A free TeamRetro alternative for retrospectives

TeamRetro is a full agile meeting platform, and it has no free plan. If your team liked running retros online and needs a place to keep doing it, here is how ProstoRetro compares, and when TeamRetro is still the better choice.

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What TeamRetro is and who it suits

TeamRetro is an agile meeting platform built around retrospectives, with a lot more on top. Teams start with a 30-day trial, and the product is made for organizations that run retros across many teams and want to see patterns in them.

It does a lot, and does it thoroughly:

• Several agile rituals in one tool. Retrospectives, team health checks, agile maturity models, estimation with planning poker and async standups.
• Detailed facilitation features. Customizable templates, anonymity options, smart grouping, private voting, a facilitator role, meeting timers, whiteboards, a parking lot, icebreakers, check-ins and check-outs, and polling.
• AI throughout. Its assistant, trAI, suggests templates, groups ideas, proposes actions, writes meeting summaries and points out team sentiment and recurring topics.
• Analytics. Reports and exports, team dashboards, sentiment and mood analysis and theme analysis, with cross-team insights on Enterprise.
• A long list of integrations. Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Linear, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Confluence, Trello, Asana, ClickUp, Notion, monday.com, Basecamp, Shortcut, Zapier and n8n, plus an API, webhooks and an MCP server.
• Security options. SSO with SAML on all plans and a choice of US or EU hosting; SCIM, SOC 2 Type 2 and allowed IP ranges on Enterprise.
• No accounts for team members. People on the team take part in retros without creating a TeamRetro account.

For an agile coach looking after several teams, or a company that wants health and maturity data across teams, TeamRetro is built for exactly that. This page is for a different situation: the trial is ending, the team liked running retros online, and what you need is a simple place to keep holding them.

What happens when the trial ends

As of October 2026, TeamRetro's pricing page and help center say:

• There is no free plan. All four plans, from Single Team to Enterprise, are paid.
• The trial lasts 30 days.
• After that, retros need a paid plan. Without one, your retrospectives and actions are no longer accessible. TeamRetro keeps them for a limited period in case you come back.
• Team members need an email. They don't create TeamRetro accounts, but they need an email address for verification. Guests from outside the team are an Enterprise feature.
• The smallest plan covers one team of up to 25 members.

If your trial is still running, save what you want to keep now. TeamRetro's plans include reports and exports, so check what you can download while you still have access.

Where ProstoRetro is different

ProstoRetro is far smaller than TeamRetro and covers one meeting, the team retrospective, free and with no monthly cap on retros. What changes for a team coming off a TeamRetro trial:

• Nothing runs out. ProstoRetro has no time limit, and past retros stay with your team, so the history you build up stays available.
• Joining needs no account and no email. People from outside the team can take part too, which TeamRetro keeps for Enterprise: in a room open to "Anyone", the default for new teams, they type a name and join. Only the facilitator signs in, with Google or email.
• The retro basics you are used to. Anonymous cards (on by default, chosen per card), cards hidden while people write, anonymous voting, anonymous polls, a timer for each phase and built-in icebreaker questions.
• The AI features that save the most time. Card grouping, group names, action-item suggestions during discussion and a short summary of each retro. There is no AI for templates, sentiment or topic trends.
• A simple mood trend. An anonymous mood survey runs inside the retro, its results are revealed during discussion, and the team page shows how the mood changes over time. It is far simpler than TeamRetro's health checks, but it shows the trend.
• Follow-up without dashboards. Signed-in participants get the retro's summary by email. Action items carry an owner and a due date, reminders go out by email, and each retro opens with the items still open from the last one.

There are 19 ready templates, including Start Stop Continue, Mad Sad Glad and the Sailboat, and you can build your own with up to five columns. See them all in the retrospective template library.

TeamRetro vs ProstoRetro at a glance

Checked against TeamRetro's own pricing page and help center as of October 2026. The TeamRetro column describes its paid plans, which the trial gives temporary access to.

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When TeamRetro is the better choice

TeamRetro is likely worth its cost if:

• You need more than retros. Health checks, maturity models, planning poker and async standups in one place are TeamRetro's strength. ProstoRetro covers the retrospective itself.
• You need analytics across teams. Dashboards, sentiment and theme analysis and cross-team insights are built into TeamRetro. ProstoRetro's mood history is per team and much simpler.
• Your workflow runs through other tools. If retros must connect to Jira, Azure DevOps, Slack, Microsoft Teams or Notion, TeamRetro integrates with all of them and has an API and webhooks. ProstoRetro has no integrations, no API and no file export.
• Your security review asks for SSO, SCIM or SOC 2. TeamRetro has them, along with a choice of US or EU hosting. ProstoRetro has no SSO and no enterprise admin.
• The budget is already approved. If the cost is not the obstacle, TeamRetro gives a coach or an organization far more than ProstoRetro does.

Looking at other tools as well? See how ProstoRetro compares with EasyRetro, Parabol and Retrium.

How to switch from TeamRetro

Your TeamRetro history can't be imported, so plan the move around the end of your trial:

1. Save what you need while you still have access. Download reports, or copy open actions and notes, before the trial ends.
2. Sign in with Google or email. Only the facilitator needs to; a team is set up for you on the way in.
3. Keep your usual formats. Classics such as Start Stop Continue, the Starfish or KPT are among the ready templates. A template you customized in TeamRetro can be rebuilt as a custom template with the same columns.
4. Skip the verification step. With the room open to "Anyone", the default for new teams, people join with a name, and nobody needs an email address. Restrict the room if you want only signed-in people or team members.
5. Send the room link to the team chat a few minutes before the meeting.
6. Re-enter open actions. Add the ones still open in TeamRetro as action items during the first retro, with owners and due dates. From then on, reminders and the review at the start of each retro keep track of them.

FAQ

What happens to my TeamRetro data after the trial?

According to TeamRetro, retrospectives and actions are no longer accessible without a paid plan, and they are kept for a limited period in case you come back. Save anything you need before the trial ends.

Does ProstoRetro stop working after 30 days?

No. Nothing expires: your team keeps its retros and can hold new ones for as long as it likes, with up to 100 people in a room.

Do participants need an account or an email?

Neither, in a room open to "Anyone", which is how new teams start: people join by typing a name, until the retro is completed. The facilitator is the only one who signs in, with Google or email.

Does ProstoRetro have health checks or integrations like TeamRetro?

Neither. Each retro can include a mood survey, with its history on the team page, but there are no health checks, maturity models or cross-team analytics, and no integrations, API or export. For a walkthrough of a session, read how to run a great retro.