Ludi
5.7Playful collaborative whiteboard for agile teams
Ludi (formerly Metro Retro, rebranded August 2025) 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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TeamRetro
8.4Retrospectives, health checks and agile estimations in one suite
TeamRetro pairs structured retrospectives with longitudinal team health checks and planning-poker estimations, aimed at agile organisations running multiple teams under a coach or programme.
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Ludi scores 5.7 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 billed annually.
TeamRetro scores 8.4 overall and is best for agile coaches and engineering managers running ongoing health-check programmes alongside sprint retros. It offers paid plans from $25/mo.
Ludi leads on fun factor. TeamRetro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade.
Across our seven scoring dimensions, TeamRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 8.4. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Ludi | TeamRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Any |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Free limit | 30-day free trial; boards become read-only when the trial expires | 30-day free trial, no credit card required |
| Starting price | $4/user/mo billed annually | $25/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $96/mo billed annually | $50/mo billed annually |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2020 | 2017 |
| HQ | UK | Australia |
| Data residency | European Union | United States · European Union |
| Languages | English only | 30 (English, Arabic, Bengali, …) |
| Features | 33 | 63 |
| Integrations | 1 | 15 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Ludi | TeamRetro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | — | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓ note | ✓ |
| AI action items | — | ✓ |
| 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 | ✓ |
| SCIM provisioning | — | ✓ note |
| ISO 27001 | — | ✓ note |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | ✓ note |
| Webhooks | — | — |
Ludi — 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 Ludi)
Ludi — 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
TeamRetro — pros
- + Health checks with custom models, longitudinal tracking and cross-team reporting
- + Three modules in one suite (retros, health checks, planning poker)
- + Complete enterprise stack: SAML SSO, SCIM and audit logs, SOC 2 Type 2 held directly, US/EU data residency
- + AI grouping, template suggestions, action items and sentiment built in
- + Broad agile-tool integrations including Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear, Confluence
TeamRetro — cons
- − No free tier — 30-day trial only, then a paid plan is required
- − SCIM provisioning and the public API are gated to the Enterprise tier
- − ISO 27001 is inherited via AWS, not held directly
- − Data residency limited to US and EU (no APAC region)