Retrospectives· Boston, United States
Retro Rabbit
Slack-first retrospectives with async note capture
Overall score
4.4
Slack-first retrospectives with async note capture
Checked 5 October 2026: still no changelog, release notes or blog (/blog, /changelog and /docs all 404; blog.retrorabbit.io returns 503). The homepage copy, including the 'More CarrotIQ Features Coming Soon' card that has been on the page since March 2025, matches the latest Internet Archive capture (18 June 2026), and the footer still reads '© 2025 Retro Rabbit LLC'. The last production build appears to date from 23 July 2026: the sitemap's build timestamp has not moved since then, and the app runs Next.js 15.5.20, released 1 July 2026. The 'Last updated' date on the privacy and terms pages renders as the current day, so it is not a freshness signal. The product, API, pricing, sign-in and the Slack Marketplace app all work; LinkedIn lists four employees in Boston, MA.
Best for: Slack-centric agile teams that want retro notes captured continuously through the sprint and a lightweight live or async board — and that don't need Jira, health checks or a procurement checklist.
Retro Rabbit sells to teams that already live in Slack, under the headline "Agile Retrospectives That Actually Lead to Change".
"Traditional retros waste time on note-taking. With Retro Rabbit, team members add notes throughout the sprint, so you can focus on what matters: discussion and action."
The number attached to that promise is 70% of meeting time saved. Almost everything else on the page is CarrotIQ, the AI assistant that "intelligently groups your notes and suggests powerful follow-ups" — alongside a "More Features Coming Soon" card dating from March 2025. Six competitor comparison pages position it as the modern, AI-powered switch. The target buyer is a small Slack-first squad that finds Retrium or Miro too heavy.
Retro Rabbit does one thing genuinely well: continuous capture. Notes accumulate in the Slack channel all sprint, so the board opens full rather than empty — a real fix for recency bias, not a slogan. The board is competent and unfussy: five templates plus five editable custom topics, drag-to-group with named groups, a 1–50 dot-vote budget, a shared timer, per-user anonymity and a GIPHY picker. Open actions carry into the next retro in an Old / Unresolved Items tab with Slack reminders — better follow-through than most tools at this price.
The gaps are structural. No health checks, no sentiment, no cross-team rollups; the only trend view is notes-per-day for one room. AI is two one-shot calls, a retro summary and an action-item suggestion; the "intelligent note grouping" the site sells is not in the shipped app. Slack is the only integration, so action items never reach Jira or Azure DevOps, and there is no API, webhooks or MCP.
Right for one to a handful of Slack-first squads. Wrong for anything that has to clear procurement.