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The Mural alternative built for retrospectives, not a blank canvas
See why agile teams and their leaders choose TeamRetro over Mural.
Why choose TeamRetro over Mural?
Intuitive and easy to use
Get ready to go templates, guided steps and user first design that lets you facilitate with ease.
Focus on actions
Run smarter meetings that stay on track, stay efficient, and finish with a clear set of actions.
Data driven insights
Boost team performance and support ongoing improvement with meaningful insights.
TeamRetro is a purpose-built Mural alternative for agile retrospectives and team health checks. Instead of a flexible canvas you assemble yourself, it gives you guided retros with automated grouping, health-check models, scheduled recurring meetings and SOC 2 Type 2 security.
Teams usually switch when running the canvas becomes its own job. Every Mural retrospective starts with preparing a board, and the facilitator spends the session herding sticky notes, grouping themes and copying actions out to a PDF or Jira. Mural’s facilitation tools (voting, timer, private mode, summon) are solid, but the retro process itself is yours to design and police. AI clustering and summaries sit on the paid plans, the free plan caps you at 3 editable murals at a time, and per-member pricing grows with every participant. TeamRetro flips that. Pick one of 275+ retrospective templates and guided facilitation walks the team from private brainstorming through grouping, independent voting and agreed actions, on every plan.
Moving is light because there is nothing to migrate. Start your next retro in TeamRetro from a template, invite the team with a link, and carry open actions forward from sprint to sprint. Team-based pricing (from $25 per team per month) replaces Mural’s per-member pricing, so inviting a stakeholder or a new hire to one retro does not change the bill, and you keep SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliance when you switch.
Mural remains excellent at what it is built for: open-ended visual collaboration, workshops and design sprints. If your team mostly whiteboards and occasionally retros, it may be enough. If retrospectives are a recurring ritual you want structured, measured and actioned, a purpose-built retrospective tool earns its keep.
See how TeamRetro compares to Mural
TeamRetro is a safe, reliable and easy to use agile retrospective, health check and estimation tool. With simple to use features, facilitated meetings and a UI that makes meetings flow with ease. Capture actions that you can track over time. Create continuous improvements and build great teams.
| Feature area | TeamRetro | Mural |
|---|---|---|
| Retrospective templates | 275+ purpose-built | Free canvas templates you adapt |
| Guided facilitation | Walks the team from ideas to agreed actions | Outline steps you author yourself |
| Schedule future / recurring retros | Supported | Not supported |
| Health checks & radars | Supported | DIY sticky notes on a canvas |
| Health metrics and trends over time | Supported | Not supported |
| Automated grouping | Included on every plan | Mural AI clustering, paid plans only |
| Anonymous idea entry | Anonymous, semi-anonymous or named per meeting | Private mode hides notes during entry |
| Independent dot voting | All plans, flexible settings | All plans |
| Presentation mode | Syncs every participant's device | Summon brings everyone to the same view |
| Icebreakers | Supported | Templates only |
| Check in/check out questions | Supported | Not supported |
| Comment on ideas by others | Supported | Supported |
| Async participation | Supported | Supported |
| Review open actions | Carry actions from retro to retro | Export to PDF or CSV |
| Propose actions against ideas | Supported | Not supported |
| In-meeting AI assistant | Ask trAI to summarize, capture actions and look up past meetings | Mural AI summaries and mind maps, paid plans |
| Team sentiment | Tracked across meetings and over time | AI Classify reads one board's mood, paid plans |
| SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR compliant | Supported | Supported |
| Pricing per team | Team and volume based pricing | Member based pricing |
References: Mural pricing · Mural retrospective use case · Mural AI · Mural trust center
Get from idea to action faster than Mural
Get TeamRetro's toolkit designed to help you run effective, action-driven retrospectives, health checks and estimations.
Create your perfect retro
Start from 275+ templates or build your own.
Set the stage
Warm up with an icebreaker or check-in question.
Rich facilitation at your fingertips
Guide every step with timers, prompts and presentation mode.
Vote privately and discuss openly
Independent dot voting surfaces what matters most.
Propose, capture and track actions
Turn discussion into owned, trackable next steps.
Generate and share summaries instantly
AI-written summaries ready to share the moment you wrap up.
Discover insights, trends and patterns
Track team sentiment and agile metrics over time.
Survey team health
Run health checks and radars to see how the team is really doing.
Save time and gain focus
Automatically group ideas, highlight key themes, suggest next steps and generate clear summaries. Then ask trAI, your in-meeting assistant, for anything else you need.
Explore our retrospective template gallery
A sample of the 275+ ready-to-run formats your team can start with: classic columns, illustrated and themed boards, and dark mode for late-day retros.
Agile retrospective
Scrum values retrospective
Psychological safety retrospective
Rollercoaster retrospective
Energy levels in dark mode
Enterprise-grade security, compliance, and control
TeamRetro is SOC 2 Type 2 accredited by an independent auditor who has evaluated our policies, product, platform, and infrastructure in accordance with the Standard on Assurance Engagements (ASAE 3150).
GDPR compliance and regional hosting (US & EU)
Single Sign-On (SSO) via SAML
SCIM for scalable user provisioning
Audit logs available on request
We maintain 99.99% uptime, with fast-response SLAs to ensure your teams stay productive and supported.Status dashboard
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What TeamRetro users say
TeamRetro helped our teams effectively manage retrospective meetings, even in a remote setup, saving time and increasing productivity.
In software development and consultancy, human factors can be the difference between ‘okay’ and ‘awesome.’ That’s why we hold weekly check-ins, and TeamRetro lets team members share their thoughts before meetings.
TeamRetro is a product where every detail is considered – simple usage, and good design. different flows for different needs, highly customizable, real-time features. It allows you to enter a retrospective or health check meeting comfortably and be ready for the meeting as a team leader.
TeamRetro fits very well because it requires minimum learning effort and delivers the expected result. I have never heard negative feedback about this tool and rather see a constantly growing interest from the individuals and departments who encounter and try the tool.
TeamRetro’s Team Health Check feature allowed us to run quick surveys, providing a pulse on how our teams felt about aspects like communication and workload.
The interface is clean and super intuitive and the flow was easy to navigate. I love the different options for retro types and the sticky note and dot voting experience was great. And finally, the ability to create actions was a fantastic finish. Your team should be SO PROUD.
I’m a big fan of retrospectives and other structured brainstorming meeting formats to unlock the potential in our organization, and I found TeamRetro to be the best solution on the market.
Excellent, it’s exactly what we expected and even more, we liked very much the idea of incorporating in the report not only the current retro actions but also the pending ones from earlier retros.
Probably one of the best applications we’ve used to conduct a retrospective. Seeing everyone interact with the board and share their opinions was awesome! The integrations with our Jira board is great. Allows us to track our goals and ensure they’re owned. Thank You, thumbs up from me👍
With the step-by-step framework TeamRetro provides, it enables small teams to hold regular retrospectives with alternating team members in the facilitating role.
I am a software engineer at Zocdoc and I have been looking for a great to use retrospective tool. We gave TeamRetro a trial and it was an awesome experience.
It is intuitive, easy to use, and helps the team tremendously to perform a constructive retrospective. Also, the health check fully meets our requirements.
