Agilo Release Notes

📊 Planning Poker history and room analytics

New

• Review recorded voting rounds — open a room's history to see task estimates, participants' choices, changed votes, and withdrawn votes.
• See how your team estimates — explore totals for estimated tasks, rounds, and votes, along with the most popular estimate and the distribution of all choices.
• Explore each participant's activity — see how often they voted, which estimates they chose, and how often they changed or withdrew a vote.
• Compare tasks and points on one chart — view estimation activity over time without losing the connection between the number of tasks and their total points.

Improved

• Choose the period you need — use a calendar range or the 7, 30, 90, and 200-day shortcuts. The chart starts with the last 30 days and hides empty days by default.
• Explore longer periods — zoom and pan the chart, use the + and − controls, or show the whole selected period.
• Switch between history and analytics more easily — both tools are grouped together in the room header.

History includes activity recorded by the updated client. Earlier rounds that were never saved cannot be restored; available older votes are shown as a marked snapshot.

🎯 Guest access to meetings and a playful retro warm-up

New

• Join meetings without signing up — open a public Planning Poker or retrospective link and join as a guest. Guest access stays in this browser.
• Prepare while the team gathers — new retrospectives show a waiting panel where you can add feedback before the facilitator starts the meeting.
• Try card target practice — hit flying playing cards with a soft “pew” sound. The cards get faster as your score grows, up to 100 hits per person.
• Compare your scores — open the shared leaderboard and see the top three players highlighted with medals.
• Start when everyone is ready — facilitators can switch the game off or start the retrospective with the central start button.

Improved

• Keep your board in view — columns adjust to the waiting panel’s height, including when the leaderboard is open.

🌍 9 new languages — 11 in total

New

• Use Agilo in your preferred language — German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Dutch, Italian, and Turkish join English and Ukrainian. Choose your language in the language menu.
• Explore resources in your language — read translated guides and release notes, and choose from translated retrospective templates to prepare your next meeting.

✨ Retrospective templates, easier meeting setup, and clearer follow-up

New

• Find a format for your next retrospective — explore the new template library for sprint reflection, team health, problem solving, and recognition. Search by topic, filter by anonymity, voting, or action items, and sort by recommendations, usage, or name.
• Preview a template before you start — see its board, columns, meeting settings, suggested duration, team size, and how many people have used it. Detailed template pages can also include example cards, facilitation steps, tips, answers to common questions, and a sample follow-up experiment.
• Make the board your own before inviting the team — start with a ready-made template or a blank format, add and reorder columns, edit their names, prompts, and colors, and choose the background and meeting settings in the new retrospective creator.
• Reuse a format from a recent retrospective — select a previous meeting from the recent tab to start with its column structure and settings, with fresh, empty cards and action items.
• Build a shared understanding of story points — use the new guide's examples to compare work, choose reference stories, discuss uncertainty, and recognize when an item needs splitting.
• Create and refine templates with AI — for super administrators — describe the meeting you need in the template editor to draft English and Ukrainian content, columns, and facilitation guidance. Refine the draft in chat, undo the latest AI changes, and review it before saving; AI assistance requires configuration.

Improved

• Create meetings without leaving your workspace — open retrospective or Planning Poker setup in a modal from the dashboard and meeting lists, choose the team, and start the session.
• Find the action items that need attention — search the team action board and combine filters for assignees, statuses, and priorities. Group actions by status, priority, or retrospective, and update the assignee, priority, or status directly on an action card.
• Review follow-up during a retrospective — open the team's action board from the retrospective's meeting menu, then return to the current discussion. The menu also makes it easier to open recent retrospectives or create the next one.
• Set up participation more clearly — updated retrospective settings bring voting, anonymity, comments, reactions, and action items together, with clearer controls for the vote limit per person across the board or per column.
• Discover useful resources from the home page — browse recommended guides and retrospective templates and continue straight to the format or advice you need.
• Manage template content in one place — for super administrators — edit both languages, board appearance, and facilitation content with a live board preview; save drafts, preview saved unpublished templates, and control publication from the template editor.

Fixed

• Understand sign-in and registration errors — email, password, and Google authentication failures now show consistent English or Ukrainian messages that explain what went wrong.

🎨 More flexible estimates and personalized retrospectives

✨ New

• Choose an estimation system that fits your team — use classic or full Fibonacci, T-shirt sizes, modified Fibonacci, powers of two, hours, ideal days, half-points, epic sizing, or risk levels when creating a Planning Poker room.
• Personalize the retrospective for everyone — select from gradient and image backgrounds or upload your own image to give the board the right atmosphere for the meeting.

