Retrospective Tools

Retro Rabbit vs ScatterSpoke

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

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Retro Rabbit

4.4

Slack-first retrospectives with async note capture

Retro Rabbit is a Slack-native retrospective tool: the team drops notes into a Slack channel or the web app all sprint long, then runs the retro on a live synced board with drag-to-group, dot voting, a shared timer and assignable action items that carry over to the next retro. The CarrotIQ AI layer is gated to the $40/team/month Pro AI plan. Four-person vendor, Slack is the only integration, and there is still no public changelog.

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ScatterSpoke

5.7

AI copilot for team feedback

ScatterSpoke was rebuilt from scratch as v3 in August 2026: retro boards, static and agent-run surveys, a Signals engine that detects morale, burnout and psychological-safety patterns in feedback text, and an Ask layer that answers questions with cited evidence. An official OAuth MCP server is included on every tier, including Free.

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Summary

Retro Rabbit scores 4.4 overall and is best for slack-centric agile teams that want retro notes captured continuously through the sprint and a lightweight live or async board — and that don't need Jira, health checks or a procurement checklist. It offers paid plans from $30/team/mo.

ScatterSpoke scores 5.7 overall and is best for engineering orgs that want AI to synthesise feedback across many teams and surveys — and agent builders who need a survey backend over MCP. It offers a free tier.

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

Across our eight scoring dimensions, ScatterSpoke edges ahead with an overall score of 5.7. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.

Scores compared

Retro Rabbit
Ease of Use7.5
Retro Toolkit5.5
Value8.0
Fun Factor4.5
AI & Insights4.0
Integrations2.5
Open Platform1.5
Enterprise-grade2.0
ScatterSpoke
Ease of Use8.0
Retro Toolkit6.5
Value3.0
Fun Factor3.0
AI & Insights9.0
Integrations4.0
Open Platform6.0
Enterprise-grade6.0
DetailRetro RabbitScatterSpoke
CategoryRetrospectivesRetrospectives
Team sizeSmallMid-market
Free tierNoYes
Free limit14-day free trial, no credit card required1 seat; unlimited static surveys and responses; 10 Agent Surveys and 50 Ask queries one-time; 5 of 15 signal rules; MCP connection but no reading results over it
Starting price$30/team/mo$29/user/mo
Est. 3 teams × 8 people$90/mo$814/mo on Business (includes 5 seats; 19 extra seats at $35/seat/mo) — Pro is capped at 5 seats
EnterpriseYesYes
Founded2019
HQBoston, United StatesUSA
Data residencyUnited States
LanguagesEnglish onlyEnglish only
Export formatsCSV · Excel · PDFCSV · PDF
Features2446
Integrations13

Feature & integration comparison

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

CapabilityRetro RabbitScatterSpoke
Features
Custom templatesnote
Anonymous input
Health Checksnote
Action trackingnote
Async mode
Whiteboard
Independent voting
Pollingnote
Icebreaker games
Agile Estimations
Team Kudos
AI grouping/clusteringnotenote
AI action itemsnotenote
AI Summariesnote
Team Insights
In-meeting AI assistantnote
Action dashboard
Integrations
Asana
Azure DevOps
Basecamp
ClickUp
Confluence
GitHub
GitLab
Jiranote
Linear
Microsoft Teams
Monday.com
Notion
Shortcut
Slack
Trello
Security & Privacy
SOC 2notenote
GDPR
SSO / SAMLnotenote
SCIM provisioningnote
ISO 27001
On-premises
Public APInote
Webhooks
MCP server

Retro Rabbit — pros

  • + Genuine Slack-first capture — notes land in the channel throughout the sprint, so the board opens full instead of starting with silent writing
  • + Board covers the basics properly: drag-to-group with editable group names, dot voting with a configurable 1–50 vote budget, a shared pause/resume timer, and a per-user anonymity toggle
  • + Action items carry forward — a dedicated <em>Old / Unresolved Items</em> tab plus per-room and per-person trackers, with Slack reminders to assignees
  • + A GIPHY picker on notes that the marketing site never mentions — the one bit of levity on an otherwise plain board
  • + Flat $30/team/month with unlimited users (3 teams of 8 = $90/mo), and CSV/XLSX/PDF export on every tier including Starter

Retro Rabbit — cons

  • Slack is the only integration — no Jira, Teams, Confluence, GitHub, Linear or Azure DevOps, and no public API, webhooks or MCP
  • No health checks, team radars or sentiment tracking; the only longitudinal view is a notes-per-day bar chart per room
  • AI is two calls — a per-retro summary and one action-item suggestion. The site's <em>intelligent note grouping</em> claim has no counterpart in the shipped web app
  • Enterprise controls are thin: SSO/SAML is Enterprise-tier only, no SCIM, no audit logs, no SOC 2 of its own, the privacy policy carries no GDPR or CCPA commitments, and the Slack Marketplace listing records <em>has a dedicated security team: no</em>
  • No free tier and no public changelog, from a four-person vendor whose marketing site has not changed since early 2025

ScatterSpoke — pros

  • + Official MCP server on every tier including Free — OAuth, no API keys to mint; reading results is where the paid line sits
  • + Signals engine with fifteen built-in rules and a detect-then-critique pass before anything is recorded
  • + Ask names the survey or retro behind every answer, and cross-retro theme trends ship on paid plans
  • + Unusually precise public docs — a per-tier entitlement table that names exactly what each plan gates
  • + Guest join by verified email or open link, and guests never consume a seat

ScatterSpoke — cons

  • $814/mo for 3 teams of 8 on Business (5 seats included, then $35/seat); Free is a single seat
  • <strong>Action items are no longer part of the v3 retro flow</strong> — the Review phase records outcomes as card comments
  • Manual grouping was removed; clustering is AI-only and board columns are fixed at creation
  • The v3 integration entitlement covers only Slack, Teams and email — no Jira, GitHub or Azure DevOps setup is documented
  • One CSV export from a closed retro; audit logs, data retention and org-wide AI are Enterprise-only

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