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Whiteboard · Amsterdam, NL · Founded 2011

Miro

Innovation Workspace where retros happen on the same canvas as discovery and planning

Overall score
8.1

Overview

Miro is the dominant online whiteboard, now repositioned as an AI-powered Innovation Workspace. It pairs an infinite canvas with 5,000+ retro templates, AI clustering by sentiment/keyword/author, Sidekicks (AI teammates) and Flows (multi-step AI workflows), real-time + async collaboration, and a 250+ app marketplace including Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Confluence, Slack and Microsoft Teams.

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.

How Miro describes itself

Miro pitches itself as an AI-powered Innovation Workspace where cross-functional teams move from brainstorm to breakthrough on a single intelligent canvas. The 2026 homepage leads with:

"Get from brainstorm to breakthrough with Miro — collaborative AI workflows that help your team build the right thing, faster."

Sidekicks (AI teammates), Flows (multi-step AI workflows), AI Playbooks and "Your AI & Knowledge" (bring-your-own-model + proprietary data) are positioned as the answer to tool sprawl and stalled meetings. Docs, Tables, Slides, Diagrams and the multiplayer canvas all live under one subscription. The target buyer is product, design and engineering leadership at mid-market and enterprise companies who want one platform instead of stitched-together point tools.

Our take

Miro is the strongest general-purpose canvas on the market and a credible retro venue if your team already lives there. The community template library is enormous, AI clustering by sentiment and keyword saves real facilitator time, and the two-way Jira, Azure DevOps and Asana integrations turn sticky notes into tracked work in a click. Enterprise readiness — SSO, SCIM, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 (AI governance), SOC 2, audit logs, EU/US/AU residency — is genuinely first-class, and the changelog ships every week.

Where Miro falls short against dedicated retro tools is the things a dedicated tool would obviously do: no built-in cadence, no health checks, no mood tracking, no recurring-retro scheduling, no cross-team rollup, no action-tracker dashboard. Facilitators rebuild structure on a blank board each sprint. The other catch is cost: meaningful Jira sync, SSO and unlimited guests sit behind the $20/user/mo Business tier, with SCIM and audit logs reserved for Enterprise (30-seat minimum).

Excellent if Miro is already your platform. Overkill if it isn't.

Score breakdown

Ease of Use 8.0
Retro Toolkit 7.0
Value 6.0
Fun Factor 8.5
AI & Insights 8.0
Integrations 9.5
Enterprise-grade 9.5

Pros

  • + Enormous template library (5,000+) and Miroverse community for retro formats
  • + AI clustering groups sticky notes by sentiment, tag, author and keyword; Sidekicks and Flows extend AI deeper into the canvas
  • + Best-in-class integration catalog (Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Confluence, Slack, Teams) with two-way sync
  • + Enterprise-grade SSO, SCIM, audit logs, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 (AI governance) and EU/US/AU data residency
  • + Same canvas works for discovery, planning and retros — no context switching

Cons

  • Per-seat pricing scales painfully if retros are the primary use case
  • No native health checks, mood tracking or longitudinal team-pulse
  • No recurring retros, scheduling, action carryover or cross-team rollup — facilitators rebuild structure each sprint
  • Jira/Azure DevOps/Asana sync and SSO sit behind the $20/user/mo Business tier; SCIM and audit logs only on Enterprise (30-seat min)
  • No built-in retro report or action-tracker dashboard

Features

Templates Custom templates Anonymous input* Private/public retros* Meeting timer Action items* Presentation mode Screen-share mode @mentions Drag-and-drop grouping Async mode Whiteboard Independent dot voting Custom vote count Mobile friendly* Polling* Icebreakers GIFs Custom backgrounds Planning poker* AI grouping / clustering AI summary AI sentiment / heatmaps* Facilitator meeting notes SSO / SAML* SCIM provisioning* SOC 2 Type 2 GDPR compliant Audit logs* Guest / observer roles* Meeting history* Email domain restrictions* Uptime SLA / dedicated support* Multi-year contracts Multi-language support* ISO 27001 certified Data residency options*

Integrations

Jira* Azure DevOps* GitHub* Trello* Asana* Slack Microsoft Teams Confluence

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