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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Retrium
5.1Guided retrospectives and Team Radars for scrum and agile teams
Retrium is a long-running, retrospectives-only tool that emphasises guided five-phase facilitation, anonymous brainstorming, voting, a persistent action plan, and Team Radar health checks for distributed teams.
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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.
Retrium scores 5.1 overall and is best for scrum masters and agile coaches who want a focused, retro-only tool with strong facilitation guardrails and a built-in Team Radar. It offers paid plans from $39/mo.
Mural leads on fun factor, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade. Retrium leads on ease of use, retro toolkit and value.
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 | Mural | Retrium |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Mid-market |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | 3 active murals, unlimited members and visitors, 200+ templates | 30-day free trial (column techniques and Team Radar), no credit card required |
| Starting price | $9.99/user/mo | $39/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $240/mo billed annually | $117/mo |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2011 | 2014 |
| HQ | San Francisco, US | Washington, D.C., USA |
| Data residency | United States · European Union | — |
| Languages | 9 (English, Spanish, German, …) | English only |
| Features | 38 | 23 |
| Integrations | 8 | 2 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Mural | Retrium |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | — |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | ✓note | — |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓note |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | ✓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 | ✓ | ✓note |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | ✓note |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | ✓ | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
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
Retrium — pros
- + Battle-tested five-phase guided facilitation flow
- + Anonymous brainstorming and grouping by design
- + Persistent team-room action plan that carries forward between retros
- + Team Radar covers psychological safety and custom health checks
- + Per-team-room pricing with unlimited users on every plan
Retrium — cons
- − No free tier; 30-day trial only
- − Integrations are thin beyond Jira Cloud and a <em>still-beta</em> Slack app
- − <strong>No AI features at all</strong> — no summary, clustering, action-item extraction or insights
- − No native Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear or Confluence integration
- − Public shipping cadence has slowed — no 2025 changelog or product blog activity visible
- − Retro-only scope; no planning poker, kudos, icebreakers or whiteboard