About Parabol
What is Parabol?
Parabol is a free agile meeting tool designed to bring structure to remote and hybrid team meetings. It offers built-in meeting formats like retrospectives, sprint poker, standups, and team check-ins, turning meeting outcomes into searchable knowledge. It solves the problem of unstructured video calls where teams lose sight of the discussion and fail to take action. Parabol is ideal for agile teams, Scrum masters, and product managers who want more efficient, outcome-driven meetings.
How does Parabol work?
Parabol provides a digital whiteboard and shared screen environment with pre-built meeting structures. For retrospectives, it allows anonymous suggestions, discussion threads, and real-time task creation. Sprint poker integrates with backlog tools like Jira to estimate effort with a digital card deck. Standups let team members share updates asynchronously, and team check-ins use optional icebreakers and create takeaway tasks. A knowledge management feature offers a collaborative block editor with fine-grained permissions.
Who is Parabol for?
Parabol is built for remote and hybrid teams, particularly those practicing agile methodologies. It benefits teams that want to save time, improve meeting engagement, and capture actionable insights. It is not for teams that prefer unstructured, free-form meetings without a defined process. Use cases include running effective retrospectives, conducting sprint planning with poker, and managing daily standups across time zones.
Key features
- Retrospectives — Run structured retrospectives with anonymous suggestions, discussion threads, and real-time task creation.
- Sprint Poker — Estimate effort with a fun digital card deck, syncing issues from your backlog management tool.
- Standups — Share updates on your own time and review when ready, saving time and keeping everyone in sync.
- Team Check-In — Celebrate progress, use optional icebreakers, and create takeaway tasks together.
- Knowledge Management — Use a modern collaborative block editor with offline support and fine-grained sharing permissions.
- Templates — Access 40+ ready-to-use meeting templates or create your own custom templates.
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Parabol Pricing
Parabol pricing: Free; paid from $8/user/month. Billing model: Freemium.
Starter
Free for up to 2 teams, up to 10 meetings per month, 30 days of meeting history, 40+ templates, AI discussion prompts, and integration limits.
Team
$8 per active user per month (monthly billing). Includes everything in Starter plus unlimited teams, unlimited meeting history, unlimited custom templates, private teams, team health checks, AI suggest groups, AI meeting summaries, AI-enhanced icebreakers, enhanced security, and priority customer support.
Enterprise
Custom pricing with annual billing, flexible user tiers, SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, org admin role, dedicated account manager, uptime SLA, Jira Data Center integration, self-managed GitLab integration, and optional on-prem hosting.
Parabol is free forever for up to 2 teams — no credit card required to start.