Retrium
4.7Guided retrospectives and Team Radars for scrum and agile teams
Retrium is a long-running, retrospectives-only tool that emphasises guided five-phase facilitation, anonymous brainstorming, voting, a persistent action plan, and Team Radar health checks for distributed teams.
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RetroFlow
3.4Your team's favourite way to retro
RetroFlow is a free, no-signup retrospective board built by solo developer Prashant Meena, with colourful boards, real-time collaboration, 11 ready-made templates, anonymous feedback, dot voting, action items and PDF/Excel export. Participants join a shared link in one click with no account; the whole product is free with no paid tiers or locked features.
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Retrium scores 4.7 overall and is best for scrum masters and agile coaches who want a focused, retro-only tool with strong facilitation guardrails and a built-in Team Radar. It offers paid plans from $39/mo.
RetroFlow scores 3.4 overall and is best for small or ad-hoc teams who want a genuinely free, zero-friction retro board they can share with one link — no signup, no payment and no setup, accepting that there is no timer, no integrations, no AI and no enterprise controls. It offers a free tier.
Retrium leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, integrations and enterprise-grade. RetroFlow leads on value and fun factor.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Retrium edges ahead with an overall score of 4.7. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Retrium | RetroFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Small |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Free limit | No free plan — 30-day trial of column-based techniques and Team Radar | Everything is free — all 11 templates, custom boards, saved layouts, real-time collaboration, anonymous feedback, dot voting, action items and PDF/Excel export, with no account required to join a board |
| Starting price | $39/mo | Free |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $117/mo | Free (no paid tier) |
| Enterprise | Yes | No |
| Founded | 2014 | — |
| HQ | Washington, D.C., USA | — |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | English only | English only |
| Export formats | CSV · Jira | PDF · Excel |
| Features | 26 | 7 |
| Integrations | 2 | 0 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Retrium | RetroFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | — |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓note |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | — | — |
| Action dashboard | ✓note | — |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓note |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓note |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓note |
| Async mode | ✓ | — |
| Agile Estimations | — | — |
| Health Checks | ✓ | — |
| 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 | ✓ | — |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | — |
| SCIM provisioning | ✓note | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | — | — |
Retrium — pros
- + Battle-tested five-phase guided facilitation flow
- + Anonymous brainstorming and grouping by design
- + Persistent team-room action plan that carries forward between retros
- + Team Radar health check — up to seven customisable spokes, anonymous 1–5 scoring
- + Per-team-room pricing with unlimited users on every plan
Retrium — cons
- − No free plan — 30-day trial only, and the Fishbone technique stays paid-only during it
- − Integrations stop at Jira Cloud and a <em>still-beta</em> Slack app — no Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear or Confluence
- − <strong>No AI features at all</strong> — no summary, clustering, action-item extraction or sentiment
- − The only API is an Enterprise-gated SCIM 2.0 user-provisioning endpoint; no webhooks, and export stops at CSV and TXT
- − No published product updates since <strong>August 2024</strong> — the help centre's yearly updates series ends at 2024
RetroFlow — pros
- + Genuinely free with no paid tiers, no paywalled features and no account required to join a board
- + Anonymous feedback — participants contribute with no signup, email or PII collected
- + Three-step setup — pick a template, share the link, run the retro; participants join in one click and notes sync live
- + Eleven ready-made formats, up from seven — Sailboat, DAKI, Plus/Delta and Three Little Pigs are all new since the last review
- + <strong>PDF and Excel export</strong> of the finished board — new this quarter, and the only route to getting your data out
- + Light personalisation — custom column names, 2-6 columns, colour palettes and per-note emoji, with reusable saved layouts
RetroFlow — cons
- − No timer or phase controls — three separate timer requests sit unshipped on the vendor's own public roadmap, and there is no countdown anywhere in the app
- − No grouping of similar cards and no carry-over of previous action items — both still <em>Planned</em> on the roadmap
- − No integrations at all — nothing pushes to Jira, Linear, Slack or Teams, and there is no public API, webhooks or AI
- − No health checks, recurring retros, mood tracking or cross-team reporting
- − No enterprise security or compliance — no SOC 2, SSO, SCIM or audit logs, no GDPR statement in the privacy policy, and boards are private only by unguessable URL since there are no accounts
- − Built and run by a solo developer (Prashant Meena) with no support team or SLA — support routes to a personal WhatsApp number and LinkedIn DMs, and the free-tier backend still shows a ~10s cold start plus first-load errors
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