Sprintlio |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | — |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | — | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | — | — |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Custom templates | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | — |
| Agile Estimations | — | — |
| Health Checks | — | ✓ note |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | — | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| Jira | — | ✓ |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | — |
| Slack | — | ✓ |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | — | — |
| SSO/SAML/SCIM | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Data residency (US/EU) | — | — |
IdeaBoardz — Pros
- + Genuinely free, no paywall, no paid tier
- + No signup required to participate — just share a URL
- + 1-10 customisable sections cover most retro formats (Start/Stop/Continue, 4Ls, etc.)
- + PDF and Excel export built in
- + Voting and async input out of the box
IdeaBoardz — Cons
- − UI is unchanged from the early 2010s and shows it
- − No timer, no facilitation phases, no drag-and-drop grouping
- − Zero integrations with the agile stack (Jira, Slack, Teams, Confluence, etc.)
- − No prebuilt templates, no health checks, no AI features
- − Boards are public-by-URL with no SSO, SOC 2, or stated privacy controls
- − Apparently in maintenance mode — Terms last updated April 2020, no changelog or blog
Sprintlio — Pros
- + Action items sync to Jira and Slack — follow-through is the product's actual reason for being
- + Slack-native flows: run recaps, reminders and notifications from the channel
- + Simple, focused retro workflow without the all-in-one bloat
Sprintlio — Cons
- − Vendor site shows few signs of recent development — copyright still reads 2023 and the last public launch was 2019
- − Almost no AI, no health checks, no cross-team reporting — feature surface is thin by 2026 standards
- − No published pricing page, no documented SSO/SCIM/SOC 2 — enterprise readiness is unclear at best
- − Integration surface is narrow: Jira and Slack only, no Teams, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear or Confluence