Sprintlio

Overview

Every retro tool lets you create action items. Almost none of them care whether those action items actually get done.

Sprintlio is built around that gap. Teams identify issues, talk them through, agree on next steps, and then forget about everything until the next retro. The same problems come up again. Morale drops. People stop trusting the process.

The fix is automated reminders, card management detailed enough that action items are actually actionable, and a Jira integration that puts retro outcomes where real work gets tracked. If your retros produce good conversations but nothing changes afterward, that is exactly what Sprintlio was built for.

Founded in 2018 and based in Canada, Sprintlio has built a quiet but real customer base. Their homepage lists logos from American Airlines, Deloitte, BMW, Volkswagen, Lufthansa, and Liberty Mutual. Not a household name among retro tools, but clearly not a weekend project either.

The trade-off is that it's a smaller player. Less name recognition than Retrium, no AI like ScatterSpoke, none of the visual polish of Metro Retro. Whether that matters depends on how badly you need the accountability piece.

Key Features

Rich Card Management

Most retro tools give you sticky notes with a title and maybe a short description. Sprintlio gives you full cards: detailed descriptions, threaded discussions, attachments, labels, assignees. Closer to lightweight Jira tickets than Post-it notes.

Vague action items don't get done. "Fix the CI pipeline" sits there forever. "Investigate the 15-minute build time increase since the Node 20 migration, assigned to Sarah, target sprint 47" actually gets picked up. Sprintlio's card format pushes teams toward the second version by giving them room for the details that matter.

Action Item Reminders

Sprintlio sends automated reminders for outstanding action items. Simple concept. Surprisingly rare in practice.

Most retro tools create action items and then leave it to the team to remember they exist. Sprintlio emails assignees between sessions. Due date reminders come through both email and Slack. It's harder to let things slide when the system keeps pinging you about them.

Jira Integration

Action items auto-export to Jira as tickets with owners and due dates attached. They land right in your backlog alongside feature work and bug fixes.

This is the key differentiator. Action items that only exist inside a retro tool tend to disappear. Once they're Jira tickets, someone has to actively close or ignore them. Managers can see completion rates. The retro commitments become real work items instead of good intentions.

Slack Integration

Deeper than just notifications. You can manage meetings, cards, and action items directly in Slack. After each retro, automated recaps drop into your channel with discussion highlights, action items, and who owns what. Due date reminders show up there too.

If your team lives in Slack, retro outcomes stay visible without anyone logging into a separate tool. There's also a social pressure element. When the whole channel sees "Sarah agreed to investigate the build time issue by next Friday," that's hard to quietly ignore.

Team Health Checks

Sprintlio calls these "Team Radars and Health Checks." Members self-report health scores across different dimensions, and the tool tracks those scores sprint over sprint.

Not as deep as TeamRetro's health check system, but it adds a signal you won't get from cards and votes alone. Health scores trending down while action item completion looks fine? That tells you something else is going on that the retro format isn't surfacing.

Meeting Metrics and Analytics

Sprintlio tracks participation rates, action item completion, feedback volume, and discussion patterns over time. The dashboards cover meeting cadence and team sentiment, and you can download reports.

Nowhere near ScatterSpoke's cross-team analytics, but useful for a single team looking for patterns. Completion rate trending down? Worth a conversation. Participation dropped after you switched formats? Now you know.

Custom Meeting Formats

You can build your own retro formats beyond standard templates. Define columns, prompts, and meeting flow to match how your team actually runs things. Useful for teams that have outgrown the default "went well / didn't go well / action items" structure.

Dot Voting and Timers

Dot voting and upvotes for prioritization, timers for time-boxing. Nothing special here. Every retro tool has these. Sprintlio's implementation is fine.

Anonymous Feedback

Participants can submit cards anonymously during the collection phase. Standard feature, works as expected.

Pricing

Sprintlio's pricing model is unusual for the retro tool space: flat-rate per team, not per user.

• Free: Basic features with limited capacity. No credit card required.
• Standard: $25/month. Details on feature limits are sparse.
• Pro: $50/month. Unlimited users, teams, meetings, action items, history, analytics, integrations, recaps, reminders, storage, and team health. 30-day free trial included.

That flat-rate structure changes the math depending on your team size. A 5-person team pays $10/user/month on the Pro plan — more expensive than Parabol at $8/user or Metro Retro at $4/user. But a 20-person team pays $2.50/user/month, which undercuts almost everyone.

For comparison: Retrium starts at $39/month, Neatro at $25/month, EasyRetro at $38/month. Small teams pay more with Sprintlio. Larger groups save real money on the unlimited seats.

Ease of Use

Getting started is quick. Create a retro, invite participants, collect feedback. The interface is functional and stays out of your way.

The rich cards do add a learning curve compared to simpler sticky-note tools, but anyone used to Jira will feel at home. Jira sync and Slack integration need some initial setup, then they just run.

Where you notice the smaller scale is documentation and community. No library of tutorials or community templates like Miro or Retrium have. If you get stuck, it's Sprintlio's support team or nothing.

Who Is It Best For?

Sprintlio fits well for:

• Teams with a pattern of creating retro action items that never get completed
• Organizations on Jira that want retro outcomes feeding into their existing workflow
• Scrum Masters who want hard data on action item completion rates and team health trends
• Larger teams that benefit from flat-rate pricing over per-user models
• Teams that live in Slack and want retro recaps and reminders there

Not the right pick if you need guided facilitation (Retrium does that better), want AI-powered insights (ScatterSpoke), prefer a visually engaging board (Metro Retro), or you're a small team where per-user pricing works out cheaper.

The Verdict

Sprintlio cares about what happens after the meeting ends, which is more than most retro tools can say. The reminders, Jira sync, health checks, and meeting metrics close the loop between "we agreed to fix this" and someone actually fixing it. If that cycle is broken on your team, there's real value here.

The limitations are real, though. Only Jira and Slack for integrations. No GitHub, no Azure DevOps, no Linear, no Teams. Zero AI features. Smaller community, thinner docs. It's a specialized tool for a specific problem. Give it a trial if follow-through is your bottleneck. If your retro struggles are about something else, look elsewhere.