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TeamRetro: The Parabol alternative that leads to real improvement

Parabol focuses on retros, standups and estimations. TeamRetro gives you the same agile ceremonies for one team price, with guided retros, team agreements and health checks in a secure environment.

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Why choose TeamRetro over Parabol?

Trusted by agile teams worldwide to elevate collaboration and results.

Intuitive and easy to use

Get started with templates and guided steps so anyone can facilitate easily.

A strong focus on actions

Run meetings that stay on track and finish with a clear set of actions.

Data-driven insights for your team

From agile metrics and team sentiment to top issues that your teams are discussing.

AI powered at every step

Spend more quality time with the team and let AI do the manual work.

What TeamRetro users say

60,000+ teams across 100+ countries since 2018

  • Kim Hansen, User Experience Design Manager, Appfolio: “I just need to tell you that using TeamRetro for the first time was AMAZING. 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.”
  • Kamol Mavlonov, Group Engineering Manager | Appier: “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. The initial setup was a seamless experience, which I really appreciate.”
  • Jan Nowak, VP Projects and Technology, Appsfactory: “We are pursuing the goal of making retrospectives in all teams more efficient by using the TeamRetro tool.”
  • Clávison Zapelini, Development Coordinator at Attus Procuradoria Digital: “Using TeamRetro, we’re able to surface insights and turn them into clear, actionable agreements with real accountability. Leadership noted that both engagement and team relationships improved. What was once a challenge became a strength.”
  • Dominique Standring, Chief Operating Officer | Big Give: “As a charity ourselves, we need to keep costs as low as possible, but the free retro tools available were not fit for purpose. We ran a few retros through TeamRetro with the trial version and were really pleased with the functionality, user interface and integration with Jira.”
  • Marion Bernard, Agile Coach at BlaBlaCar: “We save a lot of time as agile coaches! In parallel, our Agile Catalysts inside our teams now have a central tool with all improvements and action items they can easily manage. It has been adopted very quickly!”
  • Ibrahim Abram, Procurement Specialist | Culture Amp: “TeamRetro is one of the key tools that enables us to live our value of "Learn faster through feedback" within our engineering organisation. It provides us a way to run retros and health checks effectively and track actions that come out of these sessions in Jira.”
  • Damian Obalka, Software developer and Scrum Master at Dedalus: “We first started to use TeamRetro early in 2020. Quickly, we started to enjoy the tool and the benefits it brought and still brings to us. Overall, it has been a terrific addition to our meetings!”
  • Beth Archer, Registered Scrum Master (RSM) and Grant Professional Certified (GPC) strategist, DH Leonard Consulting: “It’s the exact kind of tool we need. We can do some work asynchronously, while also supporting live discussions. We spend more time on meaningful reflection. TeamRetro gave us autonomy to run our ceremonies ourselves. It was straightforward to transition from our previous system.”
  • Dr. Sie, Senior Lecturer in AI and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong: “TeamRetro helped students reflect on their group processes early, enabling them to solve challenges quickly and work more effectively as a team. Using TeamRetro meant that I had to spend less time resolving group challenges myself.”
  • Rebecca Graf, Scrum Master at Eurowings Digital: “Teamretro helped us massively to run efficient and well-structured remote retrospectives.”
  • Fernando Baghe, Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer at Hogar SI: “TeamRetro has been instrumental in our agile adoption process and has helped us achieve our mission of ending homelessness.”
  • Dan Evans, Go.Compare | VP of Technology, PCW-Tech: “We evaluated a range of tools, but TeamRetro stood out for its balance of structure, flexibility, and ease of use. It enabled distributed teams to collaborate effectively, supported multiple templates and health checks, and gave us a single consistent platform to embed a culture of continuous improvement.”
  • Tim Stayman, Java Services Manager and Agile Coach, Herman Miller: “Having TeamRetro manage our retrospectives has been vital in keeping our Product Teams focused and engaged.”
