Clear Retro vs EasyRetro

Clear Retro is a free web tool for live Agile retrospectives, designed by developers for developers and remote engineering teams. WebSocket synchronization updates teammates’ boards without refreshes, while guest access lets participants join without logging in. Focus Mode blurs cards during writing to reduce groupthink and social bias. Teams can prioritize issues with numerical votes from 0 to 5, then use Gemini AI to categorize and semantically group cards. Templates include Start, Stop, Continue; Mad, Sad, Glad; 4Ls; Lean Coffee; and Sailboat. The tool supports action tracking and exports PDF and Excel reports with AI-generated summaries and sentiment analysis. Its Community Edition costs nothing and includes unlimited boards, members, and history, plus all current features. Clear Retro identifies Gemini AI and Google Cloud Platform (Firebase) for storage, says data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and says retrospective data is not used to train Google’s public 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.