Retrospectives· Israel· Founded 2020
GoRetro
Make every sprint impactful, efficient, and fun
Overall score
5.2
Make every sprint impactful, efficient, and fun
Maintenance mode. Every asset in the production web app at app.goretro.ai carries a build timestamp of 9 February 2025 — the last visible deploy, nineteen months before this review. The public changelog last moved on 23 May 2023 and the blog on 28 Jul 2023, and the pricing table still badges two features "coming soon" from that period. Acumen Labs, the Tel Aviv company that built GoRetro, was acquired by Via Transportation in mid-2023. The app, pricing and marketing site remain online and actively sold. Verify roadmap, support responsiveness and data-retention terms with the vendor before committing.
Best for: Scrum teams that live in Jira and want a polished retro plus planning-poker bundle priced per team, and can live without an active roadmap.
GoRetro sells a sprint suite, not a retro app. Retrospectives sit alongside planning poker, a capacity calculator, sprint-review polls and a Jira-fed sprint monitor, aimed at scrum masters and engineering leaders who want every ceremony in one tab.
"Make every sprint impactful, efficient, and fun."
The pitch is data-driven, not AI — despite the .ai domain, nothing on the homepage claims a model. What it claims is real Jira sprint data feeding Joker cards, capacity maths and a happiness index. Scale signals carry the rest: "Rated #1 scrum meeting management software on G2 (4.7/5)", Fortune 500 and government logos, and security badges sitting one scroll away from an icebreaker generator and a team-name generator.
The board itself is genuinely good. Real-time cards, 20+ templates, drag-to-merge grouping, per-board anonymity toggles (hide author, hide cards, hide votes), a Giphy picker, an optional kudos column, timers, action items that carry across sprints and a happiness index. At $29/team/mo with unlimited members, a Jira-native scrum team gets a lot for the money.
The gap is momentum, and it is now measurable rather than inferred. Every file in the production app at app.goretro.ai carries a build stamp of 9 February 2025 — nineteen months ago. The changelog stopped in May 2023, the blog in July 2023, and the plan table still badges task assignment and data-driven sprint planning "coming soon". Reading the shipped bundle confirms what the marketing implies: no clustering, no summarisation, no sentiment, no LLM call of any kind. Integrations end at Jira and Slack. There is no API and no webhooks, hosting is US-only, and the security page contradicts its own headline by listing SOC 2 and ISO 27001 as "pending audit".
Best fit: a Jira-centric scrum team that wants a cheap, fun retro this quarter. Ask for the SOC 2 report and a roadmap before you sign anything longer.