  • Hugo Wernhoff, CEO & Co-Founder at Kognity: “As a CEO of a growing organization, I'm a big fan of retrospectives and other structured brainstorming meeting formats to unlock the potential in our organization. After having looked through what's out there, I found TeamRetro to be the best solution on the market.”
  • Martijn Groeneveldt, Software Developer at Infi: “We believe that in the software development and consultancy business, human factors can make the difference between ‘okay’ and ‘awesome’. That’s why we do weekly check-ins. Using TeamRetro also means team members can write down their thoughts ahead of the weekly team meeting.”
  • Melanie Fox, Principal Product Manager at SalesRabbit (now Alchemer): “Exceptional retrospective tool for fostering a healthy team culture.”
  • Ratika Gandhi, Head of Professional Development, NYC Fintech Women: “@TeamRetroHQ is a great tool for a collaborative retrospective. It lets you customise columns, add anonymous entries, team can group similar topics and vote on the ones they'd like to discuss together. You can assign action items and export the discussion.”
  • Heinrich Rauh, COO and Co-Founder of Planted: “TeamRetro has been a real game-changer for us. Our retros are not only more productive but also enjoyable. Most importantly, we can see how feedback translates directly into product improvements and better processes.”
  • Leonardo Mena, Head of Product Development, Pyxis: “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.”
  • Alex Kreilein, Vice President of Product Security, Qualys: “@TeamRetroHQ thank you - so much - for your exceptional product! You've totally changed my company.”
  • Rachel Howe, Product Robustness Enablement Leader at AstraZeneca: “TeamRetro has been an absolutely fantastic tool for our team. It's simple, user-friendly, and provides all the functionality we need. It has truly helped our globally dispersed project team, allowing us to be open and honest about our concerns, despite language and cultural barriers.”
  • Tracy Kennedy, Game Producer, Riot Games: “My past teams always did retros in confluence or a whiteboard, which was OKAY, but TeamRetro is a significantly better tool for facilitating discussions and tracking team health over time.”
  • Mitch Fernandez, Project Delivery Manager at RoleModel Software: “TeamRetro gave us everything we needed to improve our retrospectives—consistency, affordability, and the flexibility to capture meaningful insights that drive real improvements.”
  • Rommy Rempas, Competency Development Manager, Mitrais: “My team members enjoy doing the retro. It is the time for their voice to be heard. TeamRetro helps a lot. It has a predefined workflow that helps the team with the retro.”
  • Mathew Cropper, Director of Product Management, SoSafe: “I'm madly in love with @TeamRetroHQ. Can highly recommend!”
  • Fred Puistaja, Engineering Manager at Sympower: “TeamRetro is our preferred tool. It’s organized UI reduces facilitator workload,allows us to share outcomes of our retros with teams easily and helps us maintain fast feedback cycles.”
  • Chris Tromans, Agile Coach at CCDC, The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre: “We've recently been using TeamRetro and I've found it really useful and prefer it to GoReflect which I'd used for a few years (and ScatterSpoke before that).”
  • Caitlyn Whittaker, Scrum Master at TrendMiner: “TeamRetro has been invaluable as a tool to consolidate retros from my teams and monitor their sentiment and feelings. Pain points can easily be identified, and improvements can be monitored. The new AI feature has also been fantastic in keeping retrospectives fun and open.”
  • Václav Nidrle, Managing Director at Trigama: “TeamRetro helped our teams effectively manage retrospective meetings, even in a remote setup, saving time and increasing productivity”
  • Dan Barker, Product Manager, Typeform: “We use @TeamRetroHQ and it's sweet. Also cool that you can define a common retro or health check and then run it over time and easily keep track. Everyone feels bought into it.”
  • Janis Berneker, CTO and Co-Founder of Typewise: “TeamRetro has helped us establish an open feedback culture where everyone is at eye level, and increased happiness.”
  • Valerio Bettini, Product Manager - Head of iOS Moneybox: “We have been able to identify areas where improvements are needed and take the necessary steps to ensure that each Squad is performing at its best. Overall, using TeamRetro to conduct Squad health checks have been a game-changer for us at Moneybox.”
  • Zev Levit-Ramos, Software Engineer, Zocdoc: “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!”

