Estimioo
4.6AI-powered planning poker, retrospectives and standups for agile teams
Estimioo is a lightweight, browser-based agile-ceremony tool that bundles AI-assisted planning poker, a 42-format sprint retrospective board and async daily standups into one shared workspace. The centre of gravity is still estimation, but the retro module is a real one: one-click formats, a 2–25 minute session timer, per-card thumbs-up voting, synced icebreakers, twelve ambient and music tracks, and a Claude-powered summary that returns team mood, key themes and ranked action items. What it is not is a facilitation suite — retro cards carry their author's name and avatar with no anonymity option anywhere in the product, and there is no grouping, no dot-vote budget and no action-item owners or carry-over between sprints.
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QRetro
6.3Manage team health, not sticky notes
QRetro is a completely free retrospective tool with no seat or team caps, built by solo developer Roman Ermilov and shipping since January 2023. It runs a fixed seven-stage session — optional health check, optional icebreaker game, cards, grouping, voting, discussion, results — and closes with an OpenAI-generated summary, a ROTI score, suggested next steps and an analysis layer that clusters the cards by topic, sentiment and urgency. An official, open-source MCP server exposes 29 read/write tools so Claude, Cursor or VS Code can query boards, health trends and actions directly.
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Estimioo scores 4.6 overall and is best for small, distributed agile teams who want fast AI-assisted planning poker and async standups at near-zero cost, plus a genuinely usable 42-format retro board — and who don't need anonymity, grouping, or action-item follow-through across sprints. It offers a free tier.
QRetro scores 6.3 overall and is best for small agile teams and independent squads that want a genuinely well-equipped retro — 52 templates, health checks, ROTI, timer, in-board surveys, icebreaker games and MCP access — at zero cost, and can accept a solo-maintainer vendor with no SSO, no PDF or spreadsheet export and no certifications. It offers a free tier.
QRetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations and open platform.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, QRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 6.3. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Estimioo | QRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | All-in-One Agile | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Up to 10 participants, 5 sessions/month (estimation + retro combined), 5 AI estimates/month, 1 AI retro summary per retro, 1 standup room with 7-day history, 1-hour session expiry, CSV export | Everything is free with no seat or team caps — 52 templates, unlimited public and team boards, planning poker, team games, health checks, ROTI, summaries and MCP access |
| Starting price | $7/workspace/mo | Free |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $7/mo (Team plan is flat per-workspace with unlimited participants, not per-seat; separate projects per team need the quote-only Enterprise tier) | Free (no paid tier) |
| Enterprise | Yes | No |
| Founded | — | 2023 |
| HQ | — | — |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 5 (English, German, Spanish, …) | English only |
| Export formats | CSV · JSON | Markdown · Email · JSON |
| Features | 25 | 38 |
| Integrations | 4 | 3 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Estimioo | QRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓note | ✓note |
| Anonymous input | — | ✓note |
| Health Checks | ✓note | ✓note |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓note | — |
| Whiteboard | — | — |
| Independent voting | ✓note | ✓ |
| Polling | — | ✓note |
| Icebreaker games | — | ✓note |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | ✓note |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓note |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓note |
| AI action items | ✓note | ✓note |
| AI Summaries | ✓note | ✓ |
| Team Insights | ✓note | ✓note |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | — |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓note |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓note |
| Linear | ✓note | ✓note |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓note | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓note | ✓note |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | — | ✓note |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | — |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | — | ✓ |
Estimioo — pros
- + Genuinely cheap — flat <strong>$7/workspace/mo</strong> with unlimited participants, plus a usable free tier
- + 42 one-click retro formats, a 2–25 minute session timer and per-card upvoting — all verified in a live board
- + Unusually fun for the price: 340+ synced icebreakers, twelve ambient and music tracks, and 16 live emoji reactions
- + One-click Claude retro summary returns team mood, key themes and ranked action items with <em>Add all to board</em>
- + Full in-product UI in five languages (EN/DE/ES/FR/PT); guests join by link or QR with no signup
Estimioo — cons
- − Retro cards are <strong>attributed</strong> — author name and avatar on every note, with no anonymity option anywhere in the product
- − No grouping or clustering — dragging a card only reorders it or moves it between columns; no dot-vote budget, no action-item owners or due dates, no carry-over between retros
- − Slack and Teams are clipboard-copy buttons rather than integrations; Jira is estimation-only with write-back still on the roadmap, and there's no API, webhooks or MCP
- − No SOC 2, ISO 27001, DPA or data-residency option, and the privacy policy still dates to April 2025 — the quote-only Enterprise tier's SSO claim remains unpublished and unverified
- − Social proof is entirely unattributed — <em>450+ teams</em>, a <em>4.8</em> rating and a logo wall naming Accenture, Deloitte, Thoughtworks and Xero, with no G2, Capterra or Product Hunt listing to corroborate any of it
QRetro — pros
- + Genuinely free with no seat caps, team caps or paywalled features — a 24-person org across three teams pays nothing, and there is no paid tier to be upsold to
- + Retro toolkit is deep for a free product: 52 templates, editable columns, private-mode submission, a timer, drag-and-drop grouping with auto-named groups, presentation mode, up to five in-board surveys, action items with owners and due dates, ROTI and a radar-charted health check stage
- + The analysis layer is the surprise — every card gets a system-assigned sentiment, category and urgency score, and the <strong>Perception Mirror</strong> compares the system's own topic clusters against the groups the team made and names the ones that quietly hold three different problems
- + Unusually strong engagement layer for a product that charges nothing — four built-in games (Draw & Guess, Sprint in one GIF, Hangman, Decoded) usable as a switchable icebreaker stage, plus GIF cards, emoji reactions and live cursors. TeleRetro and the whiteboard tools still go further, mainly on music and ambient audio
- + Official MCP server at a single address (mcp.qretro.com) with 29 read, write and delete tools, two analysis prompts and OAuth sign-in — verified live at v1.3.0, and the server source is public on GitHub
- + Guest access with no account or password, and guest contributions persist permanently rather than expiring after a day
- + Visibly active for a solo project: 14 dated changelog entries in 2026 (MCP, OAuth, poker over MCP, two new games), legal pages rewritten in late July 2026 and a site rebuild on 15 August 2026
QRetro — cons
- − Built and maintained by a single developer (Roman Ermilov) with no support team, SLA or published company entity — the enterprise-grade cap for founder-only vendors applies regardless of how good the product is
- − No enterprise controls: no SSO or SAML, no SCIM, no audit logs, no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, and no published hosting location or data-residency option
- − Export is thin — a Markdown copy of the summary, an email to the team, a Slack or Telegram recap, and a JSON dump of your own account data. There is no PDF, CSV or Excel, so there is nothing to hand a stakeholder and nothing to drop into a spreadsheet
- − Integration set is narrow: Jira, Linear, Slack and Telegram only — nothing for Teams, Confluence, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps or any other tracker
- − No async or distributed-team support — the seven-stage flow assumes a live session, and there are no recurring or scheduled retros
- − Vote allowance is computed automatically (cards + 3, capped at 10) rather than set by the facilitator, the timer maxes out at 30 minutes, and the stage order itself cannot be customised
- − No working-agreements artifact that survives between retros — what the vendor calls an 'agreement' is an action item on a board
- − No cross-team or org-level reporting: the Analytics section of the dashboard is still labelled <em>Coming soon</em>, so health and action data stays inside a single team's boards
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