GoRetro
5.4Make 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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RetroTool
3.2Anonymous online retrospectives, no login required
RetroTool is a low-friction online retrospective board built by NY/Poland software agency u2i as a side project. Free anonymous retros run from a unique URL with no signup; paid tiers add private boards, team management and longer retention. The product still works, but the site shows no shipped activity in years.
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GoRetro scores 5.4 overall and is best for scrum teams that live in Jira and want a polished retro plus planning-poker bundle priced per team. It offers a free tier.
RetroTool scores 3.2 overall and is best for small or ad-hoc teams who want a free, no-signup retro board with secret voting and a few standard templates — provided you're comfortable using a tool that hasn't shipped visible updates in years. It offers a free tier.
GoRetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade. RetroTool leads on value.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, GoRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 5.4. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | GoRetro | RetroTool |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Any | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Free plan: 1 team, 5 public boards, 2 team boards per 31-day cycle, unlimited users and guests, 20+ templates. Excludes exports, retro analytics, Jira sync, happiness index, polls and icebreakers. | Anonymous boards; unlimited cards, columns, action points and participants; 3 basic templates; secret voting, dot-vote limits, timer, grouping, action points; Markdown export; 12-month retention |
| Starting price | $29/team/mo | $10/team/mo ($100/team/yr billed annually) |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $87/mo (Premium, 3 teams, billed annually) | $30/mo (Individual — 3 teams x $10/team, unlimited members per team; $25/mo billed annually) |
| Enterprise | Yes | No |
| Founded | 2020 | — |
| HQ | Israel | Poland |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | English only | English only |
| Export formats | PDF · CSV · Image | Markdown · Confluence |
| Features | 35 | 18 |
| Integrations | 2 | 0 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | GoRetro | RetroTool |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓note | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | — |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Insights | ✓note | — |
| Polling | ✓note | — |
| Action dashboard | ✓note | ✓note |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓note |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓note |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓note | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Health Checks | ✓note | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | — | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | — |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓note | — |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓note |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | — |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | — | — |
GoRetro — pros
- + Flat per-team pricing ($29/team/mo) with unlimited members per team, plus a free plan for one team
- + Polished, real-time facilitation UX with per-board anonymity toggles (hide author, hide cards, hide votes)
- + Bundles planning poker, capacity calculator and sprint monitor with retros
- + Tight Jira Cloud integration for sprint-data-driven discussions
- + SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and SAML SSO available on Organization tier
GoRetro — cons
- − <strong>No published product updates since 2023</strong> — changelog last moved 23 May 2023, blog 28 Jul 2023
- − Free plan is thin: exports, retro analytics, Jira sync, happiness index, polls and icebreakers are all Premium-gated
- − Integration breadth is narrow — Jira and Slack only, with no native MS Teams, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear, Confluence or Trello
- − AI story is thin: 'Joker cards' and a meeting recap export rather than real AI clustering, summaries or sentiment
- − No public API or webhooks; async is a multi-day feedback deadline, not a structured async flow, and there is no scheduling or recurring retros
RetroTool — pros
- + Genuinely free anonymous retros with no account required
- + Three-click setup — unique URL, share, run
- + Zero-knowledge encryption with custom passwords on Company plan
- + Per-team flat pricing ($10 or $20/team/mo, 15%+ off annually) with <em>unlimited members per team</em>, not per-seat
RetroTool — cons
- − <strong>Apparently dormant</strong>: blog stopped in March 2022, no changelog or release notes, legal docs unchanged since August 2020
- − No native integrations with Jira, Slack, Teams or any agile-stack tool
- − No AI features (clustering, summary, action extraction, sentiment)
- − No health checks, recurring retros, or cross-team reporting
- − Most templates, image cards, named participants, private invite-only boards and zero-knowledge encryption are all behind paid tiers
- − Not SOC 2; no SSO/SCIM/audit logs for enterprise buyers
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