Retrospective Tools

Kollabe 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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Kollabe

5.6

Agile meetings made easy — retros, standups and planning poker

Kollabe began life as a planning poker tool and has extended into retrospectives and standups — the estimation side remains the centre of gravity, with retros and standups added as adjacent rituals rather than the headline product. It bundles icebreakers, anonymous input, AI summaries and action-item sync-back to Jira, GitHub and Azure DevOps in a flat per-space workspace, and retro history exports in bulk to CSV or JSON. Recent additions include a Slack-based async standup flow, a public API and MCP server, and cross-ritual weekly reporting. Some retro mechanics the marketing asserts are not corroborated outside the vendor's own pages — verify the board before committing.

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TeleRetro

6.1

Agile retros you'll love

TeleRetro is a remote-first retrospective tool built around team engagement — animated GIF reactions, emoji reactions on notes, icebreaker games, background music and a clean facilitation flow. It pairs retros with a Pulse Survey module for tracking team health between sessions, aimed at small to mid-size agile teams who want retros that feel lively rather than mechanical.

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Summary

Kollabe scores 5.6 overall and is best for small to mid-size agile teams that want retros, standups and planning poker in one clean tool — without per-seat pricing. It offers a free tier.

TeleRetro scores 6.1 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.

Kollabe leads on integrations and open platform. TeleRetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, fun factor and enterprise-grade.

Across our eight scoring dimensions, TeleRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 6.1. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.

Scores compared

Kollabe
Ease of Use8.5
Retro Toolkit5.5
Value8.0
Fun Factor6.0
AI & Insights4.0
Integrations5.5
Open Platform5.5
Enterprise-grade2.0
TeleRetro
Ease of Use9.0
Retro Toolkit7.5
Value8.0
Fun Factor8.0
AI & Insights4.0
Integrations5.0
Open Platform3.0
Enterprise-grade4.0
DetailKollabeTeleRetro
CategoryRetrospectivesRetrospectives
Team sizeSmallSmall
Free tierYesYes
Free limit10 members per room, limited meetings/month, 7-day history, no data export1 team, 3 retros, 14-day retro access, 1 pulse survey, limited AI Retro Bot access
Starting price$29/mo£26/mo
Est. 3 teams × 8 people$87/mo (3 team spaces × $29 Premium; each space allows unlimited members)£72/mo (~$91/mo) on the Business plan (3 teams)
EnterpriseYesYes
Founded20232020
HQSydney, AustraliaUK
Data residency
LanguagesEnglish only14 (English, German, Spanish, …)
Export formatsConfluence · CSV · JSONEmail · Jira
Features2935
Integrations67

Feature & integration comparison

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

CapabilityKollabeTeleRetro
Features
AI Summaries
AI grouping/clustering
AI action items
Action trackingnote
Team Insightsnote
Polling
Action dashboard
Custom templates
Anonymous input
Independent voting
Async modenote
Agile Estimations
Health Checksnote
Team Kudos
Whiteboard
Integrations
Asana
Azure DevOpsnote
Basecamp
ClickUp
Confluencenote
GitHubnote
GitLab
Jiranote
Linearnote
Microsoft Teamsnote
Monday.com
Notionnote
Shortcut
Slacknote
Trellonote
Security & Privacy
SOC 2
GDPR
SSO / SAMLnotenote
SCIM provisioning
ISO 27001
On-premises
Public APInotenote
Webhooks
MCP servernote

Kollabe — pros

  • + Flat per-space pricing — unlimited team members on Premium ($29/mo)
  • + Bundles retros, standups, planning poker and icebreakers in one tool
  • + No-signup join links lower friction for ad-hoc participants; ease of use rates ~5.0/5 across 31 verified third-party reviews
  • + Retro action items become real Jira and GitHub tickets — confirmed in independent user reviews, not just vendor copy
  • + Bulk export of retro history to CSV or JSON, plus one-click Confluence pages; public API and MCP server on Premium

Kollabe — cons

  • Slack integration is standup-only (no retro summaries or actions to a channel); no Microsoft Teams
  • Solo-founder operation with no SOC 2, ISO 27001 or published GDPR posture; SSO/SAML and SLA sit behind Enterprise contact-sales
  • No health checks, team radars or longitudinal pulse — no way to track team trends across sprints
  • Several vendor-listed retro mechanics (independent dot voting, drag-to-group, AI grouping) are absent from the changelog and could not be corroborated
  • Free tier caps meetings/month with 7-day history and no data export; carrying actions between retros is paid-only

TeleRetro — pros

  • + The deepest <strong>retro-native engagement set</strong> of any tool here — GIF and 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, facilitator-gated voting with a configurable vote count, and mood polls at both ends of the session
  • + Pulse Surveys track team health between retros, with 20+ ready templates and a cross-team dashboard on the Business plan
  • + Genuinely cheap for a small org — £72/mo covers 3 teams with unlimited retros

TeleRetro — cons

  • Only Slack is documented as a native integration; Jira is claimed on the vendor's comparison pages but absent from its own integrations page, and everything else routes through Zapier
  • Actions carry owners but <em>no due dates</em>, and nothing links an action back to the idea that prompted it
  • AI never touches the board — Retro Bot generates formats and icebreakers, but there is no clustering, summary, sentiment or action extraction
  • 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
  • No product update shipped since August 2025 — the marketing site is actively maintained, the changelog is not

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