# FocusRetro

> FocusRetro is an online retrospective tool for agile and remote teams: anonymous feedback, blind voting, focused timers, and action items that get done.

FocusRetro (https://focusretro.com) is an online retrospective tool for agile, remote, and hybrid teams. It is built around three ideas: honest input (private writing, anonymous cards, blind voting), focused facilitation (stage timers, locked phases, topic grouping, moderation controls), and follow-through (action items with owners, due dates, and status that are reviewed at the next retrospective).

## About the company

FocusRetro is built by a small team operating from within the European Union. It exists because retrospective tools were priced per seat, metered by boards per month, and built around the meeting rather than the fortnight after it — so the product is organized around the full loop and priced as one flat rate per team.

Revenue comes only from subscriptions: no advertising, and no sale of personal data. Some things are left out on purpose — per-seat pricing, a long integrations grid (Jira and Slack only), an email gate on the free tools, and any certification badge the company has not actually earned (no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 yet, stated plainly at https://focusretro.com/security).

Contact: support@focusretro.com (general), security@focusretro.com (vulnerability reports), privacy@focusretro.com (GDPR requests). Full origin story: https://focusretro.com/about

## Key features

- Online retrospective boards with one-click templates: Went Well / To Improve / Action Items, Mad Sad Glad, Start-Stop-Continue, 4Ls, or a blank board with custom columns for any other format
- Anonymous feedback and hidden cards during writing to reduce groupthink
- Blind voting: votes are revealed only after everyone has voted
- Facilitation timers and locked phases for writing, voting, and discussion
- Action items with owners, due dates, status, and a dashboard reviewed before the next meeting
- Guest access from a link, with no account required for participants
- Works for async and hybrid teams across time zones
- PDF and CSV exports
- Enterprise controls: SAML SSO, workspace analytics, data retention windows, expiring guest links

## Use cases

Sprint retrospectives, incident post-mortems, quarterly team health checks, remote workshops, leadership listening sessions, product discovery debriefs, project kick-offs, and team agreements.

## Pricing

Full pricing page: https://focusretro.com/pricing

Pricing is flat per team, not per user or per seat. Inviting more people never changes the price.

- Starter: free forever (3 personal boards per month, core retro templates, voting and reactions, phase timers, action items)
- Team: $12 per month billed annually, or $15 billed monthly — one flat price for the whole team (1 shared workspace, unlimited boards, unlimited workspace members, private and restricted boards, board passwords)
- Business: custom annual pricing (everything in Team, 5 workspaces, admin controls, SAML SSO)

All paid plans include a 14-day trial. No credit card is required to start.

## Retrospective templates

- [Start, Stop, Continue retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/start-stop-continue): Free Start Stop Continue retrospective template with 60+ real examples, step-by-step facilitation guide, timings, and variations. Run it online in minutes.
- [Rose, Bud, Thorn retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/rose-bud-thorn): Free Rose Bud Thorn retrospective template: what the rose, bud, and thorn mean, 30+ examples, step-by-step facilitation, timings, and when to use it over other formats.
- [Futurespective retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/futurespective): Free futurespective template — the retrospective you run before the work starts. Board layout, 40+ examples, step-by-step facilitation, timings, and how it differs from a pre-mortem.
- [Hopes and Concerns retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/hopes-and-concerns): Free Hopes and Concerns template (also called hopes and fears) for kick-offs, reorgs, and workshops. Prompts, 35+ examples, facilitation steps, timings, and how to close every concern.
- [Open the Box retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/open-the-box): Free Open the Box retrospective template. The four box prompts explained, 40+ examples, step-by-step facilitation, timings, variations, and when to use it instead of Start Stop Continue.
- [Keep, Problem, Try retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/keep-problem-try): Free Keep Problem Try (KPT) retrospective template with 40+ examples, facilitation steps, timings, and the rule that makes it work: every Try is an experiment reviewed at the next retro.
- [Sailboat retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/sailboat): Free sailboat retrospective template. What the island, wind, anchors, and rocks mean, 45+ examples, step-by-step facilitation, timings, and the speedboat variation.
- [Lean Coffee retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/lean-coffee): Free Lean Coffee template: the three-column board, building the agenda in ten minutes, dot voting, the thumb-vote timebox rule, 30+ topic examples, and async variations.
- [Release retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/release-retrospective): Free release retrospective template for the end of a release or launch: build the timeline first, then what worked, what hurt, and what changes next time. Agenda, 40+ examples, and how it differs from a sprint retro.
- [Went Well / To Improve / Action Items retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/went-well-to-improve): Free Went Well / To Improve / Action Items retrospective template with 50+ examples, facilitation steps, and timings. The simplest sprint retro format — run it online in minutes.
- [4Ls retrospective template: Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed For](https://focusretro.com/templates/4ls): Free 4Ls retrospective template — Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed For — with 50+ examples, facilitation steps, and timings. Ideal for milestone, project, and quarterly reviews.
- [Mad, Sad, Glad retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/mad-sad-glad): Free Mad Sad Glad retrospective template with 50+ examples, facilitation steps, and timings — plus how to keep an emotions-first retro from turning into a complaint session.
- [Joy, Fear, Excitement retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/joy-fear-excitement): Free Joy, Fear, Excitement retrospective template with worked examples, facilitation steps, and timings — the emotions format that looks forward as well as back.
- [Timeline retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/timeline): Free Timeline retrospective template with worked examples and a step-by-step guide — reconstruct what actually happened before anyone argues about why.
- [Plus, Minus, Interesting retrospective template](https://focusretro.com/templates/plus-minus-interesting): Free Plus, Minus, Interesting (PMI) retrospective template — also run as Plus, Minus, Investing — with examples, steps, and timings for the fastest three-column sort.

