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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TeleRetro
5.8Agile 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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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.
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.
LetRetro leads on value, AI & insights, integrations and open platform. TeleRetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, fun factor and enterprise-grade.
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 | LetRetro | TeleRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | 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 | 1 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 | $15/mo (Pro, flat) | £26/mo (Team plan, 1 team, unlimited members; £21/mo billed annually) |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $15/mo (Pro — flat plan covers unlimited teams within its 200 pooled-seat cap; 24 users fits) | £72/mo (~$96/mo) on the Business plan — 3 teams, unlimited members; £58/mo billed annually |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2025 | 2020 |
| HQ | Bengaluru, India | UK |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | English only | 1 (English) |
| Export formats | CSV · PDF · Word · Notion · Jira | Email · Image · JSON |
| Features | 28 | 39 |
| Integrations | 5 | 10 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | LetRetro | TeleRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓note | ✓note |
| Anonymous input | — | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | ✓note |
| Action tracking | ✓note | ✓note |
| Async mode | — | ✓note |
| Whiteboard | ✓note | — |
| Independent voting | ✓note | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓note | — |
| Icebreaker games | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓note | — |
| AI action items | ✓note | — |
| AI Summaries | ✓ | — |
| Team Insights | ✓note | — |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | — |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | ✓note |
| Azure DevOps | — | ✓note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | ✓note |
| GitHub | ✓ | ✓note |
| GitLab | ✓ | — |
| Jira | ✓ | ✓note |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | ✓note |
| Monday.com | — | ✓note |
| Notion | ✓ | ✓note |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trello | — | ✓note |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | ✓note | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | ✓note | — |
| Public API | — | ✓note |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | ✓note | — |
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
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
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