📚 Practical guides for better team meetings

✨ New

• Explore the new Guides library — find practical resources for preparing, facilitating, and following up on your team meetings.
• Run Planning Poker step by step — prepare the backlog, protect independent voting, discuss meaningful estimate differences, and leave each round with a team-owned decision.
• Turn sprint retrospectives into action — use a practical agenda to collect observations, choose the right discussion, and finish with one or two owned improvements.

📱 Smoother meetings and navigation on mobile

🛠️ Improved

• Run Planning Poker comfortably from your phone — see participants around a mobile-friendly table, scroll through voting cards, and keep the main round controls within easy reach.
• Choose tasks without losing your place — open the issue list in a focused panel, select the next task, and return directly to the table.
• Find meeting controls in one clear menu — participants, invitations, sound, viewer mode, settings, and profile actions are now easier to reach in Planning Poker and Retrospectives.
• Move around Agilo more easily on smaller screens — the dashboard, meeting lists, headers, and navigation have a cleaner, more consistent mobile layout.

🐞 Fixed

• Recover more easily from missing or unavailable pages — clear, localized guidance now helps you return home or continue to Planning Poker or Retrospective.
• Use cards and controls without cramped layouts — key actions now fit smaller screens more reliably and remain easier to tap and read.

👥 Bring your team together and manage meetings more smoothly

✨ New

• Invite teammates with a link — choose their role, generate a secure invitation, and share it wherever your team communicates. New members can sign in or create an account before joining the team.

🛠️ Improved

• Adjust room settings without an extra save step — changes are applied as you make them, with clearer validation and feedback while updates are in progress.
• Start with more guidance on an empty Action Board — see how retrospectives turn team input into trackable action items, then create a retrospective or try the demo.

🃏 Create your own Poker cards and switch rooms without leaving the meeting

🛠️ Improved

• Create your own Planning Poker task cards — add and edit tasks directly in the room instead of relying only on imported issues.
• Arrange action items your way — drag cards within a status or between columns, and Agilo keeps their new order for the team.
• Open action items faster — select anywhere on a card to view its details, with keyboard access and clearer hover feedback.
• Move confidently between columns — highlighted drop zones make it easier to see where an action item will land.
• Switch between favorite Planning Poker rooms from the header — add rooms to favorites, then move between them without returning to the dashboard. The menu also shows each room’s date, participant count, and issue count.

📱 Fixed

• A cleaner mobile Action Board — drag-and-drop is disabled on small screens to prevent accidental moves while scrolling or opening cards.

🎬 Try Agilo before your next team meeting

✨ New

• Try the Planning Poker demo — join a ready-made room, estimate backlog items with cards, and experience the complete voting flow.
• Explore the Retrospective demo — open a board filled with cards, votes, comments, reactions, and action items to see how a real retrospective comes together.

No blank rooms or setup screens — choose a demo and start exploring right away.

🧩 More context and structure in retrospectives

✨ New

• Group related cards to bring similar ideas together and organize discussion outcomes.
• Use red threads to visualize connections between retrospective cards.

🛠 Fixed

• Action items created from grouped cards now retain the context of the original card correctly.

🚀 Improved action items in retrospectives.

✨ New

• Link retrospective cards to action items, keeping discussion context connected to the work that follows.

⚡ Improved

• Assign owners, set priorities, and update action item statuses directly in your retrospective.
• Action items are sorted more clearly, helping your team focus on what needs attention first.

🚀 A clearer path to your first team session.

✨ New

• New workspace guidance helps you start your first Planning Poker session or Retrospective, invite your team, and understand the next steps.

⚡ Improved

• Planning Poker now clearly indicates when you need to select a Jira task before voting can begin.

🎉 A GIF for every reaction and a new way to discover Agilo.

✨ New

• Retrospectives now feature trending GIFs from GIPHY, so fresh reactions are always close at hand.
• New categories help you quickly find the right GIF for saying thanks, celebrating, showing support, sharing a work moment, or simply making the team laugh.
• New Planning Poker and Retrospective pages showcase Agilo through interactive product examples.
• The new integrations catalog explains how Agilo connects with other tools, including the Jira integration.
• The new About Us page shares the story behind Agilo, its key milestones, and the person who founded the product.

⚡ Improved

• GIF search now runs on GIPHY with clear navigation between trending content and categories.
• GIF categories are easy to scan in two columns, with a one-click way back to the complete category list.
• Interactive Planning Poker and Retrospective previews are now easier to explore on mobile screens.

🔊 Clearer card reveal with countdown sounds.

