Spreo

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.

Spreo — Metro Retro until August 2025, then Ludi, and Spreo since 1 July 2026 after a US trademark holder's cease-and-desist — pitches itself as the whiteboard built for agile ceremonies rather than general brainstorming.

"Spreo is the online whiteboard software that's more interesting than whatever your team has open in the other tab."

It names its buyers on the nav bar: scrum masters, agile coaches, delivery managers, product owners and engineering managers. The hook is a 150+ template library covering retros, sprint planning, refinement, planning poker and story mapping, with Jira-backed refinement front and centre. The vendor claims more than 250,000 agile teams and practitioners and over two million meetings since 2019, and keeps the voice deliberately unserious — gadgets, throwable hats, endless confetti.

Spreo is the liveliest canvas in this set for live, same-timezone ceremonies. Private Writing is on by default in Meeting Mode, Hide Identities makes authorship and votes permanently anonymous, voting rounds are properly configurable, and the Jira integration is genuinely two-way. Actions get owners, due dates and daily and weekly reminder emails without anyone chasing. A shared Jukebox, emoji stamps and a quick host poll keep a room engaged; ROTI, kudos and check-ins exist only as board templates.

October's repricing changes the maths. Only facilitators need a $13 Editor seat; regular team members cost $3 and stakeholders join open boards free, so three teams of eight run $102/mo billed annually with Jira, Linear, SSO and the beta MCP server included. The new Linear cards edit back to Linear but can't create issues yet. What hasn't changed: no async mode, no recurring retros, no health-check product, no SOC 2 of its own, and in-product AI that stops at beta sticky clustering. MCP puts the AI in your own assistant, not the board.