Retro Rabbit vs Geekbot: a Slack retrospective bot or a retro board?

Geekbot and Retro Rabbit both let a team run retros without everyone in a room at the same time, but they work in different ways. Geekbot is a chat bot for async standups, polls and surveys. A Geekbot retrospective is a question template: the bot asks each person four questions in chat, then posts the answers to a channel as a report.

Retro Rabbit is a shared retro board. The team adds notes throughout the sprint, CarrotIQ groups related notes and summarises them, the team votes, and the action items they agree on show up again at the next retro. Slack is optional: you can add a note with /retro, and the retro itself happens on the board.

If you want the team's notes in one place, grouped and voted on, with last sprint's action items in view, Retro Rabbit is built for that.

Retro Rabbit vs Geekbot at a glance

• A shared board vs answers in a channel. In Geekbot, each person answers the bot and the answers are posted as a report. In Retro Rabbit, everyone's notes land on one board where the team groups them, votes and decides what to do.
• Notes when things happen. Geekbot's retro template asks on a schedule (by default on various days across two weeks, at 16:30 local time). Retro Rabbit's board is open all sprint.
• Action items that come back. Every Retro Rabbit board has Current Retro, Previous Retro and Old/Unresolved tabs.
• CarrotIQ. It groups a retro's related notes, names each group, summarises the retro and suggests action items weighted by votes.
• Pricing units. Geekbot charges per active participant. Retro Rabbit charges per team, with unlimited users.

Feature comparison

Pricing: Geekbot vs Retro Rabbit

Geekbot's plans, as listed on its pricing page when we checked:

Geekbot charges once per person per month, "not per standup", and only for active participants.

Retro Rabbit's plans:

Retro Rabbit's price is one number per team. Everyone on the team joins at no extra cost, and so can a stakeholder or designer who wants to follow along. Starter includes the retro board itself: notes all sprint, voting, the action-item tabs and export. Pro AI adds CarrotIQ's grouping, summaries and suggested action items. You can try it for 14 days, CarrotIQ included, with no credit card.

Check Geekbot's current prices on its pricing page and ours on our pricing page.

AI features: CarrotIQ and Geekbot AI

CarrotIQ is on Retro Rabbit Pro AI and Enterprise, and included in the 14-day trial:

• Automatic grouping. CarrotIQ groups related notes on the board and names each group. You can still drag notes between groups or rename a group.
• Retro summaries. A short summary for each column plus an overall summary of the sprint, saved in the Team Room's sprint list.
• Suggested action items. "CarrotIQ Suggest" proposes an action item from the retro's notes, weighted by votes, and skips actions you've already created.

Geekbot AI, for comparison, is on the Basic plan: you ask it questions about your team's activity, blockers and trends. Geekbot also says themes in open-ended answers surface automatically.

How a sprint works in Retro Rabbit

1. Notes go in as things happen. The board is open from the first day of the sprint. People add a note on the board, from Quick Notes on the dashboard, or by typing /retro and the note in Slack. Anyone who wants a nudge can turn on Slack reminders to add notes, on weekdays at a time they pick.
2. CarrotIQ groups the notes. On Pro AI and during the trial, related notes are grouped and each group is named. Drag notes to adjust.
3. The team votes. One vote per note, or dot voting with a maximum per person, set per Team Room. Meet live with the timer running; because notes went in all sprint, the meeting can be short.
4. Action items get owners. CarrotIQ Suggest proposes actions weighted by votes; the team agrees one or two and gives each an owner. CarrotIQ writes a summary for each column and one for the sprint.
5. They come back next time. The Previous Retro tab shows what the team agreed last sprint, and Old/Unresolved shows anything older that's still open.

Where Retro Rabbit is better

• One shared board. Everyone's notes are in one place. The team groups related notes, votes and talks through the top items, with a live timer.
• Notes when things happen. The board is open all sprint, so people write a note when something happens rather than when a scheduled question arrives.
• CarrotIQ on the retro's notes. Automatic grouping, a summary per column and for the sprint, and suggested action items weighted by the team's votes.
• Action items that come back. Every board shows this retro's action items, the previous retro's and older unresolved ones, each with an owner. In Slack workspaces you can send the owner a reminder.
• A live board when you meet. Real-time board with who's connected, drag-and-drop grouping, a timer from 30 seconds to an hour, and one-vote or dot voting.
• Notes without your name. Each person can choose to post notes without their name shown.
• Five ready formats. Went well / Didn't go well / Learned / Puzzling, Start / Stop / Continue, Sailboat, Mad / Sad / Glad and 4Ls, with editable column names.
• One price per team. A Team Room costs the same whether five or fifteen people use it.
• Slack when you want it. /retro adds a note, /retro start starts the review, and each Slack channel can be its own Team Room.
• Exports. Each retro's notes as CSV or XLSX, and the board as a PDF.

Switching from Geekbot to Retro Rabbit

1. Save your retro history. On Basic, export your answers as CSV. Free keeps up to 3 months of reporting history, so copy anything you need soon.
2. Keep Geekbot for standups if you like it. You can move only your retros.
3. Create one Team Room per team. If you use Slack, connect each team's channel; each channel becomes a Team Room.
4. Keep your questions. Geekbot's four retro questions match Retro Rabbit's Went well / Didn't go well / Learned / Puzzling format. See the What went well template.
5. Replace the schedule with reminders. Ask everyone to turn on Slack reminders to add notes, at a time that suits them.
6. Bring over open action items. Re-create unfinished items with owners in your first retro. From then on they appear in the Previous Retro and Old/Unresolved tabs.
7. Start the trial at the start of a sprint. Fourteen days covers one two-week sprint of notes and one retro. Invite the team with the join link on day one.
8. Run the first review. Let notes build up, then let CarrotIQ group them, vote, and agree on one or two action items.

Comparing other setups? See Retro Rabbit vs Confluence and Jira or the best retrospective tools in 2026.

The bottom line

Geekbot collects retro answers in chat. Retro Rabbit puts the whole sprint on one shared board: notes added as things happen, CarrotIQ grouping and summaries, voting, and action items that come back every retro, at one price per team with unlimited users. See plans and start a 14-day trial (no credit card needed).