For Scrum Masters

For Scrum Masters who run ceremonies on real whiteboards.

BoardSnap is an iOS app that turns whiteboard photos into structured summaries and action plans in ten seconds. For Scrum Masters, that means every sprint ceremony — planning, retro, standup, refinement — produces a clean artifact from the board, not a photo that gets forgotten in a Slack thread.

Download on the App Store Free to start. Pro from $9.99/mo or $69.99/yr.

What hurts today

Sprint planning boards with capacity, stories, and acceptance criteria take 20-30 minutes to transcribe into Jira after the ceremony
Retro boards produce great feedback that loses momentum because the action items aren't tracked with owners and due dates
Daily standup boards — who's doing what, what's blocked — get erased without ever being digitized
Refinement session boards where the team is breaking down epics produce story-level decisions that don't make it cleanly into the backlog
Impediment tracking on a physical board isn't connected to the digital follow-through system, so blockers linger
Sprint review boards with the demo checklist and acceptance status get photographed and never systematically reviewed

How BoardSnap helps

Snap the sprint planning board and get a structured task list — stories assigned to team members, flagged as open — ready to paste into Jira or Linear before the team leaves the room
Retro boards produce categorized action items with owners — open/in-progress/done — so 'we identified the problem' turns into 'we tracked whether we fixed it'
Standup boards snap to a clean status update per team member — useful for async team members who weren't in the room
Impediment boards produce a prioritized blocker list with action items assigned to the right escalation owner
Brand-aware AI writes ceremony summaries in your team's language — your story naming, your team vocabulary, your sprint framing
Projects scope board history per sprint or per quarter — the pattern across retros is visible without digging through photos

A day with BoardSnap

Sprint planning
Map stories to team members, flag dependencies, and agree on the sprint goal. Snap. BoardSnap produces a structured sprint plan — stories with assignees and status, sprint goal captured, and open risks flagged — ready for Jira entry.
Daily standup board
Run the standup with your physical kanban or task board. Snap at the end. BoardSnap produces a per-person status snapshot — what's done, what's in progress, what's blocked — shareable to async teammates in seconds.
Sprint retrospective
Three columns or any retro format. Snap. The categorized summary lands — what worked, what didn't, specific action items with owners. Open in the next retro to close out last sprint's items before generating new ones.
Refinement session
Break down epics into stories, agree on acceptance criteria, estimate together. Snap the final board. The story-level decisions and acceptance criteria are documented — the Jira ticket descriptions write themselves.
Impediment board
Track blockers by owner and status on the board. Snap. BoardSnap produces an impediment list organized by who needs to act — team, management, external — with action items and open escalations flagged.

Features that matter for scrum masters

Ceremony format reading

BoardSnap AI reads sprint planning task assignments, kanban board layouts, retro column formats, and impediment lists. It preserves the structure of Scrum ceremony boards — not just the content.

Tri-state action items

Open / in-progress / done. The status system that makes retro action items trackable across sprints — not just a list that resets every two weeks.

Projects per team or sprint

One project per team. Every ceremony board in a quarter lives in the project — the pattern across retros, the history of impediments, the sprint plan evolution — all searchable.

Brand-aware AI

Paste your team's confluence space or your organization's Scrum process documentation. BoardSnap AI learns your team's naming conventions, your story format, and your ceremony vocabulary.

Pinned context

Pin the team's working agreements or the Definition of Done. Every board chat already knows the team's commitments — summaries reference the actual agreed standards, not generic Scrum Guide defaults.

Frequently asked

Can BoardSnap replace a Jira for sprint tracking?

BoardSnap is a capture and summarization tool, not a sprint management system. It produces the structured content that goes into Jira — stories, tasks, impediments, retro action items — faster than manual transcription. Use it alongside your sprint tool, not instead of it.

How does it handle a physical kanban board with sticky notes?

Snap the board. BoardSnap AI reads the column structure and sticky content and produces a status summary by column — to-do, in-progress, done — with each item's status and owner. Dense sticky boards produce better output with short, clearly labeled stickies.

Can I use BoardSnap to track retro action items across sprints?

Yes. Each retro board in the project gets its own snapshot. At the start of the next retro, open the previous board's action items in the project and update status before generating new ones. The history of what was committed and what was delivered builds automatically.

What's the best way to use BoardSnap for distributed Scrum teams?

The Scrum Master in the room snaps the ceremony board; the summary is available to distributed team members immediately. Remote members can chat with BoardSnap AI against the board content — useful for teams that run hybrid ceremonies.

Is BoardSnap useful for Scrum of Scrums or program-level boards?

Yes — program-level boards with multiple team dependencies, cross-team impediments, and PI planning outputs are exactly the kind of complex multi-team content where BoardSnap's structured output saves the most time.

Built for scrum masters who ship.

Snap a whiteboard. Ship the action plan. In ten seconds.

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Free · 1 project, 30 boards Pro $9.99/mo · everything unlimited Pro $69.99/yr · save 42%