GoRetro
5.8Make every sprint impactful, efficient, and fun
GoRetro is a sprint-centric retro and estimation suite combining retrospectives, planning poker, capacity planning and a Jira-fed sprint monitor, with a generous free tier and per-team paid plans.
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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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GoRetro scores 5.8 overall and is best for scrum teams that live in Jira and want a polished retro plus planning-poker bundle priced per team. It offers paid plans from $29/team/mo.
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.
GoRetro leads on retro toolkit, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade. Ludi leads on value and fun factor.
Across our seven scoring dimensions, GoRetro edges ahead with an overall score of 5.8. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | GoRetro | Ludi |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Any | Small |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Free limit | 30-day free trial of all paid features, no credit card required | 30-day free trial; boards become read-only when the trial expires |
| Starting price | $29/team/mo | $4/user/mo billed annually |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $87/mo (Premium, 3 teams, billed annually) | $96/mo billed annually |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2020 | 2020 |
| HQ | Israel | UK |
| Data residency | — | European Union |
| Languages | English only | English only |
| Features | 35 | 33 |
| Integrations | 2 | 1 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | GoRetro | 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 | ✓note | — |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓note |
| Whiteboard | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | — |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | — |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | ✓ | ✓note |
| Linear | — | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | — |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | ✓note | — |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | ✓ | ✓note |
| GDPR | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | ✓note | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | — |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | — |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | — |
| Webhooks | — | — |
GoRetro — pros
- + Generous free tier with unlimited public boards and team members
- + Polished, real-time facilitation UX with strong template library
- + Bundles planning poker, capacity calculator and sprint monitor with retros
- + Tight Jira Cloud integration for sprint-data-driven discussions
- + SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and SAML SSO available on Organization tier
GoRetro — cons
- − Slack integration sits behind paid tiers; SAML SSO requires Organization tier
- − Integration breadth is narrow: no native MS Teams, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Linear, Confluence or Trello
- − AI story is thin: 'Joker cards' and meeting recap export rather than real AI clustering, summaries or sentiment
- − Async is just a multi-day feedback deadline, not a structured async flow; no whiteboard, no scheduling/recurring retros
- − Per-team pricing scales unevenly across many squads, and cross-team rollups are thin
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