Less friction, more action

Get TeamRetro's toolkit designed to help you run effective, action-driven meetings.

  • Create your perfect retro

    Create your perfect retro

    Customize any template or build as many of your own as you need.

  • Set the stage

    Set the stage

    Open with icebreaker games and a check-in question, then review open actions.

  • Vote privately and discuss openly

    Vote privately and discuss openly

    Vote on what matters most, then focus the discussion there.

  • Map it out on a whiteboard

    Map it out on a whiteboard

    Plan, map and diagram together with whiteboard templates like SWOT, RACI and North Star.

  • Propose, capture and track actions

    Propose, capture and track actions

    Turn discussion into owned, trackable next steps.

  • Discover insights, trends and patterns

    Discover insights, trends and patterns

    See recurring themes, team scores and open actions across every team over time.

See how TeamRetro compares to Parabol

Compare features side by side and see why teams choose TeamRetro for more effective, flexible and secure agile ceremonies.

A TeamRetro retrospective in the vote step: ideas with votes and emoji reactions, a kudos card, a GIF, a fishbone whiteboard and a poll, next to the meeting tools: trAI, actions, agreements, kudos, whiteboards, parking lot and chat
A Parabol retrospective board
FeaturesTeamRetroParabol
Retrospective templatesSupportedCustomizable and unlimited templates / Organization and team wideSupported40+ templates
Team health checksSupported45+ models, heat map, trend lines & summariesNot supportedFixed questions, paid plans
Daily standupsSupportedAsync by default, blockers carry forward, digest to Slack or TeamsSupportedAsync with summary email
Agile estimationsSupportedFree tool and in-appSupportedIn-app only
MCP serverSupportedAsk Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini about your teamsNot supportedNot supported
SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPRSupportedSOC 2 Type 2 & SOC 3 certified, GDPR compliantSupportedSOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR
Facilitated, customizable workflowSupportedGuided stages; turn each step on or off per meetingNot supportedLimited customization
Icebreaker gamesSupported20+ icebreaker games, plus check-in/out questionsNot supportedBasic functionality
In-meeting AI assistantSupportedAsk trAI to summarize, capture actions and look up past meetingsNot supportedAI grouping and summaries
WhiteboardsSupportedSketch diagrams and map frameworks in sessionNot supportedNot supported
Propose / suggest actionsSupportedGet buy-in before committing actionsNot supportedSeparate polling option
Team agreementsSupportedAgreed norms the team can revisitNot supportedNot supported
Team sentiment analysisSupportedDrill down word clouds, time line annotations & executive summariesNot supportedPartially supported
Schedule future / recurring retrosSupportedSet recurring schedule for future retrosSupportedRecurring, Google Calendar sync

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References: Parabol pricing · Parabol features · Parabol Team Health · Parabol GitHub (open source, AGPL-3.0) · Parabol custom estimation scales

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Case Study:Based on 3 teams with 10 people each over 1 year.

TeamRetro

USD 16.67/month per team, billed annually

Small Organization plan, unlimited team members

Annual cost$600

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USD 80/month per team, billed monthly

No whiteboards, team agreements or presentation mode

Annual cost$2,880

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Save time and stay focused in your meetings with trAI

Automatically group ideas, highlight key themes, suggest next steps and generate clear summaries. Then ask trAI, your in-meeting AI assistant, for anything else you need.

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More than retrospectives: every team meeting in one place

While retros are our forte, we've extended the same capabilities and features to support other meeting types in your agile cycle.

Team health checks

Team health checks

Run health checks to help improve teams over time.

