Echometer
5.3Psychology-backed retros and team health checks for engineering teams
Echometer is a German retrospective, health-check and 1:1 meeting platform built around recurring pulse surveys, structured retros and longitudinal team development tracking. It pitches itself to busy team leads — engineering managers, scrum masters and agile coaches — who want research-grounded question libraries rather than a blank whiteboard.
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Metro Retro
3.0Rebranded twice — Metro Retro became Ludi, now Spreo; the playful retro whiteboard lives on
Metro Retro was a fun, freeform online whiteboard built for sprint retrospectives, known for its playful templates, timer and engagement features. The product has since been renamed twice by its maker, Deqo Software Limited: to Ludi on 4 August 2025, then to Spreo on 1 July 2026 after a trademark cease-and-desist. The metroretro.io domain now 301-redirects straight to spreo.io. If you are searching for Metro Retro, the product you want is Spreo; the original Metro Retro brand and domain are no longer maintained.
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Echometer scores 5.3 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.
Metro Retro scores 3.0 overall and is best for searchers who remember Metro Retro and need to know where it went — the product now ships as <strong>Spreo</strong>. Go there, or to a dedicated retro platform, instead. It offers custom pricing.
Echometer leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, value, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade. Metro Retro leads on fun factor and open platform.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Echometer edges ahead with an overall score of 5.3. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Echometer | Metro Retro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Whiteboard |
| Team size | Mid-market | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | Starter: 1 team, 25 workspace members, unlimited retro guests, 1 retro/month after trial, 2-retro archive per team | |
| Starting price | €29/team/mo | Free |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | €87/mo billed annually (3 teams × €29 Pro) | N/A — brand retired; see the Spreo listing |
| Enterprise | Yes | No |
| Founded | 2019 | — |
| HQ | Münster, Germany | United Kingdom |
| Data residency | Germany | — |
| Languages | 2 (English, German) | English only |
| Export formats | PDF · Markdown · Email | PDF · CSV · HTML · Markdown · JSON · Jira |
| Features | 44 | 7 |
| Integrations | 1 | 0 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Echometer | Metro Retro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | — |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | — |
| Health Checks | ✓ | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | — |
| Async mode | ✓ | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓ | — |
| Icebreaker games | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | — |
| AI action items | ✓note | — |
| AI Summaries | — | — |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | — |
| Action dashboard | ✓ | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓ | — |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | — | — |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | — |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | — |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | — | — |
Echometer — pros
- + 200+ research-grounded health-check items, custom models and auto-scheduled pulse surveys
- + Longitudinal team radars, heatmaps and a cross-team workspace dashboard tied to retros
- + German-only hosting (Open Telekom Cloud, Magdeburg/Biere) with a GDPR data processing agreement
- + Open actions resurface automatically in the next retro, with owner email reminders and one-click push to Jira
- + Per-team, not per-seat, pricing — €87/mo covers three teams of eight, billed annually
Echometer — cons
- − Integrations stop at Jira — no Slack, Teams, Confluence or Linear
- − No public API or webhooks; export is PDF, Markdown and an emailed recap
- − No SOC 2 — the ISO 27001 certificate covers the datacenter, not Echometer itself
- − Retro-side AI is one function: suggested measures. No clustering, no AI session summary
- − No scheduled or recurring retros — you copy a past format and start each session manually
Metro Retro — pros
- + The product you remember still exists — it now ships as Spreo (Metro Retro → Ludi, 4 Aug 2025 → Spreo, 1 Jul 2026)
- + The vendor says accounts, boards, data and workflows carried through both renames, and old links redirect
- + Carried its playful templates, session timer and icebreakers into the rebrand
- + Freeform whiteboard canvas that's friendly for engagement-first retros
Metro Retro — cons
- − The Metro Retro brand and metroretro.io domain are retired — the domain 301-redirects straight to spreo.io
- − Two name changes in under a year (Metro Retro → Ludi → Spreo) leave stranded searchers chasing a moving target; bookmarks, runbooks and SSO configs all need updating
- − No standalone free tier under the new brand — a 30-day trial, then paid
- − Neither old domain is a clean redirect everywhere: metroretro.io/pricing and ludi.co/pricing both return HTTP 200 with a stale Spreo <em>Non-prod environment</em> stub instead of forwarding (checked 1 Sep 2026)
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