Echometer
5.6Psychology-backed retros and team health checks for engineering teams
Echometer is a German retrospective, health-check and 1:1 meeting platform built around recurring pulse surveys, structured retros and longitudinal team development tracking. It pitches itself to busy team leads — engineering managers, scrum masters and agile coaches — who want research-grounded question libraries rather than a blank whiteboard.
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Spreo
5.7Playful collaborative whiteboard for agile teams
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.
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Echometer scores 5.6 overall and is best for engineering managers and agile coaches who want recurring health-check pulses tied to retros, with EU data residency and a research-flavoured question library. It offers a free tier.
Spreo scores 5.7 overall and is best for agile teams who want retros, planning and workshops to feel visual and fun on a Jira backlog, and who would get real value from driving boards with an AI assistant over MCP — budget for the Business plan, which is where Jira, SSO and PDF export actually live. It offers paid plans from $4/user/mo billed annually ($5 monthly).
Echometer leads on retro toolkit, value, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade. Spreo leads on ease of use, fun factor and open platform.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Spreo edges ahead with an overall score of 5.7. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Echometer | Spreo |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Mid-market | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | Starter: 1 team, 25 workspace members, unlimited retro guests, 1 retro/month after trial, 2-retro archive per team | 30-day free trial; boards become read-only when the trial expires |
| Starting price | €29/team/mo | $4/user/mo billed annually ($5 monthly) |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | €87/mo billed annually, excl. VAT (3 teams × €29 Pro); €105/mo billed monthly | $144/mo billed annually (Business — 24 x $6; Starter's $96/mo covers only one shared team space) |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2019 | 2019 |
| HQ | Münster, Germany | UK |
| Data residency | Germany | European Union |
| Languages | 2 (English, German) | English only |
| Export formats | CSV · PDF · Markdown · Email | PDF · CSV · HTML · Markdown · JSON · Jira |
| Features | 48 | 44 |
| Integrations | 3 | 1 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Echometer | Spreo |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓note |
| Health Checks | ✓ | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | — |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polling | ✓ | ✓note |
| Icebreaker games | ✓note | ✓note |
| Agile Estimations | — | ✓ |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓note |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓note |
| AI action items | ✓note | — |
| AI Summaries | — | — |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | — |
| Action dashboard | ✓ | ✓note |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓ | ✓note |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓note | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓note | — |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | ✓note |
| Public API | — | ✓note |
| Webhooks | ✓note | — |
| MCP server | — | ✓note |
Echometer — pros
- + 200+ research-grounded health-check items, custom models and auto-scheduled pulse surveys
- + Longitudinal team radars, heatmaps and a cross-team workspace dashboard tied to retros
- + German-only hosting (Open Telekom Cloud, Magdeburg/Biere) with a GDPR data processing agreement
- + Open actions resurface automatically in the next retro, with owner email reminders and one-click push to Jira
- + Per-team, not per-seat, pricing — €87/mo covers three teams of eight, billed annually
Echometer — cons
- − Beyond Jira, Slack and Teams only get 'retro started' and 'survey sent' pings — no summaries, Confluence or Linear
- − No public API; webhooks fire on just two events, and export is PDF, CSV, Markdown or an emailed recap
- − No SOC 2 — the ISO 27001 certificate covers the datacenter, not Echometer itself
- − Retro-side AI is one function: suggested measures. No clustering, no AI session summary
- − No scheduled retros — cadence reminders nudge the team admin, but every session is started by hand
Spreo — 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
- + Gadget shelf built for live sessions: a shared Jukebox music player, timers, spinners, buzzers and a voter panel, with confetti and throwable hats on top
- + Official MCP server (beta) lets Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot read, build and edit boards under your own permissions, with an account-level kill switch and a connected-members list for admins
- + Fully configurable voting rounds — votes per person, duplicate votes, and voting on topics as well as individual stickies
- + Solid two-way Jira integration: backlog refinement, story points and issue creation in-board
- + Hide Identities host control makes writing <em>and</em> voting permanently anonymous, toggleable per activity
- + EU-hosted (Amsterdam) and GDPR-aligned (SOC 2 / ISO 27001 sit at the Digital Ocean infrastructure layer, not Spreo)
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
- − <strong>Jira, SSO and PDF export all start at the $6/user Business plan</strong>, so the $4 Starter headline is misleading past a single team space
- − In-product AI limited to beta sticky-note clustering — no summaries, action-item extraction, sentiment or coaching; MCP moves the AI into your own assistant rather than the board
- − The HTTP API has no public reference — you need a Spreo login to see what it does, which makes it hard to evaluate before buying
- − No ongoing free plan; expired trials pause to read-only
- − Desktop and laptop only — the vendor states Spreo runs on <em>"all desktop and laptop devices"</em>, with no mobile or tablet support
- − Two renames in under a year leave the review trail split across three names — G2 files it under <em>Ludi</em>, Capterra and Product Hunt under <em>Metro Retro</em>
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