Retrospectives your team will actually look forward to
Retroboard is a free online retrospective tool for teams: beautiful realtime boards with voting, comments, timers, surveys and exports — everything in one place.
What went well?
Shipped the new onboarding 🎉
Pairing sessions were great
Zero incidents this sprint
What could be improved?
Too many meetings
Flaky CI slowed us down
Action items
Meeting-free Wednesdays
Fix the top 3 flaky tests
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Create a board
Pick one of 23 templates or start blank. Name it, add context, set it private or public.
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Share one link
Teammates join instantly — with Google, email, or as a guest with just their name.
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Discuss what matters
Write in parallel, vote on the top items, time-box the discussion, and export the results.
Your whole retro, one screen
Columns for the conversation, an action items lane for the follow-through, and voting to keep it honest — all live for everyone at once.
Everything a great retro needs
Realtime by default
Cards, votes and comments appear for everyone the instant they happen. No refresh, ever.
Fully customizable boards
Unlimited columns, custom colors, board context, and 23 retro templates to start from — or save your own.
Blind writing
Cards stay hidden until the reveal, so nobody anchors on the first (or loudest) opinion. Pair with anonymous mode for fully pressure-free input.
Presentation mode
Walk the team through cards one at a time, top-voted first — everyone’s screen follows along, and discussion turns into action items.
Voting that keeps focus
Dot-vote with per-person budgets, or switch to simple one-vote-per-card likes. Sort by what the team cares about.
Action items with owners
Capture follow-ups on any card, assign an owner in the room, and track them in their own column. Open items carry into your next retro automatically.
Summaries where your team lives
One click emails the retro summary to every participant and posts it to Slack — columns, votes, action items and survey results.
Surveys & health checks
Run ROTI ratings, team health checks or custom surveys right on the board, with live results.
Icebreakers & timer
Warm the room up with one-click opener questions, and time-box every phase with a shared countdown.
Analytics on your retros
Trends across every retro — participation, votes, cadence, and the metric that matters: action items actually completed.
Summary pages
Every retro gets a recap page: highlights, action items with owners, and a word cloud of what the conversation was about.
Teams built in
Create teams, invite unlimited people, and every retro — and its action items — is one shared link away.
Start from a proven format
23 built-in retro templates — from the classics to sailboats and superheroes — all fully customizable.
Start, Stop, Continue
Mad, Sad, Glad
Sailboat
4Ls
Starfish
Pre-mortem
Lean Coffee
Rose, Bud, Thorn
Why run retrospectives at all?
A retrospective is a short, recurring meeting where a team looks back at how they worked — not just what they shipped — and agrees on one or two concrete improvements. Done well, it’s the highest-leverage hour on the calendar: small course corrections, made every sprint, compound into a dramatically better team.
The catch is that retros live or die on facilitation. If the loudest person sets the agenda, or action items evaporate, people stop believing in the ritual. Retroboard is built around the habits that keep retros honest: silent parallel writing, anonymous mode, dot-voting to set the agenda, a visible timer, and exports so decisions don’t get lost.
New to facilitating? Our blog covers formats, remote retros and how to run sessions your team won’t dread.
Plays well with your stack
Post summaries to Slack, export retros to Confluence, and take your data to CSV, Excel, PDF, Word and PNG. More integrations are on the roadmap:
Frequently asked questions
Yes — Retroboard is completely free while in beta. Paid plans may come later for advanced team features, and we’ll give plenty of notice before anything changes.
No. Anyone can join a board as a guest with just their name. Guests can add cards, vote and comment — and can upgrade to a full account later without losing anything.
Yes. Cards, votes, comments, moves and timers sync over websockets, so everyone sees the same board at the same instant — no refreshing.
Boards are private by default: only people you invite or your team members can open them. You can make a board public so anyone signed in with the link can participate.
Yes — the built-in analytics page tracks every retro you run: cards, votes, contributors, your retro cadence, and how many action items actually get completed. Each board also gets a shareable summary page with highlights and a word cloud.
Always. Export any board to CSV, Excel, PDF, Word, PNG or straight to your clipboard as Markdown.
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