Kollabe
5.5Agile meetings made easy — retros, standups and planning poker
Kollabe began life as a planning poker tool and has extended into retrospectives and standups — the estimation side remains the centre of gravity, with retros and standups added as adjacent rituals rather than the headline product. It bundles icebreakers, anonymous input, AI summaries and sync-back to Jira, GitHub, Linear and Azure DevOps in a flat <strong>per-space</strong> workspace. Recent additions include a Slack-based async standup flow, a public API and MCP server, and cross-ritual weekly reporting — though the retro module is still younger and less battle-tested than its estimation roots.
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NimbleRetro
3.0Time-boxed retros with 5-Why root cause analysis
NimbleRetro is the retrospective module inside NimbleWork's broader Nimble agile platform. It runs structured, time-bound retros through Icebreaker, Ideation, Grouping, Voting, and Root Cause Analysis stages, with anonymous input, action item tracking, and a <strong>5-Why root cause workflow</strong>. Native iOS and Android apps complement the web product, and action items convert directly into Nimble workitems (user stories and cards).
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Kollabe scores 5.5 overall and is best for small to mid-size agile teams that want retros, standups and planning poker in one clean tool — without per-seat pricing. It offers a free tier.
NimbleRetro scores 3.0 overall and is best for small agile teams that want a no-frills retro with built-in root cause analysis and a mobile companion app, especially teams already using the wider NimbleWork (SwiftKanban / Nimble) suite. It offers paid plans from ~$7/user/mo (est.).
Kollabe leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, value, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations and open platform. NimbleRetro leads on enterprise-grade.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Kollabe edges ahead with an overall score of 5.5. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Kollabe | NimbleRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | 10 members per room, limited meetings/month, 7-day history | Free trial only; no permanent free tier publicly disclosed for the retro module |
| Starting price | $29/mo | ~$7/user/mo (est.) |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $87/mo (3 team spaces × $29 Premium; each space allows unlimited members) | Quote-only — contact sales (~$7/user/mo would be ~$168/mo for 24 users) |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2023 | — |
| HQ | Sydney, Australia | Bengaluru, India |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | English only | English only |
| Export formats | Confluence · CSV | — |
| Features | 26 | 13 |
| Integrations | 5 | 2 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Kollabe | NimbleRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | — |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓note |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓ |
| Independent voting | — | — |
| Async mode | ✓ | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓ | — |
| Health Checks | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | — | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | ✓ | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | ✓ | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓ | — |
| Linear | ✓ | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | ✓note |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓note | ✓note |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | — | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | — |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | ✓note | ✓note |
| Webhooks | — | ✓note |
| MCP server | ✓note | — |
Kollabe — pros
- + Flat per-space pricing — unlimited team members on Premium ($29/mo)
- + Bundles retros, standups, planning poker and icebreakers in one tool
- + No-signup join links lower friction for ad-hoc participants
- + Direct sync-back to Jira, GitHub, Linear and Azure DevOps
- + Public API and MCP server access on Premium
Kollabe — cons
- − Slack integration is standup-only (no retro summaries/actions to Slack); no Microsoft Teams yet
- − No SOC 2 / no advertised GDPR posture — weak for enterprise procurement
- − No dedicated health-check, team-radar or longitudinal pulse feature
- − Solo-founder operation; SSO/SAML and SLA gated behind Enterprise contact-sales
- − Free tier caps meetings/month with 7-day history
NimbleRetro — pros
- + Structured 5-Why root cause workflow built into the retro flow
- + Anonymous input and time-bound stages keep retros focused
- + Native iOS and Android apps for mobile participation
- + GDPR compliant; sits under NimbleWork's ISO 27001 / SOC umbrella at the platform level
NimbleRetro — cons
- − Only four templates, with stage flexibility limited to column count
- − No SSO/SAML, SCIM, or SOC 2 Type 2 attestation specific to the retro product
- − Vendor now markets 'Generative AI' but no concrete retro AI (clustering, summaries, sentiment) is documented — treat as unverified
- − Thin direct-integration story for the agile stack — no documented Jira, GitHub, Linear, or Azure DevOps hooks for the retro module
- − Participants are limited to members of the Nimble project the retro is created from
- − Pricing not transparently published; demo-gated (third parties peg it around $8/user/mo)
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