GoRetro
5.2Make every sprint impactful, efficient, and fun
GoRetro is a sprint-centric retro and estimation suite combining retrospectives, planning poker, capacity planning and a Jira-fed sprint monitor, with a limited free plan and flat per-team paid pricing.
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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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GoRetro scores 5.2 overall and is best for scrum teams that live in Jira and want a polished retro plus planning-poker bundle priced per team, and can live without an active roadmap. 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).
GoRetro 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, GoRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 5.2. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | GoRetro | NimbleRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Any | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | Free plan: 1 team, 5 public boards, 2 team boards per 31-day cycle, 3 columns per board, unlimited users and guests, 20+ templates. Excludes exports, retro analytics, Jira sync, happiness index, polls, icebreakers and action-item management. No longer listed on the pricing page — you land on it when the 30-day trial ends. | 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 | $29/team/mo | $15/mo (up to 20 users) |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $87/mo (Premium, 3 teams, billed annually; $105/mo billed monthly) | $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 | 2020 | 2002 |
| HQ | Israel | Cupertino, CA, United States |
| Data residency | United States | United States · European Union |
| Languages | English only | English only |
| Export formats | PDF · CSV · Image | — |
| Features | 35 | 19 |
| Integrations | 2 | 4 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | GoRetro | NimbleRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓ |
| Health Checks | ✓note | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓note | — |
| Whiteboard | — | — |
| Independent voting | ✓ | — |
| Polling | ✓note | ✓ |
| Icebreaker games | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Team Kudos | ✓note | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | — |
| AI action items | — | — |
| AI Summaries | — | — |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | — |
| Action dashboard | ✓note | ✓note |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | ✓note |
| GitLab | — | ✓note |
| Jira | ✓note | — |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | ✓note |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓note | ✓note |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓note | ✓note |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | ✓note | ✓note |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | ✓note |
| Webhooks | — | ✓note |
| MCP server | — | ✓note |
GoRetro — pros
- + Flat per-team pricing ($29/team/mo annual) with unlimited members per team, plus a genuinely free plan for one team
- + Polished, real-time facilitation UX with per-board anonymity toggles (hide author, hide cards, hide votes) and drag-to-merge grouping
- + Bundles planning poker, capacity calculator and a Jira sprint monitor with retros
- + Real engagement extras — Giphy picker on cards, an optional kudos column, icebreakers, polls and a happiness index
- + Tight Jira Cloud integration; action items push through to Slack
GoRetro — cons
- − <strong>Effectively in maintenance mode</strong> — the production app was last built 9 Feb 2025, the changelog stopped 23 May 2023 and the blog 28 Jul 2023, and two features are still badged "coming soon" from that era
- − <em>No AI anywhere in the shipped app</em> — no clustering, summarisation or sentiment analysis; the .ai is a domain, not a capability
- − Integration breadth is narrow — Jira and Slack only, with no native MS Teams, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear, Confluence or Trello
- − No public API or webhooks; exports capped at PDF/CSV/PNG; US-only hosting with no EU residency option
- − The security page contradicts its own hero: SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 are billed as certified up top and "pending audit" in the detail row
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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