How does Neatro compare with Echometer's Retrospective Tool?

Neatro and Echometer are both tools for online retrospectives that are very popular with Scrum teams. Both share some similarities, but Echometer is much more sophisticated in the details:

• An online retro board for sharing, grouping and voting on feedback. Both also offer a hidden brainstorming mode for the retro board so that participants do not influence each other when formulating their feedback.
• Neatro and Echometer both have a library of templates for retrospectives. However, Echometer has a wider selection as it includes templates for open retros (more than 50), ideas for Health Checks (more than 100), ideas for icebreakers (more than 50) and whiteboard templates (more than 20).
• Tracking measures from retrospectives works very similarly in Neatro and Echometer: both allow you to create measures based on feedback on the board, mark a due date and define a person responsible. Practical: Echometer also offers the option of having an AI suggest measures for a topic.
• Both Neatro and Echometer offer scale surveys with rating questions. Neatro calls these “Radar” and Echometer calls them “Health Checks”. The radars in Neatro are far less sophisticated than the health checks in Echometer. In Echometer, for example, feedback on health checks can be obtained both in the retrospectives and independently in team surveys, or even in cross-team surveys. Using pulse checks, Echometer even allows you to automate the sending of regular surveys.

Key differences between Neatro and Echometer for agile retrospectives:

• Yes, both Neatro and Echometer offer a free plan. However, Neatro’s free plan is very limited in its range of functions (e.g. no export of retros) and only allows 10 participants. The free plan from Echometer is more generous and includes all functions as well as an unlimited number of participants.
• In addition to the Retro Board, Echometer also has integrated whiteboards that can be used flexibly in the retrospective - for example, to investigate root causes or to brainstorm measures.

So our tip: If you’re thinking about trying out the Neatro retrospective software tool in your agile team, take a look at the Echometer retro tool first: Free Echometer access without login