## Comparisons

- [EasyRetro alternatives](https://focusretro.com/compare/easyretro): Seven EasyRetro (formerly FunRetro) alternatives compared on pricing, free plans, and facilitation: FocusRetro, Retrium, Parabol, TeamRetro, Neatro, Spreo, and Retro Tool. Prices verified September 2026.
- [Metro Retro alternatives](https://focusretro.com/compare/metro-retro): Metro Retro rebranded to Spreo with per-seat pricing and a 30-day trial instead of a free plan. Seven alternatives compared on price, free tiers, and facilitation: FocusRetro, EasyRetro, Retrium, Parabol, TeamRetro, Neatro, Miro.
- [Retrium alternatives](https://focusretro.com/compare/retrium): Retrium costs $39 per Team Room per month with no free plan. Seven alternatives compared on price, free tiers, and facilitation: FocusRetro, EasyRetro, Parabol, TeamRetro, Neatro, Spreo, and Retro Tool.

## Guides

- [How to choose a retrospective tool (and when you don’t need one)](https://focusretro.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-retrospective-tool): How to choose a retrospective tool: the four criteria that actually matter — honest input, built-in facilitation, action-item follow-through, and pricing model — plus the features that don’t, the red flags, and a two-retro evaluation plan.
- [Sprint names: 150+ ideas and naming conventions that actually stick](https://focusretro.com/blog/sprint-names): How to name sprints so the names actually stick: proven conventions (one theme per quarter, alphabetical runs, retro-picks-the-name), 16 theme directions, and 150+ ideas.
- [What is a retrospective? The complete guide for teams](https://focusretro.com/blog/what-is-a-retrospective): A retrospective is a recurring team meeting for inspecting how you work and deciding what to change. Learn the formats, agenda, timings, and mistakes to avoid.
- [How to run a sprint retrospective (step-by-step guide)](https://focusretro.com/blog/how-to-run-a-sprint-retrospective): A step-by-step sprint retrospective guide: the 5-phase agenda, exact timings for a 60-minute session, facilitation tactics, remote tips, and common failure modes.
- [Scrum ceremonies in order: the 4 agile ceremonies and how to run them](https://focusretro.com/blog/agile-ceremonies): The 4 scrum ceremonies in order — sprint planning, daily standup, sprint review, retrospective — with timeboxes, attendees, anti-patterns, and a sprint timeline.
- [Remote and async retrospectives: a practical guide](https://focusretro.com/blog/remote-async-retrospectives): How to run retrospectives for remote, hybrid, and distributed teams — including async formats that work across time zones without a live meeting.

## Tools

All tools are free, run entirely in the browser with no account, and are listed at https://focusretro.com/tools

