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Whiteboard· South Jordan, US· Founded 2010

Lucidspark

Lucid Software's whiteboard with the Lucid AI assistant and tight Lucidchart integration — voting, timers and facilitator tools start at the Team tier

Overall score
6.5
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Overview

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.

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.

How Lucidspark describes itself

Lucid pitches Lucidspark as the virtual whiteboard where ideas ignite — an infinite canvas for brainstorming that hands off into Lucidchart for diagrams and into Jira for delivery.

"Brought to you by Lucid, trusted partner of 99% of the Fortune 500."

The pitch has moved from whiteboard to platform: Enterprise folds Lucidchart in behind a "universal canvas", with Enterprise Shield, Cloud Accelerator and Process Accelerator sold as paid add-ons. The AI story leads with the official MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Codex can search boards, summarise them and generate synced Jira cards. One footnote to budget around: AI is free to all users today but "may be subject to a paid subscription model in the future."

Our take

Lucidspark's engagement layer is better than its reputation: emoji reactions, Giphy and a deep icebreaker template library on every plan, and from Team a timer that can play music, private voting and facilitator controls. Lucid AI sorts stickies into themes, summarises a board and drafts a retro board from a prompt, unmetered for now. Lucid's compliance posture — SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701/42001, FedRAMP Moderate, IRAP PROTECTED, US/EU/AU residency — is the strongest in this category.

The catch is where the retro features sit in the price list. The timer and real voting sessions start at $10/user Team. Starting a private-mode blind brainstorm, Breakout Boards and the Lucid Cards sync to Jira, Azure DevOps and monday.com all need Enterprise, and audit logs need the paid Enterprise Shield add-on on top. The structural gaps stand: no health checks, recurring retros, action carryover or cross-team rollup, and no AI read of sentiment or trends.

Best fit: teams already paying for Lucid Suite whose security review wants a FedRAMP vendor. Thin, and back-loaded on price, as a standalone retro tool.

Score breakdown

Ease of Use7.0
Retro Toolkit5.0
Value5.0
Fun Factor7.0
AI & Insights5.5
Integrations6.5
Open Platform7.0
Enterprise-grade9.0

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

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

Features

Retrospectives

TemplatesCustom templates· Team plan and above; corporate templates on EnterpriseAnonymous input· Private voting sessions hide who voted (Team and above); sticky-note authors show only when 'Show authors' is on, and only private mode (Enterprise to start) keeps them hidden for goodPrivate brainstorm (hide until reveal)· Enterprise only to start a session (Free, Individual and Team users can join one): contents and authors of new sticky notes stay hidden until it ends, with an option to keep authors hidden permanentlyPrivate/public retros· Boards stay private until shared; link sharing and publishing on all plans, passcode and expiry links on Enterprise

Facilitation

Meeting timer· Team plan and aboveAction items· Comments and tasks on all plans; assignable Lucid Cards from Individual; two-way Lucid Cards sync to Jira/Azure DevOps/monday.com — Enterprise accounts onlyPresentation modeScreen-share mode@mentionsComments on cardsDrag-and-drop groupingAsync modeWhiteboard

Voting

Independent dot voting· Static dot voting on Free/Individual; full voting sessions (private, selection, persistent) from TeamCustom vote count· Voting sessions — Team plan and above

Engagement

Mobile friendly· Web-first; mobile app usable but crampedPolling· No dedicated poll widget; Visual Activities (categorisation, sliders, ranking axes) tally responses, anonymously on Team and aboveIcebreakersGIFsEmoji reactionsMusic· Team plan and above: 'Collaborator music' plays a chosen genre for everyone while the timer runsCustom backgroundsPlanning poker· Team estimation Visual Activity — Team plan and aboveCapacity planner· Enterprise only: story-point capacity bars on Dynamic Tables and Timelines (enhanced planning)

AI

AI grouping / clusteringAI template suggestionsAI action items· Lucid AI answers 'what action items are on this board?' and converts selected stickies into Lucid Cards with owner/priority fields on request; no automatic action extractionAI summaryIn-meeting AI assistant· Lucid AI chat panel on every plan: answers questions about the board, edits and sorts it, with a Plan mode for multi-step requests

Reporting

Facilitator meeting notesExport formats· Image, PDF, CSV, JSON

Enterprise

SSO / SAML· SAML SSO on EnterpriseSCIM provisioning· Enterprise tierSOC 2 Type 2GDPR compliantAudit logs· Enterprise Shield add-on (paid, on top of Enterprise): 180-day log with JSON/CSV export and an audit log APIFacilitator-only role· Team plan and above: 'Make me a facilitator' unlocks controls that limit the timer, voting, private mode, author display, locking and hiding to facilitatorsGuest / observer roles· Guest collaborators — Team plan and aboveMeeting history· Boards persist; revision history with versioning on Team plan and aboveEmail domain restrictions· Enterprise tierUptime SLA / dedicated support· Enterprise tierMulti-year contractsISO 27001 certifiedPublic API· Developer platform (REST API) on Team and Enterprise accounts onlyMCP server· Official Lucid MCP server (GA) on all plans, plus a read-only variant; Team/Enterprise admins must enable access, unavailable on FedRAMP accountsData residency· United States, European Union, Australia (Enterprise tier only)Languages· 12 (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, +7 more)

Integrations

Jira· Jira Cloud embed from Team up; bidirectional Lucid Cards for Jira — Enterprise accounts onlyAzure DevOps· Lucid Cards for Azure DevOps — Enterprise accounts onlyAsana· Asana external embed on all plans; bidirectional Lucid Cards for Asana — Enterprise accounts onlyMonday.com· Lucid Cards for monday.com — Enterprise accounts onlySlackMicrosoft TeamsConfluence· Confluence Cloud app embeds live boards from Team up; embedded links on all plansNotion· Embed/share boards in Notion pages

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Sources

Last reviewed: October 5, 2026