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 2026-08-03: there is no changelog, release-notes or blog page (/blog, /changelog and /docs all 404; blog.retrorabbit.io still returns 503), and the homepage copy is unchanged from the 9 July 2025 Internet Archive capture — the 'more CarrotIQ features coming soon' card has been on the page since at least 16 March 2025. Pricing is identical across captures from 18 April 2025 to today and the footer still reads '© 2025 Retro Rabbit LLC'. The site is still being redeployed (JS and CSS bundle hashes changed since the 15 May 2026 capture), and product, pricing, billing, sign-in and the Slack Marketplace app are all operational.
Best for: Slack-centric agile teams that want to capture retro notes continuously through the sprint and run lightweight live or async retros without leaving chat.
Retro Rabbit pitches itself as the retro tool for 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. Live sessions run on a synced web board with drag-and-drop grouping, voting and assignable action items; CarrotIQ, the AI layer on the $40/team/month Pro AI plan, handles grouping, action-item suggestions and retro summaries. The target buyer is a small Slack-first squad for which Retrium or Miro would be overkill.
Retro Rabbit is a focused Slack-native retro tool and honest about its scope. Continuous capture genuinely attacks recency bias — the thing most teams paper over with five minutes of silent writing — and Slack is the right surface for a chat-first squad. CarrotIQ covers the table-stakes AI without pretending to coach, and export is unusually generous for the money: CSV, XLSX and PDF on the $30/team/month Starter tier.
The gaps are structural. No health checks, team radars or longitudinal pulse tracking, so you get snapshots, not a story across six sprints. No org rollups or cross-team reporting. Slack is the only integration — action items never reach Jira, Linear or Azure DevOps — and there's no API, webhooks or MCP. Enterprise readiness is thin: SSO is Enterprise-tier only, SOC 2 is claimed at the AWS data-center level rather than as a vendor audit, and the privacy policy carries no GDPR or CCPA language. No free tier, just a 14-day trial.
Best fit: one to a handful of Slack-first teams. Wrong fit for program-level reporting or regulated procurement.