Echometer
5.6Psychology-backed retros and team health checks for engineering teams
Echometer is a German retrospective, health-check and 1:1 meeting platform built around recurring pulse surveys, structured retros and longitudinal team development tracking. It pitches itself to busy team leads — engineering managers, scrum masters and agile coaches — who want research-grounded question libraries rather than a blank whiteboard.
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GoRetro
5.3Make every sprint impactful, efficient, and fun
GoRetro is a sprint-centric retro and estimation suite combining retrospectives, planning poker, capacity planning and a Jira-fed sprint monitor, with a limited free plan and flat per-team paid pricing.
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Echometer scores 5.6 overall and is best for engineering managers and agile coaches who want recurring health-check pulses tied to retros, with EU data residency and a research-flavoured question library. It offers a free tier.
GoRetro scores 5.3 overall and is 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. It offers a free tier.
Echometer leads on retro toolkit, AI & insights and open platform. GoRetro leads on ease of use and fun factor.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Echometer edges ahead with an overall score of 5.6. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Echometer | GoRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Any |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Starter: 1 team, 25 workspace members, unlimited retro guests, 1 retro/month after trial, 2-retro archive per team | Free plan: 1 team, 5 public boards, 2 team boards per 31-day cycle, 3 columns per board, unlimited users and guests, 20+ templates. Excludes exports, retro analytics, Jira sync, happiness index, polls, icebreakers and action-item management. No longer listed on the pricing page; the shipped app still defines it as the plan a team drops to when the 30-day trial ends. |
| Starting price | €29/team/mo | $29/team/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | €87/mo billed annually, excl. VAT (3 teams × €29 Pro); €105/mo billed monthly | $87/mo (Premium, 3 teams, billed annually; $105/mo billed monthly) |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2019 | 2020 |
| HQ | Münster, Germany | Israel |
| Data residency | Germany | United States |
| Languages | 2 (English, German) | English only |
| Export formats | CSV · PDF · Markdown · Email | PDF · CSV · Image |
| Features | 48 | 34 |
| Integrations | 3 | 2 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Echometer | GoRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓ |
| Health Checks | ✓ | ✓note |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | ✓note |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓ | ✓note |
| Icebreaker games | ✓note | — |
| Agile Estimations | — | ✓note |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓note |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | — |
| AI action items | ✓note | — |
| AI Summaries | — | — |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | — |
| Action dashboard | ✓ | ✓note |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓ | ✓note |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓note | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓note | ✓note |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | — |
| Webhooks | ✓note | — |
| MCP server | — | — |
Echometer — pros
- + 200+ research-grounded health-check items, custom models and auto-scheduled pulse surveys
- + Longitudinal team radars, heatmaps and a cross-team workspace dashboard tied to retros
- + German-only hosting (Open Telekom Cloud, Magdeburg/Biere) with a GDPR data processing agreement
- + Open actions resurface automatically in the next retro, with owner email reminders and one-click push to Jira
- + Per-team, not per-seat, pricing — €87/mo covers three teams of eight, billed annually
Echometer — cons
- − Beyond Jira, Slack and Teams only get 'retro started' and 'survey sent' pings — no summaries, Confluence or Linear
- − No public API; webhooks fire on just two events, and export is PDF, CSV, Markdown or an emailed recap
- − No SOC 2 — the ISO 27001 certificate covers the datacenter, not Echometer itself
- − Retro-side AI is one function: suggested measures. No clustering, no AI session summary
- − No scheduled retros — cadence reminders nudge the team admin, but every session is started by hand
GoRetro — pros
- + Flat per-team pricing ($29/team/mo annual) with unlimited members per team, plus a genuinely free plan for one team
- + Polished, real-time facilitation UX with per-board anonymity toggles (hide author, hide cards, hide votes) and drag-to-merge grouping
- + Bundles planning poker, capacity calculator and a Jira sprint monitor with retros
- + Real engagement extras — Giphy picker on cards, an optional kudos column, icebreakers, polls and a happiness index
- + Tight Jira Cloud integration; action items push through to Slack
GoRetro — cons
- − <strong>Effectively in maintenance mode</strong> — the production app was last built 9 Feb 2025, the changelog stopped 23 May 2023 and the blog 28 Jul 2023, and two features are still badged "coming soon" from that era
- − <em>No AI anywhere in the shipped app</em> — no clustering, summarisation or sentiment analysis; the .ai is a domain, not a capability
- − Integration breadth is narrow — Jira and Slack only, with no native MS Teams, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear, Confluence or Trello
- − No public API or webhooks; exports capped at PDF/CSV/PNG; US-only hosting with no EU residency option
- − The security page contradicts its own hero: SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 are billed as certified up top and "pending audit" in the detail row
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