Miro
7.2Innovation Workspace where retros happen on the same canvas as discovery and planning
Miro is the dominant online whiteboard, now sold as an AI 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 (included with Business since June 2026), Blueprints for reusable multi-board workflows, real-time and async collaboration, and a 250+ app marketplace with first-party two-way card sync to Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear and ClickUp. An official MCP server runs on every plan under per-tier daily call quotas.
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RetroFlow
3.3Your team's favourite way to retro
RetroFlow is a free, no-signup retrospective board built by solo developer Prashant Meena, with colourful boards, real-time collaboration, 11 ready-made templates plus a custom board builder, anonymous feedback, unrestricted upvoting, drag-to-move between columns, action items and PDF/Excel export. Participants join a shared link in one click with no account; the whole product is free with no paid tiers or locked features. The board is desktop-only — any viewport under 768px is blocked outright.
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Miro scores 7.2 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.
RetroFlow scores 3.3 overall and is best for small or ad-hoc teams on laptops who want a genuinely free, zero-friction retro board they can share with one link — no signup, no payment and no setup, accepting that there is no timer, no phone support, no integrations, no AI and no enterprise controls. It offers a free tier.
Miro leads on retro toolkit, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade. RetroFlow leads on ease of use and value.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Miro edges ahead with an overall score of 7.2. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Miro | RetroFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Enterprise | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | 3 editable boards, full 7,000+ template library, 250+ app marketplace, 5 Talktracks, 100 MCP calls/day and a small AI allowance (10 credits/mo per the pricing page, 25 per the help centre); no timer, voting, private mode, private boards, guests, Blueprints, Jira Cards or high-res export | Everything is free — all 11 templates, custom boards, saved layouts, real-time collaboration, anonymous feedback, unlimited upvoting, action items and PDF/Excel export, with no account required to join a board and no paid tier to upgrade to |
| Starting price | $8/user/mo billed annually ($10 billed monthly) | Free |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $192/mo billed annually, $240/mo billed monthly (Starter, 24 seats) | Free (no paid tier) |
| Enterprise | Yes | No |
| Founded | 2011 | — |
| HQ | Amsterdam, NL | — |
| Data residency | United States · European Union · Australia · JP | — |
| Languages | 8 (English, Spanish, German, …) | English only |
| Export formats | Image · PDF · CSV | PDF · Excel |
| Features | 47 | 8 |
| Integrations | 12 | 0 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Miro | RetroFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓note |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓note |
| Health Checks | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓note |
| Async mode | ✓ | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓note |
| Polling | ✓note | — |
| Icebreaker games | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | — |
| AI action items | ✓note | — |
| AI Summaries | ✓ | — |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| In-meeting AI assistant | ✓note | — |
| Action dashboard | — | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓note | — |
| Azure DevOps | ✓note | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | ✓note | — |
| Confluence | ✓ | — |
| GitHub | ✓note | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | — |
| Linear | ✓note | — |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | — |
| Monday.com | ✓note | — |
| Notion | ✓note | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓ | — |
| Trello | ✓note | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | — |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | — |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | — |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | ✓ | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | ✓ | — |
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
- + First-party two-way card sync to Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear and ClickUp, so a sticky becomes tracked work in one click
- + <strong>Engage</strong> activities — live polls, word clouds, scales, ranking — are included 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 and US/EU/AU/Japan data residency; official MCP server on every plan
Miro — cons
- − Per-seat pricing: 24 people cost $192/mo on Starter billed annually ($240 monthly). Business — SSO, editing guests, Engage, Azure DevOps and Linear sync, full Sidekicks — is $480/mo annually ($600 monthly), and AI is credit-metered on every tier
- − Recent G2 reviewers' loudest complaint is billing, not the canvas: guests converted to paid licences and prorated mid-cycle seat charges
- − 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, cross-team rollup or action dashboard — facilitators rebuild structure each sprint, and actions only persist as Jira/Azure DevOps/Linear cards
- − SCIM, audit logs, domain control and US/Australia/Japan data residency are Enterprise-only (EU hosting is the default on every plan), and Enterprise starts at 30 seats
RetroFlow — pros
- + Genuinely free with no paid tiers, no paywalled features and no account required to join a board
- + Per-board choice of <strong>Anonymous Mode</strong> (no attribution on any card) or Open Mode (names on cards), and nobody needs a signup or email to contribute
- + Eleven ready-made formats plus a Custom Board builder (2-6 columns, 7 palettes, 48 emoji) with reusable saved layouts
- + <strong>Unrestricted voting</strong> — no vote budget, no phase gate, and you can upvote your own cards; cards also drag between columns
- + PDF and Excel export of the finished board — the only route to getting your data out, and it works
RetroFlow — cons
- − No timer or phase controls — <em>still</em> nothing in the shipped app, and two timer requests raised in July 2026 sit unshipped as <em>Planned</em> on the vendor's own public roadmap
- − <strong>Desktop-only</strong> — every board route hard-blocks viewports under 768px with a 'Whoa, tiny screen detected' overlay, even though the marketing FAQ promises a fully responsive phone experience
- − No grouping of similar cards, no in-column reordering and no carry-over of previous action items; the 'Present' button is still badged SOON
- − No integrations, public API, webhooks or AI (nothing pushes to Jira, Linear, Slack or Teams), and no health checks, recurring retros, mood tracking or cross-team reporting
- − Solo-developer project with no support team, SLA, SOC 2, SSO or GDPR statement. Support routes to the founder's WhatsApp and LinkedIn DMs, and board creation still ships a 'Waking up server' screen for the free-tier backend's cold start
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