Kollabe
7.5Agile meetings made easy — retros, standups and planning poker
Kollabe is a focused agile-meetings platform bundling sprint retrospectives, daily standups, planning poker and 600+ icebreakers in a single lightweight workspace. Anonymous voting, async contributions, AI-generated summaries and sync-back to Jira, GitHub, Linear and Azure DevOps come standard, on a flat <strong>per-space</strong> rather than per-seat price.
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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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Kollabe scores 7.5 overall and is best for small to mid-size agile teams that want retros, standups and planning poker in one clean tool — without per-seat pricing. 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.
Kollabe leads on value, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade. Ludi leads on ease of use, retro toolkit and fun factor.
Across our seven scoring dimensions, Kollabe edges ahead with an overall score of 7.5. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Kollabe | Ludi |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Small |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Free limit | 10 members per room, ~4 meetings/month, 7-day history | 30-day free trial; boards become read-only when the trial expires |
| Starting price | $29/mo | $5/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $29/mo | $120/mo |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2023 | 2020 |
| HQ | Sydney, Australia | UK |
| Features | 22 | 33 |
| Integrations | 4 | 1 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Kollabe | Ludi |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓ note |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| Polling | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Action dashboard | — | — |
| Custom templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | ✓ | ✓ note |
| Independent voting | — | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ | — |
| Agile Estimations | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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 |
Kollabe — Pros
- + Flat per-space pricing — unlimited team members on Premium ($29/mo)
- + Bundles retros, standups, planning poker and icebreakers in one tool
- + No-signup join links lower friction for ad-hoc participants
- + Direct sync-back to Jira, GitHub, Linear and Azure DevOps
- + Public API and MCP server access on Premium
Kollabe — Cons
- − No Slack or Microsoft Teams integration
- − No SOC 2 / no advertised GDPR posture — weak for enterprise procurement
- − No dedicated health-check, team-radar or longitudinal pulse feature
- − Solo-founder operation; SSO/SAML and SLA gated behind Enterprise contact-sales
- − Free tier capped at ~4 meetings/month with 7-day 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) 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