What is QuickRetro?
QuickRetro is a sprint retrospective meeting application specifically designed for remote agile teams. It provides a free, open-source, and self-hosted platform that eliminates the need for signups or logins, allowing teams to create boards and invite users without limitations. The tool features a mobile-friendly interface, customizable columns, and anonymous messaging to facilitate open and honest feedback during retrospectives.
Additional functionalities include message masking or blurring to avoid revealing other participants' inputs, PDF printing for saving messages, a countdown timer with a one-hour limit, and board locking to control message additions or updates. It also supports comments for direct discussion on cards, dark theme options, focused view highlighting, smart CAPTCHA integration with Cloudflare Turnstile, online presence display, and auto-delete data with configurable retention durations, all released under the AGPL-3.0 license.
Features
- No Signups: No need to signup or login to use the tool
- No Board Limits: Create boards or invite users without any restrictions
- Mobile Friendly UI: Easily participate from mobile devices
- Customize Columns: Choose up to 5 columns with any name in any order
- Mask/Blur Messages: Avoid revealing messages of other participants
- Anonymous Messages: Post messages without revealing your name
- Print as PDF: Print to save messages as PDF format
- Countdown Timer: Stopwatch with a maximum 1-hour limit
- Board Lock: Lock to stop addition or updation of messages
- Comments: Add comments to discuss ideas directly on each card
- Dark Theme: Easily switch to use a Dark theme
- Focussed View: Highlight cards just for a User at a time
- Smart CAPTCHA Integration: Built-in integration with Cloudflare Turnstile
- Online Presence Display: See participants present in the meeting
- Auto-Delete Data: Auto-delete data with configurable retention duration
Use Cases
- Conducting sprint retrospectives for remote agile teams
- Facilitating anonymous feedback sessions in team meetings
- Managing collaborative discussions with customizable boards
- Saving meeting outcomes as PDF documents for records
- Using countdown timers to keep meetings on track
- Enhancing meeting security with smart CAPTCHA integration
- Displaying online presence to track participant engagement
- Automating data deletion for privacy and compliance
