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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Trune.io
4.1Structured online retrospectives with team radar
Trune (formerly Fraankly) is an EU-built retrospective and team-feedback tool that runs a fixed four-phase session — silent writing, presenting, voting, actions — with 14 pre-built templates plus custom ones, anonymous cards, drag-to-group clustering, dot voting, action items with reminder emails, and team radars including the Spotify Squad Health Check. Hosted in Frankfurt with EU-only application data, available in five UI languages, and exports results to Excel, CSV or an emailed PDF.
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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.
Trune.io scores 4.1 overall and is best for small EU-based agile teams that want a simple, <strong>GDPR-aligned</strong> retro tool with templates, grouping, voting, and team radars — and can live with a vendor whose app has not shipped an update since September 2025. It offers a free tier.
Echometer leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, fun factor, AI & insights and enterprise-grade. Trune.io leads on open platform.
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 | Trune.io |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Small |
| 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 | 5 free sessions, up to 9 participants each, 3 of the 14 templates plus custom ones; no credit card |
| Starting price | €29/team/mo | $19/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | €87/mo billed annually, excl. VAT (3 teams × €29 Pro); €105/mo billed monthly | $57/mo |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2019 | — |
| HQ | Münster, Germany | Vienna, Austria |
| Data residency | Germany | Germany |
| Languages | 2 (English, German) | 5 (English, German, Dutch, …) |
| Export formats | CSV · PDF · Markdown · Email | Excel · CSV · PDF |
| Features | 48 | 23 |
| Integrations | 3 | 10 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Echometer | Trune.io |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓ |
| Health Checks | ✓ | ✓note |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓ | — |
| Icebreaker games | ✓note | — |
| Agile Estimations | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | — |
| AI action items | ✓note | — |
| AI Summaries | — | — |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | — |
| Action dashboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | ✓note |
| Azure DevOps | — | ✓note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | ✓note |
| GitHub | — | ✓note |
| GitLab | — | ✓note |
| Jira | ✓ | ✓note |
| Linear | — | ✓note |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓note | ✓note |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓note | ✓note |
| Trello | — | ✓note |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | ✓note |
| 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
Trune.io — pros
- + EU/Frankfurt data residency and a GDPR-first posture — the FAQ states no application data is stored outside Europe
- + Per-team (not per-seat) pricing: $19/mo covers unlimited members, and the free tier gives 5 sessions
- + Native two-way Azure DevOps sync on the Enterprise plan — action items out as work items, Done status back in
- + Team radars include the Spotify Squad Health Check plus fully custom radars
- + Ships in five UI languages (English, German, Dutch, French, Italian) and exports to Excel, CSV or an emailed PDF
Trune.io — cons
- − <strong>The product has stood still</strong>: the web app was last deployed in September 2025, the blog stopped in July 2024, there is no changelog, and the Android app is gone from Google Play
- − No SCIM, SOC 2 or audit logs, and SSO only as a bespoke per-customer SAML setup — not enterprise-ready
- − No AI: the code carries a truneGPT chat window, but nothing in the interface opens it
- − Azure DevOps is the only native connector and is Enterprise-only (quote-based); everything else is a single one-way Zapier trigger
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