Our best off list for 2020 was so successful that we decided to update it for 2021.
Indeed, choosing the right tool can make all the difference for your Agile retrospectives. With remote working being the new norm for most companies around the world, choosing the right Agile retrospective tool (or switching between a handful of them) can help enhance your retrospectives, better organize them, boost participation and improve the follow-up after the meeting.
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Get our free retro canvasRetrospective tool #1: TeamMood 🏆
TeamMood is the best tool to help you gather daily insights on how your team members are feeling and what may bother them. It can be a great source of insights for your retrospectives and You can then use your team mood chart and feedback as a basis to open up discussions in your retrospectives.
Pricing
TeamMood starts at €2 per month per user, after a 30-day trial period. The Enterprise pack allows for more customization and integration with your internal tools.
Killing feature
TeamMood is easy as pie! It lets you gather anonymously the mood of your team members and their feedback on a daily basis. Each individual simply clicks on her mood of the day directly inside the email she receives every day at a specific time. It takes no more than 2 minutes to gather this valuable information.
Website: TeamMood
Retrospective tool #2: Neatro
Neatro offers a selection of useful and industry-proven retrospectives formats to let your team grow. Whether you are leading a remote or in-person retrospective, you can choose a pre-designed template or build a custom retrospective activity that matches your team’s context and needs.
Pricing
No credit card required to start using the 30-day trial period. Pricing starts at 20$ per month per team. Get a discount on every extra team you create.
Killing feature
Neatro automatically highlights incomplete action items from previous activities when starting a new retrospective meeting. The tool is also a fully responsive web app, making it possible to attend a retrospective meeting from your smartphone, tablet, or laptop.
Website: Neatro
Retrospective tool #3: Retros.work
Retros.work is a beautiful online retrospective tool that focuses on human resources. Team members can post your retro feedback all along the sprint. It also allows you to express how you are feeling with emoticons and energy scores. With Retros.work, you can vote for action items and create to-dos. Last but not least, you can use it for both remote and in-office retrospectives.
Pricing
You can start using Retros.work with a 30-day free trial. The pricing depends on the number of users and allows for unlimited boards: €39,90 a month for a team of 10 users, €84,75 for a team of 25 and €134,50 a month for a team of 50.
Killing feature
Retros.work allows you to track emotion and energy trends over multiple sprints. It also works well on mobile.
Website: Retros.work
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Get our free retro canvasRetrospective tool #4: goReflect
goReflect is a retrospective tool that promotes continuous process review. With goReflect, teams can share ideas, either in a stream or on customizable boards. Thanks to its smart e dashboard, you can easily monitor the commitments you make as a team.
Pricing
Free for 100 days then $2.67/user/month.
Killing feature
goReflect adopts a unique way of doing retrospectives: not just at the end of the sprint, but in a permanent way in order to drive continuous improvement. Retrospective boards are available at all times for the team members to share their thoughts.
Website: goReflect
Retrospective tool #5: TeamRetro
TeamRetro is an enterprise-ready retrospective meeting tool for Agile coaches, Scrum masters, and teams. All actions are stored online, in a single list that you can track from meeting to meeting and access from anywhere. TeamRetro is a great tool to help you run engaging and action-focused retrospectives with remote or co-located teams.
Pricing
Prices range from $25 per month for one team to $90 per month for 6 teams. The Enterprise plan allows for several teams and custom settings.
Killing feature
In addition to its retrospective features, TeamRetro allows you to gain insights into what is motivating and challenging your team members through different health dimensions: ownership, goal alignment, communication, …
Website: TeamRetro
Retrospective tool #6: ScatterSpoke
ScatterSpoke allows each team member to launch and share a retrospective with her other team members. Everyone can add cards in real-time, vote on issues, create groups, or pin items to follow them up.
Pricing
The free plan allows for unlimited retros and team members. For premium services (unlimited history, analytics, …), prices start at $25 per month. ScatterSpoke also offers an Enterprise plan with advanced features.
Killing feature
ScatterSpoke makes it easy for anyone to play the role of facilitator, which plays an important part in keeping retrospectives as objective as possible.
Website: ScatterSpoke
Retrospective tool #7: GoRetro
GoRetro is a free agile sprint retrospective tool that makes the entire retro process seamless, simple, fun, and productive. The tool comes with pre-designed templates that offer a variety of retrospective formats. It measures a happiness index for developers and lists action items.
Pricing
Free
Killing feature
Besides all the traditional retrospective features, GoRetro allows you to add specific action items for assignees, in order to make sure the retro achieves results for good.
