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. Both the Jira integration and SSO require the $6/user Business plan, and AI stops at beta sticky-note clustering.

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

"The Online Whiteboard For Agile Teams — Planning. Refinement. Retros."

It names its buyers explicitly: scrum masters, developers, product owners, engineering managers, agile coaches, delivery managers and product designers. The hook is a 100+ template library covering retros, sprint planning, refinement, planning poker, standups and story mapping, with Jira-backed refinement front and centre. The voice stays warm and deliberately unserious — gadgets, throwable hats, a shared jukebox — positioned against drier rivals.

Spreo is still the most charming live-ceremony canvas in this set, and the July 2026 rename is a name change, not a rebuild — product, team and roadmap carried over, and ludi.co and metroretro.io both 301 straight to spreo.io. The gadget shelf earns the Fun Factor score: a Jukebox that plays a shared track to the whole board, timers, spinners, buzzers, confetti, throwable hats. Voting rounds are properly configurable — votes per person, duplicate votes, and voting on grouped topics as well as individual stickies — @mentions and notifications work across every board object, and the Jira integration is genuinely two-way.

The gaps are structural. No async mode, no recurring or scheduled retros, no health-check or pulse product, and AI stops at beta sticky clustering. Jira and SSO both sit behind the $6/user Business plan, so three teams of eight costs $144/mo, not the $96 the Starter headline implies. Nothing functional has shipped since May 2026. Best for co-located or same-timezone teams running live, visual ceremonies on a Jira backlog.