Retrospective Tools

Estimioo vs TeleRetro

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing, features and integrations to help you pick the right retrospective tool.

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Estimioo

4.8

AI-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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TeleRetro

5.8

Agile retros you'll love

TeleRetro is a remote-first retrospective tool built around team engagement — animated GIF reactions, emoji reactions on notes, AI icebreaker questions, 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.

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Summary

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.

TeleRetro scores 5.8 overall and is best for remote and hybrid agile teams who prioritise engagement and fun alongside a solid retrospective facilitation workflow. It offers a free tier.

Estimioo leads on value and AI & insights. TeleRetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, fun factor, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade.

Across our eight scoring dimensions, TeleRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 5.8. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.

Scores compared

Estimioo
Ease of Use7.5
Retro Toolkit6.5
Value9.0
Fun Factor6.5
AI & Insights4.5
Integrations2.5
Open Platform0.0
Enterprise-grade2.0
TeleRetro
Ease of Use9.0
Retro Toolkit7.0
Value8.0
Fun Factor8.0
AI & Insights1.5
Integrations5.0
Open Platform3.5
Enterprise-grade4.0
DetailEstimiooTeleRetro
CategoryAll-in-One AgileRetrospectives
Team sizeSmallSmall
Free tierYesYes
Free limitUp 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 export1 team, 3 retros total (deleted retros still count), 14-day retro access, 1 pulse survey, limited AI Retro Bot access, 10 AI icebreaker questions
Starting price$7/workspace/mo£26/mo (Team plan, 1 team, unlimited members; £21/mo 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)£72/mo (~$96/mo) on the Business plan — 3 teams, unlimited members; £58/mo billed annually
EnterpriseYesYes
Founded—2020
HQ—UK
Data residency——
Languages5 (English, German, Spanish, …)1 (English)
Export formats—Email · Image · JSON
Features3239
Integrations110

Feature & integration comparison

Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.

CapabilityEstimiooTeleRetro
Features
Custom templates✓note✓note
Anonymous input✓note✓
Health Checks✓note✓note
Action tracking✓note✓note
Async mode✓note✓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—✓
Integrations
Asana—✓note
Azure DevOps—✓note
Basecamp——
ClickUp——
Confluence—✓note
GitHub—✓note
GitLab——
Jira✓note✓note
Linear——
Microsoft Teams—✓note
Monday.com—✓note
Notion—✓note
Shortcut——
Slack—✓
Trello—✓note
Security & Privacy
SOC 2——
GDPR—✓
SSO / SAML—✓note
SCIM provisioning——
ISO 27001——
On-premises——
Public API—✓note
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

TeleRetro — pros

  • + A rich <strong>retro-native engagement set</strong>: GIFs that float across the board, 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 <em>no account required</em> — 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 <em>no per-user charge</em> — £72/mo covers 3 teams, unlimited members and unlimited retros

TeleRetro — 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 <em>no due dates</em> — 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

Keep comparing

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