Ceremonies vs EasyRetro

Ceremonies is an open-source toolkit for agile estimation and retrospective sessions, offered as a web service or for self-hosting. Estimation rooms use a Modified Fibonacci deck with a coffee-cup choice; votes remain hidden until reveal, results can be sent to Jira, and sessions synchronize through WebSockets without page refreshes. Earlier estimation rounds can be copied into a Slack summary. Retrospectives use Happy, Sad, and Confused cards, anonymous writing, enforced phases, and action items that continue into the next retrospective. Participants join through a link or room code without creating accounts. The source is MIT-licensed. The hosted service is operated by Shadman Rahman. Its Free plan costs nothing and allows one team, five members, and ten sessions per month. The privacy policy says user data is not sold, used for ads, or used to train AI models.

EasyRetro is a web-based tool for sprint retrospectives and other collaborative exercises. Teams can start with private or public boards built from more than 100 templates, then tailor them with unlimited columns that can be renamed and recolored. Participants can add cards, comment, vote, sort, filter text, drag and drop, or merge cards. Teams can invite unlimited people to collaborate. Boards can be sent to Confluence or exported as PDF, CSV, PNG, Excel, or DOCX files; action items can be exported as Jira issues. Listed integrations include Slack, Jira Cloud, Confluence Cloud, Trello, and Microsoft Teams. The Slack integration can post a notification and board link to a chosen channel when a board is created. EasyRetro offers a free plan and a 7-day free trial. The maker says data is hosted on Firebase and Google Cloud in US Central, encrypted in transit and at rest, with daily encrypted backups kept for 30 days. SAML single sign-on is offered for large enterprise accounts.