Retrospective Tools

Estimioo vs Spreo

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing, features and integrations to help you pick the right retrospective tool.

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Estimioo

4.8

AI-powered planning poker, retrospectives and standups for agile teams

Estimioo is a lightweight, browser-based agile-ceremony tool that bundles AI-assisted planning poker and a 42-format sprint retrospective board into one shared workspace. Estimation is still the centre of gravity, but the retro board caught up in September 2026: optional Writing → Voting → Discuss phases with a shared timer, anonymous sessions or single anonymous cards, host-led card grouping, a 3–10 vote budget, action-item owners, and a carry-over banner fed by the host's personal action tracker. A Claude-powered summary returns team mood, key themes and ranked action items. What it still lacks is blind brainstorming, recurring retros, health-check trends and any retro export beyond a clipboard recap.

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Spreo

5.7

Playful 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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Summary

Estimioo scores 4.8 overall and is best for small, distributed agile teams who want AI-assisted planning poker and a capable 42-format retro board in one workspace for a flat $7 a month — and who can live without blind brainstorming, recurring retros, health-check trends or real Slack, Teams and retro-side Jira integrations. 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).

Estimioo leads on value and AI & insights. Spreo leads on ease of use, fun factor, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade.

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

Estimioo
Ease of Use7.5
Retro Toolkit6.5
Value9.0
Fun Factor6.5
AI & Insights4.5
Integrations2.5
Open Platform0.0
Enterprise-grade2.0
Spreo
Ease of Use8.5
Retro Toolkit6.5
Value7.0
Fun Factor8.0
AI & Insights2.0
Integrations3.0
Open Platform6.0
Enterprise-grade4.5
DetailEstimiooSpreo
CategoryAll-in-One AgileRetrospectives
Team sizeSmallSmall
Free tierYesNo
Free limitUp to 10 participants, 5 sessions/month (estimation + retro combined), 5 AI estimates/month, 1 AI retro summary per retro, 1 standup room with 7-day history, 1-hour session expiry, CSV export30-day free trial; boards become read-only when the trial expires
Starting price$7/workspace/mo$4/user/mo billed annually ($5 monthly)
Est. 3 teams × 8 people$7/mo (Team plan is flat per-workspace with unlimited participants, not per-seat; separate projects per team need the quote-only Enterprise tier)$144/mo billed annually (Business — 24 x $6; Starter's $96/mo covers only one shared team space)
EnterpriseYesYes
Founded—2019
HQ—UK
Data residency—European Union
Languages5 (English, German, Spanish, …)English only
Export formats—PDF · CSV · HTML · Markdown · JSON · Jira
Features3244
Integrations11

Feature & integration comparison

Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.

CapabilityEstimiooSpreo
Features
Custom templates✓note✓
Anonymous input✓note✓note
Health Checks✓note—
Action tracking✓note✓
Async mode✓note—
Whiteboard—✓
Independent voting✓note✓
Polling—✓note
Icebreaker games—✓note
Agile Estimations✓note✓
Team Kudos—✓note
AI grouping/clustering—✓note
AI action items✓note—
AI Summaries✓note—
Team Insights——
In-meeting AI assistant——
Action dashboard—✓note
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——
GDPR—✓
SSO / SAML—✓note
SCIM provisioning——
ISO 27001——
On-premises—✓note
Public API—✓note
Webhooks——
MCP server—✓note

Estimioo — pros

  • + Genuinely cheap — flat <strong>$7/workspace/mo</strong> with unlimited participants, plus a usable free tier; guests join by link or QR with no signup, in five UI languages
  • + A real facilitation flow: optional Writing → Voting → Discuss phases with a done-writing signal, host-led card grouping, a 3–10 vote budget and owners on action items
  • + Anonymous sessions (or a single anonymous card on a named board), and open actions from earlier retros resurface as a banner when the host starts the next one
  • + Unusually fun for the price: 340+ synced icebreakers, twelve ambient and music tracks, emoji reactions on cards and an in-session chat with GIFs
  • + One-click Claude retro summary returns team mood, key themes and ranked action items with <em>Add all to board</em>

Estimioo — cons

  • − No blind brainstorm — cards appear to everyone as they're written, so the retro page's <em>write first, discuss second</em> pitch rests on the facilitator, not the tool
  • − Follow-through belongs to the host, not the team: carry-over runs through a personal action tracker, nothing recurs or can be scheduled, and Team Radar scores don't trend across retros
  • − Thin integrations: Slack and Teams are copy-to-clipboard buttons, Jira is planning-poker only, Linear is still "on the way", and a retro exports nothing but a pasted recap — no API, webhooks or MCP
  • − No SOC 2, ISO 27001, DPA or data-residency option, and while Enterprise lists SSO, the shipped sign-in offers only Google and email
  • − Social proof is entirely unattributed — <em>450+ teams</em>, a <em>4.8</em> rating and a logo wall naming Accenture, Deloitte, Thoughtworks and Xero, with no G2, Capterra or Product Hunt listing to corroborate any of it

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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