Estimioo
4.1Free planning poker, retrospectives and standups for Scrum teams
Estimioo is a lightweight, browser-based agile-ceremony tool that bundles AI-assisted planning poker, a basic sprint retrospective board and async daily standups into one shared workspace. The product's centre of gravity is estimation; retrospectives are a real but thin module — a single <strong>went well / didn't go well / improve</strong> reflection board with session summaries, not a deep retro toolkit.
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Ludi
5.7Playful 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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Estimioo scores 4.1 overall and is best for small, distributed Scrum teams who mainly want fast, AI-assisted planning poker and async standups, and are happy with a simple reflection board for retros rather than a dedicated retro suite. It offers a free tier.
Ludi scores 5.7 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 $4/user/mo billed annually.
Estimioo leads on value and AI & insights. Ludi leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, fun factor, integrations and enterprise-grade.
Across our seven scoring dimensions, Ludi 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 | Estimioo | Ludi |
|---|---|---|
| Category | All-in-One Agile | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | Up to 10 participants, 5 sessions/month, 5 AI estimates/month, 1-hour session expiry | 30-day free trial; boards become read-only when the trial expires |
| Starting price | $7/workspace/mo | $4/user/mo billed annually |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $7/mo (Team plan is flat per-workspace, not per-seat) | $96/mo billed annually |
| Enterprise | No | Yes |
| Founded | — | 2020 |
| HQ | — | UK |
| Data residency | — | European Union |
| Languages | English only | English only |
| Features | 10 | 33 |
| Integrations | 1 | 1 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Estimioo | Ludi |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓note | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓note |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | — | ✓ |
| Team Insights | ✓note | — |
| Polling | — | ✓note |
| Action dashboard | — | — |
| Custom templates | — | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | — | ✓note |
| Independent voting | — | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓note | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓note | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | — |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓note |
| Whiteboard | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓note | ✓note |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | — | — |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓note |
| GDPR | — | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | — | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
Estimioo — pros
- + Genuinely cheap — flat $7/workspace/mo Team plan (not per-seat) and a usable free tier
- + Fast, no-friction planning poker with multiple scales and hidden-until-reveal voting
- + AI story-point suggestions and estimation-accuracy tracking, powered by Claude with zero data retention
- + Guests join without signup via link or QR code — low overhead for distributed teams
- + Three ceremonies (poker, retro, standup) in one shared workspace
Estimioo — cons
- − Retrospectives are a single fixed went-well/didn't/improve board — no template library, dot voting, grouping, anonymity, timer or action items with owners
- − AI is aimed at estimation, not retros — no theme clustering, sentiment or retro summaries
- − No Slack/Teams, Confluence, GitHub, Linear or Azure DevOps integrations; Jira is a paste-URL preview for poker only
- − No SSO, SOC 2, audit logs or published data-residency — not built for enterprise procurement
- − Free sessions expire after 1 hour and cap at 5/month; no recurring retros or persistent retro history
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) and GDPR-aligned (SOC 2 / ISO 27001 sit at the Digital Ocean infrastructure layer, not Ludi)
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 a paid/Enterprise plan; no SCIM or audit logs advertised