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Create & Share
Pick a template, name your board, and share the unique link. Your team joins instantly, no accounts needed.
Retro Harbour
Run better retros. Together, in real-time.
The simplest way to run a retrospective. Create a board, share the link, and collaborate live with your team. No accounts, no paywall, no friction.
"At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly." - Agile Manifesto, Principle 12
100% free. No sign-up required.
No setup. No onboarding. Just a structured flow that guides your team from blank board to action items.
How it works
From blank board to action items in minutes.
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Write Cards
Everyone writes their thoughts privately. Cards appear blurred to others until the facilitator reveals them.
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Group & Discuss
Drag cards together to merge related topics. Have focused conversations around grouped themes.
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Vote & Act
Vote on what matters most. Cards sort by priority automatically. A dedicated Actions column appears for capturing action items.
Engineered for speed and clarity.
Sophisticated tools built for the way modern software teams actually work.
Real-time sync
Synchronous protocol engaged. All team inputs rendered immediately across connected nodes. Zero latency tolerance.
Persistent Memory
Access historical retrospectives with intelligent cloud storage. Query past insights to optimize future iterations.
Secure Harbors
Encrypted containment fields for sensitive discussions. We treat your team's feedback with extreme privacy.
The ceremony
Every phase, beautifully handled.
Setup
Create a board in seconds
Choose a format, name the retro, and send one link. No accounts, invites, permissions, or onboarding flows are required before the team can join.
Phase 1
Write freely, think privately
Your team writes cards simultaneously. Each card is masked from other participants: they see that you're writing, but not what. This encourages honest, unbiased feedback without groupthink.
Phase 2
Reveal, group, and find patterns
All cards are revealed at once. Drag related cards onto each other to merge them into themes. The board updates in real-time for everyone, so you can collaborate on grouping as a team.
Phase 3
Vote on what matters
Each team member gets a set number of votes. Click cards to vote. Your votes are private until the round ends. Multi-vote and self-vote rules are configurable.
Phase 4
Capture actions, export results
Cards are sorted by vote count so the team focuses on what matters. Add action items collaboratively in real-time, then export the entire board as a clean Markdown file ready for your wiki or issue tracker.
Templates ready for launch.
10 retro formats, ready to go. Every template is fully customisable: add, remove, or rename columns.
Features
Everything your retro needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Share a link, that's it
No sign-up, no invites, no permissions. Anyone with the link joins instantly. Your team is collaborating in seconds.
Real-time everything
Cards, votes, timers, participants: every change syncs live via WebSocket. Everyone always sees the same board.
Anonymous by design
Card text is masked during writing. Votes are private. This encourages honest, unfiltered feedback from everyone.
Export to Markdown
One click downloads your entire retro: participants, cards, votes, and actions as a clean .md file for your wiki.
Built-in timer
Keep your retro on pace. The facilitator sets timers for writing and voting. Everyone sees the countdown live.
Free. Actually free.
No trial. No "upgrade to unlock." No credit card. Retro Harbour is free to use with no limits.
Your next retro starts here.
Create a board in 10 seconds. Share the link. Run a better retrospective.