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Retrospectives· Israel· Founded 2020

GoRetro

Make every sprint impactful, efficient, and fun

Overall score
5.3

Appears dormant — adopt with caution

Maintenance mode. As of October 2026, every asset in the production web app at app.goretro.ai still carries a build timestamp of 9 February 2025, the last visible deploy, and the marketing site was last published on 23 October 2024. The public changelog last moved on 23 May 2023 and the blog on 28 Jul 2023, the pricing table still badges two features "coming soon" from that period, and help.goretro.ai now serves a bare web-server default page. Acumen Labs, the Tel Aviv company that built GoRetro, was acquired by Via Transportation in mid-2023. Neither the site nor the app code carries any shutdown or relaunch notice, and the app, sign-in and pricing remain online and actively sold. Verify roadmap, support responsiveness and data-retention terms with the vendor before committing.

Overview

GoRetro is a sprint-centric retro and estimation suite combining retrospectives, planning poker, capacity planning and a Jira-fed sprint monitor, with a limited free plan and flat per-team paid pricing.

Best for: Scrum teams that live in Jira and want a polished retro plus planning-poker bundle priced per team, and can live without an active roadmap.

GoRetro retrospective board shown on desktop and mobile

How GoRetro describes itself

GoRetro sells a sprint suite, not a retro app. Retrospectives sit alongside planning poker, a capacity calculator, sprint-review polls and a Jira-fed sprint monitor, aimed at scrum masters and engineering leaders who want every ceremony in one tab.

"Make every sprint impactful, efficient, and fun."

The pitch is data-driven, not AI — despite the .ai domain, nothing on the homepage claims a model. What it claims is real Jira sprint data feeding Joker cards, capacity maths and a happiness index. Scale signals carry the rest: "Rated #1 scrum meeting management software on G2 (4.7/5)", Fortune 500 and government logos, and security badges sitting one scroll away from an icebreaker generator and a team-name generator.

Our take

The board itself is genuinely good: real-time cards, 20+ templates, drag-to-merge grouping, cards hidden until the facilitator reveals them, anonymous authorship, 3–10 votes each, a Giphy picker, an optional kudos column, a happiness index and action items that follow the team from board to board. At $29/team/mo with unlimited members, a Jira-native scrum team gets a lot for the money.

The gap is momentum. The production app still carries a build stamp of 9 February 2025, the changelog stopped in May 2023, and the plan table still badges two features "coming soon". The shipped code has no AI at all. Jira sprint data flows in, but action items only push out to Slack. The timer tops out at 59 minutes, despite the features page promising multi-day deadlines. No API, no webhooks, US-only hosting, and the security page lists its own SOC 2 and ISO 27001 as "pending audit".

Best fit: a Jira-centric scrum team that wants a cheap, fun retro this quarter. Ask for the SOC 2 report and a roadmap before you sign anything longer.

Score breakdown

Ease of Use8.5
Retro Toolkit7.0
Value8.0
Fun Factor7.0
AI & Insights1.0
Integrations4.0
Open Platform1.5
Enterprise-grade5.0

Pros

  • + Flat per-team pricing ($29/team/mo annual) with unlimited members per team, plus a genuinely free plan for one team
  • + Polished, real-time facilitation UX with per-board anonymity toggles (hide author, hide cards, hide votes) and drag-to-merge grouping
  • + Bundles planning poker, capacity calculator and a Jira sprint monitor with retros
  • + Real engagement extras — Giphy picker on cards, an optional kudos column, icebreakers, polls and a happiness index
  • + Tight Jira Cloud integration; action items push through to Slack

Cons

  • − Effectively in maintenance mode — the production app was last built 9 Feb 2025, the changelog stopped 23 May 2023 and the blog 28 Jul 2023, and two features are still badged "coming soon" from that era
  • − No AI anywhere in the shipped app — no clustering, summarisation or sentiment analysis; the .ai is a domain, not a capability
  • − Integration breadth is narrow — Jira and Slack only, with no native MS Teams, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear, Confluence or Trello
  • − No public API or webhooks; exports capped at PDF/CSV/PNG; US-only hosting with no EU residency option
  • − The security page contradicts its own hero: SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 are billed as certified up top and "pending audit" in the detail row

Features

Retrospectives

TemplatesCustom templatesAnonymous inputPrivate brainstorm (hide until reveal)Private/public retros

Health checks

Health checks· Happiness index / morale tracking only; Premium tier and aboveMood / sentiment check· Happiness index — Premium tier and above

Facilitation

Meeting timerAction itemsLink actions to ideasPresentation mode· Focus Mode zooms one column at a time; no full presentation viewComments on cardsDrag-and-drop groupingCarry over open actionsAsync mode· Boards stay open and a "Request feedback" email invites input between sessions; no async flow, and the shipped timer caps at 59 minutes despite the features page's multi-day deadline claim

Voting

Independent dot votingCustom vote countVote at any time· No phases — voting is open from the start unless the facilitator switches "Allow voting" off

Engagement

Mobile friendly· Browser responsive, no native appPolling· Premium tier and aboveIcebreakers· Premium tier and aboveCheck-in / check-out· Happiness index doubles as a mood check-in; no structured check-out roundGIFsPlanning poker· Sprint Pro tier ($49/team/mo)Team kudos· Optional kudos column added when creating a boardCapacity planner· Sprint Pro tier ($49/team/mo)

AI

AI discussion prompts· Joker cards — prompts computed from Jira sprint data, not AI-generated

Reporting

Action tracker dashboard· Cross-board action management — Premium tier and aboveExport formats· PDF, CSV, Image

Enterprise

SSO / SAML· SAML SSO on Organization tierGDPR compliantFacilitator-only roleGuest / observer rolesMeeting historyUptime SLA / dedicated support· Organization tier only, at an additional feeData residency· United States (Hosted on Firebase / Google Cloud, US Central only. No EU or APAC option published.)

Integrations

Jira· Jira Cloud on all paid tiers — imports sprint data for Joker cards, sprint monitoring and capacity planning; no action-item push to Jira in the shipped appSlack· Premium tier and above

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