Estimioo
4.8AI-powered planning poker, retrospectives and standups for agile teams
Estimioo is a lightweight, browser-based agile-ceremony tool that bundles AI-assisted planning poker and a 42-format sprint retrospective board into one shared workspace. Estimation is still the centre of gravity, but the retro board caught up in September 2026: optional Writing → Voting → Discuss phases with a shared timer, anonymous sessions or single anonymous cards, host-led card grouping, a 3–10 vote budget, action-item owners, and a carry-over banner fed by the host's personal action tracker. A Claude-powered summary returns team mood, key themes and ranked action items. What it still lacks is blind brainstorming, recurring retros, health-check trends and any retro export beyond a clipboard recap.
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RetroTool
3.2Anonymous online retrospectives, no login required
RetroTool is a low-friction online retrospective board built by u2i, a ~60-person NY/Kraków software agency, as an internal tool it later opened up. Free anonymous retros run from a unique URL with no signup; paid tiers add private boards, team management, configurable retention and zero-knowledge encryption. The product works and is still used daily, but nothing has shipped visibly since 2024.
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Estimioo scores 4.8 overall and is best for small, distributed agile teams who want AI-assisted planning poker and a capable 42-format retro board in one workspace for a flat $7 a month — and who can live without blind brainstorming, recurring retros, health-check trends or real Slack, Teams and retro-side Jira integrations. It offers a free tier.
RetroTool scores 3.2 overall and is best for small or ad-hoc teams who want a free, no-signup retro board with private drafting, secret voting and a dozen standard templates — provided you're comfortable running on a tool whose last visible build is dated May 2024. It offers a free tier.
Estimioo leads on retro toolkit, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade. RetroTool leads on open platform.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Estimioo edges ahead with an overall score of 4.8. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Estimioo | RetroTool |
|---|---|---|
| Category | All-in-One Agile | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Up to 10 participants, 5 sessions/month (estimation + retro combined), 5 AI estimates/month, 1 AI retro summary per retro, 1 standup room with 7-day history, 1-hour session expiry, CSV export | Anonymous boards; unlimited cards, columns, action points and participants; 3 basic templates; private sections, secret voting, dot-vote limits, timer, grouping, action points with owner and due date; Markdown export; 12-month retention. A free registered 'Participant' account (not advertised on the plans page) adds access to private retros and cross-device drafts |
| Starting price | $7/workspace/mo | $10/team/mo ($100/team/yr billed annually) |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $7/mo (Team plan is flat per-workspace with unlimited participants, not per-seat; separate projects per team need the quote-only Enterprise tier) | $30/mo (Individual — 3 teams x $10/team/mo, unlimited members per team; $300/yr = $25/mo billed annually) |
| Enterprise | Yes | No |
| Founded | — | — |
| HQ | — | Poland |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 5 (English, German, Spanish, …) | English only |
| Export formats | — | Markdown · Confluence |
| Features | 32 | 21 |
| Integrations | 1 | 0 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Estimioo | RetroTool |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓note | ✓note |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓note |
| Health Checks | ✓note | — |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓note | — |
| Whiteboard | — | — |
| Independent voting | ✓note | ✓ |
| Polling | — | — |
| Icebreaker games | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | — |
| AI action items | ✓note | — |
| AI Summaries | ✓note | — |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | — |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓note |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | — |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | — | — |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | — | ✓note |
| SSO / SAML | — | — |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | — | — |
Estimioo — pros
- + Genuinely cheap — flat <strong>$7/workspace/mo</strong> with unlimited participants, plus a usable free tier; guests join by link or QR with no signup, in five UI languages
- + A real facilitation flow: optional Writing → Voting → Discuss phases with a done-writing signal, host-led card grouping, a 3–10 vote budget and owners on action items
- + Anonymous sessions (or a single anonymous card on a named board), and open actions from earlier retros resurface as a banner when the host starts the next one
- + Unusually fun for the price: 340+ synced icebreakers, twelve ambient and music tracks, emoji reactions on cards and an in-session chat with GIFs
- + One-click Claude retro summary returns team mood, key themes and ranked action items with <em>Add all to board</em>
Estimioo — cons
- − No blind brainstorm — cards appear to everyone as they're written, so the retro page's <em>write first, discuss second</em> pitch rests on the facilitator, not the tool
- − Follow-through belongs to the host, not the team: carry-over runs through a personal action tracker, nothing recurs or can be scheduled, and Team Radar scores don't trend across retros
- − Thin integrations: Slack and Teams are copy-to-clipboard buttons, Jira is planning-poker only, Linear is still "on the way", and a retro exports nothing but a pasted recap — no API, webhooks or MCP
- − No SOC 2, ISO 27001, DPA or data-residency option, and while Enterprise lists SSO, the shipped sign-in offers only Google and email
- − Social proof is entirely unattributed — <em>450+ teams</em>, a <em>4.8</em> rating and a logo wall naming Accenture, Deloitte, Thoughtworks and Xero, with no G2, Capterra or Product Hunt listing to corroborate any of it
RetroTool — pros
- + Genuinely free anonymous retros with no account required
- + Three-click setup — unique URL, share, run
- + Per-column Private Sections keep drafting unbiased until people publish
- + Zero-knowledge encryption with custom passwords on the Company plan
- + Per-team flat pricing ($10 or $20/team/mo, 15%+ off annually) with <em>unlimited members per team</em>, not per-seat
RetroTool — cons
- − <strong>Dormant</strong>: the marketing build is dated 28 May 2024, the app still runs Meteor 2.9, the blog stopped in March 2022 and the legal pages are unchanged since August 2020
- − No integrations with Jira, Slack, Teams or any other agile-stack tool, no AI of any kind, and no health checks, recurring retros, async mode or cross-team reporting
- − Export is Markdown only (plain or Confluence wiki markup), copied to the clipboard or saved as a file
- − Most templates, image cards, named participants, private invite-only boards and zero-knowledge encryption sit behind paid tiers
- − Not SOC 2; Google sign-in only, with no SAML SSO, SCIM or audit logs
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