EasyRetro
5.8Improve your team with fun sprint retrospectives
EasyRetro (rebranded from FunRetro in November 2020) is a long-running indie retro tool built around a fast drag-and-drop board and a 200-plus template library. 2026 added working AI — card grouping, board-column generation from a theme prompt and meeting summaries — plus numeric-scale and multiple-choice surveys, dashboard bulk actions, free PNG/CSV export and organisation audit logs.
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NimbleRetro
3.8Time-boxed retros with 5-Why root cause analysis
NimbleRetro is the retrospective module inside NimbleWork's broader Nimble agile platform. It runs a time-boxed retro through Icebreaker, Ideate, Group, Vote, Discuss and Feedback stages, ending in a 5-Why root cause drill-down on whatever the team voted up. Action items created in the Discuss stage convert directly into Nimble work items (user stories, cards) in the project the retro was created from. There is no separate purchase — Retrospectives ship to every Public SaaS Nimble account by default.
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EasyRetro scores 5.8 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.
NimbleRetro scores 3.8 overall and is best for small agile teams already inside the Nimble suite that want a structured, time-boxed retro ending in a real root cause analysis, with the follow-up landing in the same backlog they already work from. It offers paid plans from $15/mo (up to 20 users).
EasyRetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, value, fun factor, AI & insights and integrations. NimbleRetro leads on open platform and enterprise-grade.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, EasyRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 5.8. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | EasyRetro | NimbleRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | 1 public board/month (max 1 on the dashboard, including archived), 1 survey per board, no teams or team boards, no AI features; unlimited participants and free PNG/CSV export | Free trial only; no permanent free tier published for the retro module. A $0 Nimble suite plan (10 users / 10 projects) appears in a secondary table on the suite pricing page, but Retrospectives appear neither there nor in the suite's full feature-comparison table |
| Starting price | $25/mo | $15/mo (up to 20 users) |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $60/mo (Business plan, 3 teams, unlimited members; $50/mo billed annually) | $240/mo (24 users x $10/user/mo Nimble Team tier); NimbleRetro's own $15/mo plan caps at 20 users and no larger standalone tier is published |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2016 | 2002 |
| HQ | Brazil | Cupertino, CA, United States |
| Data residency | United States | United States · European Union |
| Languages | 8 (English, Portuguese, Dutch, …) | English only |
| Export formats | PDF · CSV · Image · Excel · Word · Confluence · Jira | — |
| Features | 34 | 19 |
| Integrations | 5 | 4 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | EasyRetro | NimbleRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓ |
| Health Checks | ✓note | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | — | — |
| Whiteboard | — | — |
| Independent voting | ✓ | — |
| Polling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Icebreaker games | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | — |
| AI action items | — | — |
| AI Summaries | ✓ | — |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | — |
| Action dashboard | ✓ | ✓note |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | ✓ | — |
| GitHub | — | ✓note |
| GitLab | — | ✓note |
| Jira | ✓ | — |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓note | ✓note |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓note | ✓note |
| Trello | ✓ | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓note |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | ✓note |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | ✓note |
| Webhooks | — | ✓note |
| MCP server | — | ✓note |
EasyRetro — pros
- + Fastest setup of any tool we run: pick a template, share a link, participants join with no account
- + AI now does real work on the board — card grouping with reviewable merge suggestions, a meeting summary, and board columns generated from a theme prompt
- + Survey engine got serious in June 2026: single-choice, multiple-choice and numeric-scale polls with Team Health Check, Team Safety, mood and meeting-value templates
- + Flat per-team pricing with unlimited members — $60/mo covers three teams of any size — and PNG/CSV export went free in July 2026
- + Plainly still shipping: five changelog entries in 2026, most recently organisation audit logs in July
EasyRetro — cons
- − The health surveys are one question on one board — no health model, no cadence, no trend line across sprints
- − Integrations are export-shaped: Jira, Confluence and Trello take cards out, Slack only announces new boards, and there's no GitHub, Linear, Azure DevOps or calendar
- − No public API, no webhooks and no MCP server — automation stops at the export button
- − Vendor holds no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 (it leans on Google Cloud's), data sits in US Central with no EU option, SAML SSO starts at $90/mo, audit logs at $150/mo, and SCIM doesn't exist
- − Free plan is now 1 public board per month and 1 board total on the dashboard (archived included), with AI features excluded
NimbleRetro — pros
- + 5-Why root cause analysis is a <em>built-in retro stage</em>, not an afterthought — almost no other retro tool ships one
- + Anonymous voting plus a facilitator-set timer on every stage keeps a 60-minute retro on the rails
- + Action items convert directly into Nimble work items, so follow-up lands in the same backlog the team already works from
- + Included by default in every Public SaaS Nimble account — no separate purchase, no tier upgrade, available to all user roles
- + NimbleWork runs annual SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 audits, supports SAMLv2/ADFSv3 SSO, and publishes a separate EU data region
NimbleRetro — cons
- − The dedicated NimbleRetro iOS and Android apps have been delisted from both the App Store and Google Play, while the product pages still advertise them
- − No health checks, no recurring retros, no async mode, and no documented export of a retro board in any format
- − The platform surface — REST API, outgoing webhooks and the new Nimble MCP server — reaches Nimble cards only; none of it touches a retro, and no AI runs on retro data despite the Retrium comparison page ticking <em>Generative AI</em>
- − Participants are limited to members of the Nimble project the retro was created from, and the module is unavailable outside Public SaaS
- − No rate card: the only NimbleRetro-specific price NimbleWork publishes ($15/mo for up to 20 users) sits on a blog post, and the retro 'pricing' page is a product page with a demo form
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