TeamRetro
USD 16.67/month per team, billed annually
Small Organization plan, unlimited members, SOC 2 Type 2
Annual cost$600
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The Ideaboardz alternative with health checks and secure hosting
See why agile teams and their leaders choose TeamRetro over Ideaboardz.
Why choose TeamRetro over Ideaboardz?
Intuitive and easy to use
Get started with customizable templates and guided steps, so anyone on the team can facilitate with ease.
Focus on actions
Run smarter meetings that stay on track, stay efficient, and finish with a clear set of actions.
Data driven insights
Boost team performance and support ongoing improvement with meaningful insights.
Harness the power of AI
AI groups ideas, suggests actions and summarizes the meeting, so your team spends its time on the conversation.
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Case Study:Based on 3 teams with 10 people each over 1 year, billed annually.
IdeaBoardz
Free
No health checks, standups, estimation or action tracking
Annual cost$0
See how TeamRetro compares to Ideaboardz
TeamRetro is a safe, reliable and easy to use agile retrospective, health check, estimation and standup tool. With simple to use features, facilitated meetings and a UI that makes meetings flow with ease. Capture actions that you can track over time. Create continuous improvements and build great teams.
| Features | TeamRetro | Ideaboardz |
|---|---|---|
| Retrospective templates | SupportedCustomizable, as many as you need | Supported5 |
| Health checks & radars | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| Daily standups | SupportedAsync by default, blockers carry forward, digest to Slack or Teams | Not supportedNot supported |
| Planning poker / agile estimation | SupportedFree tool and in-app | Not supportedNot supported |
| Customizable estimation decks | SupportedPreset decks plus your own, reused across sessions | Not supportedNot supported |
| Whiteboards | SupportedSketch diagrams and map frameworks in session | Not supportedNot supported |
| Schedule future / recurring retros | SupportedSupported | Not supportedNot supported |
| Customizable templates | SupportedAdd/remove steps | Partial or limitedPartial |
| Icebreakers | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| Check-in/check-out questions | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| Comment on ideas by others | SupportedYes | Not supportedNo comment threads; anyone can edit or merge stickies |
| Automated grouping | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| Quick polling | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| Presentation / screen share mode | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| Mobile device support for on-site retros | SupportedYes | Not supportedNo mobile app listed on ideaboardz.com |
| Live reactions | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| Music | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| Propose / suggest actions | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| Review open actions | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| Team sentiment analysis | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| Health metrics and trends over time | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| Meeting stats and insights | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| In-meeting AI assistant | SupportedAsk trAI to summarize, capture actions and look up past meetings | Not supportedNot supported |
| MCP server | SupportedAsk Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini about your teams | Not supportedNot supported |
| AI template suggestions | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR | SupportedYes | Not supportedNot supported |
| Integrations | SupportedYes | Not supportedNo integrations |
| Price for a team of 7 | Supported$20.83 a month, billed annually ($250), Single Team plan for up to 25 members | SupportedFree, no paid plans |
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References: IdeaBoardz homepage · IdeaBoardz FAQ · IdeaBoardz demo board · IdeaBoardz terms
Go from idea to action faster than Ideaboardz
Get TeamRetro's toolkit designed to help you run effective, action-driven retrospectives, health checks, estimations and standups.
Create your perfect retro
Customize any template or build as many of your own as you need.
Warm up with icebreakers
Open with one of 20+ icebreaker games, from quick questions to team drawing.
Map it out on a whiteboard
Plan, map and diagram together with whiteboard templates like SWOT, RACI and North Star.
Vote privately and discuss openly
Vote on what matters most, then focus the discussion there.
Propose, capture and track actions
Turn discussion into owned, trackable next steps.
Estimate with planning poker
Size stories together with Fibonacci, T-shirt or custom card decks.
Sync with your team in daily standups
Share updates live or async, surface blockers and turn them into actions.
Survey team health
Run health checks and radars to see how the team is really doing.
Discover insights, trends and patterns
See recurring themes, team scores and open actions across every team over time.
Save time and gain focus
Automatically group ideas, highlight key themes, suggest next steps and generate clear summaries. Then ask trAI, your in-meeting assistant, for anything else you need.
A tool your team can count on
TeamRetro is made by GroupMap, an independent company building collaboration tools since 2012: privately held, profitable, and with no outside investors pushing for an exit. When you standardize on a tool your team uses every sprint, maturity and staying power matter as much as the feature list.
Since 2012
Building collaboration software, with TeamRetro shipping since 2018.
60,000+ teams
Run retrospectives and health checks with TeamRetro worldwide.
SOC 2 Type 2
Independently audited every year, with a public SOC 3 report and GDPR compliance.
Independent
No outside investors and no exit timeline, so the roadmap answers to customers.
Browse more templates
A few of the ready-to-run formats your team can start from and customize: classic columns, illustrated and themed boards, and dark mode for late-day retros.
