Most Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters run in circles and only treat superficial symptoms. The Retrospective Web Tool Echometer uses psychology to promote a sustainable mindset change in agile teams.
Why Echometer is the best free retrospective web tool
Compared to other Scrum Retrospective Tools & Boards (see below), Echometer fully embraces science-based team development: retros remain fun and simple, while team maturity becomes measurable over time.
What You Will Love About Echometer
With Echometer you develop teams and organizations in a sustainable and measurable way
Stimulate lasting change by activating your team’s self-reflection
Enjoy watching your team solve their problems independently
Impress your manager with clear metrics about your coaching success
Free Retrospective Web Tool
Intuitive and flexible facilitation for your retrospectives
🗂️ 50+ psychologically based retro formats
🤹♀️ Variety Check-In Generator
🧑🎨 Flexible Whiteboard Templates
🗳️ Easily group and vote feedback
🛡️ Optional anonymity for participants
Free Retrospective Web Tool
Make the success of retrospectives measurable
✅ Integrated tracking of retro measures
📂 Clean documentation thanks to unlimited retro archive
Measurable Team Development with Health Checks & ROTI ("Return on Time Invest")
🎥 Feature overview of the Retrospective Web Tool in one minute
Retrospective Web Tool
Why is Echometer better than the alternatives?
The Retrospective Web Tool Echometer is the only tool that combines the critical features of good retro tools: Whiteboards, Retro Boards, Surveys and Health Checks. And yet retros remain simply and intuitive.
Evaluation criteria
Echometer
Retrium Board
Team Retro
EasyRetro (formerly FunRetro)
Parabol Board
Kollabe
Interactive online retrospectives
✅Yes Yes
✅Yes Yes
✅Yes Yes
✅Yes Yes
✅Yes Yes
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Automatically generated retro summaries
✅Yes Yes
✅Yes Yes
✅Yes Yes
✅Yes Yes
✅Yes Yes
✅Yes Yes
Support of facilitator (e.g. automated check-ins)
✅Yes Yes
✅Yes Yes
⚠️Partially Partially
❌No No
⚠️Partially Partially
✅Yes Yes
Templates for every level of team maturity
✅Yes Yes
⚠️Partially Partially
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❌No No
❌No No
⚠️Partially Partially
Continuous tracking of action items</br> (retro to retro)
✅Yes Yes
⚠️Partially Partially
⚠️Partially Partially
❌No No
✅Yes Yes
✅Yes Yes
Team development measured over time
✅Yes Yes
⚠️Partially Partially
✅Yes Yes
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
Collecting feedback before retros (optional)
✅Yes Yes
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
✅Yes Yes
❌No No
Organizational Health Checks
✅Yes Yes
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
Health Check Item Pool with Nudges (Food for thought)
✅Yes Yes
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
Support for mobile devices </br>(for on-site or hybrid retros)
✅Yes Yes
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
Integrated Online-Whiteboard
✅Yes Yes
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
Data protection (developed and hosted in Germany)
✅Yes Yes
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
❌No No
Free version (after trial)
✅Yes Yes
❌No No
❌No No
✅Yes Yes
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Users about the Echometer Retrospective Web Tool
"Echometer is like a combination of Miro and a clever Retro Board. It even provides KPIs on the impact of my coaching and makes it easy to spot trends in team development. I love this tool and recommend it to anyone who wants to make their retros even more effective!"
Duane Hill
Scrum Master
5/5
"Through the targeted questions in Echometer, we always come to new insights for our further development in retrospectives and can make these measurable transparently for all team members."
Lena Tölke
Scrum Master / Agile Coach @ Deutsche Bahn Vertrieb
5/5
"Echometer is like the marriage of Mural and EasyRetro - I'm thrilled! With Echometer, remote retros can work much better and even be fun!"
Clemens Schöne
Scrum Master @ Communardo Products
5/5
A great advantage is that with Echometer we can implement and track both remote and on-site retrospectives equally in one tool.
Patrick Böttcher-Exner
Product Owner @ Relaxdays GmbH
5/5
"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
5/5
"For me, the greatest added value of Echometer lies in the simple visualization and analysis of team development over time."
Thorsten Löwenberg
Program Manager @ 1 & 1
5/5
"The team enjoys participating in retros with Echometer because the feedback data proves the need for a solution - every meeting or action becomes productive, relevant and rewarding. This tool gives us fantastic progress in collaboration and process improvements. The more we use the software, the more fun my team and I have with it!"
