Simyl Flow
5.5Measure what ships and sticks
Simyl Flow is an outcomes measurement platform for engineering teams in which the retrospective is one of five linked ceremonies (planning poker, standups, demo prep, retros, coaching). Retro boards are pre-populated with six sprint metrics pulled from Jira, Linear, GitHub and CI, AI generates candidate cards from the data, and unfinished action items carry forward — all feeding a six-dimension team health score tracked sprint over sprint.
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Trune.io
4.3Structured online retrospectives with team radar
Trune (formerly Fraankly) is an EU-built retrospective and team-feedback tool that runs a fixed four-phase session — silent writing, presenting, voting, actions — with 14 pre-built templates plus custom ones, anonymous cards, drag-to-group clustering, dot voting, action items with reminder emails, and team radars including the Spotify Squad Health Check. Hosted in Frankfurt with EU-only application data, available in five UI languages, and exports results to Excel, CSV or an emailed PDF.
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Simyl Flow scores 5.5 overall and is best for engineering orgs that already run retros and want them wired into delivery data — teams asking whether last sprint's improvement actually moved cycle time, review latency or change-failure rate, rather than teams shopping for a better sticky-note board. It offers a free tier.
Trune.io scores 4.3 overall and is best for small EU-based agile teams that want a simple, <strong>GDPR-aligned</strong> retro tool with templates, grouping, voting, and team radars — and can live with a vendor whose public site is currently offline and whose app has not shipped a release in a year. It offers a free tier.
Simyl Flow leads on ease of use, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade. Trune.io leads on retro toolkit and fun factor.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Simyl Flow edges ahead with an overall score of 5.5. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Simyl Flow | Trune.io |
|---|---|---|
| Category | All-in-One Agile | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | 1 team, 10 stakeholders, 2 retros + 2 poker sessions/month, 1 integration, 90-day retention, CSV export | 5 free sessions, full Premium features, no credit card |
| Starting price | $29/team/mo | $19/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $87/mo (Pro — flat $29 per team × 3 teams; $72/mo billed annually) | $57/mo |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2024 | — |
| HQ | Toronto, Canada | Vienna, Austria |
| Data residency | United States | Germany |
| Languages | English only | 5 (English, German, Dutch, …) |
| Export formats | CSV · PDF | Excel · CSV · PDF |
| Features | 28 | 24 |
| Integrations | 9 | 9 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Simyl Flow | Trune.io |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | — | ✓ |
| Health Checks | ✓note | ✓note |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓note | — |
| Whiteboard | — | — |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polling | — | — |
| Icebreaker games | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Team Kudos | ✓note | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | — |
| AI action items | — | — |
| AI Summaries | ✓ | — |
| Team Insights | ✓note | — |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | ✓note |
| Action dashboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | ✓note |
| Azure DevOps | — | ✓note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | ✓note | — |
| Confluence | — | ✓note |
| GitHub | ✓note | ✓note |
| GitLab | ✓note | — |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓note |
| Linear | ✓note | ✓note |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓note | ✓note |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | ✓note | — |
| Shortcut | ✓note | — |
| Slack | ✓note | ✓note |
| Trello | — | ✓note |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓note | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | — |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | ✓note | — |
| On-premises | ✓note | — |
| Public API | — | ✓note |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | ✓ | — |
Simyl Flow — pros
- + Retro boards arrive pre-populated with six sprint metrics (velocity, cycle time, PRs merged, commits, bug rate, unplanned work) pulled from the tools the team already uses, and unfinished actions carry forward with completion-rate tracking — the discussion starts from evidence, and the six-dimension health score answers whether last sprint's change actually landed
- + Unusually broad delivery-data integration set for a tool that runs retros: Jira, Linear, Shortcut, ClickUp, Notion, GitHub/GitLab Issues, plus GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket repos and their CI pipelines for DORA metrics
- + Official remote MCP server, generally available and not tier-gated — <em>verified live</em>, with OAuth 2.1 discovery, dynamic client registration and nine read-only scopes (retros, standups, metrics, actions, poker, effectiveness, coaching), so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Windsurf can query sprint data directly
- + Flat per-team pricing ($29–49/team/mo) rather than per-seat, so a 24-person org on three teams pays $87/mo regardless of headcount inside each team
- + Deliberate privacy architecture — scores are team-level not individual, coaching notes are visible only to the developer and their manager, source code is never stored, and AI runs on Amazon Bedrock with no data retention
- + Standups are the most complete module: async auto-generation, a facilitated live mode with per-person timers and presenter rotation, built-in video with smart auto-mute (1,500 min/mo on Growth), six blocker categories and AI blocker-pattern analysis
Simyl Flow — cons
- − <strong>Access is gated behind a waitlist.</strong> The header CTA across every page is now 'Join Waitlist', and the waitlist page itself redirects to sign-in — while the pricing page still sells three plans and a 30-day trial
- − Retro toolkit is thin on facilitator staples: no anonymous submission, no drag-and-drop grouping, no presentation mode, no recurring or scheduled retros, no retro-board timer, and only 5 built-in templates against 50+ at retro-native tools — and almost no engagement layer (no icebreakers, GIFs, reactions, music or kudos wall), which makes it a poor fit for teams whose retro problem is participation rather than measurement
- − The health score is computed from delivery signals, not from the team — the vendor is explicit that there are <em>"no surveys, just outcomes"</em>, so there is no survey-based health check, no sentiment analysis and no ROTI; the only mood signal is an emoji check in standups, not on the retro board
- − Enterprise claims are self-attested: 'SOC 2 aligned, not certified' and 'ISO 27001 aligned, not certified', inheriting AWS's certifications rather than holding its own; SSO/SAML sits behind a quote-only tier, there is no SCIM, and audit logs appear only as a sales-page offer rather than a plan feature
- − Export is CSV plus PDF reports, and the PDF report download is Growth-tier only; there is no public REST API and no webhooks, and the MCP server is read-only, so nothing can push data back in programmatically
- − Young vendor (Simyl AI, Inc., founded 2024, Toronto) that self-describes as 'a small team of engineers', with no named founders and still no third-party reviews, G2/Capterra listing or press coverage two years on — a real durability question for procurement
- − Free tier is genuinely small (1 team, 10 stakeholders, 2 retros/month, 1 integration, 90-day retention), and Azure DevOps is still 'coming soon' rather than shipped
Trune.io — pros
- + EU/Frankfurt data residency and GDPR-first posture — even the truneGPT assistant runs on an EU-hosted function
- + Per-team (not per-seat) pricing: $19/mo covers unlimited members, and the free tier gives 5 full sessions
- + Native two-way Azure DevOps sync — action items out as work items, Done status back in
- + Team radars include the Spotify Squad Health Check plus fully custom radars
- + Ships in five UI languages (English, German, Dutch, French, Italian) and exports to Excel, CSV or an emailed PDF
Trune.io — cons
- − <strong>trune.io has been returning a WordPress fatal error on every page since late July 2026</strong> — pricing, sign-up and support included. Only the app at app.trune.io still loads
- − No SSO, SCIM, SOC 2, or audit logs — not enterprise-ready
- − Both native mobile apps are 404 on the App Store and Google Play, and the web app has not been redeployed since September 2025
- − AI stops at truneGPT, a ChatGPT-4 chat assistant — no clustering, summaries or action extraction
- − Azure DevOps is the only native connector and needs the pricier Professional tier; everything else is a single one-way Zapier trigger
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