Retrospective Tools

Retrium vs RetroTool

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

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Retrium

4.7

Guided retrospectives and Team Radars for scrum and agile teams

Retrium is a long-running, retrospectives-only tool that emphasises guided five-phase facilitation, anonymous brainstorming, voting, a persistent action plan, and Team Radar health checks for distributed teams.

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RetroTool

3.2

Anonymous online retrospectives, no login required

RetroTool is a low-friction online retrospective board built by NY/Poland software agency u2i as a side project. Free anonymous retros run from a unique URL with no signup; paid tiers add private boards, team management and longer retention. The product still works, but the site shows no shipped activity in years.

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Summary

Retrium scores 4.7 overall and is best for scrum masters and agile coaches who want a focused, retro-only tool with strong facilitation guardrails and a built-in Team Radar. It offers paid plans from $39/mo.

RetroTool scores 3.2 overall and is best for small or ad-hoc teams who want a free, no-signup retro board with secret voting and a few standard templates — provided you're comfortable using a tool that hasn't shipped visible updates in years. It offers a free tier.

Retrium leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, fun factor, integrations and enterprise-grade. RetroTool leads on value.

Across our eight scoring dimensions, Retrium edges ahead with an overall score of 4.7. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.

Scores compared

Retrium
Ease of Use8.5
Retro Toolkit7.5
Value7.0
Fun Factor4.0
AI & Insights0.0
Integrations3.0
Open Platform1.0
Enterprise-grade6.5
RetroTool
Ease of Use7.5
Retro Toolkit4.0
Value9.0
Fun Factor3.0
AI & Insights0.0
Integrations0.0
Open Platform1.0
Enterprise-grade1.0
DetailRetriumRetroTool
CategoryRetrospectivesRetrospectives
Team sizeMid-marketSmall
Free tierNoYes
Free limitNo free plan — 30-day trial of column-based techniques and Team RadarAnonymous boards; unlimited cards, columns, action points and participants; 3 basic templates; secret voting, dot-vote limits, timer, grouping, action points; Markdown export; 12-month retention
Starting price$39/mo$10/team/mo ($100/team/yr billed annually)
Est. 3 teams × 8 people$117/mo$30/mo (Individual — 3 teams x $10/team, unlimited members per team; $25/mo billed annually)
EnterpriseYesNo
Founded2014
HQWashington, D.C., USAPoland
Data residency
LanguagesEnglish onlyEnglish only
Export formatsCSV · JiraMarkdown · Confluence
Features2618
Integrations20

Feature & integration comparison

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

CapabilityRetriumRetroTool
Features
AI Summaries
AI grouping/clustering
AI action items
Action tracking
Team Insights
Polling
Action dashboardnotenote
Custom templatesnote
Anonymous inputnote
Independent voting
Async mode
Agile Estimations
Health Checks
Team Kudos
Whiteboard
Integrations
Asana
Azure DevOps
Basecamp
ClickUp
Confluence
GitHub
GitLab
Jiranote
Linear
Microsoft Teams
Monday.com
Notion
Shortcut
Slacknote
Trello
Security & Privacy
SOC 2
GDPRnote
SSO / SAMLnote
SCIM provisioningnote
ISO 27001
On-premises
Public API
Webhooks
MCP server

Retrium — pros

  • + Battle-tested five-phase guided facilitation flow
  • + Anonymous brainstorming and grouping by design
  • + Persistent team-room action plan that carries forward between retros
  • + Team Radar health check — up to seven customisable spokes, anonymous 1–5 scoring
  • + Per-team-room pricing with unlimited users on every plan

Retrium — cons

  • No free plan — 30-day trial only, and the Fishbone technique stays paid-only during it
  • Integrations stop at Jira Cloud and a <em>still-beta</em> Slack app — no Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear or Confluence
  • <strong>No AI features at all</strong> — no summary, clustering, action-item extraction or sentiment
  • The only API is an Enterprise-gated SCIM 2.0 user-provisioning endpoint; no webhooks, and export stops at CSV and TXT
  • No published product updates since <strong>August 2024</strong> — the help centre's yearly updates series ends at 2024

RetroTool — pros

  • + Genuinely free anonymous retros with no account required
  • + Three-click setup — unique URL, share, run
  • + Zero-knowledge encryption with custom passwords on 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>Apparently dormant</strong>: blog stopped in March 2022, no changelog or release notes, legal docs unchanged since August 2020
  • No native integrations with Jira, Slack, Teams or any agile-stack tool
  • No AI features (clustering, summary, action extraction, sentiment)
  • No health checks, recurring retros, or cross-team reporting
  • Most templates, image cards, named participants, private invite-only boards and zero-knowledge encryption are all behind paid tiers
  • Not SOC 2; no SSO/SCIM/audit logs for enterprise buyers

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