FigJam

FigJam is the whiteboard product inside Figma — sticky notes, timer, music, stamps and emotes, voting sessions, one-click AI that sorts and summarises stickies, and 300+ ready-made templates including community retro boards. Design and product teams already living in Figma get retros without buying a second tool, backed by Figma's SAML/SCIM, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and Enterprise data residency in the EU, Australia, India, Brazil and Japan. Figma's official MCP server reads FigJam boards on every plan; letting an agent write to them is a beta that needs a Full seat. Voting sessions, open guest sessions, audio chat and webhooks all require a paid team; publishing custom templates requires Organization.

FigJam pitches itself as "The Online Collaborative Whiteboard for Teams" — bundled inside Figma, included with every seat on every plan, for design and product teams who already collaborate there.

"Define ideas, align on decisions, and move work forward—all in one place."

Starter gives a team 3 FigJam files, 300+ templates, the timer, music and 500 AI credits a month, but voting sessions, open guest sessions, audio chat and webhooks all need a paid team. Unlimited boards start at a $3/user/mo Collab seat (annual; $5 monthly) with full FigJam editing and view-only Figma Design, so facilitators skip the $16 Full seat. The 2026 pitch has tilted toward agents — Figma now sells FigJam as the canvas your coding agent draws on.

FigJam is one of the liveliest boards to run a retro on. Stamps, emotes, high-fives, music and cursor chat carry participation without the facilitator working for it, and AI Sort/Summarize does the real job: it clusters stickies by theme, then drafts a summary with next steps in one click, at no credit cost. That energy is whiteboard play rather than a retro flow, though: no kudos, no check-ins, no built-in icebreaker games.

The gaps are the ones every whiteboard has: no tracked action items, no recurring retros, no health checks, no cross-team reporting. Actions leave the board only when someone runs the Jira, GitHub or Asana widget on selected stickies, and nothing carries into the next sprint. Anonymity is thin, and any editor can start or end the timer and the vote.

The platform is the standout: Figma's official MCP server reads FigJam boards on every plan, though paid Collab seats get six calls a month.

Best if Figma is already home. If it isn't, a dedicated retro tool buys you owners, due dates and carryover for similar money.