Retrospective Tools

Retrium vs SprintRetro

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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SprintRetro

5.0

Free sprint retros, embedded in Jira

SprintRetro is a free Atlassian Forge app from Agile Pulse that runs sprint retrospectives directly inside Jira Cloud. It pulls live sprint metrics (velocity, scope change, carryover, cycle time, committed vs delivered) into a collaborative retro board, and the free listing also carries an infinite whiteboard, anonymous team-health pulse checks, timers, and an AI facilitator, alongside templates, anonymous voting, cross-sprint action tracking that can create Jira issues, GIFs, kudos, polls, and icebreakers. Both Marketplace listings are Cloud Fortified. A separate paid Pro app sits alongside the free one.

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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.

SprintRetro scores 5.0 overall and is best for scrum teams already living in Jira Cloud who want a no-cost, no-friction sprint retro tool with sprint metrics baked in. It offers a free tier.

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

Across our eight scoring dimensions, SprintRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 5.0. 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
SprintRetro
Ease of Use7.5
Retro Toolkit5.5
Value9.0
Fun Factor6.0
AI & Insights5.0
Integrations3.0
Open Platform0.5
Enterprise-grade3.5
DetailRetriumSprintRetro
CategoryRetrospectivesRetrospectives
Team sizeMid-marketSmall
Free tierNoYes
Free limitNo free plan — 30-day trial of column-based techniques and Team RadarFree for unlimited users on a Jira instance (free app listing)
Starting price$39/mo$8.40/user/yr (Pro app; free on Jira sites of 10 or fewer users)
Est. 3 teams × 8 people$117/moFree (within free tier)
EnterpriseYesNo
Founded2014
HQWashington, D.C., USAWaterlooville, United Kingdom
Data residency
LanguagesEnglish onlyEnglish only
Export formatsCSV · JiraJira
Features2627
Integrations21

Feature & integration comparison

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

CapabilityRetriumSprintRetro
Features
AI Summaries
AI grouping/clustering
AI action items
Action tracking
Team Insightsnote
Polling
Action dashboardnotenote
Custom templates
Anonymous input
Independent voting
Async mode
Agile Estimations
Health Checksnote
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 2note
GDPR
SSO / SAMLnotenote
SCIM provisioningnote
ISO 27001note
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

SprintRetro — pros

  • + Genuinely free for unlimited users on your Jira instance — the paid Pro app is optional, not the entry point
  • + Pulls <strong>real sprint metrics</strong> (velocity, scope change, carryover, cycle time, committed vs delivered) into the retro itself
  • + Strong action loop: unfinished actions carry into the next retro, get quality-scored, and can be pushed into Jira as issues
  • + <strong>Cloud Fortified</strong> on the Atlassian Marketplace — bug bounty, reliability SLOs, and a one-business-day response commitment on critical tickets
  • + Built on Forge: no separate login, and the vendor states no third-party API calls or external data sharing

SprintRetro — cons

  • Jira Cloud only — every participant needs a Jira licence, and there's no Slack, Teams, Confluence, GitHub, or standalone web app
  • <em>No board export at all</em> — no PDF, CSV, or image download; the only data that leaves is a Jira issue
  • No async mode, presentation mode, drag-and-drop grouping, or scheduled/recurring retros
  • No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 of its own — the trust centre shows framework logos with no status label and no attestation report behind them; no SCIM, audit logs, or cross-team reporting either
  • Free-versus-Pro split is undocumented: both Marketplace listings advertise the same feature set, and Pro is never mentioned on sprintretro.co

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