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Retrospectives· UK· Founded 2020

Spreo

Playful collaborative whiteboard for agile teams

Overall score
5.3
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Overview

Spreo (formerly Metro Retro, then Ludi — renamed Spreo on 1 July 2026 for trademark reasons) is a visual agile collaboration whiteboard with 100+ templates spanning retros, planning poker, icebreakers and futurespectives. Its signature illustrated canvas and gadgets make ceremonies feel engaging, and a first AI feature — sticky-note clustering — shipped February 2026.

Best for: Agile teams who want retros, planning and workshops to feel visual and fun, with a solid Jira-backed delivery loop.

Spreo retrospective board shown on desktop and mobile

How Spreo describes itself

Spreo — Metro Retro until Aug 2025, then Ludi, and renamed Spreo on 1 July 2026 (for trademark reasons — and because, per the vendor, the Spreo starling is a cool bird) — pitches itself as the online whiteboard for agile teams that is "more interesting than whatever your team has open in the other tab."

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

It targets scrum masters, developers, product owners, engineering managers, agile coaches, delivery managers and product designers, leaning on a 100+ template library spanning retros, sprint planning, refinement, planning poker, standups, story mapping and icebreakers, with Jira-backed refinement and estimation front and centre. The voice stays deliberately warm and playful — gestures, gadgets, and an illustrated canvas — positioned against drier rivals.

Our take

Spreo — the product you may know as Metro Retro or Ludi, renamed on 1 July 2026 — remains one of the most charming visual ceremony experiences on the market, and the latest change is a name, not a rebuild: the team says the product, company and roadmap are unchanged, and old ludi.co links redirect. The template library spans retros, icebreakers, planning poker, story mapping, standups and refinement, and the Jira integration genuinely supports two-way sync, estimation and issue creation. The one AI feature — Sort into Topics, which auto-groups stickies into labelled clusters — shipped February 2026 and carries over.

Through the agile-buyer lens, gaps remain: no built-in health check or longitudinal pulse product, no AI summaries, action-item extraction or sentiment, no async or recurring retros, and integrations beyond Jira are absent. SAML SSO and domain controls land on paid plans, but SCIM and audit logs are not advertised. Best for live, visual ceremonies on top of a Jira-driven backlog — less suited to organisations needing async retros, cross-team rollups, deeper AI tooling, or a hardened enterprise control plane.

Score breakdown

Ease of Use8.5
Retro Toolkit6.0
Value8.0
Fun Factor9.0
AI & Insights2.0
Integrations3.0
Open Platform2.0
Enterprise-grade3.5

Pros

  • + Genuinely delightful, illustrated UI that energises in-person and remote retros
  • + Broad template library (100+) covering retros, icebreakers, planning poker, futurespectives, planning and estimation
  • + Solid two-way Jira integration: backlog refinement, estimation and issue creation in-board
  • + Facilitator controls, private writing mode and shareable team spaces
  • + First AI feature shipped Feb 2026 — Sort into Topics auto-groups stickies into labelled topics
  • + EU-hosted (Amsterdam) and GDPR-aligned (SOC 2 / ISO 27001 sit at the Digital Ocean infrastructure layer, not Spreo)

Cons

  • − No async retro mode, no recurring or scheduled retros
  • − No team health check or longitudinal pulse product; mood/radar work via whiteboard templates only
  • − Integrations limited to Jira — no Slack, Teams, Confluence, GitHub, Linear or Azure DevOps
  • − AI limited to one clustering feature — no summaries, action-item extraction, sentiment or coaching
  • − No ongoing free plan; expired trials become read-only
  • − SSO gated to a paid/Enterprise plan; no SCIM or audit logs advertised

Features

Retrospectives

TemplatesCustom templatesAnonymous input· Private writing modePrivate/public retros

Health checks

Team radars· Whiteboard template onlyMood / sentiment check· Whiteboard templates only (Niko Niko, Mood Thermometer)

Facilitation

Meeting timerAction itemsLink actions to ideasPresentation modeScreen-share modeParking lot· Whiteboard onlyDrag-and-drop groupingWhiteboard

Voting

Independent dot votingCustom vote count· Limited

Engagement

ROTI feedback· Template onlyTeam agreements· Template onlyPolling· Template only (Agree or Disagree)IcebreakersCheck-in / check-out· Whiteboard templates onlyCustom backgroundsPlanning pokerTeam kudos· Template only (Kudos Tree)

AI

AI grouping / clustering· Sort into Topics auto-groups stickies into labelled topics (Feb 2026)

Reporting

Export formats· PDF, CSV, HTML, Markdown, JSON, Jira

Enterprise

SSO / SAML· SAML SSO on paid plansSOC 2 Type 2· Data centre (Digital Ocean) is SOC 2; Spreo itself not certifiedGDPR compliantFacilitator-only roleGuest / observer rolesMeeting historyEmail domain restrictions· Domain-level access controls on paid plansUptime SLA / dedicated support· Enterprise tierData residency· European Union (EU-only (Amsterdam, Digital Ocean))

Integrations

Jira· Two-way sync, estimation, issue creation

Compare Spreo against

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Sources

Last reviewed: July 3, 2026