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Retrospectives· UK· Founded 2020

TeleRetro

Agile retros you'll love

Overall score
5.8
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Overview

TeleRetro is a remote-first retrospective tool built around team engagement — animated GIF reactions, emoji reactions on notes, icebreaker games, background music and a clean facilitation flow. Participants join by link with no account. It pairs retros with a Pulse Survey module for tracking team health between sessions, and prices per team rather than per user, aimed at small to mid-size agile teams who want retros that feel lively rather than mechanical.

Best for: Remote and hybrid agile teams who prioritise engagement and fun alongside a solid retrospective facilitation workflow.

TeleRetro retrospective board shown on desktop and mobile

How TeleRetro describes itself

TeleRetro pitches itself as the retro tool teams actually enjoy turning up to, aimed at scrum masters running remote or hybrid ceremonies. The homepage pairs that with a team-health angle, billing itself as an "Online Retrospective Tool & Health Check for Agile Teams."

"Agile retros you'll love" — "The retro tool that helps teams reflect, improve, and grow together."

Three claims carry the pitch. Engagement first: music, GIFs, emoji reactions, icebreakers and 50+ themed formats. Then zero-friction joining — "share a link, they're in. No account needed for participants." Then price: six competitor-comparison pages added in April 2026 all land on flat per-team billing with no per-user charge. The Pulse Survey module and the AI Retro Bot, which spins a full retro format out of any prompt, are the named differentiators.

Our take

TeleRetro is still the engagement benchmark among retro-native tools, and it isn't close. Background music during brainstorming, GIF and emoji reactions on notes, an AI icebreaker bot and 50+ themed formats with their own backgrounds are all shipped and working. Facilitation is clean: brainstorming mode to hide notes while people write, drag-and-drop grouping, Spotlight to focus the room on one note, facilitator-gated voting with a configurable vote count, and mood polls at both ends. Pulse Surveys cover the between-retros gap with 16 anonymous templates and custom models, though there are no team radars.

Reading the shipped app settled two questions this pass. The Insights API is real but narrow — one read-only org-metrics endpoint, an API key issued only on email request, no public docs. And there is no native Jira: the integrations panel offers Slack and Zapier, nothing else, whatever the comparison pages say. Retros can't be scheduled or set to recur, actions have owners but no due dates, export runs to an emailed summary, a PNG and a JSON dump, and no AI ever touches the board. Nothing new has shipped since August 2025.

Right for a 5–15 person team that wants retros people show up to. Wrong for programme-level buyers who need governance and native agile-stack sync.

Score breakdown

Ease of Use9.0
Retro Toolkit7.0
Value8.0
Fun Factor8.0
AI & Insights1.5
Integrations5.0
Open Platform3.5
Enterprise-grade4.0

Pros

  • + The deepest retro-native engagement set of any tool here — GIF and emoji reactions on notes, background music during brainstorming, an AI icebreaker bot, and 50+ themed formats with their own backgrounds
  • + Participants join by link with no account required — the fastest path from invite to first note
  • + Clean facilitation flow: brainstorming mode, drag-and-drop grouping, Spotlight to focus the room on one note, facilitator-gated voting with a configurable vote count, and mood polls at both ends of the session
  • + Pulse Surveys track team health between retros — 16 fully anonymous templates, custom models, and a cross-team dashboard on the Business plan
  • + Flat per-team pricing with no per-user charge — £72/mo covers 3 teams, unlimited members and unlimited retros

Cons

  • − Slack is the only native integration; the in-app integrations panel offers Slack and Zapier and nothing else, despite Jira appearing on the vendor's comparison pages
  • − No way to schedule a future retro or set one to recur, and actions carry owners but no due dates — nothing links an action back to the idea that prompted it either
  • − AI never touches the board — Retro Bot generates formats and icebreakers, but there is no clustering, summary, sentiment or action extraction
  • − Export is thin: an emailed summary, a PNG of the summary screen, and an org-metrics JSON dump. No CSV, PDF or Excel
  • − No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 of its own (the certs cited are AWS's), no SCIM, no audit logs, and SSO is Enterprise-plan only

Features

Retrospectives

TemplatesCustom templatesAnonymous inputRecurring retros· 'Create retro like this' clones a past board; no automated recurrencePrivate/public retros

Health checks

Health checks· Pulse Surveys module — 16 anonymous team-health templates between retrosCustom health-check models· Custom pulse-survey models and questionsMood / sentiment check· Check-in mood poll + pulse surveys

Facilitation

Meeting timerAction items· Assign owners; no due dates on actionsPresentation mode· Spotlight highlights a note for everyone; facilitator can push a shared summary viewDrag-and-drop groupingCarry over open actionsFacilitator-only groupingAsync mode· Boards stay open on a shareable link; no dedicated async collection window

Voting

Independent dot votingCustom vote countVote on ideas inside groups

Engagement

Mobile friendlyIcebreakersIcebreaker gamesCheck-in / check-outGIFsMusicCustom backgrounds

AI

AI template suggestions· Retro Bot generates a retro format from any topic

Reporting

Cross-team reporting· Org-wide retro metrics only as a JSON download or via the Insights API — no in-product cross-team retro viewOrg health dashboard· Cross-team pulse-survey dashboard on the Business planAction tracker dashboardExport formats· Email, Image, JSON

Enterprise

SSO / SAML· Okta & Azure AD SSO on Enterprise plan onlyGDPR compliantFacilitator-only roleGuest / observer rolesMeeting historyUptime SLA / dedicated support· Enterprise planPublic API· Insights API — read-only org metrics endpoint, key issued on email request, no public docsLanguages· 14 (English, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, +9 more)

Integrations

Jira· via Zapier only — the in-app integrations panel lists Slack and Zapier and nothing elseAzure DevOps· via ZapierGitHub· via ZapierTrello· via ZapierAsana· via ZapierMonday.com· via ZapierSlackMicrosoft Teams· via ZapierConfluence· via ZapierNotion· via Zapier

Compare TeleRetro against

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Sources

Last reviewed: September 2, 2026