Retrospective Tools

Spreo vs Sprintlio

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing, features and integrations to help you pick the right retrospective tool.

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Spreo

5.3

Playful collaborative whiteboard for agile teams

Spreo (formerly Metro Retro, then Ludi — renamed Spreo on 1 July 2026 after a US trademark cease-and-desist) is a visual agile collaboration whiteboard with 100+ templates spanning retros, planning poker, icebreakers and futurespectives. Its illustrated canvas and board gadgets — a shared Jukebox music player, timers, spinners, buzzers, confetti, throwable hats — make ceremonies feel engaging. Both the Jira integration and SSO require the $6/user Business plan, and AI stops at beta sticky-note clustering.

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Sprintlio

2.7

Slack/Jira retro accountability — app no longer responds

Sprintlio was a retrospective tool built around action follow-through — Slack and Jira flows so action items didn't die on a board once the meeting ended. As of 3 August 2026 the product looks gone: the app host returns a Cloudflare 520 error, the marketing site was last built in May 2023 and now tells search engines not to index it, and there is no sign-up, log-in or pricing link anywhere on it.

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Summary

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 — budget for the Business plan, which is where Jira and SSO actually live. It offers paid plans from $4/user/mo billed annually ($5 monthly).

Sprintlio scores 2.7 overall and is best for nobody today — the app doesn't load. This entry exists for people who find the name in an old comparison, a stale directory listing or a procurement spreadsheet and need to know what happened to it. It offers paid plans from $50/user/mo.

Spreo leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, value, fun factor, AI & insights, open platform and enterprise-grade. Sprintlio leads on integrations.

Across our eight scoring dimensions, Spreo 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

Spreo
Ease of Use8.5
Retro Toolkit6.5
Value7.0
Fun Factor9.0
AI & Insights2.0
Integrations3.0
Open Platform2.0
Enterprise-grade4.5
Sprintlio
Ease of Use5.0
Retro Toolkit4.0
Value3.0
Fun Factor3.0
AI & Insights0.0
Integrations4.0
Open Platform1.5
Enterprise-grade1.0
DetailSpreoSprintlio
CategoryRetrospectivesRetrospectives
Team sizeSmallSmall
Free tierNoNo
Free limit30-day free trial; boards become read-only when the trial expiresNo free plan on the vendor site; Capterra lists both a free version and a free trial, neither corroborated on sprintlio.com — and there is no sign-up link to test either (checked 2026-08-03)
Starting price$4/user/mo billed annually ($5 monthly)$50/user/mo
Est. 3 teams × 8 people$144/mo billed annually (Business — 24 x $6; Starter's $96/mo covers only one shared team space)Not purchasable — no pricing page, no sign-up, no contact route, and the app host is offline
EnterpriseYesNo
Founded20202018
HQUKToronto, Canada
Data residencyEuropean Union
LanguagesEnglish onlyEnglish only
Export formatsPDF · CSV · HTML · Markdown · JSON · JiraCSV · Email · Jira
Features4014
Integrations12

Feature & integration comparison

Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.

CapabilitySpreoSprintlio
Features
AI Summaries
AI grouping/clusteringnote
AI action items
Action tracking
Team Insights
Pollingnote
Action dashboard
Custom templates
Anonymous inputnote
Independent voting
Async mode
Agile Estimations
Health Checksnote
Team Kudosnote
Whiteboard
Integrations
Asana
Azure DevOps
Basecamp
ClickUp
Confluence
GitHub
GitLab
Jiranote
Linear
Microsoft Teams
Monday.com
Notion
Shortcut
Slack
Trello
Security & Privacy
SOC 2note
GDPRnote
SSO / SAMLnotenote
SCIM provisioning
ISO 27001
On-premisesnote
Public API
Webhooks
MCP server

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
  • + Deep gadget shelf that actually serves the session: shared Jukebox music player, timers, spinners, buzzers, confetti, throwable hats
  • + Fully configurable voting rounds — votes per person, duplicate votes, and voting on topics as well as individual stickies
  • + Solid two-way Jira integration: backlog refinement, story points and issue creation in-board
  • + @mentions and a notification centre across stickies, cards, text blocks and comments
  • + 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
  • <strong>Jira and SSO both start at the $6/user Business plan</strong>, so the $4 Starter headline is misleading past a single team space
  • AI limited to beta sticky-note clustering — no summaries, action-item extraction, sentiment or coaching
  • No ongoing free plan; expired trials pause to read-only
  • Desktop and laptop only — the vendor states Spreo runs on <em>"all desktop and laptop devices"</em>, with no mobile or tablet support
  • Two renames in under a year leave the review trail split across three names — G2 files it under <em>Ludi</em>, Capterra and Product Hunt under <em>Metro Retro</em>

Sprintlio — pros

  • + Action items pushed into the Jira backlog with owners and due dates, then chased in Slack — follow-through <em>was</em> the product's reason for being
  • + Slack-native flows: recaps, due-date reminders and notifications delivered into the channel
  • + Narrow and focused — a retro tool, not a retro module bolted onto an all-in-one suite

Sprintlio — cons

  • The app host (retro.sprintlio.com) returns a Cloudflare 520 — the product did not load on any path, from either vantage point, when checked 2026-08-03
  • Marketing site last built 2 May 2023, newest blog post September 2020, and it now carries a <em>noindex, nofollow</em> tag — the vendor has de-indexed its own site
  • No sign-up, log-in, pricing or contact link anywhere on the site: there is no way to become a customer, or to reach the vendor and ask
  • Capterra and other directories still present it as available at $50/user/mo with a free trial — none of that is obtainable
  • Even as it stood in 2023 the surface was thin: no AI, no structured health-check model, no cross-team reporting, and Jira and Slack were the only integrations

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