RetroTool
3.2Anonymous online retrospectives, no login required
RetroTool is a low-friction online retrospective board built by u2i, a ~60-person NY/Kraków software agency, as an internal tool it later opened up. Free anonymous retros run from a unique URL with no signup; paid tiers add private boards, team management, configurable retention and zero-knowledge encryption. The product works and is still used daily, but nothing has shipped visibly since 2024.
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ScatterSpoke
5.6AI copilot for team feedback
ScatterSpoke was rebuilt from scratch as v3 in August 2026: guided retro boards, static surveys and AI-run interview surveys, and Ask, which answers questions across closed retros and surveys with cited evidence. An official OAuth MCP server is included on every tier, including Free.
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RetroTool scores 3.2 overall and is best for small or ad-hoc teams who want a free, no-signup retro board with private drafting, secret voting and a dozen standard templates — provided you're comfortable running on a tool whose last visible build is dated May 2024. It offers a free tier.
ScatterSpoke scores 5.6 overall and is best for engineering orgs that want AI to synthesise feedback across many teams and surveys — and agent builders who need a survey backend over MCP. It offers a free tier.
RetroTool leads on value. ScatterSpoke leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, ScatterSpoke edges ahead with an overall score of 5.6. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | RetroTool | ScatterSpoke |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Mid-market |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Anonymous boards; unlimited cards, columns, action points and participants; 3 basic templates; private sections, secret voting, dot-vote limits, timer, grouping, action points with owner and due date; Markdown export; 12-month retention. A free registered 'Participant' account (not advertised on the plans page) adds access to private retros and cross-device drafts | 1 seat and 1 team; unlimited static surveys and responses; retro boards with manual grouping and voting but no AI; 10 Agent Surveys and 50 Ask queries one-time; MCP connection but no reading results over it |
| Starting price | $10/team/mo ($100/team/yr billed annually) | $29/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $30/mo (Individual — 3 teams x $10/team/mo, unlimited members per team; $300/yr = $25/mo billed annually) | $149/mo on Business (monthly list price) — 3 teams exceed Pro's 2-team cap; the 5 included seats cover the facilitators, since participants and guests never take a seat |
| Enterprise | No | Yes |
| Founded | — | 2019 |
| HQ | Poland | USA |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | English only | English only |
| Export formats | Markdown · Confluence | CSV |
| Features | 21 | 40 |
| Integrations | 0 | 0 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | RetroTool | ScatterSpoke |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓note | ✓note |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | ✓note |
| Action tracking | ✓ | — |
| Async mode | — | ✓ |
| Whiteboard | — | — |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polling | — | ✓note |
| Icebreaker games | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓note |
| AI action items | — | — |
| AI Summaries | — | ✓note |
| Team Insights | — | ✓ |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | — |
| Action dashboard | ✓note | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | — | — |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | — | — |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓note |
| GDPR | ✓note | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | — | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | ✓note |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | ✓note |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | — | ✓ |
RetroTool — pros
- + Genuinely free anonymous retros with no account required
- + Three-click setup — unique URL, share, run
- + Per-column Private Sections keep drafting unbiased until people publish
- + Zero-knowledge encryption with custom passwords on the 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>Dormant</strong>: the marketing build is dated 28 May 2024, the app still runs Meteor 2.9, the blog stopped in March 2022 and the legal pages are unchanged since August 2020
- − No integrations with Jira, Slack, Teams or any other agile-stack tool, no AI of any kind, and no health checks, recurring retros, async mode or cross-team reporting
- − Export is Markdown only (plain or Confluence wiki markup), copied to the clipboard or saved as a file
- − Most templates, image cards, named participants, private invite-only boards and zero-knowledge encryption sit behind paid tiers
- − Not SOC 2; Google sign-in only, with no SAML SSO, SCIM or audit logs
ScatterSpoke — pros
- + Official MCP server on every tier including Free — OAuth sign-in, 33 tools spanning surveys and retro boards; reading results is where the paid line sits
- + Only facilitators need seats — team members and email-verified guests join boards free, so 3 teams of 8 fit Business's $149/mo base
- + Private-until-reveal writing and blind voting are on by default, and Group with AI leaves hand-made groups alone
- + Ask cites the retro or survey behind its answers, and closed-retro summaries track which themes repeat across runs (paid plans)
- + AI-run interview surveys follow up on each answer — a real option for async health checks between retros
ScatterSpoke — cons
- − <strong>No action items</strong> — the v3 board has no action object, so decisions go into card comments
- − No integrations in v3: nothing pushes to Jira, GitHub or Azure DevOps or posts to Slack or Teams, whatever the homepage badges say
- − One CSV export from a closed retro; audit logs are Enterprise-only
- − Retro AI is paid and Ask is metered — a shared monthly pool of 250 queries on Pro, 2,000 on Business
- − The docs describe Signals and Automations pages that the shipped web app doesn't include as of October 2026
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