Website: GoRetro
Retrospective tool #8: Metro Retro
Metro Retro is a real-time retro whiteboard. It offers fun collaboration tools made specifically for remote or co-located teams to run productive, engaging and fun retrospectives. Its beautiful templates are entirely customisable to let teams choose their retro format.
Pricing
Free
Killing feature
Metro Retro allows team members to vote on sticky notes with smileys and celebrate actions with a confetti cannon 🤩.
Website: Metro Retro
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Get our free retro canvasRetrospective tool #9: FunRetro
FunRetro makes it super easy to optimize your sprint retrospective efficiency and follow up action plans. You can easily configure your dashboards and export your data to keep track of your sessions and action plans.
Pricing
FunRetro offers an evolutive pricing: free for up to 3 public boards, and from €22 to €78 per month (billed annually) for 1 to 5 teams.
Killing feature
You can toggle your retrospectives to a secret mode in order to allow true honest feedback.
Website: FunRetro
Retrospective tool #10: TeleRetro
TeleRetro makes it easy for anyone to start an engaging and effective retro with ready prepared and customisable formats. Ensure your team is always improving – surface important issues, review & export actions in real time to the tools you already use.
Pricing
Free plan available. Paid plans start from £18 per month.
Killing feature
TeleRetro has a unique ‘Ice-breakers’ feature which lets facilitators play music or video such as SoundCloud and YouTube directly from the retro board.
Website: teleretro
Retrospective tool #11: Sprint Boards
Sprint Boards is specifically designed for Agile developers. Retrospectives are simple and easy with Sprint Boards’ keyboard shortcuts for adding and saving cards and support for merging duplicates. And when the retro is over, you can lock boards to prevent further changes.
Pricing
$7.99 per month per person.
Killing feature
You can prevent team members from influencing each other by masking each others’ cards until the end of the retrospective.
Website: Sprint Boards
Retrospective tool #12: Retrium
Retrium is a retrospective tool specifically designed to identify problems that threaten to derail teamwork. With Retrium, team members can privately look into what went well or bad, vote for propositions, and prioritize discussions. The team can then create action plans out of individual ideas and track progress.
Pricing
Prices start at $29 per month and per team.
Killing feature
Retrium allows Agile teams to run anonymous surveys and take stock on safety, engagement, and team performance.
Website: Retrium
Retrospective tool #13: Parabol
Parabol is an online retrospective tool that offers unique features, such as multi-user grouping, customizable retrospective templates, rich formatting and emojis, slack integration, and beautiful meeting summaries.
Pricing
Parabol is free to use and open-source, but pro and Enterprise plans offer more features.
Killing feature
Parabol lets you ask granular questions and dive back into prior experiences. It’s a great tool for prompting people to think about their processes and how they are functioning as part of the team.
Website: Parabol
Retrospective tool #14: Reetro
Reetro is an online retrospective tool specifically designed for remote agile teams. It fosters collaboration from multi-located team members and automates the retrospective process.
Pricing
Free.
Killing feature
Reetro integrates with the most common Scrum tools such as JIRA, Trello, Yodiz, and Asana.
Website: Reetro.io
Retrospective tool #15: RetroTool
RetroTool is a real-time online retrospective tool that helps teams reflect anonymously. Team members can brainstorm ideas and problems, group them, vote and create action plans based on the discussion. RetroTool is a great asset for facilitators to build their retrospective the way they want it to be. It allows for unlimited columns and participants.
Pricing
The tool is free and will always offer a free version.
Killing feature
RetroTool is simple to use and offers the flexibility to use it for retrospectives, brainstorming or agenda-less meetings.
Website: RetroTool
Retrospective tool #16: ScrumBuddy
ScrumBuddy is a multi-paged whiteboard that lets you easily create a retrospective from many existing templates or by creating your own pages. It contains many agile methods out-of-the-box, amazing moderation tools and helps you collect output using an evaluation page which contains all contents added by your participants.
Pricing
During the beta phase all features are available for free. All participants of the beta get a 50% discount on their 1 st license. By the end of the beta phase (likely March 2022) there will be a free license for small teams and a basic license for 4€ each user / month.
Killing feature
Unlike a simple whiteboard, you can create multiple pages in ScrumBuddy and navigate all your participants through them, like on an interactive flipchart. This helps keep everyone focused on the current task. With the evaluation feature, all notes, note groups and boxes are summarized at the end of a retro and can be easily copied & pasted into your documentation tool of choice.
Website: ScrumBuddy
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