Retrospective Tools

Retrium vs TeleRetro

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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TeleRetro

5.8

Agile retros you'll love

TeleRetro is a remote-first retrospective tool built around team engagement — animated GIF reactions, emoji reactions on notes, icebreaker games, background music and a clean facilitation flow. Participants join by link with no account. It pairs retros with a Pulse Survey module for tracking team health between sessions, and prices per team rather than per user, aimed at small to mid-size agile teams who want retros that feel lively rather than mechanical.

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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.

TeleRetro scores 5.8 overall and is best for remote and hybrid agile teams who prioritise engagement and fun alongside a solid retrospective facilitation workflow. It offers a free tier.

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

Across our eight scoring dimensions, TeleRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 5.8. 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
TeleRetro
Ease of Use9.0
Retro Toolkit7.0
Value8.0
Fun Factor8.0
AI & Insights1.5
Integrations5.0
Open Platform3.5
Enterprise-grade4.0
DetailRetriumTeleRetro
CategoryRetrospectivesRetrospectives
Team sizeMid-marketSmall
Free tierNoYes
Free limitNo free plan — 30-day trial of column-based techniques and Team Radar1 team, 3 retros total (deleted retros still count), 14-day retro access, 1 pulse survey, limited AI Retro Bot access
Starting price$39/mo£26/mo (Team plan, 1 team, unlimited members; £21/mo billed annually)
Est. 3 teams × 8 people$117/mo£72/mo (~$97/mo) on the Business plan — 3 teams, unlimited members; £58/mo billed annually
EnterpriseYesYes
Founded20142020
HQWashington, D.C., USAUK
Data residency
LanguagesEnglish only14 (English, German, Spanish, …)
Export formatsCSV · JiraEmail · Image · JSON
Features3036
Integrations210

Feature & integration comparison

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

CapabilityRetriumTeleRetro
Features
Custom templates
Anonymous input
Health Checksnote
Action trackingnote
Async modenotenote
Whiteboard
Independent voting
Polling
Icebreaker games
Agile Estimations
Team Kudos
AI grouping/clusteringnote
AI action itemsnote
AI Summaries
Team Insights
In-meeting AI assistant
Action dashboardnote
Integrations
Asananote
Azure DevOpsnote
Basecamp
ClickUp
Confluencenote
GitHubnote
GitLab
Jiranotenote
Linear
Microsoft Teamsnote
Monday.comnote
Notionnote
Shortcut
Slacknote
Trellonote
Security & Privacy
SOC 2
GDPR
SSO / SAMLnotenote
SCIM provisioningnote
ISO 27001
On-premises
Public APInote
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

TeleRetro — pros

  • + The deepest <strong>retro-native engagement set</strong> of any tool here — GIF and emoji reactions on notes, background music during brainstorming, an AI icebreaker bot, and 50+ themed formats with their own backgrounds
  • + Participants join by link with <em>no account required</em> — the fastest path from invite to first note
  • + Clean facilitation flow: brainstorming mode, drag-and-drop grouping, Spotlight to focus the room on one note, facilitator-gated voting with a configurable vote count, and mood polls at both ends of the session
  • + Pulse Surveys track team health between retros — 16 fully anonymous templates, custom models, and a cross-team dashboard on the Business plan
  • + Flat per-team pricing with <em>no per-user charge</em> — £72/mo covers 3 teams, unlimited members and unlimited retros

TeleRetro — cons

  • Slack is the only native integration; the in-app integrations panel offers Slack and Zapier and nothing else, despite Jira appearing on the vendor's comparison pages
  • No way to schedule a future retro or set one to recur, and actions carry owners but <em>no due dates</em> — nothing links an action back to the idea that prompted it either
  • AI never touches the board — Retro Bot generates formats and icebreakers, but there is no clustering, summary, sentiment or action extraction
  • Export is thin: an emailed summary, a PNG of the summary screen, and an org-metrics JSON dump. No CSV, PDF or Excel
  • No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 of its own (the certs cited are AWS's), no SCIM, no audit logs, and SSO is Enterprise-plan only

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