Overview

Retrium is a long-running, retrospectives-only tool built around a guided five-phase facilitation flow, anonymous brainstorming, dot voting, a persistent action plan, and Team Radar health checks. Since August 2026 the vendor has also run Retrium Next, a separate free open beta that rebuilds the retro around an AI co-facilitator.

Best for: Scrum masters and agile coaches who want a focused, retro-only tool with strong facilitation guardrails and a built-in Team Radar.

How Retrium describes itself

For a decade Retrium has pitched one thing: facilitated retrospectives that engage in a real discussion, aimed squarely at scrum masters and agile coaches, with a customer wall of Adobe, Amazon, Siemens, GoDaddy, Etsy and Zapier.

"Retrium enables agile teams to have effective conversations, discover new insights, and generate action plans."

Since August 2026 there are two pitches. The shipping product still sells the opinionated five-phase flow — think, group, vote, discuss, wrap-up — plus Team Radar as the recurring pulse, at $39 per team room per month with unlimited users. A site-wide banner sells something else:

"We've reimagined the entire retrospective with AI at the center."

That's Retrium Next, a separate open beta, free while they build it.

Our take

Retrium does one thing and does it well. The five-phase flow is genuinely opinionated, brainstorming and grouping are anonymous by design, and the persistent team-room action plan survives between retros — a real edge over scratchpad-style boards. Team Radar is a credible health check: ten prebuilt radars from Scrum Values to Remote Work, a custom-spoke template, anonymous 1-to-5 scoring, and every past radar kept in history. Comparing radars over time is still a manual read of that history.

What's changed is the split. The GA product has shipped no published release notes since August 2024 and contains no AI at all. Meanwhile Retrium Next went live in open beta on 10 August 2026 — a ground-up rebuild where an AI interviews each person privately over text, clusters the themes and drafts action items. It's free, it runs in a separate environment, and there is no data migration and no uptime commitment. Integrations are unmoved: Jira Cloud plus a Slack app still labelled beta, no Microsoft Teams; the only API is an Enterprise-gated SCIM endpoint; export is CSV, TXT and send-to-Jira.

Buy the GA product for the facilitation flow and the radar. Treat Next as a preview, not a plan.

Features

Retrospectives

TemplatesCustom templatesAnonymous inputPrivate/public retros· Public, private or org-wide visibility set per Team Room (not per retro); guests can only reach public rooms

Health checks

Health checksCustom health-check models· Custom Team Radar spokesTeam radarsPsychological safety

Facilitation

Meeting timerAction itemsLink actions to ideasDrag-and-drop groupingCarry over open actionsAsync mode· Documented workflow — leave the Think phase open for a set window, then finish live or async; no dedicated async mode, deadlines or reminders

Voting

Independent dot voting

Engagement

Mobile friendly· Browser-based on phones and tablets; vendor recommends a computer for the Think and Group phasesROTI feedback· Wrap-up rating phase

AI

AI grouping / clustering· Retrium Next open beta only — AI surfaces themes from private 1:1 interviews; absent from the GA productAI action items· Retrium Next open beta only — AI drafts action items the team reacts to; absent from the GA productAI discussion prompts· Retrium Next open beta only — AI asks follow-up questions during the interview and discussion; absent from the GA product

Reporting

Action tracker dashboard· Team-room action planExport formats· CSV, Jira

Enterprise

SSO / SAML· SAML SSO on Business and Enterprise (Okta, Microsoft Entra ID)SCIM provisioning· Enterprise only — SCIM 2.0 provisioning, request-gated (Okta)SOC 2 Type 2GDPR compliantAudit logs· Team Room Activity Log (member and settings changes only); no org-level audit trailFacilitator-only roleGuest / observer roles· Guests join public Team Rooms without an accountMeeting historyUptime SLA / dedicated support· Enterprise tier

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