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 If you are searching for Metro Retro, the product you want is Spreo; the original Metro Retro brand and domain are no longer maintained.
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Miro
7.1Innovation Workspace where retros happen on the same canvas as discovery and planning
Miro is the dominant online whiteboard, now repositioned as an AI-powered Innovation Workspace. It pairs an infinite canvas with a 7,000+ template library (300+ retro formats among them), AI clustering by sentiment/keyword/author, Engage live polls and word clouds, real-time + async collaboration, and a 250+ app marketplace including Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear, Confluence, Slack and Microsoft Teams. Flows and Sidekicks ship as AI Workflows, a paid Enterprise product.
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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.
Miro scores 7.1 overall and is best for large product, design and engineering orgs that already run discovery, planning and retros on one canvas and want AI clustering plus deep Jira/Azure DevOps/Asana sync. It offers a free tier.
Miro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, value, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Miro edges ahead with an overall score of 7.1. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Metro Retro | Miro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Whiteboard |
| Team size | Small | Enterprise |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Free limit | 3 editable boards, ~10 AI credits/mo, 100 MCP calls/day, full template library, 250+ app marketplace; no private boards, SSO, guests or two-way integrations | |
| Starting price | Free | $8/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | N/A — brand retired; see the Spreo listing | $192/mo billed annually (Starter, 24 seats) |
| Enterprise | No | Yes |
| Founded | — | 2011 |
| HQ | United Kingdom | Amsterdam, NL |
| Data residency | — | United States · European Union · Australia |
| Languages | English only | 8 (English, Spanish, German, …) |
| Export formats | PDF · CSV · HTML · Markdown · JSON · Jira | Image · PDF · CSV |
| Features | 7 | 39 |
| Integrations | 0 | 11 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Metro Retro | Miro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | — | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓ |
| AI action items | — | ✓note |
| Action tracking | — | ✓note |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | — | ✓note |
| Action dashboard | — | — |
| Custom templates | — | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | — | ✓note |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | — | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | — | ✓note |
| Health Checks | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | ✓note |
| Azure DevOps | — | ✓note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | ✓ |
| Confluence | — | ✓ |
| GitHub | — | ✓note |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | — | ✓note |
| Linear | — | ✓note |
| Microsoft Teams | — | ✓ |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | ✓ |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | — | ✓ |
| Trello | — | ✓note |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓ |
| GDPR | — | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | — | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | ✓note |
| ISO 27001 | — | ✓ |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | ✓ |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | — | ✓note |
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
- − The old domain isn't a clean redirect everywhere: metroretro.io/pricing returns a stale Spreo <em>Non-prod environment</em> stub instead of forwarding (checked 3 Aug 2026)
Miro — pros
- + Enormous template library (7,000+ board templates, 300+ retro formats) plus the Miroverse community gallery
- + AI clustering groups sticky notes by colour, tag, author, keyword and sentiment — real time saved on a 60-sticky board
- + Best-in-class integration catalog (Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, Confluence, Slack, Teams) with two-way card sync
- + <strong>Engage</strong> activities — live polls, word clouds, scales, ranking — are bundled with Business; participants join by QR code with no Miro account
- + Enterprise-grade SSO, SCIM, audit logs, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 42001 (AI governance) and US/EU/AU data residency
Miro — cons
- − Per-seat pricing: 24 people cost $192/mo on Starter (annual). The tier that actually matters for retros — Business, with two-way Jira sync, SSO and Engage — is $480/mo
- − No health checks, mood tracking or longitudinal team pulse; Engage Scales reads the room once, it doesn't draw a trend line
- − No recurring retros, scheduling, action carryover or cross-team rollup — facilitators rebuild structure each sprint
- − SCIM, audit logs, domain control and data residency are Enterprise-only (30-seat minimum)
- − No built-in retro report or action-tracker dashboard; actions only persist as Jira/Azure DevOps cards
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