Retrospective Tools

Retrium vs SprintRetro

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

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Retrium

5.0

Guided retrospectives and Team Radars for scrum and agile teams

Retrium is a long-running, retrospectives-only tool built around a guided five-phase facilitation flow, anonymous brainstorming, dot voting, a persistent action plan, and Team Radar health checks. Since August 2026 the vendor has also run Retrium Next, a separate free open beta that rebuilds the retro around an AI co-facilitator.

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SprintRetro

5.9

Jira-native retros with real sprint data

SprintRetro is an Atlassian Forge app from Agile Pulse that runs sprint retrospectives inside Jira Cloud. It pulls live sprint metrics (velocity and predictability, scope change, carryover, cycle time, second-by-second burndown) into the retro board itself. A major June 2026 release widened it into a continuous-improvement workspace: an infinite whiteboard with visual templates, anonymous team-health pulse checks with cross-sprint trends, an on-demand AI facilitator, and an action dashboard that quality-scores every action. Both Marketplace listings are Cloud Fortified. The free app still covers unlimited users, but a paid Pro app now carries custom templates, unlimited grouping and AI sprint summaries.

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Summary

Retrium scores 5.0 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.

SprintRetro scores 5.9 overall and is best for scrum teams already living in Jira Cloud who want retros, a whiteboard and real sprint metrics on one board — and are happy for everything to stay inside Jira's walls. It offers a free tier.

Retrium leads on ease of use and enterprise-grade. SprintRetro leads on value, fun factor, AI & insights and open platform.

Across our eight scoring dimensions, SprintRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 5.9. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.

Scores compared

Retrium
Ease of Use8.5
Retro Toolkit7.5
Value7.0
Fun Factor4.0
AI & Insights2.5
Integrations3.0
Open Platform1.0
Enterprise-grade6.5
SprintRetro
Ease of Use7.5
Retro Toolkit7.5
Value9.0
Fun Factor7.5
AI & Insights7.0
Integrations3.0
Open Platform1.5
Enterprise-grade4.0
DetailRetriumSprintRetro
CategoryRetrospectivesRetrospectives
Team sizeMid-marketSmall
Free tierNoYes
Free limitNo free plan — 30-day trial of column-based techniques and Team RadarUnlimited users on a Jira site, but capped: 3 basic templates, no custom template creation, limited polls and card grouping, no AI sprint summary. Vendor has published planned caps of ~3–5 sessions/month and under 8 participants per session.
Starting price$39/mo$8.40/user/yr (SprintRetro Pro, annual only; free on Jira sites of 10 or fewer users)
Est. 3 teams × 8 people$117/mo$17.50/mo (Pro, $210/yr at the 25-user Jira tier) — the free app also still covers 24 users
EnterpriseYesNo
Founded2014
HQWashington, D.C., USAWaterlooville, United Kingdom
Data residency
LanguagesEnglish onlyEnglish only
Export formatsCSV · JiraImage · PDF · Jira
Features3035
Integrations21

Feature & integration comparison

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

CapabilityRetriumSprintRetro
Features
Custom templatesnote
Anonymous input
Health Checksnote
Action tracking
Async modenote
Whiteboard
Independent voting
Polling
Icebreaker games
Agile Estimations
Team Kudos
AI grouping/clusteringnote
AI action itemsnote
AI Summariesnote
Team Insightsnote
In-meeting AI assistant
Action dashboardnotenote
Integrations
Asana
Azure DevOps
Basecamp
ClickUp
Confluence
GitHub
GitLab
Jiranote
Linear
Microsoft Teams
Monday.com
Notion
Shortcut
Slacknote
Trello
Security & Privacy
SOC 2
GDPR
SSO / SAMLnotenote
SCIM provisioningnote
ISO 27001
On-premises
Public API
Webhooks
MCP server

Retrium — pros

  • + Battle-tested five-phase guided facilitation flow — think, group, vote, discuss, wrap-up
  • + Anonymous brainstorming and grouping by design, with a documented Fishbone root-cause format
  • + Persistent team-room action plan that carries forward between retros
  • + Team Radar health check — ten prebuilt radars plus a custom-spoke template, anonymous 1–5 scoring
  • + Per-team-room pricing at <strong>$39/mo</strong> with unlimited users on every plan

Retrium — cons

  • No free plan — 30-day trial only, and the Fishbone technique and SSO are excluded from it
  • Integrations stop at Jira Cloud and a <em>still-beta</em> Slack app — no Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear or Confluence
  • AI exists only in <strong>Retrium Next</strong>, a separate free open beta with no data migration, no uptime commitment and no pricing yet — the product you actually pay for has none
  • The only API is an Enterprise-gated SCIM 2.0 user-provisioning endpoint; no webhooks, and export stops at CSV, TXT and send-to-Jira
  • The shipping product has published no release notes since <strong>August 2024</strong>, and the Continuous Improvement Journey beta closed in December 2023

SprintRetro — pros

  • + <strong>Real Jira sprint data inside the retro</strong> — velocity and predictability over five sprints, scope change, carryover tagged with how many sprints an issue has slipped, cycle time per status, and a burndown that records every individual point change
  • + The action loop is the best part: actions link back to the idea that triggered them, carry forward with duplicate protection, get an AI SMART quality score with a one-tap rewrite, and can be pushed into Jira as issues
  • + June 2026 added a genuine infinite whiteboard — stickies, shapes, frames, tables, connectors, live cursors, follow-a-teammate, Tenor GIFs, private mode, a synced board timer, PNG/print-PDF export, and <em>board import from Miro or Mural</em>
  • + Anonymous Team Health pulses across seven dimensions, with cross-sprint trends overlaid against committed-vs-delivered and carryover — the health-vs-delivery view is rare at this price
  • + <strong>Cloud Fortified</strong> and Bugcrowd bug-bounty on both listings, and the free app still covers unlimited users on a Jira site

SprintRetro — cons

  • Jira Cloud only — every participant needs a Jira licence, and there is no Slack, Teams, Confluence or standalone web app, nor any public API, webhooks or MCP server
  • <em>The free tier is narrowing.</em> Today: 3 basic templates, no custom template creation, limited polls and grouping, no AI sprint summary. Published as planned: ~3–5 sessions/month and under 8 participants per session
  • No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 of its own — the trust centre's own entries attribute both to AWS, Atlassian Cloud and Render, not to an Agile Pulse audit. No SCIM, audit logs or data residency, and the app is not "Runs on Atlassian" certified
  • No async mode, no recurring or scheduled retros, and no cross-team or org-level health rollup — the Pro usage report covers adoption, not outcomes
  • Export is whiteboard-only (PNG or print-to-PDF); column-mode retros still have no board export beyond pushing an action into Jira

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