- [Sprint velocity calculator](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-velocity-calculator): Free sprint velocity calculator — enter completed points per sprint and get the average, median, 3-sprint rolling average, variability, and a forecast range instead of a single misleading number.
- [Sprint capacity calculator](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-capacity-calculator): Free sprint capacity calculator that subtracts ceremony time explicitly — enter each person’s available days and focus factor to see the hours that actually reach the sprint backlog.
- [Story points to hours](https://focusretro.com/tools/story-points-to-hours): Convert story points to hours using your team’s own sprint history rather than an invented constant — and see the spread between your fastest and slowest sprint, which is why the conversion is contested.
- [Retrospective timebox calculator](https://focusretro.com/tools/retro-timebox-calculator): Work out how long your retrospective should run for your sprint length and team size — and get a minute-by-minute five-phase agenda you can copy straight into the invite.
- [Sprint name generator](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator): Free sprint name generator with sixteen themes, three name formats, alliteration, and a series mode that names a whole quarter. No sign-up.
- [Funny sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/funny): Funny sprint names your team will actually remember — 40+ curated ideas from Chaotic Rubber Chicken to Operation Herding Cats, plus a free generator with no sign-up.
- [Cool sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/cool): Cool, high-energy sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like Chrome Vortex, Operation Blackout, and Neon Avalanche, plus a free generator. No sign-up, click to copy.
- [Mythology sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/mythology): Greek and Norse mythology sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like Immortal Phoenix, Operation Icarus, and Ancient Kraken, plus a free generator with no sign-up.
- [Space sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/space): Space-themed sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like Interstellar Voyager, Operation Apollo, and Lunar Eclipse, plus a free generator. No sign-up, click to copy.
- [Animal sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/animals): Animal-themed sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like Fearless Honey Badger, Operation Capybara, and Nocturnal Axolotl, plus a free generator with no sign-up.
- [Superhero sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/superheroes): Superhero-themed sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like Masked Crusader, Operation Multiverse, and Invincible Sentinel, plus a free generator. No sign-up needed.
- [Sci-fi sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/sci-fi): Science-fiction sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like Cybernetic Android, Operation Warp Drive, and Sentient Hologram, plus a free generator with no sign-up.
- [Fantasy sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/fantasy): Fantasy-themed sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like Arcane Spellbook, Operation Dragonfire, and Cursed Dungeon Crawl, plus a free generator. No sign-up needed.
- [Movie sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/movies): Movie and film-themed sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like Cinematic MacGuffin, Operation Final Cut, and Slow-Burn Cliffhanger, plus a free generator.
- [Music sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/music): Music-themed sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like Platinum Mixtape, Operation Encore, and Symphonic Crescendo, plus a free generator with no sign-up.
- [Video game sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/video-games): Video-game sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like 8-Bit Final Boss, Operation Level Up, and Co-op Side Quest, plus a free generator. No sign-up, click to copy.
- [Food sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/food): Food-themed sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like Spicy Guacamole, Operation Taco Tuesday, and Deep-Fried Tiramisu, plus a free generator with no sign-up.
- [Coffee sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/coffee): Coffee-themed sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like Triple-Shot Cold Brew, Operation Dark Roast, and Jittery Barista, plus a free generator. No sign-up needed.
- [Pirate sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/pirates): Pirate-themed sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like Swashbuckling Cutlass, Operation Jolly Roger, and Cursed Treasure Map, plus a free generator with no sign-up.
- [Sports sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/sports): Sports-themed sprint names — 40+ curated ideas like Clutch Buzzer Beater, Operation Photo Finish, and Record-Breaking Marathon, plus a free generator.
- [Developer & office sprint names](https://focusretro.com/tools/sprint-name-generator/office): Developer and office-life sprint names — 40+ self-aware ideas like Silent Merge Conflict, Operation Ship It, and Deprecated Feature Flag, plus a free generator.

## Icebreaker and check-in questions

493 icebreaker and check-in questions for meetings, teams, and retrospectives, sorted by situation. Every list is free and needs no account. Hub: https://focusretro.com/questions

- [Funny icebreaker questions](https://focusretro.com/questions/funny-icebreaker-questions): 93 funny icebreaker questions that get real laughs without putting anyone on the spot — silly quick ones, hot takes, hilarious ones for adults, and witty quick-fire rounds. Free, no sign-up.
- [Weird icebreaker questions](https://focusretro.com/questions/weird-icebreaker-questions): 65 weird icebreaker questions for groups that are bored of “what’s your favourite colour” — strange, odd, and random questions with no correct answer, including a set that stays safe for work.
- [Unhinged icebreaker questions](https://focusretro.com/questions/unhinged-icebreaker-questions): 78 unhinged icebreaker questions — absurd hypotheticals, unhinged questions for coworkers, and a question-of-the-day set that stays safe for work. Free, no sign-up.
- [This or that questions](https://focusretro.com/questions/this-or-that-questions): 65 this-or-that questions for meetings, teams, and groups — classics, work edition, impossible choices, and food debates. One-word answers, instant conversation.
- [Get-to-know-you questions](https://focusretro.com/questions/get-to-know-you-questions): 65 get-to-know-you questions for new teams, onboarding, and offsites — fun, silly, and slightly deeper, sorted by how much trust each one needs.
- [Icebreaker questions for work](https://focusretro.com/questions/icebreaker-questions-for-work): 65 icebreaker questions for work meetings, coworkers, and team building — including remote-friendly and seasonal options. Written to stay safe and take under five minutes.
- [Check-in questions](https://focusretro.com/questions/check-in-questions): 62 check-in questions for meetings and retrospectives — quick two-minute openers, funny options, and a question-of-the-day set for work. One question, one answer each.

## Languages

This document and the guides, templates, tools, and question lists above are
English only. The landing page itself is also published in German, Brazilian
Portuguese, and Russian; those pages carry the same product and pricing facts.

- [Deutsch (de)](https://focusretro.com/de): localized landing page
- [Português (BR) (pt-BR)](https://focusretro.com/pt-br): localized landing page
- [Русский (ru)](https://focusretro.com/ru): localized landing page

## Links

- [Homepage](https://focusretro.com): product overview, tour, pricing, and FAQ
- [Product tour video](https://focusretro.com/product-tour): the 38-second product tour, with a timestamped, scene-by-scene transcript of everything shown on screen
- [About](https://focusretro.com/about): who builds FocusRetro, why it was built, what was deliberately left out, and how to reach the team
- [Pricing](https://focusretro.com/pricing): plans, flat per-team billing, and what a per-seat tool costs at the same team size
- [Blog](https://focusretro.com/blog): guides on retrospectives, agile ceremonies, and team rituals
- [Templates](https://focusretro.com/templates): retrospective formats with examples and facilitation guides
- [Questions](https://focusretro.com/questions): icebreaker and check-in questions for meetings and retrospectives
- [App](https://app.focusretro.com): sign in or start a free retrospective