“Most Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters run in circles fixing superficial symptoms. Time to use psychology to sustainably foster mindset change - through the Echometer retro tool."
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 Echometer Review | 🆚 FunRetro Review | |
|---|---|---|
Interactive Online Retros | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
Facilitation support (Check-In or Icebreaker Generator etc.) | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Organizing Action Items | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Echometer Retro Board | 🆚 FunRetro board | |
Effective Timer | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
Optional anonymity | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
Integrated online whiteboards | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Mobile device support for on-site retros | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Voting (Prioritization) | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
No login required for external guests | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Partially (for public retro boards) |
Collecting feedback before retros (optional) | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Echometer Team Development | 🆚 FunRetro team development | |
Agile Health Check surveys | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Team development measured over time | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Health Check item pool with nudges (food for thought) | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Organizational Health Checks | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Retro templates for every level of maturity | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
ROTI (Return on Time Invest) KPI | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Echometer Pricing | 🆚 FunRetro pricing model | |
Data protection (developed and hosted in Europe) | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
No login required to test tool | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Free version after test | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
Pricing | Starting at €5.5/team member/month | Starting at €26/team/month |
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FunRetro io aka EasyRetro is an online tool that can be used for conducting agile team workshops aka Retrospectives online. It is primarily used by virtual or remote teams, who often work (according to the Scrum Framework) in sprints and prefer to use varying retro templates at the end of their iteration.
You can find the FunRetro website at https://easyretro.io/.
The website of the FunRetro Alternative Echometer is https://echometerapp.com/.
No. FunRetro started out as a free, open-source tool, according to founder Glauber Ramos, but then evolved from an open source into a commercial tool.
The FunRetro Company is a private company based in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The founder and owner of the company is the software and user experience developer Glauber Ramos.
The FunRetro Alternative Echometer belongs predominantly to the three founders Robin Roschlau (Software Developer), Jean Michel Diaz (Business Economist) and Christian Heidemeyer (Psychologist). You can find more about our story in the linked post – "3 reasons for (not) another retro tool".
The FunRetro CEO or founder is Glauber Ramos, although he does not refer to himself as "CEO" (see LinkedIn).
The FunRetro Alternative Echometer belongs predominantly to the three founders Robin Roschlau (Software Developer), Jean Michel Diaz (Business Economist) and Christian Heidemeyer (Psychologist). You can find more about our story in the linked post – "3 reasons for (not) another retro tool".
Other FunRetro competitors include Echometer. In addition to Echometer, Neatro or MetroRetro can be named as typical FunRetro alternatives. FunRetro-similar is Retrium or TeamRetro, too. You can find an overview of the various FunRetro competitors in our Retro Tool Comparison.
Yes and no: There is an FunRetro Free version where you can use 3 public retro boards per month for free with your agile teams. However, if you want to store data for your team, FunRetro is no longer free and starts from 25,00$ per team per month.
The FunRetro Alternative Echometer is free forever for up to 2 teams, find more on this in our Pricing.
The FunRetro Subscription comes in four tiers: 1. Free, 2. Team (25,00$ monthly), 3. Business (60,00$ monthly) and 4. Enterprise (90,00$ monthly). Depending on the tier, you have a different number of public and non-public boards, teams, surveys and team members. You can find a full overview of FunRetro subscriptions on the company's website.
The FunRetro alternative Echometer is free forever for up to 2 teams. If you go beyond this, the tool starts from 5.5€ per user per month – see our pricing. Pricing.
FunRetro has taken some measures for the security of the app and data protection. According to their website, they do not manage their servers themselves. Data is stored in Google Cloud Platform. A full overview of security and privacy measures can be found on the company's website.
The FunRetro Alternative Echometer is GDPR compliant and hosted in Germany. It meets the highest standards of data protection and security. Detailed information can be found on our website at GDPR and Security.
There is no official way for an FunRetro io download. You can only export or download some data from FunRetro, such as data from the Retro Board.