Julia Harper
Agile Delivery Coach @ Mondo Power (Australia)
5/5
“Unlike classic HR tools, Echometer's approach of combining team retrospectives with surveys gives us the opportunity not only to gather feedback, but also to actively involve the teams in change processes. This is exactly in line with our desired leadership and company culture.”
Melissa Wedekind
People strategist @ netgo group
5/5
“With Echometer, we enable continuous team development throughout the company. The structured approach and integrated measure tracking make this process comprehensible and effective even for growing teams and new Scrum Masters.”
Ivana Blaic
Lead Scrum Master & HR, tech11 GmbH
5/5
"The topic of team development is an area for which there was currently no suitable SaaS solution. Our agile teams in particular are celebrating us for introducing a solution like Echometer."
Ralf Marpert
Director Finance & Human Resources @ Shopware AG
5/5
"Echometer helps our teams gain additional insights and make them transparent and easily observable over a longer period of time. We look forward to accompanying the further development of Echometer."
Johannes Westerhoff
HR manager, VISUS Health IT GmbH
5/5
"At first I was critical of how cultural change could be driven forward by a tool like Echometer. The decentralized approach to strengthening the self-efficacy of teams ultimately convinced us at Westlotto and has proven itself in practice!"
"I enjoy working with Echometer because it gives me a picture of the cultural change over time in the team and thus supports my work as a Scrum Master. The team members appreciate Echometer because the psychologically sound questions enable a focused formation of opinions and discussions take place in a targeted manner."
Burkhard Jagusch
Agile Center of Excellence @ Miele & Cie. KG
5/5
"Echometer helps us to easily identify and implement potential for improvement. Echometer regularly collects feedback from our team and offers a very effective workshop format to reflect on the feedback together as a team."
Fabian Gruß
Co-Founder & CEO @ epap
5/5
"As a fast-growing startup, Echometer allows us to make long-term developments in our teams visible and thus measurably track the effects of our retrospective measures."
David Middelbeck
Co-Founder @ edyoucated
5/5
"Echometer is really well received in our teams. I also did my first retro with Echometer the other day - great!"
Henning Emmrich
COO @ Frontastic GmbH
5/5
"Echometer makes our retros very easy to prepare. Without your tool, we probably wouldn't have retros so regularly, but those are the most important meetings that we don't want to miss. We are therefore very grateful that we are allowed to use Echometer and always recommend the tool to others."
Sandra Helinski
Head of Process Management & Corporate Development @ ZI Mannheim
5/5
"Echometer has the potential to create an atmosphere that makes it easy for employees to give their best and thus revolutionize working in companies."
Bastian Seehaus
Head of software development @ Deutsche Post Adress GmbH & Co. KG
5/5
"Echometer allows us to question our way of working in a structured way and constantly improve. The tool supports us optimally in our flexible and mobile way of working through the way it is implemented. The integration with JIRA makes it all the easier for tasks from the team retrospectives to remain visible in everyday life and be implemented."
Johannes Fürst
Head of Technology, IFOX System
5/5
"An ingenious tool! We finally have time to focus on the essentials and talk about the right things. For our team, it was a quantum leap in our agile way of working."
Stefanie Meindl
Team Lead Digitization & Technology @ Unity AG
5/5
"In supporting agile teams, it has been shown that Echometer helps even the less experienced moderators to shine in retrospectives. It offers them an easy way to conduct structured and goal-oriented retrospectives."
Nicole Röttger
Managing Director @ Apiarista GmbH
5/5
"As Chief Scrum Master responsible for our agile transformation, Echometer is invaluable for increasing transparency about our organizational development and for enabling 'Sustainagility' within teams."
Marcel Nellesen
Chief Scrum Master @ DATEV
5/5
"Despite being skeptical at the beginning, I am basically very satisfied with Echometer. The integrated action tracking and the team and workspace health are a real plus. Echometer is a very good tool, especially when teams have to carry out retrospectives without a Scrum Master or on-site retrospectives are not possible. Echometer is a great addition to our agile way of working at flaschenpost, and the collaborative partnership with Echometer works perfectly."
