EasyRetro
5.7Improve your team with fun sprint retrospectives
EasyRetro (rebranded from FunRetro in November 2020) is a long-running indie retro tool with 100+ templates, drag-and-drop boards, an AI board summary feature added in early 2024, and recent timer, drawing-on-cards and hide-column updates through 2025-2026.
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Echometer
6.1Psychology-backed retros and team health checks for engineering teams
Echometer is a German retrospective and 1:1 meeting platform built around recurring health-check pulses, structured retros, and longitudinal team development tracking. It pitches itself to engineering managers, scrum masters and agile coaches who want <strong>research-grounded surveys</strong> rather than a blank whiteboard.
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EasyRetro scores 5.7 overall and is best for small to mid-size agile teams, scrum masters and consultants who want a clean, fast, low-friction retro tool without enterprise overhead. It offers a free tier.
Echometer scores 6.1 overall and is best for engineering managers and agile coaches who want recurring health-check pulses tied to retros, with EU data residency and a research-flavoured question library. It offers a free tier.
EasyRetro leads on ease of use, fun factor and integrations. Echometer leads on retro toolkit, AI & insights and enterprise-grade.
Across our seven scoring dimensions, Echometer edges ahead with an overall score of 6.1. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | EasyRetro | Echometer |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Mid-market |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | 3 public boards/month, 1 survey per board, no team | Starter: 1 team, 25 workspace members, 1 retro/month after trial, 6-month archive |
| Starting price | $25/mo | €35/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $60/mo (Business plan, 3 teams, unlimited members) | $96/mo billed annually |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2016 | 2019 |
| HQ | Brazil | Münster, Germany |
| Data residency | — | Germany |
| Languages | 2 (English, Portuguese) | 2 (English, German) |
| Features | 24 | 44 |
| Integrations | 5 | 1 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | EasyRetro | Echometer |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓ note |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓ note |
| AI action items | — | ✓ note |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | — | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | ✓ note | — |
| Health Checks | — | ✓ |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | ✓ | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ note | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓ | — |
| Trello | ✓ | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
EasyRetro — pros
- + Extremely easy to use with minimal setup friction and a clean drag-and-drop board
- + Library of 100+ retrospective templates spanning multiple categories and languages
- + Free tier covers basic public boards for small teams or one-off retros
- + Clean export options including Confluence, Jira (now bulk), PDF, CSV, PNG, Excel and DOCX
- + Still actively maintained — timer refresh, drawing on cards and hide-column shipped through 2025-2026
EasyRetro — cons
- − No native health checks, mood tracking or longitudinal trend reporting
- − AI is limited to a single board-summary feature — no auto-grouping, AI action items, sentiment, or template generation
- − Integration set is narrow and mostly export-only — no GitHub, Linear or Azure DevOps; the Teams integration embeds boards as tabs rather than pushing action items
- − Vendor itself isn't SOC 2 / ISO 27001 certified (relies on GCP); SAML SSO is gated to enterprise accounts and there's no SCIM or audit logs
- − Free plan is capped at 3 public boards per month and excludes private team boards
Echometer — pros
- + Health-check question library grounded in University of Münster psychology research
- + Strong longitudinal pulse and team-radar reporting tied to retros
- + EU-only data residency (Open Telekom Cloud, Germany) with GDPR DPA
- + AI Co-Pilot clusters ideas and proposes SMART action items
Echometer — cons
- − Thin chatops integrations — no native Slack, Teams or Confluence
- − No SOC 2; relies on ISO 27001 datacenters and EU residency
- − 1:1 meetings and the deepest AI live in a separate paid product
- − No native scheduling or recurring retros — sessions start manually