Nevertheless, FunRetro can be called an app or application because it is a computer program that works browser-based.
So far there is an unofficial download for the FunRetro Alternative Echometer at web catalogue.
There is currently no official personal FunRetro demo, but there is a Fun retro demo video.
You can find a short video on how the FunRetro Alternative Echometer works on our "How it Works" site. If you would like a personal presentation or demo, you are welcome to book a free online demo with us following the link.
You can find the FunRetro LinkedIn profile on this page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/easyretro/. In autumn 2022 FunRetro had around 500 followers.
You can find the LinkedIn profile of the FunRetro Alternative Echometer following this link. In autumn 2022, Echometer had around 2600 followers.
There is an official FunRetro tutorial on Youtube following the link. You will also find other more specific FunRetro tutorials there.
You can find a video of how the FunRetro Alternative Echometer works on our "How it Works" site. In our Help Center we give a detailed overview on how you can take the first steps in the Echometer Retro Tool.
If you would like a personal online demo, you are welcome to book a free online demo with Christian or Jean following the link.
You can contact the FunRetro Support on the linked Website of the company and write them messages or questions via a chat.
You can easily get support for the FunRetro Alternative Echometer in our chat (bottom left of our website) or via this Website by writing a message. Alternatively, you can send a message via email to support at echometerapp dot com. Jean or Christian will get back to you as soon as possible 🙂
If you are logged into the Echometer tool, you can even send us a message through the tool (below on the left, behind the question mark).
FunRetro currently does not offer any webinars. You can watch short videos about the tool on Youtube following the link. Youtube following the link.
With the FunRetro Alternative Echometer you can book an following this link at any time.
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Yes, FunRetro allows you to export various things, including feedback from the Retro Board. To do this, you have to click on "Settings" in the upper right corner of a retro board, then "Export Board" to then decide whether you want to export it as a PDF or other format. This is how you export a retro summary.
No, FunRetro does not have a publicly accessible API, but it does have an integration with Slack, for example.
The FunRetro Login, FunRetro Registration or FunRetro Sign-Up all happen on the https://easyretro.io/register page.
With the FunRetro Alternative Echometer you can even do a retrospective without login on the linked page. The sign-up or the Registration for a full free account is behind the links.
No, FunRetro does not have an integrated retro whiteboard. However, the FunRetro Alternative Echometer offers an optional online whiteboard. The tool is suitable for remote or virtual teams, hybrid teams or even on-site teams.
You can try FunRetro for free on their website. There is an official FunRetro tutorial on Youtube following the link that will help you with that.
You can find a video of how the FunRetro Alternative Echometer works on our "How it Works" site. In our Help Center we give a detailed overview on how you can take the first steps in the Echometer Retro Tool.
Yes, FunRetro can also optionally be used anonymously.
The Fun Retro io alternative Echometer enables anonymous feedback, too – on both the retro board and the included retro whiteboard.
Yes, FunRetro has a simple Jira integration that allows you to integrate retrospective cards into Jira.
The FunRetro Alternative Echometer also has an integration in Jira, that you can even use to automatically transfer action items to Jira.
FunRetro had over 200 retrospective formats in October 2022, while the FunRetro Alternative Echometer also has hundreds of retrospective formats in the form of freely combinable retro games, agile health checks or team radars and retrospective questions. Thus, every Scrum Sprint can be ended with a new interesting retrospective idea.
No. The FunRetro alternative Echometer, on the other hand, offers team health checks and a team radar feature. It works both on a team and on a cross-team level. For example, your team's development can be tracked over many sprints, regardless of whether you are a virtual remote team or work on site.
Yes, the Sailboat Retro can be carried out in FunRetro. In the Fun Retro Alternative Echometer, the sailboat retro can also be carried out and even be enriched with whiteboard retro games. The retro format is suitable for virtual remote teams, for teams in the office as well as for hybrid teams.
Yes, there is a FunRetro SSO aka Single Sign On. The FunRetro Alternative Echometer also offers SSO.
