EasyRetro
5.3Improve 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, drawing-on-cards (August 2025), and 2026 updates including hide-column controls and on-the-fly timer controls (pause/resume, +1 minute).
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Echometer
5.3Psychology-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 research-grounded surveys rather than a blank whiteboard.
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EasyRetro scores 5.3 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 5.3 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, integrations and open platform. Echometer leads on retro toolkit, AI & insights and enterprise-grade.
EasyRetro and Echometer are evenly matched overall. The right choice comes down to which dimensions matter most to your team.
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| Detail | EasyRetro | Echometer |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Mid-market |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | 2 public boards/month (max 2 on the dashboard, including archived), 1 survey per board, no teams or team boards, unlimited participants | Starter: 1 team, 25 workspace members, unlimited retro guests, 1 retro/month after trial, 2-retro archive per team |
| Starting price | $25/mo | €29/team/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $60/mo (Business plan, 3 teams, unlimited members; $50/mo billed annually) | €87/mo billed annually (3 teams × €29 Pro) |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2016 | 2019 |
| HQ | Brazil | Münster, Germany |
| Data residency | — | Germany |
| Languages | 2 (English, Portuguese) | 2 (English, German) |
| Export formats | PDF · CSV · Image · Excel · Word · Confluence · Jira | PDF · Markdown · Email |
| Features | 25 | 43 |
| Integrations | 5 | 1 |
Feature & integration comparison
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| Capability | EasyRetro | Echometer |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | — |
| 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 | — | — |
| MCP server | — | — |
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
- + Clean export options including Confluence, Jira (now bulk), PDF, CSV, PNG, Excel and DOCX
- + Flat per-team pricing with unlimited members — $60/mo covers three teams of any size
- + Still actively maintained — hide-column and on-the-fly timer controls shipped in 2026, and the web app was rebuilt from AngularJS onto Vue mid-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); data sits in US Central with no EU residency option, SAML SSO starts at the $90/mo tier, and there's no SCIM
- − Free plan allows 2 public boards per month, keeps only 2 boards on the dashboard (archived ones included), and excludes teams and team boards entirely
Echometer — pros
- + 200+ research-grounded health-check items, custom models and automated pulse rotation
- + Longitudinal team radars, heatmaps and workspace dashboards tied to retros
- + EU-only data residency (Open Telekom Cloud, Germany) with GDPR DPA
- + Open actions resurface automatically in the next retro, with email reminders to owners
- + Per-team pricing — €87/mo covers three teams of eight, billed annually
Echometer — cons
- − Thin integrations — Jira and calendar sync only; no Slack, Teams or Confluence
- − No public API or webhooks; export is PDF and Markdown only
- − No SOC 2 — the ISO 27001 certificate covers the datacenter, not Echometer itself
- − Retro-side AI stops at suggesting measures; transcript coaching is a separately-priced 1:1 product
- − No scheduled or recurring retros — you copy a past format and start each session manually
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