Retrospectives· Boston, United States
Retro Rabbit
Slack-first retrospectives with async note capture
Overall score
4.4
Slack-first retrospectives with async note capture
Re-checked 2026-09-01: still no changelog, release notes or blog (/blog, /changelog and /docs all 404; blog.retrorabbit.io redirects to a Ghost instance returning 503), and the homepage copy — including the 'More CarrotIQ Features Coming Soon' card, on the page since March 2025 — is byte-identical to the 15 May 2026 Internet Archive capture, with the footer still reading '© 2025 Retro Rabbit LLC'. The code is not frozen: 24 of the 25 JS bundle hashes have changed since that capture and the sitemap carries a 23 July 2026 build timestamp. Product, pricing, Stripe billing, sign-in and the Slack Marketplace app are all operational; LinkedIn lists four employees in Boston, MA.
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.
Retro Rabbit sells to teams that already live in Slack, under the headline "Agile Retrospectives That Actually Lead to Change".
"Traditional retros waste time on note-taking. With Retro Rabbit, team members add notes throughout the sprint, so you can focus on what matters: discussion and action."
The number attached to that promise is 70% of meeting time saved. Almost everything else on the page is CarrotIQ, the AI assistant that "intelligently groups your notes and suggests powerful follow-ups" — alongside a "More Features Coming Soon" card that has been sitting there since March 2025. Six competitor comparison pages position it as the modern, AI-powered switch. The target buyer is a small Slack-first squad for which Retrium or Miro would be overkill.
Retro Rabbit does one thing genuinely well: continuous capture. Notes accumulate in the Slack channel all sprint, so the board opens full rather than with five minutes of silent writing — a real fix for recency bias, not a slogan. The board is competent and unfussy: five templates plus five editable custom topics, drag-to-group with named groups, a 1–50 dot-vote budget, a shared timer, per-user anonymity, and a GIPHY picker the marketing site never mentions. Open actions carry into the next retro in an Old / Unresolved Items tab with Slack reminders — better follow-through than most tools at this price.
The gaps are structural. No health checks, no sentiment, no cross-team rollups; the only trend view is notes-per-day for one room. AI is two endpoints — a retro summary and one action-item suggestion — and the "intelligent note grouping" the site sells has no counterpart in the shipped app. Slack is the only integration, so action items never reach Jira or Azure DevOps, and there is no API, webhooks or MCP.
Right for one to a handful of Slack-first squads. Wrong for anything that has to clear procurement.