Agile retrospective
Scrum values retrospective
Psychological safety retrospective
Rollercoaster retrospective
Energy levels in dark mode
Enterprise-grade security, compliance, and control
TeamRetro holds a SOC 2 Type 2 report. An independent auditor examined the controls across our policies, product, platform and infrastructure under AICPA attestation standards. Explore TeamRetro for Enterprise.
GDPR compliance and regional hosting (US & EU)
Single Sign-On (SSO) via SAML
SCIM for scalable user provisioning
Audit logs available on request
We maintain 99.99% uptime, with fast-response SLAs to ensure your teams stay productive and supported.Explore enterprise
Frequently asked questions
What does TeamRetro add that Ideaboardz doesn't?
Ideaboardz stops at free, basic boards with no integrations and no stated security. TeamRetro is built specifically for agile retrospectives and team health checks, and adds health checks, scheduled retros, AI summaries, and SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR-compliant hosting in the US or EU.
Why do teams switch from Ideaboardz to TeamRetro?
Ideaboardz is a free, no-signup board that's plenty for a throwaway brainstorm. Teams outgrow it once the retro becomes a regular habit: there's no timer or facilitation phases, no recurring retros, no health checks and no Jira or Slack integrations, so actions stay stranded on a public board. Big Give's 12-person team moved from a free retro tool to TeamRetro to stop losing actions between campaigns.
When is TeamRetro worth it over a free tool like Ideaboardz?
When retrospectives are a recurring ritual you want structured, measured and actioned, with health checks, trends over time, and actions that follow the team from one retro to the next. TeamRetro is priced per team, and you can try it free for 30 days.
What is Ideaboardz?
Ideaboardz is an online collaboration and brainstorming tool that allows individuals or teams to generate and organize ideas. It provides a virtual space where users can contribute their thoughts, suggestions, and concepts on a specific topic or project. On the other hand, TeamRetro is an enterprise-ready agile retrospective and health check tool that improves meeting value, safety, and actionable outcomes. It provides insights for improvement and has an easy-to-use and reliable interface that allows retrospectives to run smoothly.
Is Ideaboardz free?
Ideaboardz is free but has limited functionality. There are no paid plans. Meanwhile, Ideaboardz's alternative – TeamRetro, is free for 30 days. Pricing ranges from $15- $25 with volume discounts. There is no limit on team members per team and no additional per user charges. See here for pricing information.
Who created Ideaboardz?
Anand Agrawal , Anay Nayak, Atreyee Maiti , Chirag Doshi , Dhaval Doshi , Divyanshu Mohan have been contributing to the application in various ways.
Is it safe to use Ideaboardz?
Ideaboardz does not specifically have any stated security or privacy policies or certifications. Boards are public and can be shared by URL or link. TeamRetro is SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant and can be hosted in either the US or the EU on Amazon Web Services. Read more about TeamRetro's security and GDPR statement.
Can I migrate from Ideaboardz to TeamRetro?
Yes, retrospective data can be migrated to TeamRetro, but there's nothing you need to migrate. Ideaboardz boards are throwaway URLs (they export to PDF or Excel), so you start your next retro in TeamRetro from a ready-made template you can customize, invite the team by link, and carry any open actions forward instead of leaving them behind. Pricing is per team rather than per user.
What TeamRetro users say
TeamRetro fits very well because it requires minimum learning effort and delivers the expected result. I have never heard negative feedback about this tool and rather see a constantly growing interest from the individuals and departments who encounter and try the tool.
TeamRetro’s Team Health Check feature allowed us to run quick surveys, providing a pulse on how our teams felt about aspects like communication and workload.
It is intuitive, easy to use, and helps the team tremendously to perform a constructive retrospective. Also, the health check fully meets our requirements.
TeamRetro is a product where every detail is considered – simple usage, and good design. different flows for different needs, highly customizable, real-time features. It allows you to enter a retrospective or health check meeting comfortably and be ready for the meeting as a team leader.
In software development and consultancy, human factors can be the difference between ‘okay’ and ‘awesome.’ That’s why we hold weekly check-ins, and TeamRetro lets team members share their thoughts before meetings.
Excellent, it’s exactly what we expected and even more, we liked very much the idea of incorporating in the report not only the current retro actions but also the pending ones from earlier retros.
I am a software engineer at Zocdoc and I have been looking for a great to use retrospective tool. We gave TeamRetro a trial and it was an awesome experience.
TeamRetro helped our teams effectively manage retrospective meetings, even in a remote setup, saving time and increasing productivity.
The interface is clean and super intuitive and the flow was easy to navigate. I love the different options for retro types and the sticky note and dot voting experience was great. And finally, the ability to create actions was a fantastic finish. Your team should be SO PROUD.
I’m a big fan of retrospectives and other structured brainstorming meeting formats to unlock the potential in our organization, and I found TeamRetro to be the best solution on the market.
Probably one of the best applications we’ve used to conduct a retrospective. Seeing everyone interact with the board and share their opinions was awesome! The integrations with our Jira board is great. Allows us to track our goals and ensure they’re owned. Thank You, thumbs up from me👍
With the step-by-step framework TeamRetro provides, it enables small teams to hold regular retrospectives with alternating team members in the facilitating role.
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