Parabol
7.6Open-source agile meetings for retros, poker, standups and check-ins
Parabol is an <strong>open-source agile meeting platform</strong> spanning retrospectives, sprint poker, async standups, team check-ins and lightweight team health, with deep backlog sync to Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Linear and AI-assisted grouping, summaries, icebreakers and discussion prompts.
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Reetro
6.4Fun, easy and AI-powered online retrospectives
Reetro is a lightweight retrospective tool with a generous free tier and AI-powered paid tiers covering meeting summaries, sentiment analysis, AI card grouping, monthly reports, customizable health checks and an action tracker. ISO 27001 is held at the vendor level; SOC 2 is described as compliance on SOC 2-certified infrastructure rather than a published Reetro-level Type 2 audit.
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Parabol scores 7.6 overall and is best for distributed agile teams that want one open-source tool for retros, poker, standups and lightweight team health. It offers a free tier.
Reetro scores 6.4 overall and is best for small to mid-sized agile teams who want a low-cost, easy retro board with AI summaries, customizable health checks and Jira/Azure DevOps export — with a flat-rate org-wide tier if you outgrow per-team pricing. It offers a free tier.
Parabol leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade. Reetro leads on value.
Across our seven scoring dimensions, Parabol edges ahead with an overall score of 7.6. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Parabol | Reetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | All-in-One Agile | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Any | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Unlimited users, 2 teams, 10 meetings/month, 30-day history, 2 custom templates | 3 teams, 9 members per team, 10 active boards/month, 4 columns, 1 health check/month |
| Starting price | $8/user/mo | $39/team/mo ($32/team/mo annual); flat $49/mo org-wide on Pro Unlimited |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $192/mo | Free (within free tier) |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2015 | 2019 |
| HQ | Remote | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Data residency | United States · European Union · Self-hosted | — |
| Languages | English only | English only |
| Features | 43 | 41 |
| Integrations | 7 | 7 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Parabol | Reetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ | ✓ note |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Insights | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Action dashboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom templates | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | ✓ | — |
| Health Checks | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Team Kudos | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Whiteboard | — | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | ✓ note |
| Confluence | — | ✓ note |
| GitHub | ✓ | — |
| GitLab | ✓ | — |
| Jira | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Linear | ✓ | — |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Trello | — | ✓ note |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓ note |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓ note | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | ✓ |
| On-premises | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| Public API | ✓ | — |
| Webhooks | ✓ | — |
Parabol — pros
- + Open source (AGPL-3.0) with self-host and on-prem options
- + 40+ retro templates plus poker, standups, check-ins and team health in one tool
- + Strong backlog write-back to Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Linear
- + AI summaries, suggested groupings and discussion prompts that surface real themes
- + Anonymous reflections and lightweight team health check built in
Parabol — cons
- − Free tier capped at 10 meetings/month and 30-day history
- − No native whiteboard, presentation mode or screen-share mode
- − Health-check is a single emoji poll — no custom radars or trend dashboards
- − SSO, SCIM, audit-grade controls and uptime SLA gated to Enterprise
- − No Confluence, Trello or multi-language support
Reetro — pros
- + Generous free tier with no credit card required — 3 teams, 9 members covers a 24-person org
- + Flat-rate Pro Unlimited at $49/mo covers the whole org — strong value if you outgrow per-team pricing
- + AI summaries, sentiment analysis, AI card grouping and monthly reports included on paid
- + Customizable team health checks, polls and a happiness index
- + ISO 27001 certified at the vendor level, plus audit logs and a public trust center; on-premises available on the Business tier
Reetro — cons
- − Free plan capped at 3 teams, 9 members, 10 boards/month and 4 columns, with anonymity now paid-only
- − Per-team Pro pricing rose to $39/team/mo ($32 annual); the cheapest path for scale is the flat Pro Unlimited
- − Voting is essentially thumbs up/down — no vote-on-ideas-in-groups
- − No published Reetro-level SOC 2 Type 2 audit (compliance rests on SOC 2-certified infrastructure)
- − No public changelog or release notes — hard to verify what's shipped recently from the outside
- − No planning poker, whiteboard, presentation mode, native mobile app, or GitHub/Linear integrations