Spreo
5.9Ein spielerisches, kollaboratives Whiteboard für 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 150+ 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. Since late October 2026 it is priced by role: $13 a month for each Editor who runs sessions, $3 for regular team members and nothing for visitors on open boards, with Jira, Linear, SSO, PDF export and a beta MCP server all on the one Team plan. In-product AI still stops at beta sticky-note clustering.
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RetroTeam
4.6AI-first retro tool, now shut down: its website and app are offline
RetroTeam was a focused, AI-first retrospective app — capture, group, vote, act, with Jira hand-off. Its vendor announced a wind-down and moved to ChannelPulse, an unrelated interview-coaching product, and by 5 November 2026 both the website and the app were offline.
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Spreo scores 5.9 overall and is best for agile teams who want retros, planning and workshops to feel visual and fun on a Jira or Linear backlog, with a few paid facilitators and everyone else on cheap Collaborator seats or free visitor links — and who would get real value from driving boards with an AI assistant over MCP. It offers paid plans from $13/Editor/mo billed annually ($16 monthly); Collaborators $3/user/mo ($4), visitors free.
RetroTeam scores 4.6 overall and is best for nobody: the app is offline. Former users need a replacement, and there is no published way to recover old boards or reports. It is no longer available.
Spreo ist führend bei Retro-Toolkit, Spaßfaktor, Integrationen, offene Plattform und für den Einsatz in Unternehmen. RetroTeam ist führend bei Wert und KI und Erkenntnisse.
In allen acht Bewertungskriterien liegt Spreo mit einer Gesamtpunktzahl von 5.9 an der Spitze. Die richtige Wahl hängt jedoch von Ihrem Team ab – sehen Sie sich dazu die nach Kriterien gegliederte Aufschlüsselung unten an.
Scores compared
| Detail | Spreo | RetroTeam |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Small |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Free limit | No free plan for teams — 15-day Team trial. Spreo Lite (one board stored in your browser, up to 3 people, no sign-in) is a free taster, not a team plan | — |
| Starting price | $13/Editor/mo billed annually ($16 monthly); Collaborators $3/user/mo ($4), visitors free | N/A — shut down |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $102/mo billed annually (Team plan — 3 Editors x $13 + 21 Collaborators x $3); $132/mo billed monthly | N/A — shut down |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2019 | 2022 |
| HQ | UK | Oakland, California, US |
| Data residency | European Union | United States |
| Languages | English only | English only |
| Export formats | PDF · CSV · HTML · Markdown · JSON · Jira | |
| Features | 46 | 22 |
| Integrations | 2 | 1 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Spreo | RetroTeam |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓note |
| Anonymous input | ✓note | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | — | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | — |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓note | — |
| Icebreaker games | ✓note | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓ | — |
| Team Kudos | ✓note | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | ✓note | ✓ |
| AI action items | — | ✓ |
| AI Summaries | — | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | ✓ |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | — |
| Action dashboard | ✓note | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓note |
| Linear | ✓note | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | — | — |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓note |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | — |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | ✓note | — |
| Public API | ✓note | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | ✓note | — |
Spreo — pros
- + Genuinely delightful, illustrated UI with a gadget shelf built for live sessions: a shared Jukebox, timers, spinners, buzzers and a Voter panel, plus confetti and throwable hats
- + Broad template library (150+) covering retros, icebreakers, planning poker, futurespectives, planning and estimation
- + Hide Identities and Private Writing make writing <em>and</em> voting anonymous, with fully configurable voting rounds
- + Actions carry owners and due dates, with daily and weekly reminder emails on by default and a cross-board Action Items dashboard
- + Role-based Team plan keeps big teams cheap ($3 Collaborators, free visitors on open boards) and includes two-way Jira, Linear cards, SSO, PDF export and the beta MCP server
Spreo — cons
- − No async retro mode, no recurring or scheduled retros, and no health-check product; mood and radar work happen on whiteboard templates only
- − Integrations stop at Jira and Linear — no Slack, Teams, Confluence or GitHub; Azure DevOps is on the pricing page but was still <em>"coming soon"</em> in the October 2026 release notes
- − In-product AI limited to beta sticky-note clustering — no summaries, action-item extraction, sentiment or coaching; MCP moves the AI into your own assistant rather than the board
- − Every facilitator needs a $13/month Editor seat, and the free Lite board holds three people and lives in one browser
- − Desktop and laptop only, and no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 of its own: the certifications on its security page are DigitalOcean's
RetroTeam — pros
- + Ein straffer, eigenwilliger Retro-Ablauf – erfassen, KI-Gruppe bilden, abstimmen, handeln – mit einem Timer in jeder Phase
- + Die Gruppierungsvorschläge der KI können Sie für jede Karte einzeln annehmen oder ablehnen; sie werden nicht pauschal auf alle Karten angewendet.
- + Pauschalpreis: 30 $/Monat für 5 Teams und 50 Nutzer – deutlich günstiger als bei Mitbewerbern mit Pro-Nutzer-Abrechnung
- + Die Teilnehmer können über einen Link teilnehmen, ohne dass ein Konto erforderlich ist
- + Organisationsweites Aktions-Dashboard mit Verantwortlichem, Status und Fälligkeitsdatum sowie Einweg-Links zu Jira
RetroTeam — cons
- − <strong>Shut down:</strong> the website and the app at main.retroteam.ai were both offline when checked on 5 November 2026; the team has moved to ChannelPulse, an unrelated interview-coaching product
- − No shutdown date, export window or migration guidance was ever published; the only export had been a PDF report, with no API, webhooks or MCP to pull history out another way
- − Jira ist die einzige Integration – weder Slack, Teams, GitHub, Linear noch Azure DevOps
- − Keine Gesundheitsprüfungen, regelmäßige Retrospektiven, Terminplanung, asynchrone Arbeitsweise oder Kudos
- − Kein SSO, SCIM, SOC 2 oder Audit-Protokolle; das Hosting erfolgt ausschließlich in den USA, ohne die Möglichkeit eines Standorts in der EU
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