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When paper retros stop scaling
Sticky notes are great — right up until your retro goes hybrid, the action items vanish, and no one can read the wall. Here's what a dedicated tool does that paper can't.
Sticky notes earned their place. Cheap, tactile, satisfying to peel, and they survive a power outage — we’re not here to argue with that.
But somewhere between hybrid teams, action items that quietly vanish, and that one teammate whose handwriting nobody can read, a lot of retros have outgrown the wall. Here’s what changes when yours moves into TeamRetro — and how the two compare, point for point.
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Create your perfect retro
Start from 200+ templates or build your own.
Set the stage
Warm up with an icebreaker or check-in question.
Rich facilitation at your fingertips
Guide every step with timers, prompts and presentation mode.
Vote privately and discuss openly
Independent dot voting surfaces what matters most.
Propose, capture and track actions
Turn discussion into owned, trackable next steps.
Generate and share summaries instantly
AI-written summaries ready to share the moment you wrap up.
Discover insights, trends and patterns
Track team sentiment and agile metrics over time.
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.
See how TeamRetro compares to Sticky notes
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.
Try TeamRetro Now for Free| Feature area | TeamRetro | Sticky notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hybrid & remote teams | Everyone joins from anywhere, on the same board | In the room, or watching a webcam pointed at a wall |
| Real anonymity | Anonymous input on every plan | Handwriting gives everyone away |
| Action items that stick | Assigned, tracked, synced to Jira & Linear | A photo on someone's phone |
| Trends over time | Health checks & trend lines across sprints | Gone the moment the wall is cleared |
| Async participation | Add input before or after the session | Same room, same time, same timezone |
| Built-in facilitation | Timers, dot voting, grouping, 200+ templates | All of it rides on the facilitator |
| Audit trail & security | Exportable history, SOC 2 Type 2 certified | The recycling bin |
| Legibility | Typed, searchable, readable by everyone | Depends whose marker it was |
| Works with no power, wifi or login | Needs a device and a connection | Pen, paper and a wall — always on |
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.
Agile retrospective
Scrum values retrospective
Psychological safety retrospective
Rollercoaster retrospective
Energy levels in dark mode
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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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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.
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.
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.
It is intuitive, easy to use, and helps the team tremendously to perform a constructive retrospective. Also, the health check fully meets our requirements.
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.
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.
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👍
TeamRetro helped our teams effectively manage retrospective meetings, even in a remote setup, saving time and increasing productivity.
With the step-by-step framework TeamRetro provides, it enables small teams to hold regular retrospectives with alternating team members in the facilitating role.
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.
