Overview

Retrium is a long-running, retrospectives-only tool built around a guided five-phase facilitation flow, anonymous brainstorming, dot voting, a persistent action plan, and Team Radar health checks. Since August 2026 the vendor has also run Retrium Next, a separate free open beta that rebuilds the retro around an AI co-facilitator.

Best for: Scrum masters and agile coaches who want a focused, retro-only tool with strong facilitation guardrails and a built-in Team Radar.

How Retrium describes itself

For a decade Retrium has pitched one thing: facilitated retrospectives that engage in a real discussion, aimed squarely at scrum masters and agile coaches, with a customer wall of Adobe, Amazon, Siemens, GoDaddy, Etsy and Zapier.

"Retrium enables agile teams to have effective conversations, discover new insights, and generate action plans."

Since August 2026 there are two pitches. The shipping product still sells the opinionated five-phase flow — think, group, vote, discuss, wrap-up — plus Team Radar as the recurring pulse, at $39 per team room per month with unlimited users. A site-wide banner sells something else:

"We've reimagined the entire retrospective with AI at the center."

That's Retrium Next, a separate open beta, free while they build it.

Our take

Retrium does one thing and does it well. The five-phase flow is genuinely opinionated: notes stay blurred while people write, grouping is anonymous, and the persistent team-room action plan survives between retros — a real edge over plain boards. Team Radar is a credible health check: ten prebuilt radars, a custom-spoke template, anonymous 1-to-5 scoring and every past radar kept in history, though comparing them is manual.

There are now two products. The GA app has published no release notes since August 2024 and contains no AI at all. Retrium Next, in open beta since 10 August 2026, is a rebuild where an AI interviews each person privately, clusters the themes and drafts action items. It's free, starts with no retro history and promises no uptime; the vendor says the classic product "isn't going anywhere". Integrations are unmoved: Jira Cloud, a Slack app still labelled beta, no Microsoft Teams, an Enterprise-only SCIM API, and CSV, TXT or send-to-Jira export.

Buy the GA product for the facilitation flow and the radar. Treat Next as a preview, not a plan.

Features

Retrospectives

TemplatesCustom templatesAnonymous inputPrivate brainstorm (hide until reveal)Private/public retros· Public, private or org-wide visibility set per Team Room (not per retro); guests can only reach public rooms

Health checks

Health checksCustom health-check models· Custom Team Radar spokesTeam radarsPsychological safety

Facilitation

Meeting timerAction itemsLink actions to ideasDrag-and-drop groupingCarry over open actionsAsync mode· Documented workflow — leave the Think phase open for a set window, then finish live or async; no dedicated async mode, deadlines or reminders

Voting

Independent dot voting

Engagement

Mobile friendly· Browser-based on phones and tablets; vendor recommends a computer for the Think and Group phasesROTI feedback· Wrap-up rating phase

AI

AI grouping / clustering· Retrium Next open beta only — AI surfaces themes from private 1:1 interviews; absent from the GA productAI action items· Retrium Next open beta only — AI drafts action items the team reacts to; absent from the GA productAI discussion prompts· Retrium Next open beta only — AI asks follow-up questions during the interview and discussion; absent from the GA product

Reporting

Cross-team reporting· Org Admin Reports tab: team-room usage on every plan; retro ratings and techniques used per team room on Business and Enterprise. Usage metrics only, not retro content or actionsAction tracker dashboard· Team-room action planExport formats· CSV, Jira

Enterprise

SSO / SAML· SAML SSO on Business and Enterprise (Okta, Microsoft Entra ID)SCIM provisioning· Enterprise only — SCIM 2.0 provisioning, request-gated (Okta)SOC 2 Type 2GDPR compliantAudit logs· Team Room Activity Log (member and settings changes only); no org-level audit trailFacilitator-only roleGuest / observer roles· Guests join public Team Rooms without an accountMeeting historyEmail domain restrictions· Business and Enterprise — Org Admins allowlist the email domains that can be invited to Team RoomsUptime SLA / dedicated support· Standard 99.9% uptime SLA and priority support on Business and Enterprise; custom SLA terms on Enterprise at extra cost

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