SprintRetro

SprintRetro is a free Atlassian Forge app from Agile Pulse that runs sprint retrospectives directly inside Jira Cloud. It pulls live sprint metrics (velocity, predictability, scope change, carryover, cycle time) into a collaborative retro board with templates, anonymous voting, action items that carry over between retros, GIF reactions, kudos, polls, and icebreakers.

SprintRetro pitches itself as the first data-first retrospective tool for Jira, built on Atlassian Forge so the entire experience lives inside Jira Cloud — no external app, no extra login, no data egress.

"Retrospectives reimagined — integrated Jira metrics, Polls, Kudos, Icebreakers, and action tracking."

Two ideas do most of the work in their copy: retros should be free ("currently available at no cost, allowing unlimited user access"), and they should be data-aware — pulling velocity, predictability, scope change, carryover, and cycle-time straight from the active sprint so the conversation starts with facts rather than vibes. Templates are the familiar Scrum staples (Start-Stop-Continue, 4Ls, Mad-Sad-Glad) plus custom. The voice is practical and engineering-led, not facilitator-coach.

If you are a small Scrum team on Jira Cloud and your bar is "a working retro board that does not cost anything," SprintRetro clears it. The Jira-native sprint metrics are a genuinely useful touch you do not get from generic retro tools, action items carry over into the next retro, and the engagement basics — templates, anonymous voting, action tracking, kudos, GIFs, polls, icebreakers — are all present. The product is also actively shipping (v4.10.0 in January 2026), so this is not abandonware.

Beyond that, the gap to serious retro tooling is wide. No timer, no drag-and-drop grouping, no async mode, no presentation mode, no scheduled or recurring retros, and no AI assistance — clustering, summaries, action extraction, and sentiment are all absent in 2026, when even mid-tier competitors have shipped them. Enterprise teams will bounce immediately: no SSO, SCIM, SOC 2, audit logs, or cross-team reporting.

Treat it as what it is — a free, focused Jira plug-in for one team's sprint retro, not a platform for continuous improvement at scale.