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Retrospectives· Sydney, Australia· Founded 2023

Kollabe

Agile meetings made easy — retros, standups and planning poker

Overall score
6.9

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Checked 5 October 2026. The app is live, sold and still being deployed (its build changed between July and October 2026), and Capterra reviews continue through September 2026. Public development has slowed sharply, though: the changelog has had no entry since 31 May 2026, after twelve between 31 January and 31 May; of the 1,333 shared UI strings in a 10 July 2026 archive capture, one has been added and six removed since; and the template library still counts 1,154, as it did a month earlier. The solo founder's August 2026 blog post describes building a second, unrelated product as a nights-and-weekends project.

Overview

Kollabe began life as a planning poker tool and now runs estimation, sprint retrospectives and icebreakers from one workspace. The retro board is deeper than its marketing suggests — drag-to-group with optional AI clustering, dot voting configurable per board or per column, a phase timer with audio alerts, a guided workflow with auto-advance, and action items carrying owner, due date, priority and a link back to the feedback card. Exports run to PDF, CSV, JSON, Markdown, HTML, JPEG and Confluence, with action items pushed to Jira, GitHub or Linear. Billing is flat per team space rather than per seat. There are no recurring retros, no health-check instrument and no compliance certifications.

Best for: Small to mid-size agile teams running retros and planning poker who want one cheap, playful tool — and don't need health checks, recurring retros or a compliance story.

Kollabe retrospective board shown on desktop and mobile

How Kollabe describes itself

Kollabe pitches itself as "Agile Meetings, Made Easy": one workspace for planning poker, sprint retrospectives, async standups and icebreakers. The wedge is friction and price, not depth.

"One flat rate for your whole team. No per-user fees, no surprises."

Billing is per team space, not per seat: $29/month for unlimited members, or $12/month for a poker-only tier with no retros. The rest of the pitch is speed (no signup, instant join links) and scale claims the site cannot keep straight: "Over 40,000 teams" on the homepage, "179K+ agile teams" in its own retrospectives meta description. Sydney-based founder Matt Lewandowski is still the whole brand: "every feature, every pixel, every line of code is crafted by me."

Our take

Kollabe's marketing has been unreliable for years, so we judge it on the shipped app. Drag-to-group with AI clustering, a guided workflow that hides cards until the reveal, dot voting per board or per column, a phase timer, and action items that link back to the feedback card are all in the product, and the paid weekly Insights report tracks recurring retro themes week over week. With reactions, synchronised music, icebreaker games and 1,100 templates on top, $29/month per space buys a lot of retro.

The gaps are structural. No recurring or scheduled retros. No survey-based health check: the Insights report's Team Health score comes from activity data, not from asking the team. Neither Slack nor Microsoft Teams connects to the retro board, and there is no SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR statement. No product update has shipped since 31 May 2026, and the solo founder is building a second product.

Best fit: a small team that runs retros and planning poker and wants both cheap. Not a regulated org, and not one that lives on longitudinal health data.

Score breakdown

Ease of Use8.5
Retro Toolkit7.5
Value8.0
Fun Factor8.5
AI & Insights7.5
Integrations6.0
Open Platform6.0
Enterprise-grade3.0

Pros

  • + Flat per-space pricing — $29/mo buys unlimited members, so three teams of eight cost $87/mo total
  • + Deeper retro board than the marketing implies: drag-to-group plus AI clustering, dot voting per board or per column, a phase timer with audio alerts, and a guided workflow that auto-advances when everyone marks ready
  • + Action items carry owner, due date, priority, comments and a link back to the feedback card — and push one-click to Jira, GitHub or Linear
  • + Official OAuth MCP server (vendor states 46 tools) and a documented REST API on every paid plan; exports to PDF, CSV, JSON, Markdown, HTML, JPEG and Confluence
  • + Unusually playful: synchronised meeting music, AI-generated backgrounds, kudos with confetti, drawings and stickers, and a 1,100-strong themed template library

Cons

  • − No recurring or scheduled retros — every session is created by hand — and no Slack or Microsoft Teams integration for retros
  • − No survey-based health check: a Spotify-style board template, a handful of 1–5 pulse polls, and a Team Health score in the paid weekly Insights report that is computed from activity (engagement, action follow-through, blockers, kudos) rather than from asking the team
  • − Both paid tiers cap a space at 5 facilitators/admins however many members it has; lifting it means an Enterprise contract
  • − No SOC 2, ISO 27001 or published GDPR posture; core data is hosted in Australia with no EU or US option, and AI features send content to OpenAI and Groq. SSO and SLAs are Enterprise contact-sales
  • − A one-person company whose founder is also building a second product, and no product update has shipped since 31 May 2026

Features

Retrospectives

TemplatesCustom templatesAnonymous inputPrivate brainstorm (hide until reveal)· Via the guided workflow: the default Reflect step hides teammates' cards (shown as "Hidden") until the Group step reveals them; item, vote, comment and name visibility is set per stepPrivate/public retrosCustom process flow

Health checks

Health checks· Lightweight only: a "Team Health Check" board template, 1–5 pulse polls, and an activity-derived Team Health score (five sub-scores) in the paid weekly Insights report; no survey, radar or modelMood / sentiment check· Built-in "Mood" and "Team Pulse" 1–5 polls per retro; no cross-retro mood chartPsychological safety· Built-in "Psychological Safety" 1–5 feedback poll

Facilitation

Meeting timerAction itemsLink actions to ideasPresentation modeScreen-share mode· Planning Poker only — hides the facilitator's own votes while presenting@mentionsComments on cardsDrag-and-drop groupingCarry over open actions· Paid plans onlyFacilitator-only grouping· Item Grouping can be switched off for participants, leaving admins in controlAsync modeWhiteboard· Freehand drawing canvas and stickers on cards; no freeform board

Voting

Independent dot votingCustom vote countVote at any timeVote on ideas inside groups

Engagement

Mobile friendlyROTI feedback· Built-in "Return on Time Invested" feedback poll; no ROTI trend trackingPollingIcebreakersIcebreaker games· Three live multiplayer games (Question & Answer, Hot Takes, Would You Rather) in retros or a standalone game room, with AI prompt generatorsGIFsEmoji reactionsMusicCustom backgroundsPlanning pokerTeam kudos

AI

AI grouping / clusteringAI template suggestionsAI action itemsAI summaryAI retro / health-check insightsAI discussion prompts

Reporting

Action tracker dashboardFacilitator meeting notesExport formats· CSV, PDF, Markdown, Image, JSON, HTML, Confluence, Jira

Enterprise

SSO / SAML· Enterprise plan only (SAML/OIDC via WorkOS)Facilitator-only roleGuest / observer rolesMeeting historyEmail domain restrictionsUptime SLA / dedicated support· Enterprise plan onlyPublic API· Paid plans only (REST v1, bearer token)MCP server· Paid plans only (official OAuth server; vendor states 46 tools)Data residency· Australia (Core hosting (DigitalOcean database, Vercel app, AWS S3 files) is in Australia, with no EU or US option. AI features send workspace content to OpenAI and Groq, and the email, analytics and payment subprocessors state no hosting region.)Languages· 6 (English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, +1 more)

Integrations

JiraLinearAzure DevOps· Planning Poker ticket import and estimate sync; retro action items export to Jira, GitHub and Linear onlyGitHubConfluence· One-click export of a completed retro to a Confluence page

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