Lucidspark
6.5Lucid Software's whiteboard with the Lucid AI assistant and tight Lucidchart integration — voting, timers and facilitator tools start at the Team tier
Lucidspark is the whiteboard product from Lucid Software (makers of Lucidchart) — an infinite canvas with sticky notes, private-mode brainstorming, anonymous voting sessions, timers, the Lucid AI assistant (prompt-to-board, magic sort, board summaries) and bidirectional sync with Lucidchart for diagrams. Free and Individual get static dot voting only; the timer, private voting and facilitator tools start at the Team tier, and starting a private-mode session, Breakout Boards and the Lucid Cards sync to Jira/Azure DevOps/monday.com are Enterprise-only. Strong enterprise posture inherited from Lucid: SSO/SAML, SCIM, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701/42001, FedRAMP Moderate, IRAP PROTECTED, GDPR, and US/EU/AU data residency.
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TeamRetro
8.8Retrospectives, health checks, estimations and standups in one suite
TeamRetro pairs structured retrospectives with longitudinal team health checks and planning-poker estimations, aimed at agile organisations running multiple teams under a coach or programme. An in-meeting AI assistant (trAI, still in beta) and a GA MCP server are included on every paid plan.
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Lucidspark scores 6.5 overall and is 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. It offers a free tier.
TeamRetro scores 8.8 overall and is best for agile coaches and engineering managers running ongoing health-check programmes alongside sprint retros. It offers paid plans from $20.83/mo billed annually ($25/mo billed monthly) — Single Team, 1 team, 25 members.
Lucidspark leads on enterprise-grade. TeamRetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, value, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations and open platform.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, TeamRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 8.8. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Lucidspark | TeamRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Any |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | 3 editable boards, unlimited shapes per board, basic Visual Activities, emoji reactions, presentation mode, Lucid AI and static dot voting — no timer, voting sessions or facilitator tools, and private mode is join-only | No free plan — 30-day trial, no credit card required |
| Starting price | $9/user/mo (Individual, billed annually; $15 billed monthly) | $20.83/mo billed annually ($25/mo billed monthly) — Single Team, 1 team, 25 members |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $240/mo (Team plan, 24 users at $10/user billed annually; $360/mo billed monthly) | $50/mo billed annually ($60/mo billed monthly) — Small Organization plan, a 3-team bundle with unlimited members |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2010 | 2017 |
| HQ | South Jordan, US | Australia |
| Data residency | United States · European Union · Australia | United States · European Union |
| Languages | 12 (English, German, Spanish, …) | 27 (English, Arabic, Czech, …) |
| Export formats | Image · PDF · CSV · JSON | Excel · CSV · PDF · Markdown · Email · Image · Confluence · Notion |
| Features | 45 | 70 |
| Integrations | 8 | 15 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Lucidspark | TeamRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓note | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | ✓ |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓note | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓note | ✓ |
| Icebreaker games | — | ✓note |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | ✓ |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI action items | ✓note | ✓ |
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | ✓ |
| In-meeting AI assistant | ✓note | ✓note |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓note | ✓ |
| Azure DevOps | ✓note | ✓ |
| Basecamp | — | ✓ |
| ClickUp | — | ✓ |
| Confluence | ✓note | ✓ |
| GitHub | — | ✓ |
| GitLab | — | ✓ |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓ |
| Linear | — | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monday.com | ✓note | ✓ |
| Notion | ✓note | ✓ |
| Shortcut | — | ✓ |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trello | — | ✓ |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓note |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓ |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | ✓note |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | ✓note | ✓ |
| Webhooks | — | ✓ |
| MCP server | ✓note | ✓ |
Lucidspark — pros
- + Tight integration with Lucidchart — switch between diagram and whiteboard on the same canvas
- + Engagement basics on every plan, free included — emoji reactions on notes, Giphy search and a free icebreaker template library; from Team the timer can play music for the whole board
- + Strong enterprise posture: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701/42001, FedRAMP Moderate, IRAP PROTECTED, PCI DSS, GDPR, SSO/SAML, SCIM, US/EU/AU data residency
- + Official Lucid MCP server is GA on every plan and shipping monthly — search boards, summarise them, generate synced Jira cards from Claude or ChatGPT
- + Lucid AI (AI sort, summaries, prompt-to-board and a chat assistant) is unmetered on every tier today, free plan included
Lucidspark — cons
- − Timer, private voting and facilitator tools start at the $10/user Team tier — Free and Individual get static dot voting and nothing else facilitator-shaped
- − Starting a private-mode (blind brainstorm) session, Breakout Boards and the Lucid Cards sync to Jira, Azure DevOps and monday.com are Enterprise-only; audit logs need the paid Enterprise Shield add-on on top
- − No health checks, recurring retros, action carryover or cross-team rollup
- − AI is general brainstorming/summarising, not retro-aware — no sentiment, action-item extraction or trend insight across retros
- − Retro template depth trails Miro and Mural; the REST API needs a Team or Enterprise account and there are no outbound webhooks
TeamRetro — pros
- + Health checks and maturity models as a first-class module — custom dimensions, radar charts, trends across sprints
- + Retrospectives, health checks and planning-poker estimation on one subscription
- + SAML SSO, RBAC and US-or-EU hosting on <em>every</em> plan, not just Enterprise
- + GA MCP server, team-level API keys and HMAC-signed webhooks on all plans; 15 native agile-stack integrations plus Zapier and n8n
- + <em>trAI</em> in-meeting assistant (beta) on trial and paid plans, plus 18 in-meeting icebreaker games on every account
TeamRetro — cons
- − No free tier — 30-day trial, then a paid plan
- − The SOC 2 Type 2 report is Enterprise-only; lower tiers get the SOC 3 report instead
- − SCIM, IP allowlisting, domain capture and guest/observer roles are Enterprise-only, and audit logs are on request rather than self-serve
- − Cross-team insights, reports and programs (team-of-teams) require Enterprise
- − ISO 27001 is inherited from AWS, and hosting is US or EU only — no APAC region despite the Australian HQ
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