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EasyRetro vs Cortex

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EasyRetro compared with Cortex
DetailEasyRetroCortex
What it doesImprove your team with fun sprint retrospectives The Activity Monitor for the AI era
StageEstablished Not given
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inNot given US
Pricing modelfreemium one-time
PricingNot given $5 for the first 100 licenses, then $19. One-time purchase with no subscription. Every future update included for life.
Key features
  • Create private or public boards using 100+ pre-defined templates
  • Fully customizable boards with unlimited columns
  • Create teams and invite unlimited people to collaborate
  • Sort cards by order, date, or number of votes
  • Add comments and vote on cards
  • Drag and drop cards between columns and merge cards
  • Export boards to Confluence, PDF, CSV, PNG, Excel, and DOCX
  • Export action items as Jira issues
  • Run surveys on boards
  • Slack integration for board notifications
  • Groups processes into apps for clearer resource monitoring
  • 30 days of history for every metric and app
  • Smart alerts based on learned app behavior
  • Neural Engine power monitoring and estimated load
  • Local AI workload detection for Ollama, LM Studio and other models
  • Model Fit Advisor to check if models will fit on your Mac
  • Ask Cortex on-device AI assistant for Mac questions
  • Menu bar integration with multiple display styles
  • Daily digest notifications of Mac activity summary
  • Dev server monitoring and project organization
What makes it different
  • Most used retrospective tool in the world according to Alexa.com
  • Over 100 pre-defined templates for flexible retrospective formats
  • Fully customizable boards with no restrictions on configuration
  • Integrations with Slack, Jira, Confluence, and Trello
  • Only monitor showing Neural Engine metrics and local AI model visibility
  • Complete process-to-app grouping for easier identification of resource consumers
  • 30 days of history instead of forgetting data immediately
  • All data stays completely local with no accounts or analytics
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)64 no change since last checkNot checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)250
Citation Flow (Majestic)4318
Referring domains (Majestic)138317

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