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 100+ 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. An official MCP server (beta) and a signed-in HTTP API landed during 2026, but Jira, SSO and PDF export all require the $6/user Business plan, and in-product AI 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 100+ template library covering retros, sprint planning, refinement, planning poker and story mapping, with Jira-backed refinement front and centre. The vendor claims 125,000 teams and two million meetings since 2019, and keeps the voice deliberately unserious — gadgets, throwable hats, endless confetti.

Two things changed since our last pass, and only one of them is the name. Spreo has quietly shipped an official MCP server and a signed-in HTTP API: eight MCP tools that let Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot read, build and edit boards under your own permissions, with OAuth, an account-owner kill switch and a connected-members table. It is beta and access is by request, but it is the most interesting thing this product has done in two years — and no third-party listing has caught up with it yet.

The rest is unchanged, gaps included. No async mode, no recurring or scheduled retros, no health-check or pulse product, and in-product AI still stops at beta sticky clustering — the vendor is explicit that "the AI lives in your assistant". Jira, SSO and now PDF export all sit behind the $6/user Business plan, so three teams of eight cost $144/mo, not the $96 the Starter headline implies. Best for co-located or same-timezone teams running live, visual ceremonies on a Jira backlog.