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The Scru.ms alternative with health checks and 200+ templates

See why agile teams and their leaders choose TeamRetro over Scru.ms.

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Why choose TeamRetro over Scru.ms?

Intuitive and easy to use

Get ready to go templates, guided steps and user first design that lets you 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.

TeamRetro is a trusted Scru.ms alternative built specifically for agile retrospectives and team health checks. It brings 200+ templates, automated grouping, action tracking, insights and SOC 2 Type 2 secure hosting together in one tool for scrum masters and agile teams.

See how TeamRetro compares to Scru.ms

TeamRetro is a safe, reliable and easy to use agile retrospective, health check and estimation 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.

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Feature areaTeamRetroScru.ms
Retrospective templates200+ templates. Organization and team wide. User first design.6 templates
SOC 2 Type 2SOC 2 Type 2 certifiedNot SOC 2 certified
Health checks survey/radarsHeat map, trend lines & summariesNot supported
Drag-and-drop groupingAI-suggested or manualManual grouping only
Team AgreementsSupportedNot supported
Sprint planning pokerAnonymous revealBasic functionality
AnonymityAnonymous & non-anonymous inputNot supported
Icebreakers, quick pollsBuilt in for quick pulse checksBasic functionality
Facilitated workflowHighly customizableBasic functionality
Action tracker and dashboardIn-depth support with AI insightsBasic functionality
Integration15+ workflowsNot supported
AI-supported insightsRetrospectives and health checksNot supported

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Retrospective featuresHealth check featuresEstimation features

Create your perfect retro

Create your perfect retro

Start from 200+ templates or build your own.

Set the stage

Set the stage

Warm up with an icebreaker or check-in question.

Rich facilitation at your fingertips

Rich facilitation at your fingertips

Guide every step with timers, prompts and presentation mode.

Vote privately and discuss openly

Vote privately and discuss openly

Independent dot voting surfaces what matters most.

Propose, capture and track actions

Propose, capture and track actions

Turn discussion into owned, trackable next steps.

Generate and share summaries instantly

Generate and share summaries instantly

AI-written summaries ready to share the moment you wrap up.

Discover insights, trends and patterns

Discover insights, trends and patterns

Track team sentiment and agile metrics over time.

Survey team health

Survey team health

Run health checks and radars to see how the team is really doing.

Save time and gain focus

Automatically group ideas, highlight key themes, suggest next steps, and generate clear summaries with a little help from AI.

Suggest a template

Explore our retrospective template gallery

A sample of the 200+ ready-to-run formats your team can start with — classic columns, illustrated and themed boards, and dark mode for late-day retros.

  • Four-column retrospective board: what went well, less well, to try next, and what puzzles us
    Agile retrospective
  • Retrospective board with a column for each Scrum value: courage, focus, openness, respect, commitment
    Scrum values retrospective
  • Illustrated retrospective board reflecting on what makes the team feel safe or unsafe
    Psychological safety retrospective
  • Rollercoaster-themed retrospective board with ups, downs, loops, and next ride columns
    Rollercoaster retrospective
  • Dark-mode retrospective board rating team energy from full to low battery
    Energy levels in dark mode
Browse all 200+ templates

Enterprise-grade security, compliance, and control

TeamRetro is SOC 2 Type 2 accredited by an independent auditor who has evaluated our policies, product, platform, and infrastructure in accordance with the Standard on Assurance Engagements (ASAE 3150).

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  • 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 99.9% uptime, with fast-response SLAs to ensure your teams stay productive and supported.Status dashboard

Frequently asked questions

What is Scru.ms and how does it work?
Scru.ms is a basic tool for running simple retrospectives and planning poker with minimal setup. It lets teams quickly gather anonymous feedback or estimates in a lightweight session. TeamRetro offers all of Scru.ms’ basic capabilities plus structured features like health checks, facilitation support, action tracking, flexible anonymous or named feedback, dashboards, integrations, and analytics. This makes TeamRetro better suited to teams that want more insight, accountability, and process improvement over time. While scru.ms works for quick sessions, TeamRetro scales with your team’s growth and continuous improvement needs.
What hosting options does scru.ms offer?
Scru.ms offers an enterprise self hosted solution, allowing organizations to deploy the platform on their own infrastructure, including on premises and private cloud environments. This gives teams full control over their data and hosting setup, which may suit organizations with strict internal infrastructure requirements. On the other hand, TeamRetro is a cloud-based solution with secure hosting available in both EU and US regions. It is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, providing strong security and regulatory assurance without the complexity of managing your own infrastructure. In addition to secure hosting, TeamRetro delivers a more comprehensive set of agile facilitation features, making it a scalable and fully managed option for growing teams.
What tools does Scru.ms integrate with?
Scru.ms currently doesn’t offer integrations with other tools on its free plan. The enterprise plan also doesn’t list any available integrations.
Does Scru.ms allow for anonymous feedback?
Yes, Scru.ms only displays anonymous feedback from team members, which reduces ownership, limits meaningful follow-up conversations, and makes it harder to build trust over time. TeamRetro on the other hand allows for anonymous, named, and alias feedback, allowing flexibility and trust building for both emerging and mature agile teams.
How much does Scru.ms cost?
Scru.ms is free to use for its basic retrospective and planning poker sessions — there’s no subscription cost for the standard tool. If you need the Enterprise self-hosted option, pricing isn’t published publicly; you must contact scru.ms for a custom quote based on your deployment and support needs. By contrast, TeamRetro offers transparent, team-based pricing, starting at around US $25 per month for a single team, with higher-tier plans for growing organizations and a custom Enterprise option for larger deployments. Pricing scales based on the number of teams and features needed, with discounts available for annual billing. TeamRetro also includes a 30-day free trial of the paid features, giving teams more predictable cost options and compliance assurances compared with scru.ms’s free/basic model.

What TeamRetro users say

  • 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.
    Kim HansenAppfolio
  • 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.
    Martijn GroeneveldtInfi
  • 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.
    Yasemin K.Sourceforge
  • It is intuitive, easy to use, and helps the team tremendously to perform a constructive retrospective.  Also, the health check fully meets our requirements.
    Rebecca G.Slashdot
  • I love TeamRetro because it allows my team and me to focus on our topics without worrying about security or the tools we use, thanks to its amazing UI/UX. I started using it for retrospectives and health checks at my previous company, and now I also use it for planning poker.
    Kamol M.G2.com
  • 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.
    Mitch FernandezRoleModel Software
  • 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👍
    Ragika RaveendranRockar
  • TeamRetro helped our teams effectively manage retrospective meetings, even in a remote setup, saving time and increasing productivity.
    Václav NidrleTrigama
  • With the step-by-step framework TeamRetro provides, it enables small teams to hold regular retrospectives with alternating team members in the facilitating role.
    Reimer AnkeChatmosphere
  • 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.
    Leonardo MenaPyxis
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