Retrospected vs ScatterSpoke

Retrospected is an online tool for running team retrospectives, available on the web or as a self-hosted edition. Teams can use templates, collect anonymous feedback, vote, and tailor columns, emojis, and the timer. The app is available in 15 languages, with listed integrations for Google Cloud, Slack, GitHub, Markdown, Microsoft, and Okta. Its Basic plan costs nothing and includes unlimited retrospectives, full customisation, Giphy integration, and anonymous accounts, with a 40-post limit. Pro costs $12.90 a month and includes unlimited posts, full data encryption, private sessions, and 20 users. Unlimited costs $49.95 a month and automatically makes users from the customer’s domain Pro. Self Hosted costs $599, paid once; it stores retrospective data on the customer’s servers and includes a user administration tool, Pro access for all users, lifetime updates, and documentation. Encrypted sessions protect post content, actions, and game titles in the browser; the key is not sent to the server. Retrospected Ltd identifies itself as being in London, United Kingdom.

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.