Christian Krumkamp
Scrum Master @ flaschenpost
5/5
"Echometer is a great retrospective tool that not only creates an analysis of the Scrum process, but also of team factors such as communication or distributed work, etc. It really breaks down barriers in the teams I support and helps me address areas we need to work on and where we need support from management to strengthen the teams."
Wayne Smallman
Scrum Master @ MBDA
5/5
"Echometer is worth its weight in gold, especially in Corona times: As an Agile Coach, it saves me valuable time in preparing and following up on retrospectives and creates the necessary visibility and commitment for the measures in the team. At the same time, the progress made in implementing agile ways of working in our teams becomes measurable."
Daniel Büttner
Agile Coach, BS | ENERGY
5/5
"Echometer enables exactly the exchange that we need for our continuous development, even when working in a distributed manner. At the latest through Echometer, all our team members appreciate the value of our retrospectives and actively participate."
Melanie Herbrand
Team Coach, VEENION GmbH
5/5
"Echometer is an excellent tool for making agile retrospectives scalable - without a lot of coaching effort - accessible to the entire company. And it's fun to use!"
Julia von Sydow
Agile Coach @ Allianz Technology
5/5
"Echometer opens up many new perspectives and good discussions. This turns retrospectives into a productive meeting without the 'yet another meeting' feeling."
Benjamin Konsemüller
Software developer @ netgo Group
5/5
"Especially for teams that are just starting out with retrospectives, Echometer offers a great introduction to sustainable team development thanks to the structured feedback and the intuitive process."
Verena Büß
Agile Coach & Agile People Enthusiast @ SDA SE
5/5
"The questions from Echometer and their mapping to the team setups are pure moderation gold."
Benedikt Wallbrecht
Agile Coach & Troublemaker @ VEDA GmbH
5/5
Through the flexible integration of whiteboards in team workshops, you can benefit from the simple preparation and structure in Echometer, as well as get creative yourself if necessary.
Markus Jakob
Scrum Master @ T-Con
5/5
"Using Echometer makes every retro different and always insightful - for everyone involved. The integrated action tracking ensures additional transparency. The fact that the team members also enjoy filling out the online questionnaire is invaluable."
Matthias Adames
Scrum Master @ Eucon GmbH
5/5
"We have tried various tools for our Sprint Retros. Echometer now gives Retros an even better dynamic through the Health Checks - our last ROTI score was 9.3! You can tell that the developers at Echometer are familiar with the challenges of agile teams."
Julica Kuz
Software Engineer & responsible for the Retros in their development team @ GuideCom AG
5/5
Echometer allows us to plan measures based on the actual needs of colleagues. With Echometer, there are both team-internal and cross-team developments "in black and white", so that changes are visible over a longer period of time.
Sabine Klein
Release Train Engineer @ Diamant Software
5/5
Well organized and really comprehensive guide for retrospectives!
Tomasz Żelezny
Scrum Master
5/5
I enjoyed reading the eBook & as an experienced Agile Coach and Scrum Master I can only agree with the tips.
Stacey Buys
Agile Coach & Trainer, Management 3.0 Facilitator
5/5
A great and easy read for anyone looking to take their retrospectives to the next level.
Carsten Lützen
Agile Coach
5/5
The eBook covers all aspects of retrospectives and will definitely enrich your skills, highly recommended!
Eman Mostafa
Senior Scrum Master
5/5
Great reading also for experienced Scrum Masters who want to be inspired to give their retrospectives a new impetus.
Norbert Degenhardt
Agile Coach
5/5
"Makes our retros much easier and even really fun – and the support explains everything brilliantly."
Does the Retrospective Web Tool Echometer work without login?
First, you can try Echometer without logging in or registering. If you like our retro board without logging in, you can register directly within the retro board. The nice thing now is that other guests (apart from you) do not have to register for the tool or need a login.
Can the Retrospective Web Tool Echometer be used anonymously?
Yes, our retrospective web tool can also be used anonymously: Surveys, whiteboards and the retro board can be filled out anonymously by participants in the retrospectives or surveys.
How much does the Retrospective Web Tool Echometer cost?
There is a free and paid plan for using Echometer. To get an overview, check out our pricing model here: Echometer pricing model.
Do I have to log in or register to test the Retro Tool or Board?
No, you don't have to. Just click on one of the green buttons above to check out the retro board without logging in and play around with it.
Convince yourself of the best Retrospective Web Tool
Just pick one of our carefully crafted retro formats and get started: