Retrospective Tools

Simyl Flow vs Trune.io

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

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Simyl Flow

5.5

Measure what ships and sticks

Simyl Flow is an outcomes measurement platform for engineering teams in which the retrospective is one of several linked ceremonies, alongside planning poker, demo prep and coaching. Retro boards are pre-populated with six sprint metrics pulled from Jira, Linear, GitHub and CI, AI generates candidate cards from the data, and unfinished action items carry forward — all feeding a six-dimension team health score tracked sprint over sprint.

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Trune.io

4.1

Structured online retrospectives with team radar

Trune (formerly Fraankly) is an EU-built retrospective and team-feedback tool that runs a fixed four-phase session — silent writing, presenting, voting, actions — with 14 pre-built templates plus custom ones, anonymous cards, drag-to-group clustering, dot voting, action items with reminder emails, and team radars including the Spotify Squad Health Check. Hosted in Frankfurt with EU-only application data, available in five UI languages, and exports results to Excel, CSV or an emailed PDF.

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Summary

Simyl Flow scores 5.5 overall and is best for engineering orgs that already run retros and want them wired into delivery data — teams asking whether last sprint's improvement actually moved cycle time, review latency or change-failure rate, rather than teams shopping for a better sticky-note board. It offers a free tier.

Trune.io scores 4.1 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 can live with a vendor whose app has not shipped an update since September 2025. It offers a free tier.

Simyl Flow leads on ease of use, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade. Trune.io leads on retro toolkit and fun factor.

Across our eight scoring dimensions, Simyl Flow edges ahead with an overall score of 5.5. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.

Scores compared

Simyl Flow
Ease of Use7.0
Retro Toolkit5.0
Value8.0
Fun Factor2.0
AI & Insights7.0
Integrations7.0
Open Platform4.0
Enterprise-grade4.0
Trune.io
Ease of Use6.0
Retro Toolkit6.0
Value8.0
Fun Factor3.0
AI & Insights0.0
Integrations4.0
Open Platform3.5
Enterprise-grade2.0
DetailSimyl FlowTrune.io
CategoryAll-in-One AgileRetrospectives
Team sizeMid-marketSmall
Free tierYesYes
Free limit1 team, 10 stakeholders, 2 retros + 2 poker sessions/month, 1 integration, 90-day retention, CSV export5 free sessions, up to 9 participants each, 3 of the 14 templates plus custom ones; no credit card
Starting price$29/team/mo$19/mo
Est. 3 teams × 8 people$87/mo (Pro — flat $29 per team × 3 teams; $72/mo billed annually)$57/mo
EnterpriseYesYes
Founded2024—
HQToronto, CanadaVienna, Austria
Data residencyUnited StatesGermany
LanguagesEnglish only5 (English, German, Dutch, …)
Export formatsCSV · PDFExcel · CSV · PDF
Features2023
Integrations910

Feature & integration comparison

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

CapabilitySimyl FlowTrune.io
Features
Custom templates✓✓
Anonymous input—✓
Health Checks✓note✓note
Action tracking✓✓
Async mode——
Whiteboard——
Independent voting✓✓
Polling——
Icebreaker games——
Agile Estimations✓note—
Team Kudos——
AI grouping/clustering——
AI action items——
AI Summaries✓—
Team Insights✓note—
In-meeting AI assistant——
Action dashboard✓✓
Integrations
Asana—✓note
Azure DevOps—✓note
Basecamp——
ClickUp✓note—
Confluence—✓note
GitHub✓note✓note
GitLab✓note✓note
Jira✓note✓note
Linear✓note✓note
Microsoft Teams✓note✓note
Monday.com——
Notion✓note—
Shortcut✓note—
Slack✓note✓note
Trello—✓note
Security & Privacy
SOC 2——
GDPR✓✓
SSO / SAML✓note✓note
SCIM provisioning——
ISO 27001——
On-premises——
Public API—✓note
Webhooks——
MCP server✓—

Simyl Flow — pros

  • + Retro boards arrive pre-populated with six sprint metrics (velocity, cycle time, PRs merged, commits, bug rate, unplanned work) pulled from the tools the team already uses, and unfinished actions carry forward with completion-rate tracking — the discussion starts from evidence, and the six-dimension health score answers whether last sprint's change actually landed
  • + Unusually broad delivery-data integration set for a tool that runs retros: Jira, Linear, Shortcut, ClickUp, Notion, GitHub/GitLab Issues, plus GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket repos and their CI pipelines for DORA metrics
  • + Official remote MCP server, generally available and not tier-gated — <em>its endpoint and OAuth 2.1 discovery answer live</em>, with dynamic client registration and 17 read-only tools across 8 data domains (including retros, metrics, actions, poker, effectiveness and coaching), so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Windsurf can query sprint data directly
  • + Flat per-team pricing ($29–49/team/mo) rather than per-seat, so a 24-person org on three teams pays $87/mo regardless of headcount inside each team
  • + Deliberate privacy architecture — individual effectiveness profiles and AI coaching notes are private to the developer (and optionally their manager), there are no leaderboards, source code is never stored, and AI runs on Claude via Amazon Bedrock with no data retention

Simyl Flow — cons

  • − <strong>You can't sign up yet.</strong> As of October 2026 every CTA leads to 'Join Waitlist', the sign-in page accepts existing accounts only, and the parent company lists Flow as 'Private Preview' — while the pricing page still sells three plans and a 30-day trial. The vendor (Simyl AI, Inc., founded 2024, Toronto) is an unnamed 'small team of engineers' with no G2/Capterra listing, third-party reviews or press coverage
  • − Retro toolkit is thin on facilitator staples: no anonymous submission or private brainstorm, no drag-and-drop grouping, no presentation mode, no recurring or scheduled retros, no retro-board timer, and only four built-in formats plus a custom template against 50+ at retro-native tools — and almost no engagement layer (no icebreakers, GIFs, reactions, music or kudos wall), which makes it a poor fit for teams whose retro problem is participation rather than measurement
  • − The health score is computed from delivery signals, not from the team — the vendor is explicit that there are <em>"no surveys, just outcomes"</em>, so there is no survey-based health check, no sentiment analysis and no ROTI; there is no mood capture on the retro board either
  • − Enterprise claims are self-attested: 'SOC 2 aligned, not certified' and 'ISO 27001 aligned, not certified', inheriting AWS's certifications rather than holding its own; SSO/SAML sits behind a quote-only tier, there is no SCIM, and audit logs appear only as a sales-page offer rather than a plan feature
  • − Export is CSV plus PDF reports, and the PDF report download is Growth-tier only; there is no public REST API and no webhooks, and the MCP server is read-only, so nothing can push data back in programmatically

Trune.io — pros

  • + EU/Frankfurt data residency and a GDPR-first posture — the FAQ states no application data is stored outside Europe
  • + Per-team (not per-seat) pricing: $19/mo covers unlimited members, and the free tier gives 5 sessions
  • + Native two-way Azure DevOps sync on the Enterprise plan — action items out as work items, Done status back in
  • + Team radars include the Spotify Squad Health Check plus fully custom radars
  • + Ships in five UI languages (English, German, Dutch, French, Italian) and exports to Excel, CSV or an emailed PDF

Trune.io — cons

  • − <strong>The product has stood still</strong>: the web app was last deployed in September 2025, the blog stopped in July 2024, there is no changelog, and the Android app is gone from Google Play
  • − No SCIM, SOC 2 or audit logs, and SSO only as a bespoke per-customer SAML setup — not enterprise-ready
  • − No AI: the code carries a truneGPT chat window, but nothing in the interface opens it
  • − Azure DevOps is the only native connector and is Enterprise-only (quote-based); everything else is a single one-way Zapier trigger

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