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Daily standups

Daily standups

Share updates live or async, flag blockers early and turn them into tracked actions.

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Estimations

Estimations

Size stories together with planning poker using Fibonacci, T-shirt or custom decks.

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Icebreakers

Icebreakers

Choose from 20+ icebreakers, from simple questions to creative, collaborative games.

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Whiteboards

Whiteboards

Start from a blank board or templates like SWOT, RACI and North Star.

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.

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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 99.99% uptime, with fast-response SLAs to ensure your teams stay productive and supported.Explore enterprise

Frequently asked questions

Why do teams switch from Parabol to TeamRetro?
Usually for one of two reasons. The first is pricing that climbs with headcount: Parabol bills $8 per active user per month, so the bill grows every time the team does. The second is measurement: Parabol's Team Health uses five fixed categories, while TeamRetro asks the whole health model every time. Weighing Retrium too? See TeamRetro vs Parabol vs Retrium.
How do Parabol's health checks compare with TeamRetro's?
As of October 2026, Parabol's Team Health asks five Likert questions per check across five fixed categories, with a five-check trend line per category. Organization-wide reporting is listed as coming soon for Enterprise, and no health-score export is documented. TeamRetro offers a library of health models, or your own, asks the whole model every time, and shows a heat map and timeline per dimension, with cross-team insights on Enterprise today.
What is Parabol, and what kind of meetings is it for?
Parabol is designed for agile meetings like retrospectives, sprint poker (estimation), standups, and check-ins. It's useful for teams that want to structure their agile ceremonies. TeamRetro, the alternative to Parabol, is a cloud-based tool for retrospectives, health checks, estimation and daily standups. It offers a wide array of retrospective templates and health checks (along with statistical information) and insights into trends and patterns over time. It also has built in ice breakers, pulse checks and uses AI to improve productivity and insight for action planning and exploring hot topics and team sentiment. It features an intuitive interface that enables retrospectives to run smoothly and integrates seamlessly with a wide range of workflow tools. TeamRetro is also SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant.
How easy is it to run a meeting in Parabol?
Parabol guides users through meeting phases like reflecting, grouping, voting, and discussion, depending on your meeting type. TeamRetro also uses guided facilitation steps with the added capability of customizing steps, presentation mode, and provides suggestions for grouping, actions, and instant summaries. It has an intuitive interface and built-in mechanics to help promote psychological safety.
What tools does Parabol integrate with?
Parabol syncs tasks with Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Linear and Azure DevOps, and connects to Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Calendar. TeamRetro publishes actions to Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Linear, Trello, Asana, ClickUp, Monday.com, Notion and Confluence, and connects to Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Does Parabol allow for anonymous feedback?
Yes, Parabol lets team members submit reflections and vote anonymously, which helps encourage open feedback. TeamRetro allows for anonymous, named, and alias feedback, allowing flexibility and trust building for both emerging and mature agile teams.
How much does Parabol cost?
Parabol offers a usable free plan: unlimited users across 2 teams, 10 meetings a month, 30 days of history and 3 AI meeting summaries. Team health checks are not part of it. Parabol lists Team Health on the Team and Enterprise plans only, so measuring team health starts at $8 per active user per month, and that bill grows every time the team does. In contrast, TeamRetro charges per team, not per user, allowing you to add an unlimited number of users at no extra cost. With flat-rate pricing and full access to all features (including unlimited meeting history, integrations, AI summaries, and team health tools), TeamRetro offers a clearer, more scalable solution that's easier to manage as your team expands.
Can I migrate my data from Parabol to TeamRetro?
Yes, retrospective data can be migrated to TeamRetro, but you don't have to: start your next retro from a template you can customize, invite the team by link and carry open actions forward so nothing gets dropped. Flat per-team pricing, with unlimited members on multi-team plans, means no per-seat math as people join, and TeamRetro's SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliance means it's ready for a security review.
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