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Retrospectives · Israel · Founded 2020

GoRetro

Make every sprint impactful, efficient, and fun

Overall score
5.8

Low activity — verify before committing

Public changelog has not been updated since 23 May 2023; the app, pricing and marketing site remain online and actively sold. Verify roadmap and support responsiveness with the vendor before a multi-year commitment.

Overview

GoRetro is a sprint-centric retro and estimation suite combining retrospectives, planning poker, capacity planning and a Jira-fed sprint monitor, with a generous free tier and per-team paid plans.

Best for: Scrum teams that live in Jira and want a polished retro plus planning-poker bundle priced per team.

How GoRetro describes itself

GoRetro pitches itself as the #1-rated scrum meeting platform on G2, aimed at scrum masters, agile coaches and engineering leaders who want to centralise sprint ceremonies in one place.

"Make every sprint impactful, efficient, and fun."

The product is framed less as a retro app and more as a sprint suite: retrospectives sit alongside planning poker, a capacity calculator, sprint review polls and a Jira-fed sprint monitor. Marketing leans on data-driven language, with Joker cards and meeting recaps generated from real Jira sprint data. The voice is friendly and developer-aware, emphasising fun (icebreakers, polls, team-name generators) while still flashing enterprise credibility cues like SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and SAML SSO.

Our take

GoRetro is one of the more polished retro UXs in this category, and for scrum teams already standardised on Jira, the bundled planning poker and capacity calculator make the per-team price defensible. Real-time collaboration, the template library, anonymous input, timers, action-item tracking with carryover and happiness analytics all work well.

The honest gaps: the AI story is thinner than the marketing implies — Joker cards (Jira-data-driven discussion prompts) and a meeting-recap export are useful, but there is no verifiable AI clustering, AI action items or sentiment analysis on the public product pages. Integration breadth is narrow (Jira plus Slack); async is limited to a multi-day feedback deadline rather than a structured async flow, and there is no whiteboard, scheduling or recurring retros. Enterprise basics live behind the Organization tier. The vendor's public changelog and blog have been silent since mid-2023, which is worth verifying with sales before a multi-year commitment. Best fit: small-to-mid scrum teams in Jira-Slack shops who want a fun, fast retro that doubles as their estimation and capacity tool.

Score breakdown

Ease of Use 8.5
Retro Toolkit 6.5
Value 6.0
Fun Factor 6.5
AI & Insights 3.0
Integrations 4.0
Enterprise-grade 6.0

Pros

  • + Generous free tier with unlimited public boards and team members
  • + Polished, real-time facilitation UX with strong template library
  • + Bundles planning poker, capacity calculator and sprint monitor with retros
  • + Tight Jira Cloud integration for sprint-data-driven discussions
  • + SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and SAML SSO available on Organization tier

Cons

  • Slack integration sits behind paid tiers; SAML SSO requires Organization tier
  • Integration breadth is narrow: no native MS Teams, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear, Confluence or Trello
  • AI story is thin: 'Joker cards' and meeting recap export rather than real AI clustering, summaries or sentiment
  • Async is just a multi-day feedback deadline, not a structured async flow; no whiteboard, no scheduling/recurring retros
  • Per-team pricing scales unevenly across many squads, and cross-team rollups are thin

Features

Retrospectives

Templates Custom templates Anonymous input Private/public retros Custom process flow

Health checks

Health checks· Happiness index / morale tracking only Mood / sentiment check

Facilitation

Meeting timer Action items Link actions to ideas Presentation mode Drag-and-drop grouping Carry over open actions Async mode· Multi-day feedback collection via deadline timers, not a structured async flow

Voting

Independent dot voting Custom vote count

Engagement

Mobile friendly· Browser responsive, no native app Polling Icebreakers Check-in / check-out Planning poker· Bundled, on Sprint Pro tier Capacity planner· Bundled, on Sprint Pro tier

AI

AI summary· Meeting recap export, not a true AI summary AI retro / health-check insights· Joker cards generate prompts from Jira sprint data AI discussion prompts· Joker cards

Reporting

Action tracker dashboard

Enterprise

SSO / SAML· SAML SSO on Organization tier SOC 2 Type 2 GDPR compliant Facilitator-only role Guest / observer roles Meeting history Uptime SLA / dedicated support· Organization tier only Multi-year contracts ISO 27001 certified

Integrations

Jira Slack· Premium tier and above

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