Retrospective Tools

Retro Rabbit 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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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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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

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.

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.

SprintRetro leads on retro toolkit, value, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade.

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

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
SprintRetro
Ease of Use7.5
Retro Toolkit7.5
Value9.0
Fun Factor7.5
AI & Insights7.0
Integrations3.0
Open Platform1.5
Enterprise-grade4.0
DetailRetro RabbitSprintRetro
CategoryRetrospectivesRetrospectives
Team sizeSmallSmall
Free tierNoYes
Free limit14-day free trial, no credit card requiredUnlimited 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$30/team/mo$8.40/user/yr (SprintRetro Pro, annual only; free on Jira sites of 10 or fewer users)
Est. 3 teams × 8 people$90/mo$17.50/mo (Pro, $210/yr at the 25-user Jira tier) — the free app also still covers 24 users
EnterpriseYesNo
Founded
HQBoston, United StatesWaterlooville, United Kingdom
Data residencyUnited States
LanguagesEnglish onlyEnglish only
Export formatsCSV · Excel · PDFImage · PDF · Jira
Features2435
Integrations11

Feature & integration comparison

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

CapabilityRetro RabbitSprintRetro
Features
Custom templatesnote
Anonymous input
Health Checksnote
Action tracking
Async mode
Whiteboard
Independent voting
Polling
Icebreaker games
Agile Estimations
Team Kudos
AI grouping/clusteringnote
AI action itemsnote
AI Summariesnotenote
Team Insightsnote
In-meeting AI assistantnote
Action dashboardnote
Integrations
Asana
Azure DevOps
Basecamp
ClickUp
Confluence
GitHub
GitLab
Jira
Linear
Microsoft Teams
Monday.com
Notion
Shortcut
Slack
Trello
Security & Privacy
SOC 2note
GDPR
SSO / SAMLnotenote
SCIM provisioning
ISO 27001
On-premises
Public API
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

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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