Mural
6.6Visual collaboration whiteboard with a mature facilitation toolkit and AI-assisted sessions
Mural is a long-established visual collaboration platform — an infinite canvas with sticky notes, anonymous voting, timers, Private Mode, 250+ workshop templates (eight of them retro-specific), Mural AI (cluster, summarise, mind-map, Classify by emotional tone), and a Facilitation Superpowers toolkit (Outline, Timer, Voting, Private Mode, Summon, Celebrate) refined for over a decade. Best-in-class enterprise posture: SSO/SAML with multi-IdP support, SCIM, BYOK, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, GDPR and US/EU/Australia 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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Mural scores 6.6 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.
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.
Mural 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 | Mural | TeamRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Any |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | Unlimited murals but only the 3 most recently created stay editable (older go view-only); unlimited members and view-only visitors; no Mural AI or MCP | No free plan — 30-day trial, no credit card required |
| Starting price | $9.99/user/mo billed annually ($12/user/mo billed monthly) | $20.83/mo billed annually ($25/mo billed monthly) — Single Team, 1 team, 25 members |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $240/mo billed annually ($288/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 | 2011 | 2017 |
| HQ | San Francisco, US | Australia |
| Data residency | United States · European Union · Australia | United States · European Union |
| Languages | 9 (English, Spanish, German, …) | 27 (English, Arabic, Czech, …) |
| Export formats | Image · PDF · PowerPoint · HTML · CSV | Excel · CSV · PDF · Markdown · Email · Image · Confluence · Notion |
| Features | 43 | 70 |
| Integrations | 10 | 15 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Mural | TeamRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | ✓ |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓note | ✓ |
| Icebreaker games | — | ✓note |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | ✓ |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI action items | — | ✓ |
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | ✓ |
| In-meeting AI assistant | ✓note | ✓note |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | ✓note | ✓ |
| Azure DevOps | ✓note | ✓ |
| Basecamp | — | ✓ |
| ClickUp | — | ✓ |
| Confluence | ✓ | ✓ |
| GitHub | ✓note | ✓ |
| GitLab | — | ✓ |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓ |
| Linear | ✓note | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monday.com | — | ✓ |
| Notion | ✓note | ✓ |
| Shortcut | — | ✓ |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trello | ✓note | ✓ |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓note |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓ |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | ✓note |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | ✓note | ✓ |
| Webhooks | — | ✓ |
| MCP server | ✓note | ✓ |
Mural — pros
- + Mature facilitation toolkit — Outline, Timer, Voting, Private Mode, Summon, Celebrate — refined over 10+ years
- + Anonymous where it counts: votes hide who voted, and Private Mode can keep sticky authors hidden even after reveal
- + Best-in-class enterprise posture: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and 42001, GDPR, SSO/SAML (multi-IdP), SCIM, BYOK, US/EU/Australia residency
- + Two-way work-item cards for Jira and Azure DevOps and, since September 2026, Linear issues and GitHub pull requests, all editable inside the mural
- + Five export formats (PDF, PNG, PPT, HTML bundle, CSV of stickies) — unusually broad for a canvas tool
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 health checks, mood tracking, 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 needs the $17.99/user/mo Business tier; SCIM, audit logs and data residency are Enterprise-only
- − The public API is still labelled beta and has no webhooks, and the MCP server is a public preview that needs the mural open in a browser tab
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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