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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Neatro
6.5Structured retros built around psychological safety
Neatro runs retrospectives through a guided four-step framework with anonymous brainstorming, ROTI feedback, and Team Radar health checks aimed at distributed agile teams.
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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.
Neatro scores 6.5 overall and is best for scrum Masters who want a guided, safety-first facilitation flow with built-in team health tracking. It offers a free tier.
Ludi leads on ease of use, fun factor and AI & insights. Neatro leads on value, integrations and enterprise-grade.
Across our seven scoring dimensions, Ludi edges ahead with an overall score of 6.9. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Ludi | Neatro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Retrospectives | Retrospectives |
| Team size | Small | Mid-market |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Free limit | 30-day free trial; boards become read-only when the trial expires | Free forever for up to 10 members, unlimited retrospectives, 70+ templates, 30-day data history |
| Starting price | $5/user/mo | $23/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $120/mo | $23/mo |
| Enterprise | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2020 | 2020 |
| HQ | UK | Quebec, Canada |
| Features | 33 | 27 |
| Integrations | 1 | 4 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Ludi | Neatro |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ✓ note |
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
Neatro — Pros
- + Guided four-step framework that reliably produces psychological safety
- + Team Radar is a proper recurring health check, not a repurposed template
- + Automatic ROTI survey on every retro closes the feedback loop
- + Action carryover and a Kanban tracker keep follow-through visible between sessions
- + Generous free tier (up to 10 members, 70+ templates) and active blog/facilitation content
Neatro — Cons
- − No native Slack or Microsoft Teams integration for notifications or reminders
- − No AI features at all — no clustering, summaries, sentiment, or action-item extraction
- − Per-team pricing model gets awkward as the org scales beyond a handful of squads
- − Not independently SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR certified — relies on Azure's underlying certifications
- − No cross-team rollups, org-level dashboard, SCIM, or audit logs