EasyRetro vs RetroTool

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.

RetroTool is a web tool for running retrospectives with remote or hybrid teams. Teams can start with Mad | Sad | Glad, Liked | Learned | Lacked, or Start | Stop | Continue templates. Participants can draft cards in private sections and move them into a public section. Voting includes dot and secret voting, with controls for the number of votes allowed per participant, column, and card. Teams can turn discussion into action points, assign a responsible teammate, and set a due date. A timer is among the facilitation tools. Paid plans add facilitator-only moderation, readiness checks, read-only locking, and private, invite-only retrospectives; the Company plan adds zero-knowledge encryption with custom passwords. The Anonymous plan costs nothing and keeps data for up to 12 months. Individual costs $10 a month per team, and Company costs $20 a month per team. RetroTool offers a 90-day trial. The maker says u2i first created the tool for its own remote retrospectives before offering it to others.