✨ New

• Facilitators can now start a reveal countdown with sound before showing the cards, giving everyone a clear moment to finish voting.
• When fun features are enabled, the reveal countdown uses the playful reveal sound and adds a final sound when estimates differ.

⚡ Improved

• The reveal button now shows a live countdown while cards are about to open, so teams can see exactly when results will appear.
• Audio controls now respect room permissions and only appear for users who can manage the planning poker room.

🧭 Faster task review and smoother timers.

✨ New

• You can now move to the previous or next task directly inside the task modal, making planning poker review faster without closing the details view.

⚡ Improved

• Meeting timers are now more consistent across retrospectives and planning poker rooms.
• Timer sounds are better synchronized with the server clock, reducing early or repeated countdown and finish sounds.

⏱️ More flexible timer and column controls for retrospectives.

✨ New

• You can now start a retrospective timer with a custom duration or quick presets for 1, 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes.
• You can add more minutes while a timer is running, making it easier to extend a discussion without starting over.
• You can pause and resume the timer when the team takes a break or switches between parts of the conversation.
• You can delete the timer directly from the control menu when it is no longer needed.
• You can now resize columns on the retro board, making long cards easier to review and helping the board fit the team’s discussion format.

🚀 Action items from retrospectives, Action Board, rich text editing, mentions, and smoother team retro workflows.

✨ New

• You can now create action items from retrospective cards and keep follow-up work connected to the original discussion.
• A dedicated Action Board lets you manage action items in columns and move them as work progresses.
• Action items now support comments and emoji reactions, so teams can discuss follow-up work without losing context.
• Retro cards and comments now support rich text formatting, making longer notes easier to read and structure.
• You can add links directly inside retro cards and comments.
• You can mention team members in retro cards, making it easier to call attention to a specific person or topic.
• The retro header now shows recent team retrospective sessions, so it is faster to return to previous retros.
• Admins can now view and manage teams from a dedicated admin page with filters and pagination.

⚡ Improved

• Retro cards are easier to edit, with clearer hover states and better button behavior.
• Role-based controls for retro cards and action items are more precise, so users only see the actions they are allowed to perform.
• Team members can get their Google avatars imported automatically, making users easier to recognize across the workspace.

Agilo v1.1 makes collaboration much more team-centered.
You can now work with private teams, shared meetings, and better member management in one place.

This release is not just about adding features. It is about making everyday teamwork smoother and more structured.

🚀 What’s new in v1.1

Teams

The biggest feature in this release.

• Create private teams
• Invite team members by email
• Manage member roles
• Update team name and logo
• Leave or delete a team when needed

Team meetings

Planning Poker and Retrospectives can now live inside a team.

• Meetings can be linked to teams
• Existing meetings can be moved into a team
• Role-based permissions control who can create and manage meetings

Retrospectives

More context and more visual collaboration.

• Add images to retrospective cards
• Add images to card comments as well
• When a retrospective is created inside a team, team members are added automatically
• Giving kudos to team members in team retros is now much easier

Dashboard and navigation

Getting back to the right meeting is faster.

• A favorites section is now available on the dashboard
• Recent meetings view has been improved
• The in-app release notes menu has been updated

🧱 Why it matters

Agilo v1.1 moves the product from standalone meetings toward a real team workspace.
Now teams can:

• collaborate in one shared space,
• manage access and responsibilities,
• run retros and Planning Poker sessions in a team context,
• return to important meetings faster.

This is an important step toward more structured and scalable teamwork in Agilo.

Agilo has grown from Planning Poker into a full-featured platform for team collaboration.

This release is the first major milestone, bringing key agile tools together in one place.

Version 1.0 is the foundation.

From this moment on, Agilo becomes a cohesive product built for real teams.

🚀 What’s new in v1.0

Planning Poker

Fast and transparent task estimation for teams.

• Live voting
• Simple and intuitive UX
• Integration with Jira
• Custom cards
• Role management

Retrospectives

Retrospectives that actually help teams improve.

• Card creation
• Card comments
• Anonymous boards
• Voting
• Reactions
• GIFs

⚡ Real-time collaboration

Collaboration without page reloads.

• Instant updates
• Participant reactions and activity
• A true sense of live teamwork

🌗 Modern UI

An interface that stays out of your way.

• Light & Dark mode
• Clean, minimalist design
• Fully responsive on any screen

🧱 Why it matters

Agilo v1.0 is not just a set of features.

It’s the foundation for:

• new team tools,
• deeper analytics,
• integrations,
• process automation.

We’ve built a stable base to move fast and grow without compromises in the future.

Thank you for building Agilo together with us 💙