FocusRetro vs RetroTool

FocusRetro is a web-based retrospective tool for agile, remote, and hybrid teams. Boards organize feedback, blind voting, timers, and action items; phase locks, topic grouping, and moderation controls help structure a session. Templates include Went Well / To Improve / Action Items, Mad Sad Glad, Start-Stop-Continue, 4Ls, and a blank board. Action items can have an owner, due date, and status, then return at the start of the next retrospective. FocusRetro lists Jira and Slack integrations. Guests can join a board through an invite link to contribute feedback, vote, and access action items without an account. The free Starter plan costs nothing and includes three personal boards per month, core templates, voting, reactions, phase timers, and action items. The Team plan costs $15 a month and includes one shared workspace, unlimited boards and members, and private or restricted boards with passwords. Business has custom annual billing, with no price listed. Browser traffic is encrypted with TLS; integration tokens are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM. FocusRetro says health-check answers are stored as anonymous aggregates and that it does not yet hold SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certifications.

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.