Retro Harbour

What Retro Harbour is

Retro Harbour is a web-based retrospective tool for agile and scrum teams, including remote teams. Participants can write cards privately, reveal and group them, vote, and record action items. Cards, votes, timers, and phase changes sync live through WebSocket. The site lists 10 retrospective templates, and teams can add, remove, or rename columns. Participants join through a shared link without creating accounts. Card text is masked while people write, and votes remain private until the round ends. Boards sit behind an unguessable URL and disappear when users are done. Teams can download a Markdown file containing cards, votes, and actions for use in wikis and issue trackers. The free plan costs nothing, with no limits on boards or participants and no paid tier. The access model has limits: the board URL acts as the access token, with no authentication layer behind it. There is no built-in long-term board history, no SSO or enterprise admin features, and Jira and Confluence integrations are not available yet.

Who it suits

Retro Harbour suits agile and scrum teams, including remote groups, that want to run a retrospective without requiring participant accounts. It may fit teams comfortable using a shared board URL and exporting records themselves.

Limits

The Free plan costs nothing and has no limits on boards or participants. Boards disappear when users are done, and the tool has no built-in long-term board history.

Getting started

1. Open https://retroharbour.com/ in a web browser.
2. Start a board using one of the listed retrospective templates.
3. Share the board link so participants can join without accounts.
4. Write cards, reveal and group them, vote, and capture action items.
5. Download the board as Markdown if you want to keep a record.

Verdict

Retro Harbour provides a focused browser-based workflow for retrospective sessions and Markdown exports. Its link-based access and lack of built-in history may not suit teams needing stronger access controls or retained board records.