Quick Verdict
These tools want different things. Kollabe is trying to be the one platform your team opens for every agile ceremony. EasyRetro just wants to be a really good retro board.
If your team runs planning poker and standups alongside retros, Kollabe replaces multiple subscriptions with one. If all you need is a retro board with a huge template library and a decade of reliability behind it, EasyRetro does that job well. For most teams doing more than just retros, Kollabe is the stronger pick.
Feature Comparison
The basics are covered on both sides: anonymous feedback, voting, action items, real-time collaboration. Where they split is scope and smarts.
Kollabe's AI groups related feedback cards automatically and generates summaries at the end of each session. If you've ever spent 15 minutes dragging sticky notes around trying to cluster 60 cards from a 20-person team, you'll appreciate this immediately. On top of retros, Kollabe includes planning poker (with async support), daily standups, and icebreaker activities. The template library is massive too: over 1,000 templates plus an AI generator for custom ones.
EasyRetro goes deep instead of wide. It does retros and only retros. Over 200 pre-built formats: Start/Stop/Continue, Hot Air Balloon, Superhero Retrospective, you name it. There's also a custom template builder for teams with specific workflows they want to codify.
EasyRetro added AI board summaries in early 2024, but there's no AI grouping or clustering. For a 20-person team generating 100+ cards every sprint, the grouping phase is where the real time sink lives — and EasyRetro leaves that entirely on the facilitator. Kollabe automates it.
The gap? EasyRetro has an AI template generator that can spin up custom formats. But you still drag 60+ cards around manually to find themes. For a team of 5 doing a quick retro, that's fine. For larger teams, that grouping phase is where energy dies.
Pricing Comparison
Both tools use flat-rate pricing instead of per-user fees, but the structures play out differently.
Kollabe
Flat per team — same price for 5 or 25 users
- Retros, poker, and standups included
- AI grouping and summaries
- Unlimited participants and history
- Free tier: 10 participants, 7-day history
EasyRetro
Team plan — flat rate, not per-user
- 5 boards/month, 1 team
- Jira, Confluence, Slack integrations
- Analytics and multi-format export
- Free tier: 1 public board/month
EasyRetro actually costs more than Kollabe's $29/month Premium — $38/month for retros alone. And once you need admin controls across multiple teams, you're paying $60/month. EasyRetro's Business plan runs $60/month for 15 boards and 3 teams. Enterprise hits $90/month for 30 boards, 6 teams, and SAML SSO.
For a team of 10+ running weekly retros, Kollabe's flat rate is usually cheaper once you account for the poker and standup tools you'd otherwise be paying for separately.
Ease of Use
EasyRetro is simpler. Full stop. The interface is stripped down on purpose: join a board, add cards, vote, discuss. No account required for participants. Someone can go from clicking a link to posting their first card in about 10 seconds. A decade of iteration has polished away every rough edge.
Kollabe's interface is clean and modern but covers more ground since it handles poker, retros, and standups. New users might take a session to find everything, but the core retro flow is just as straightforward. The AI actually makes facilitation easier by handling the grouping and summary steps that would otherwise fall on the facilitator.
Both support timers, facilitator controls, and anonymous feedback. Both run in the browser with nothing to install.
Integrations
EasyRetro has been in the Atlassian ecosystem for years. Jira, Confluence, and Trello integrations are battle-tested. Slack notifications work too.
Kollabe covers more ground on the dev tools side: Jira, GitHub, Linear, Confluence, and Azure DevOps. If your team tracks work in GitHub Issues or Linear, EasyRetro doesn't connect there. The Azure DevOps integration also matters for Microsoft-shop enterprise teams that EasyRetro doesn't serve well.
One gap for Kollabe: no Slack integration. EasyRetro has Slack notifications, Kollabe doesn't. If your team needs retro reminders or summaries posted to a Slack channel, that's a point for EasyRetro.
AI and Automation
Kollabe wins this category.
Its AI groups related cards during the retro, identifies themes, and generates a summary with suggested action items. If you've ever facilitated a retro with 20+ people, you know the grouping phase is where energy dies. Kollabe automates that entirely.
EasyRetro is no longer AI-free. It shipped AI board summaries in January 2024, and its AI template generator can create custom retro formats from a prompt. Those are useful additions.
The hard part of facilitating a retro was never writing the summary. It's staring at 80 sticky notes and figuring out which 12 of them are saying the same thing in different words. Kollabe handles that grouping step automatically using semantic similarity — saving real minutes every session, especially with larger teams.
Who Should Choose Which?
Choose Kollabe if…
- Your team runs retros, planning poker, and standups — one subscription replaces three
- You want AI to handle card grouping and summary generation during facilitation
- Your team uses GitHub, Linear, or Azure DevOps instead of (or alongside) Jira
- You're growing and want flat pricing that doesn't penalize adding team members
- Paying $29/month for retros, poker, and standups beats $25-60/month for retros alone
Choose EasyRetro if…
- Your team only runs retros and already has separate poker and standup tools
- You want 200+ templates and a custom template builder to keep formats fresh
- You're deep in the Atlassian ecosystem (Jira, Confluence, Trello) with Slack notifications
- You value a decade-long track record with hundreds of thousands of users
Final Recommendation
For most agile teams in 2026, Kollabe gives you more for your money. It handles retros, poker, and standups in one place with AI doing the heavy lifting during facilitation. That eliminates tool sprawl and keeps costs flat as your team grows.
EasyRetro is still a solid retro tool. But at $38/month for retros alone — $9 more than Kollabe's $29/month for retros, poker, standups, and AI — the math is hard to justify unless retros are literally the only ceremony your team runs.
If that's the case, EasyRetro works great. For everyone else, go with Kollabe.