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A purpose built, simple to use tool that teams love.
Facilitate better agile retrospectives and health checks for continuous improvement.








Insights that level up your teams
From key agile metrics and easy reporting to discovering common themes and team sentiment in meetings.
TeamRetro’s Insights feature lets you track and explore everything from meeting cadence, time to completion on action, team health and so much more.


Retrospectives that teams love
Create safe spaces for ideas and actions to be shared.
Design and create retros that have an intuitive workflow, time boxed events and independent brainstorming and voting.
Let the team propose and accept actions and create team agreements to get everyone working better together.
Run Agile health checks
Want to know how well your team is going? Use common health check models (Spotify, Atlassian, Google) or create your own.
Capture, track and improve overall team health. From Scrum Ceremonies and Valuesto Team Happiness and Agile maturity.
See where your team needs support and where they are thriving.


Track and publish actions
Easily push actions and meeting summaries your workflow tools safely and quickly.
From Jira, Trello, Asana and Basecamp through to Confluence Slack and MS team, you’ll be helping drive change for continuous improvement.
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Parabol |
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Retrospective templates | 50+ | 9 |
Health Checks & Radars | ||
Health metrics and trends over time | No | |
Customizable templates | Partial | |
Comment on ideas by others | No | |
Presentation mode | Partial | |
Mobile device support for non-site retros | No | |
Automated grouping | No | |
Propose actions against ideas | No | |
Soc 2, GDPR, Privacy compliant | ||
Integrations | Partial | |
Insights, stats, reports and metrics | No | |
Team sentiment and agreements | No | |
Pricing per team | $15-25 | $38 |
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Parabol FAQ’s : General
Parabol is an online tool that can be used for conducting agile team workshops aka Retrospectives online. It is primarily used by virtual or remote teams, who often work (according to the Scrum Framework) in sprints and prefer to use varying retro templates at the end of their iteration. Parabol is open source and offers and on premise solution.
On the other hand, TeamRetro, Parabol’s alternative, is a cloud based retrospective tool with a stronger focus on ease of use in running effective retrospectives, more features on creating actions and has the ability to create surveys for health checks and team agreements. It has useful and relevant reports and Insights that allow teams to continuously improve.
Meanwhile, Parabol’s alternative – TeamRetro, is free for 30 days. Pricing is fixed per team with unlimited members. See here for pricing information.
Yes, Parabol is open source. More information regarding this can be found on the company’s website and on GitHub.
The Parabol Company is a private company founded by Jordan Husney and Taya Mueller. According to LinkedIn, Jordan Husney is the CEO, Taya Mueller no longer works at Parabol.
TeamRetro, Parabol’s alternative, was founded by Jeremy Lu (CEO) and Brad Ward (CTO).
To cancel your subscription you will have to email them by logging into your account and navigate to their “danger zone”. There isn’t the option to cancel your own subscription.
Parabol’s alternative – TeamRetro, is SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant and can be hosted in either in the US or the EU. It meets the highest standards of data protection and security. Detailed information can be found here.
Yes, retrospective data can be migrated to TeamRetro.
Last updated : May 9, 2023