Are you looking for the best tools for agile retrospectives in remote teams? Then Echometer is the right place for you.
| Evaluation criteria | Echometer | Retrium Board | Team Retro | FunRetro (formerly EasyRetro) | Parabol Board | Kollabe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interactive online retrospectives | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automatically generated retro summaries | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Support of facilitator (e.g. automated check-ins) | Yes | Yes | Partially | No | Partially | Yes |
| Templates for every level of team maturity | Yes | Partially | Partially | No | No | Partially |
| Continuous tracking of action items</br> (retro to retro) | Yes | Partially | Partially | No | Yes | Yes |
| Team development measured over time | Yes | Partially | Yes | No | No | No |
| Collecting feedback before retros (optional) | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Organizational Health Checks | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Health Check Item Pool with Nudges (Food for thought) | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Support for mobile devices </br>(for on-site or hybrid retros) | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Integrated Online-Whiteboard | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Data protection (developed and hosted in Germany) | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Free version (after trial) | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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"Echometer is the perfect starting point for team development"
"A quantum leap for our agile ways of working"
"Brilliant tool!"
"Pure gold for facilitating engaging and insightful retrospectives"
"As a Scrum Master, it's not about the tools, but this one really makes the job much more enjoyable as it feeds every retro with new discussion points, uncovers undercurrents in the team and makes me reflect on my own biases in a really useful way. And my team agrees with me! After two years, I can recommend Echometer to anyone who wants to enrich their retros and better understand their team!"
Carina McLane
Scrum Master & Senior Software Developer @ Volvo
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The following questions will help you choose the right online retro board software.
It depends on your team and your context which is the best retrospective software tool. A generally recommended software tool for virtual or remote engineering teams is Echometer. It has various features that have been specially developed for remote IT engineering teams, such as: an interactive retro board, various retrospective templates, action tracking and specialized team Health Checks for remote teams.
You can find retrospective software tools with customizable templates, formats and techniques on various platforms and in various software tools. For example, we recommend the retrospective software tool Echometer with customizable templates for retrospective questions and techniques. The templates in Echometer include selectable icebreakers and open questions for your retrospective, such as the techniques "Keep Stop Start", "Mad Sad Glad" or the sailboat retrospective.
The most popular retrospective tools in 2025 include in particular:
Depending on the size of your team, Echometer is the more affordable alternative to the retrospective software tool Parabol. Parabol charges $8 per team member, while Echometer charges per team. Since Echometer costs $29 per month for a full team, Echometer is more affordable if you have more than 3 team members - which is the case for most teams.
Yes, Echometer is suitable for all age groups: Younger software developers will enjoy the playful elements of the software, such as the balloon shooting in the retrospective waiting room. Older software engineers will appreciate the focus on efficiency and the simplicity of the tool.
Echometer works independently of frameworks and is therefore ideal for teams that work according to Scrum, Waterfall or Kanban, as well as software teams that use hybrid frameworks and methods such as Scrumban. Even if you don't use Scrum or an officially existing framework, Echometer is the right software tool for you.
