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 If you are searching for Metro Retro, the product you want is Spreo; the original Metro Retro brand and domain are no longer maintained.
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RetroFlow
3.4Your team's favourite way to retro
RetroFlow is a free, no-signup retrospective board built by solo developer Prashant Meena, with colourful boards, real-time collaboration, 11 ready-made templates, anonymous feedback, dot voting, action items and PDF/Excel export. Participants join a shared link in one click with no account; the whole product is free with no paid tiers or locked features.
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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.
RetroFlow scores 3.4 overall and is best for small or ad-hoc teams who want a genuinely free, zero-friction retro board they can share with one link — no signup, no payment and no setup, accepting that there is no timer, no integrations, no AI and no enterprise controls. It offers a free tier.
Metro Retro leads on fun factor, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade. RetroFlow leads on ease of use and value.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, RetroFlow edges ahead with an overall score of 3.4. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Metro Retro | RetroFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Small |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Free limit | Everything is free — all 11 templates, custom boards, saved layouts, real-time collaboration, anonymous feedback, dot voting, action items and PDF/Excel export, with no account required to join a board | |
| Starting price | Free | Free |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | N/A — brand retired; see the Spreo listing | Free (no paid tier) |
| Enterprise | No | No |
| Founded | — | — |
| HQ | United Kingdom | — |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | English only | English only |
| Export formats | PDF · CSV · HTML · Markdown · JSON · Jira | PDF · Excel |
| Features | 7 | 7 |
| Integrations | 0 | 0 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Metro Retro | RetroFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | — |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | — | ✓note |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | — | — |
| Action dashboard | — | — |
| Custom templates | — | ✓note |
| Anonymous input | — | ✓note |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓note |
| Async mode | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | — | — |
| Health Checks | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| 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 | — | — |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | — | — |
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)
RetroFlow — pros
- + Genuinely free with no paid tiers, no paywalled features and no account required to join a board
- + Anonymous feedback — participants contribute with no signup, email or PII collected
- + Three-step setup — pick a template, share the link, run the retro; participants join in one click and notes sync live
- + Eleven ready-made formats, up from seven — Sailboat, DAKI, Plus/Delta and Three Little Pigs are all new since the last review
- + <strong>PDF and Excel export</strong> of the finished board — new this quarter, and the only route to getting your data out
- + Light personalisation — custom column names, 2-6 columns, colour palettes and per-note emoji, with reusable saved layouts
RetroFlow — cons
- − No timer or phase controls — three separate timer requests sit unshipped on the vendor's own public roadmap, and there is no countdown anywhere in the app
- − No grouping of similar cards and no carry-over of previous action items — both still <em>Planned</em> on the roadmap
- − No integrations at all — nothing pushes to Jira, Linear, Slack or Teams, and there is no public API, webhooks or AI
- − No health checks, recurring retros, mood tracking or cross-team reporting
- − No enterprise security or compliance — no SOC 2, SSO, SCIM or audit logs, no GDPR statement in the privacy policy, and boards are private only by unguessable URL since there are no accounts
- − Built and run by a solo developer (Prashant Meena) with no support team or SLA — support routes to a personal WhatsApp number and LinkedIn DMs, and the free-tier backend still shows a ~10s cold start plus first-load errors
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