FocusRetro vs ScatterSpoke

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.

ScatterSpoke helps teams collect feedback and decide what to improve through surveys, retrospectives and Ask. Its AI-assisted retrospectives produce summaries, takeaways and action items in a format teams can share. Teams can choose from a library of more than 20 classic retrospective formats or make custom ones. Asynchronous retrospectives automate feedback collection, and integrations with Jira, Slack and Microsoft Teams connect it with team workflows. In Microsoft Teams, users can create or pin retrospectives in a team space. ScatterSpoke says its AI is built and hosted in-house, and customer data is not shared with major AI providers or used to train other large language models. The free plan includes one seat, unlimited static surveys and responses, 10 one-time Agent Surveys, 50 one-time Ask credits, basic signal detection and MCP access. Pro costs $29 a month per seat for up to five seats; Business costs $149 a month and includes five seats. ScatterSpoke offers 45-day trials and can discuss custom trials through a 30-minute call.