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Retrospectives· UK· Founded 2020

TeleRetro

Agile retros you'll love

Overall score
5.8
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Checked 5 October 2026. The app is live, sold and operational, and the marketing site's icebreaker and resource pages were refreshed in September 2026. Product development has slowed, though: the last product update is August 2025 (Archive Teams), down from several a year in 2021-2023, and the current app build, deployed 22 April 2026, changes no user-facing feature against a July 2025 archive capture beyond swapping the GIF search provider.

Overview

TeleRetro is a remote-first retrospective tool built around team engagement — animated GIF reactions, emoji reactions on notes, AI icebreaker questions, background music and a clean facilitation flow. Participants join by link with no account. It pairs retros with a Pulse Survey module for tracking team health between sessions, and prices per team rather than per user, aimed at small to mid-size agile teams who want retros that feel lively rather than mechanical.

Best for: Remote and hybrid agile teams who prioritise engagement and fun alongside a solid retrospective facilitation workflow.

TeleRetro retrospective board shown on desktop and mobile

How TeleRetro describes itself

TeleRetro pitches itself as the retro tool teams actually enjoy turning up to, aimed at scrum masters running remote or hybrid ceremonies. The homepage title adds a team-health angle: "Online Retrospective Tool & Health Check for Agile Teams."

"Agile retros you'll love" — "The retro tool that helps teams reflect, improve, and grow together."

Three claims carry the pitch. Engagement first: music, GIFs, emoji reactions, icebreakers and 50+ themed formats. Then zero-friction joining: "share a link, they're in. No account needed for participants." Then price: its comparison pages sell plan-based pricing with no per-user charges. Pulse Surveys and the AI Retro Bot, which spins a retro format out of any prompt, are the named differentiators.

Our take

TeleRetro's case rests on engagement, and it delivers. Music during brainstorming, GIFs that float across the board, emoji reactions on notes, AI icebreaker questions and 50+ themed formats all ship and work. Facilitation is clean: a brainstorming mode that hides everyone else's notes until the facilitator ends it, drag-and-drop grouping, Spotlight, facilitator-gated voting and mood polls at both ends. Pulse Surveys cover the gap between retros with 16 anonymous templates.

The gaps sit after the meeting. There is no native Jira: in-app integrations are Slack and Zapier only, whatever the comparison pages say. Retros can't be scheduled or set to recur, actions carry owners but no due dates, export stops at an emailed summary, a PNG and an org-metrics JSON, and AI never touches the board. The app is English-only, though the marketing site runs in 14 languages. As of October 2026, nothing new has shipped since August 2025.

Right for a 5–15 person team that wants retros people show up to. Wrong for programme-level buyers who need governance and native agile-stack sync.

Score breakdown

Ease of Use9.0
Retro Toolkit7.0
Value8.0
Fun Factor8.0
AI & Insights1.5
Integrations5.0
Open Platform3.5
Enterprise-grade4.0

Pros

  • + A rich retro-native engagement set: GIFs that float across the board, emoji reactions on notes, background music during brainstorming, an AI icebreaker bot, and 50+ themed formats with their own backgrounds
  • + Participants join by link with no account required — the fastest path from invite to first note
  • + Clean facilitation flow: brainstorming mode, drag-and-drop grouping, Spotlight to focus the room on one note, facilitator-gated voting with a configurable vote count, and mood polls at both ends of the session
  • + Pulse Surveys track team health between retros — 16 fully anonymous templates, custom models, and a cross-team dashboard on the Business plan
  • + Flat per-team pricing with no per-user charge — £72/mo covers 3 teams, unlimited members and unlimited retros

Cons

  • − Slack is the only native integration; the in-app integrations panel offers Slack and Zapier and nothing else, despite Jira appearing on the vendor's comparison pages
  • − No way to schedule a future retro or set one to recur, and actions carry owners but no due dates — nothing links an action back to the idea that prompted it either
  • − AI never touches the board — Retro Bot generates formats and icebreakers, but there is no clustering, summary, sentiment or action extraction
  • − Export is thin: an emailed summary, a PNG of the summary screen, and an org-metrics JSON dump. No CSV, PDF or Excel
  • − No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 of its own (the certs cited are AWS's), no SCIM, no audit logs, and SSO is Enterprise-plan only

Features

Retrospectives

TemplatesCustom templates· Edit any format's columns, descriptions and background before starting, and reuse it via 'Create retro like this'; no saved template libraryAnonymous inputPrivate brainstorm (hide until reveal)Recurring retros· 'Create retro like this' clones a past board; no automated recurrencePrivate/public retros

Health checks

Health checks· Pulse Surveys module — 16 anonymous team-health templates between retrosCustom health-check models· Custom pulse-survey models and questionsMood / sentiment check· Check-in mood poll + pulse surveys

Facilitation

Meeting timerAction items· Assign owners; no due dates on actionsPresentation mode· Spotlight highlights a note for everyone; facilitator can push a shared summary viewComments on cardsDrag-and-drop groupingCarry over open actionsFacilitator-only groupingAsync mode· Boards stay open on a shareable link; no dedicated async collection window

Voting

Independent dot votingCustom vote countVote on ideas inside groups

Engagement

Mobile friendlyIcebreakersCheck-in / check-outGIFsEmoji reactionsMusicCustom backgrounds

AI

AI template suggestions· Retro Bot generates a retro format from any topicMetered AI (credits / quota)· Free plan: 10 AI icebreaker questions and limited Retro Bot use. Paid plans carry a monthly Icebreaker Bot request quota, and Retro Bot is 'unlimited up to system capacity'

Reporting

Cross-team reporting· Org overview plots every team's retros on one timeline (mood, people, notes, votes per retro) with each team's open-action count; deeper metrics only as a JSON download or via the Insights APIOrg health dashboard· Cross-team pulse-survey dashboard on the Business planAction tracker dashboardExport formats· Email, Image, JSON

Enterprise

SSO / SAML· Okta & Azure AD SSO on Enterprise plan onlyGDPR compliantFacilitator-only roleGuest / observer rolesMeeting historyUptime SLA / dedicated support· Enterprise planPublic API· Insights API — read-only org metrics endpoint, key issued on email request, no public docsLanguages· 1 (English)

Integrations

Jira· via Zapier only, one-way: a 'New Action' trigger pushes retro action items to Jira; the in-app integrations panel lists Slack and Zapier and nothing elseAzure DevOps· via Zapier (one-way: pushes new action items out)GitHub· via Zapier (one-way: pushes new action items out)Trello· via Zapier (one-way: pushes new action items out)Asana· via Zapier (one-way: pushes new action items out)Monday.com· via Zapier (one-way: pushes new action items out)SlackMicrosoft Teams· via Zapier (one-way: pushes new action items out)Confluence· via Zapier (one-way: pushes new action items out)Notion· via Zapier (one-way: pushes new action items out)

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Sources

Last reviewed: October 5, 2026