Neatro

Overview

Neatro is the kind of tool you stumble across and wonder why nobody talks about it. Three founders in Quebec built it with a narrow focus: make retros accessible and actually worth the team's time.

It does not try to be everything. No planning poker. No standups. No cross-team dashboards. Neatro does retrospectives, team health radars, and icebreakers. That is the whole product.

The thing that makes it interesting is not any single feature but the accumulation of small, smart decisions. No-account joining for participants eliminates signup friction. The 4-step guided workflow keeps sessions moving without needing an experienced facilitator. A ROTI survey at the end of each retro gives you a feedback loop on the retro itself. And the free tier is real, not a 14-day trial disguised as generosity. A team of ten can use it indefinitely.

Key Features

Guided 4-Step Retro Workflow

Every Neatro retro follows the same structure: Collect, Group, Vote, Action Plan. Each step has its own timer. The facilitator controls the pace, and participants always know what phase they are in and what happens next.

This is not as deep as Retrium's guided facilitation, which includes per-format coaching prompts. But it is more structured than a blank board, and it works well for teams that need guardrails without hand-holding. First-time facilitators can run a productive session without much preparation.

70+ Retrospective Templates

Neatro ships around 30 built-in templates covering the standards: Start/Stop/Continue, Mad/Sad/Glad, 4Ls, Sailboat, plus creative formats like Zombie Apocalypse and The Horror Retrospective Show. On top of that, the Neatroverse community gallery adds dozens more user-contributed templates that anyone can publish or use.

Running the same format every sprint kills engagement. Having this many options means you can rotate without much effort, and each template includes a short explanation of when it works best. Helpful if you want to experiment but do not know where to start.

Metro Retro has more (115+ hand-illustrated templates). Retrium has fewer but more curated ones with coaching prompts built in. Neatro sits somewhere in between.

No-Account Joining

Participants join a Neatro session with just a link. No signup form, no email verification, no password. The facilitator manages the account. Everyone else clicks and they are in.

Sounds minor. It is not. If you have ever tried to get a 10-person team to all create accounts on a new tool five minutes before your retro, you know why this matters. It cuts the gap between "let's try this" and "everyone is participating" down to almost nothing.

Async Retrospectives

A Neatro retro can run asynchronously. Team members add comments to the board throughout the sprint, on their own schedule, before the live discussion happens. Practical for distributed teams spanning time zones where getting everyone in a room at the same time is a recurring headache.

This is not as polished as Retrium's async mode, which has explicit brainstorm-then-discuss phasing. Neatro's approach is simpler: the board is just open, and people contribute when they can. For many teams, that is enough.

Team Health Radars

Health radars track sentiment across dimensions you define: code quality, collaboration, delivery speed, morale. You run one periodically, and Neatro plots the trends over time.

A single retro is a snapshot. Health radars over several months tell you whether your improvement efforts are actually working or just generating action items that nobody follows through on. They pair with the analytics dashboard, which tracks recurring themes and completion rates across retros.

Icebreakers and ROTI

The built-in Question Game has 200+ icebreaker questions to open retros with. Small thing, but a quick icebreaker at the start of a session makes a noticeable difference in how openly people participate. It takes the edge off.

At the other end of the session, the ROTI (Return on Time Invested) survey lets participants anonymously rate how worthwhile the retro was. This feedback loop on the retro itself is something most tools skip entirely. If your ROTI scores are declining, that tells you to shake up the format or facilitation style before people mentally check out.

Anonymous Input

One-click toggle before launching the retro makes all comments anonymous by default. Votes and ROTI responses are anonymous too. Every retro tool claims anonymity support at this point, but Neatro's implementation is clean. One button, everything anonymous, no ambiguity about what is or is not hidden.

Pricing

Per-team pricing, not per-user. Worth understanding before you compare sticker prices.

• Free: 1 team, up to 10 members, unlimited retros and radars, all templates. History capped at 30 days. No integrations or exports.
• Premium: $29/team/month ($23/team/month billed annually). Unlimited members, unlimited history, all integrations and exports, priority support. Volume discounts for multiple teams.
• Pro: Custom pricing. Adds SAML SSO (Azure, Okta, custom providers) and advanced security features.
• Enterprise: Custom pricing. Dedicated account manager, training, security audits.

The free tier is real. A team of ten can run unlimited retros with all templates at no cost. The 30-day history cap and lack of exports are what push you toward Premium, but small teams can go a long time without hitting those limits.

At ~$29/month per team, Premium sits below Retrium at $39/team/month and below ScatterSpoke's Starter at $30/month. A 15-person team pays $29 total, not $29 per head. Compare that to Miro or MURAL where per-user pricing means the same team costs $120+ per month.

14-day Premium trial available, no credit card required.

Integrations

Neatro integrates with Jira Cloud, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Asana, Monday.com, and iceScrum. All of these are export-only — you push action items out to your project management tool, but there is no import or two-way sync.

No Slack integration. No Microsoft Teams. No Confluence. Users have been asking for Slack for a while, and it still has not shipped. If your team depends on getting retro notifications or summaries in Slack, that is a real gap.

The integration list is thin compared to what Retrium or ScatterSpoke offer. But for teams that mainly want to get action items into Jira and move on, it covers the core use case.

Note: integrations are not available on the free plan.

Ease of Use

One of the easiest retro tools to get running. The 4-step workflow is self-explanatory, and no-account joining means onboarding takes less time than making coffee.

The template picker gives enough context about each format that you can make an informed choice without reading documentation. Multi-language support covers English and French, which is useful for bilingual Canadian teams but not much help elsewhere.

Where Neatro shows its size is integration setup. The configuration is not as polished as what more established tools offer. Three people are building this, bootstrapped in Quebec, and features ship at a pace that reflects that. If something is missing today, it might still be missing next quarter.

Who Is It Best For?

Neatro fits well for:

• Small agile teams (under 10 people) who want a free, capable retro tool
• Teams that want template variety to keep retros from going stale
• Facilitators who hate onboarding friction — no-account joining is a real differentiator
• Distributed teams that need async contribution support
• Teams moving from informal retros to a dedicated tool for the first time

Less suited for teams that need AI-powered insights (ScatterSpoke is built for that), organizations wanting deep guided facilitation (Retrium excels there), teams that need broad integrations beyond action item export, or enterprises requiring SOC 2 certification.

The Verdict

Neatro does not have the name recognition of Retrium or the feature depth of Parabol. It is a small product from a small team, and it looks like one.

But the retro experience itself is solid. The guided workflow keeps sessions on track. The ROTI survey closes a feedback loop that most tools ignore. And the free tier is generous enough that a small team can use it for months before spending anything.

No AI means you are grouping cards and writing summaries yourself. Integrations are one-directional. The community around it is tiny. For a team of six running biweekly retros, those gaps do not matter day to day. You pick a template, run the four steps, push your action items to Jira, and get back to work. Neatro does that loop well.