Retrospective Tools

RetroFlow 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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RetroFlow

3.4

Your 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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TeleRetro

6.1

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. It pairs retros with a Pulse Survey module for tracking team health between sessions, aimed at small to mid-size agile teams who want retros that feel lively rather than mechanical.

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Summary

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.

TeleRetro scores 6.1 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.

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

Across our eight scoring dimensions, TeleRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 6.1. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.

Scores compared

RetroFlow
Ease of Use8.0
Retro Toolkit4.0
Value9.0
Fun Factor4.5
AI & Insights0.0
Integrations0.0
Open Platform1.0
Enterprise-grade1.0
TeleRetro
Ease of Use9.0
Retro Toolkit7.5
Value8.0
Fun Factor8.0
AI & Insights4.0
Integrations5.0
Open Platform3.0
Enterprise-grade4.0
DetailRetroFlowTeleRetro
CategoryRetrospectivesRetrospectives
Team sizeSmallSmall
Free tierYesYes
Free limitEverything 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 board1 team, 3 retros, 14-day retro access, 1 pulse survey, limited AI Retro Bot access
Starting priceFree£26/mo
Est. 3 teams × 8 peopleFree (no paid tier)£72/mo (~$91/mo) on the Business plan (3 teams)
EnterpriseNoYes
Founded2020
HQUK
Data residency
LanguagesEnglish only14 (English, German, Spanish, …)
Export formatsPDF · ExcelEmail · Jira
Features735
Integrations07

Feature & integration comparison

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

CapabilityRetroFlowTeleRetro
Features
AI Summaries
AI grouping/clustering
AI action items
Action trackingnotenote
Team Insights
Polling
Action dashboard
Custom templatesnote
Anonymous inputnote
Independent votingnote
Async modenote
Agile Estimations
Health Checksnote
Team Kudos
Whiteboard
Integrations
Asana
Azure DevOpsnote
Basecamp
ClickUp
Confluence
GitHubnote
GitLab
Jiranote
Linear
Microsoft Teamsnote
Monday.com
Notionnote
Shortcut
Slack
Trellonote
Security & Privacy
SOC 2
GDPR
SSO / SAMLnote
SCIM provisioning
ISO 27001
On-premises
Public APInote
Webhooks
MCP server

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

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, facilitator-gated voting with a configurable vote count, and mood polls at both ends of the session
  • + Pulse Surveys track team health between retros, with 20+ ready templates and a cross-team dashboard on the Business plan
  • + Genuinely cheap for a small org — £72/mo covers 3 teams with unlimited retros

TeleRetro — cons

  • Only Slack is documented as a native integration; Jira is claimed on the vendor's comparison pages but absent from its own integrations page, and everything else routes through Zapier
  • Actions carry owners but <em>no due dates</em>, and nothing links an action back to the idea that prompted it
  • AI never touches the board — Retro Bot generates formats and icebreakers, but there is no clustering, summary, sentiment or action extraction
  • 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
  • No product update shipped since August 2025 — the marketing site is actively maintained, the changelog is not

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