Retrospective Tools

GoRetro vs ScatterSpoke

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing, features and integrations to help you pick the right retrospective tool.

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GoRetro

5.3

Make 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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ScatterSpoke

5.6

AI copilot for team feedback

ScatterSpoke was rebuilt from scratch as v3 in August 2026: guided retro boards, static surveys and AI-run interview surveys, and Ask, which answers questions across closed retros and surveys with cited evidence. An official OAuth MCP server is included on every tier, including Free.

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Summary

GoRetro scores 5.3 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.

ScatterSpoke scores 5.6 overall and is best for engineering orgs that want AI to synthesise feedback across many teams and surveys — and agent builders who need a survey backend over MCP. It offers a free tier.

GoRetro leads on ease of use, value, fun factor and integrations. ScatterSpoke leads on AI & insights, open platform and enterprise-grade.

Across our eight scoring dimensions, ScatterSpoke edges ahead with an overall score of 5.6. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.

Scores compared

GoRetro
Ease of Use8.5
Retro Toolkit7.0
Value8.0
Fun Factor7.0
AI & Insights1.0
Integrations4.0
Open Platform1.5
Enterprise-grade5.0
ScatterSpoke
Ease of Use8.0
Retro Toolkit7.0
Value6.0
Fun Factor3.0
AI & Insights8.0
Integrations1.0
Open Platform5.5
Enterprise-grade6.0
DetailGoRetroScatterSpoke
CategoryRetrospectivesRetrospectives
Team sizeAnyMid-market
Free tierYesYes
Free limitFree 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; the shipped app still defines it as the plan a team drops to when the 30-day trial ends.1 seat and 1 team; unlimited static surveys and responses; retro boards with manual grouping and voting but no AI; 10 Agent Surveys and 50 Ask queries one-time; MCP connection but no reading results over it
Starting price$29/team/mo$29/user/mo
Est. 3 teams × 8 people$87/mo (Premium, 3 teams, billed annually; $105/mo billed monthly)$149/mo on Business (monthly list price) — 3 teams exceed Pro's 2-team cap; the 5 included seats cover the facilitators, since participants and guests never take a seat
EnterpriseYesYes
Founded20202019
HQIsraelUSA
Data residencyUnited States—
LanguagesEnglish onlyEnglish only
Export formatsPDF · CSV · ImageCSV
Features3440
Integrations20

Feature & integration comparison

Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.

CapabilityGoRetroScatterSpoke
Features
Custom templates✓✓note
Anonymous input✓✓
Health Checks✓note✓note
Action tracking✓—
Async mode✓note✓
Whiteboard——
Independent voting✓✓
Polling✓note✓note
Icebreaker games——
Agile Estimations✓note—
Team Kudos✓note—
AI grouping/clustering—✓note
AI action items——
AI Summaries—✓note
Team Insights—✓
In-meeting AI assistant——
Action dashboard✓note—
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—✓note
GDPR✓✓
SSO / SAML✓note✓note
SCIM provisioning—✓note
ISO 27001——
On-premises——
Public API—✓note
Webhooks——
MCP server—✓

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

ScatterSpoke — pros

  • + Official MCP server on every tier including Free — OAuth sign-in, 33 tools spanning surveys and retro boards; reading results is where the paid line sits
  • + Only facilitators need seats — team members and email-verified guests join boards free, so 3 teams of 8 fit Business's $149/mo base
  • + Private-until-reveal writing and blind voting are on by default, and Group with AI leaves hand-made groups alone
  • + Ask cites the retro or survey behind its answers, and closed-retro summaries track which themes repeat across runs (paid plans)
  • + AI-run interview surveys follow up on each answer — a real option for async health checks between retros

ScatterSpoke — cons

  • − <strong>No action items</strong> — the v3 board has no action object, so decisions go into card comments
  • − No integrations in v3: nothing pushes to Jira, GitHub or Azure DevOps or posts to Slack or Teams, whatever the homepage badges say
  • − One CSV export from a closed retro; audit logs are Enterprise-only
  • − Retro AI is paid and Ask is metered — a shared monthly pool of 250 queries on Pro, 2,000 on Business
  • − The docs describe Signals and Automations pages that the shipped web app doesn't include as of October 2026

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