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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LetRetro
5.9The retro tool that thinks with your team
LetRetro is a fast-shipping, AI-forward retrospective platform aimed at engineering teams rather than Scrum Masters. AI writes the board summary (key themes, action items by owner, a sentiment snapshot) and Pro trend analyses track blockers and burnout signals across retros; cards open as Jira, GitHub or GitLab issues; Voice Mode lets anyone speak a card straight into the right column; and an official MCP server lets Claude, Cursor and VS Code read and drive boards. Excalidraw-style Canvas boards sit alongside, all on flat pooled-seat pricing — $15/mo for up to 200 seats — rather than per user.
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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.
LetRetro scores 5.9 overall and is best for developer-leaning agile teams and startups that want AI-assisted retros wired into Jira, GitHub and GitLab, an official MCP server their AI clients can drive, and flat pricing that doesn't grow with headcount — and that don't need anonymous input, a shared timer, recurring retros or a procurement-grade security story. It offers a free tier.
GoRetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, fun factor and enterprise-grade. LetRetro leads on value, AI & insights, integrations and open platform.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, LetRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 5.9. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | GoRetro | LetRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Any | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | 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. | 3 boards, 1 team, 20 pooled seats, 1 canvas, 2 AI docs/mo, 5 exports/mo, 10 voice cards/mo; no integrations and no MCP requests; community support |
| Starting price | $29/team/mo | $15/mo (Pro, flat) |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $87/mo (Premium, 3 teams, billed annually; $105/mo billed monthly) | $15/mo (Pro — flat plan covers unlimited teams within its 200 pooled-seat cap; 24 users fits) |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2020 | 2025 |
| HQ | Israel | Bengaluru, India |
| Data residency | United States | — |
| Languages | English only | English only |
| Export formats | PDF · CSV · Image | CSV · PDF · Word · Notion · Jira |
| Features | 34 | 28 |
| Integrations | 2 | 5 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | GoRetro | LetRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓note |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | — |
| Health Checks | ✓note | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓note |
| Async mode | ✓note | — |
| Whiteboard | — | ✓note |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓note |
| Polling | ✓note | ✓note |
| Icebreaker games | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | — |
| Team Kudos | ✓note | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓note |
| AI action items | — | ✓note |
| AI Summaries | — | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | ✓note |
| 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 | ✓note | ✓ |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓note |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | ✓note |
| Public API | — | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | — | ✓note |
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
LetRetro — pros
- + Flat pricing — $15/mo Pro covers unlimited boards and teams within a 200 pooled-seat cap, so 24 users costs exactly what 4 do
- + AI is the product, not a bolt-on: board summaries with key themes, owner-sorted actions and a sentiment snapshot, 50 cross-retro trend analyses a month on Pro, and <strong>Voice Mode</strong> — hold Shift+Space, say a sentence, and it lands as a card in the right column
- + An <strong>official, MIT-licensed MCP server</strong> — one-command install, 17 tools, 11 clients, and its own component on the public status page — so Claude, Cursor or VS Code can read boards and file cards without a bespoke script
- + Dev-stack card linking is real and deep: Jira, GitHub and GitLab with inline issue editing, comments, MR/PR status, and one card linked across all three at once
- + Ships genuinely fast — AI summaries, MCP, GitLab, Canvas boards, 2FA, Voice Mode and CSV/Google Sheets board export all landed between June and September 2026, each documented in a changelog that matches the shipped product
LetRetro — cons
- − The integrations and comparison pages sell Linear, Asana, Confluence and Snowflake. The shipped app has setup pages for six connectors only — Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Notion and Google Docs. Verify anything you're depending on
- − Thin enterprise story: SAML is a line on the quote-only Enterprise tier, not something the shipped sign-in flow offers; no SCIM, no customer-facing audit log despite the homepage's <em>immutable audit trails</em> claim, and no LetRetro-held SOC 2 or ISO 27001
- − A bootstrapped team of four on the about page (the founder, one more engineer and two marketers) with negligible independent coverage and no support function behind an SLA. A durability risk for procurement whatever the shipping cadence
- − Retro basics the marketing promises aren't in the app: the templates and use-case pages advertise anonymous input, but every card shows its author and no setting hides it. There's also no card grouping, no shared countdown timer, no recurring retros, no async mode and no team agreements
- − No public REST API and no webhooks; the dashboard's API keys only authenticate the MCP server, which — like every integration — is Pro-only. Boards export to CSV (Google Sheets on Pro) and documents to PDF, Word, Google Docs or Notion; exports are capped at 5/mo on the free tier
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