Clear Retro vs QRetro
Clear Retro
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QRetro
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| Figure | Clear Retro | QRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · Retrospective Software | 7.9 (#11) | 8.5 (#4) |
| Guest access | Team members can join boards without logging in through guest access. | People can join an open board or game through a link without creating an account. |
| Integrations | The maker identifies Gemini AI and Google Cloud Platform (Firebase) for storage, but lists no other integrations on the pages reviewed. | Official pages list Jira, Linear, Slack and Telegram integrations. |
| Purpose | Clear Retro is a real-time agile retrospective tool designed for developers and remote engineering teams. | QRetro describes itself as an operating system for continuous workflow improvement that helps teams assess health, sync findings and turn discussions into action plans. |
| Support | The Community Edition includes priority community support. | The pages opened for this research do not state a support channel or service level. |
| Templates | Templates include Start, Stop, Continue; Mad, Sad, Glad; 4Ls; Lean Coffee; and Sailboat. | QRetro provides more than 100 customizable retrospective templates. |
| Voting | Teams can use a numerical 0–5 point voting system to prioritize issues. | The default vote allowance is calculated from card count plus three, capped at ten votes. |
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In their own words
Clear Retro
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.