Echometer
5.5Psychology-backed retros and team health checks for engineering teams
Echometer is a German retrospective and 1:1 meeting platform built around recurring health-check pulses, structured retros, and longitudinal team development tracking. It pitches itself to engineering managers, scrum masters and agile coaches who want research-grounded surveys rather than a blank whiteboard.
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Spreo
5.3Playful collaborative whiteboard for agile teams
Spreo (formerly Metro Retro, then Ludi — renamed Spreo on 1 July 2026 for trademark reasons) is a visual agile collaboration whiteboard with 100+ templates spanning retros, planning poker, icebreakers and futurespectives. Its signature illustrated canvas and gadgets make ceremonies feel engaging, and a first AI feature — sticky-note clustering — shipped February 2026.
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Echometer scores 5.5 overall and is best for engineering managers and agile coaches who want recurring health-check pulses tied to retros, with EU data residency and a research-flavoured question library. It offers a free tier.
Spreo scores 5.3 overall and is best for agile teams who want retros, planning and workshops to feel visual and fun, with a solid Jira-backed delivery loop. It offers paid plans from $4/user/mo.
Echometer leads on retro toolkit, AI & insights and enterprise-grade. Spreo leads on ease of use, fun factor and open platform.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Echometer edges ahead with an overall score of 5.5. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Echometer | Spreo |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | Starter: 1 team, 25 workspace members, 1 retro/month after trial, 2-retro archive per team | 30-day free trial; boards become read-only when the trial expires |
| Starting price | €29/team/mo | $4/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | €87/mo billed annually (3 teams × €29 Pro) | $96/mo billed annually |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2019 | 2020 |
| HQ | Münster, Germany | UK |
| Data residency | Germany | European Union |
| Languages | 2 (English, German) | English only |
| Export formats | PDF · Markdown · Email | PDF · CSV · HTML · Markdown · JSON · Jira |
| Features | 44 | 33 |
| Integrations | 1 | 1 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Echometer | Spreo |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓note | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓note | ✓note |
| AI action items | ✓note | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | ✓ | ✓note |
| Action dashboard | ✓ | — |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓note |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | — |
| Agile Estimations | — | ✓ |
| Health Checks | ✓ | — |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓note |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓ | ✓note |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | — | — |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓note |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | — | — |
Echometer — pros
- + Health-check question library grounded in University of Münster psychology research
- + Strong longitudinal pulse and team-radar reporting tied to retros
- + EU-only data residency (Open Telekom Cloud, Germany) with GDPR DPA
- + AI Co-Pilot clusters ideas and proposes SMART action items
Echometer — cons
- − Thin chatops integrations — no native Slack, Teams or Confluence
- − No SOC 2; relies on ISO 27001 datacenters and EU residency
- − 1:1 meetings and the deepest AI live in a separate paid product
- − No native scheduling or recurring retros — sessions start manually
Spreo — pros
- + Genuinely delightful, illustrated UI that energises in-person and remote retros
- + Broad template library (100+) covering retros, icebreakers, planning poker, futurespectives, planning and estimation
- + Solid two-way Jira integration: backlog refinement, estimation and issue creation in-board
- + Facilitator controls, private writing mode and shareable team spaces
- + First AI feature shipped Feb 2026 — Sort into Topics auto-groups stickies into labelled topics
- + EU-hosted (Amsterdam) and GDPR-aligned (SOC 2 / ISO 27001 sit at the Digital Ocean infrastructure layer, not Spreo)
Spreo — cons
- − No async retro mode, no recurring or scheduled retros
- − No team health check or longitudinal pulse product; mood/radar work via whiteboard templates only
- − Integrations limited to Jira — no Slack, Teams, Confluence, GitHub, Linear or Azure DevOps
- − AI limited to one clustering feature — no summaries, action-item extraction, sentiment or coaching
- − No ongoing free plan; expired trials become read-only
- − SSO gated to a paid/Enterprise plan; no SCIM or audit logs advertised
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