EasyRetro
6.9Improve your team with fun sprint retrospectives
EasyRetro (rebranded from FunRetro in November 2020) is a long-running indie retro tool with 100+ templates, drag-and-drop boards, an AI board summary feature added in early 2024, and recent timer, drawing-on-cards and hide-column updates through 2025-2026.
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Ludi
6.9Playful collaborative whiteboard for agile teams
Ludi (formerly Metro Retro, rebranded August 2025) 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.
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EasyRetro scores 6.9 overall and is best for small to mid-size agile teams, scrum masters and consultants who want a clean, fast, low-friction retro tool without enterprise overhead. It offers a free tier.
Ludi scores 6.9 overall and is best for agile teams who want retros, planning and workshops to feel visual and fun, with a solid Jira-backed delivery loop. It offers paid plans from $5/user/mo.
EasyRetro leads on value, AI & insights and integrations. Ludi leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, fun factor and enterprise-grade.
EasyRetro and Ludi are evenly matched overall. The right choice comes down to which dimensions matter most to your team.
Scores compared
| Detail | EasyRetro | Ludi |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | 3 public boards/month, 1 survey per board, no team | 30-day free trial; boards become read-only when the trial expires |
| Starting price | $25/mo | $5/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $25/mo | $120/mo |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2016 | 2020 |
| HQ | Brazil | UK |
| Features | 25 | 33 |
| Integrations | 4 | 1 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | EasyRetro | Ludi |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓ note |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| Action dashboard | — | — |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓ note |
| Whiteboard | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Confluence | ✓ | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| Jira | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | — |
| Slack | ✓ | — |
| Trello | ✓ | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓ note |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO/SAML/SCIM | ✓ note | ✓ note |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Data residency (US/EU) | — | ✓ note |
EasyRetro — Pros
- + Extremely easy to use with minimal setup friction and a clean drag-and-drop board
- + Library of 100+ retrospective templates spanning multiple categories and languages
- + Free tier covers basic public boards for small teams or one-off retros
- + Clean export options including Confluence, Jira (now bulk), PDF, CSV, PNG, Excel and DOCX
- + Still actively maintained — timer refresh, drawing on cards and hide-column shipped through 2025-2026
EasyRetro — Cons
- − No native health checks, mood tracking or longitudinal trend reporting
- − AI is limited to a single board-summary feature — no auto-grouping, AI action items, sentiment, or template generation
- − Integration set is narrow — no Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Linear or Azure DevOps
- − Vendor itself isn't SOC 2 / ISO 27001 certified (relies on GCP); SAML SSO is gated to enterprise accounts and there's no SCIM or audit logs
- − Free plan is capped at 3 public boards per month and excludes private team boards
Ludi — 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) on SOC 2 / ISO 27001 infrastructure; GDPR-aligned
Ludi — 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 Enterprise tier; no SCIM, audit logs or domain restrictions advertised