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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
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.
See how TeamRetro compares to Sticky notes
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 | Sticky notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hybrid & remote teams | SupportedEveryone joins from anywhere, on the same board | Not supportedIn the room, or watching a webcam pointed at a wall |
| Real anonymity | SupportedAnonymous input on every plan | Not supportedHandwriting gives everyone away |
| Action items that stick | SupportedAssigned, tracked, synced to Jira & Linear | Not supportedA photo on someone's phone |
| Trends over time | SupportedHealth checks & trend lines across sprints | Not supportedGone the moment the wall is cleared |
| Async participation | SupportedAdd input before or after the session | Not supportedSame room, same time, same timezone |
| Daily standups | SupportedAsync by default, blockers carry forward, digest to Slack or Teams | Not supportedSame room, same time, every single morning |
| Built-in facilitation | SupportedTimers, dot voting, grouping, customizable templates | Not supportedAll of it rides on the facilitator |
| Whiteboards | SupportedSketch diagrams and map frameworks in session | SupportedThe wall, until someone needs the room |
| Audit trail & security | SupportedExportable history, SOC 2 Type 2 certified | Not supportedThe recycling bin |
| Legibility | SupportedTyped, searchable, readable by everyone | Not supportedDepends whose marker it was |
| Customizable estimation decks | SupportedPreset decks plus your own, reused across sessions | Not supportedA hand-written set of index cards |
| In-meeting AI assistant | SupportedAsk trAI to summarize, capture actions and look up past meetings | Not supportedA wall won't summarize itself |
| MCP server | SupportedAsk Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini about your teams | Not supportedA wall can't answer questions |
| Works with no power, wifi or login | Not supportedNeeds a device and a connection | SupportedPen, paper and a wall: always on |
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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
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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.
