RetroTool
3.2Anonymous 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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Trune.io
4.3Structured online retrospectives with team radar
Trune (formerly Fraankly) is an EU-built retrospective and team-feedback tool with pre-built and custom templates, anonymous cards, drag-to-group clustering, dot voting, action tracking, and team radars including the Spotify Squad Health Check. Hosted in Frankfurt with EU-only application data, and exports results to Excel, CSV or an emailed PDF.
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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 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.
Trune.io scores 4.3 overall and is best for small EU-based agile teams that want a simple, <strong>GDPR-aligned</strong> retro tool with templates, grouping, voting, and team radars — and don't need SSO, cross-team rollups, or AI analysis beyond a chat assistant. It offers a free tier.
RetroTool leads on ease of use and value. Trune.io leads on retro toolkit, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Trune.io edges ahead with an overall score of 4.3. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | RetroTool | Trune.io |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Anonymous 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 | 5 free sessions, full Premium features, no credit card |
| Starting price | $10/team/mo ($100/team/yr billed annually) | $19/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $30/mo (Individual — 3 teams x $10/team, unlimited members per team; $25/mo billed annually) | $57/mo |
| Enterprise | No | Yes |
| Founded | — | — |
| HQ | Poland | Vienna, Austria |
| Data residency | — | Germany |
| Languages | English only | 2 (English, German) |
| Export formats | Markdown · Confluence | Excel · CSV · PDF |
| Features | 18 | 19 |
| Integrations | 0 | 9 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | RetroTool | Trune.io |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | — |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | — | — |
| Action dashboard | ✓note | ✓ |
| Custom templates | ✓note | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | — | — |
| Health Checks | — | ✓note |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | — | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | ✓note |
| Azure DevOps | — | ✓note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | ✓note |
| GitHub | — | ✓note |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | — | ✓note |
| Linear | — | ✓note |
| Microsoft Teams | — | ✓note |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | — | ✓note |
| Trello | — | ✓note |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | ✓note | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | — | — |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| 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
- + 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
Trune.io — pros
- + EU/Frankfurt data residency and GDPR-first posture — even the AI assistant runs on an EU-hosted function
- + Per-team (not per-seat) pricing: $19/mo covers unlimited members, and the free tier gives 5 full sessions
- + Native two-way Azure DevOps sync — action items out as work items, Done status back in
- + Team radars include the Spotify Squad Health Check plus fully custom radars
- + Exports cards, action items and radar results to Excel, CSV or an emailed PDF
Trune.io — cons
- − No SSO, SCIM, SOC 2, or audit logs — not enterprise-ready
- − The native iOS/Android apps are gone from both app stores, though the site still advertises them as new
- − AI stops at truneGPT, a ChatGPT-4 chat assistant — no clustering, summaries, action extraction, or sentiment analysis
- − Azure DevOps is the only native connector, and it needs the pricier Professional tier; everything else is a single one-way Zapier trigger
- − No recurring retros, async mode, parking lot, or agenda planner; reporting stops at team level with no cross-team rollups
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