Metro Retro
3.0Rebranded twice — Metro Retro became Ludi, now Spreo; the playful retro whiteboard lives on
Metro Retro was a fun, freeform online whiteboard built for sprint retrospectives, known for its playful templates, timer and engagement features. The product has since been renamed twice by its maker, Deqo Software Limited: to Ludi on 4 August 2025, then to Spreo on 1 July 2026 after a trademark cease-and-desist. The metroretro.io domain now 301-redirects straight to spreo.io. If you are searching for Metro Retro, the product you want is Spreo; the original Metro Retro brand and domain are no longer maintained.
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Miro
7.2Innovation Workspace where retros happen on the same canvas as discovery and planning
Miro is the dominant online whiteboard, now sold as an AI Innovation Workspace. It pairs an infinite canvas with a 7,000+ template library (300+ retro formats among them), AI clustering by sentiment/keyword/author, Engage live polls and word clouds (included with Business since June 2026), Blueprints for reusable multi-board workflows, real-time and async collaboration, and a 250+ app marketplace with first-party two-way card sync to Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear and ClickUp. An official MCP server runs on every plan under per-tier daily call quotas.
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Metro Retro scores 3.0 overall and is best for searchers who remember Metro Retro and need to know where it went — the product now ships as <strong>Spreo</strong>. Go there, or to a dedicated retro platform, instead. It offers custom pricing.
Miro scores 7.2 overall and is best for large product, design and engineering orgs that already run discovery, planning and retros on one canvas and want AI clustering plus deep Jira/Azure DevOps/Asana sync. It offers a free tier.
Miro leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, value, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations, open platform and enterprise-grade.
Across our eight scoring dimensions, Miro edges ahead with an overall score of 7.2. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Metro Retro | Miro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Whiteboard | Whiteboard |
| Team size | Small | Enterprise |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Free limit | 3 editable boards, full 7,000+ template library, 250+ app marketplace, 5 Talktracks, 100 MCP calls/day and a small AI allowance (10 credits/mo per the pricing page, 25 per the help centre); no timer, voting, private mode, private boards, guests, Blueprints, Jira Cards or high-res export | |
| Starting price | Free | $8/user/mo billed annually ($10 billed monthly) |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | N/A — brand retired; see the Spreo listing | $192/mo billed annually, $240/mo billed monthly (Starter, 24 seats) |
| Enterprise | No | Yes |
| Founded | — | 2011 |
| HQ | United Kingdom | Amsterdam, NL |
| Data residency | — | United States · European Union · Australia · JP |
| Languages | English only | 8 (English, Spanish, German, …) |
| Export formats | PDF · CSV · HTML · Markdown · JSON · Jira | Image · PDF · CSV |
| Features | 8 | 47 |
| Integrations | 0 | 12 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Metro Retro | Miro |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| Custom templates | — | ✓ |
| Anonymous input | — | ✓note |
| Health Checks | — | — |
| Action tracking | — | ✓note |
| Async mode | — | ✓ |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Independent voting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polling | — | ✓note |
| Icebreaker games | — | — |
| Agile Estimations | — | ✓note |
| Team Kudos | — | — |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓ |
| AI action items | — | ✓note |
| AI Summaries | — | ✓ |
| Team Insights | — | — |
| In-meeting AI assistant | — | ✓note |
| Action dashboard | — | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | ✓note |
| Azure DevOps | — | ✓note |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | ✓note |
| Confluence | — | ✓ |
| GitHub | — | ✓note |
| GitLab | — | — |
| Jira | — | ✓note |
| Linear | — | ✓note |
| Microsoft Teams | — | ✓ |
| Monday.com | — | ✓note |
| Notion | — | ✓note |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | — | ✓ |
| Trello | — | ✓note |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓ |
| GDPR | — | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | — | ✓note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | ✓note |
| ISO 27001 | — | ✓ |
| On-premises | — | — |
| Public API | — | ✓ |
| Webhooks | — | — |
| MCP server | — | ✓ |
Metro Retro — pros
- + The product you remember still exists — it now ships as Spreo (Metro Retro → Ludi, 4 Aug 2025 → Spreo, 1 Jul 2026)
- + The vendor says accounts, boards, data and workflows carried through both renames, and old links redirect
- + Carried its playful templates, session timer and icebreakers into the rebrand
- + Freeform whiteboard canvas that's friendly for engagement-first retros
Metro Retro — cons
- − The Metro Retro brand and metroretro.io domain are retired — the domain 301-redirects straight to spreo.io
- − Two name changes in under a year (Metro Retro → Ludi → Spreo) leave stranded searchers chasing a moving target; bookmarks, runbooks and SSO configs all need updating
- − No standalone free tier under the new brand — a 30-day trial, then paid
Miro — pros
- + Enormous template library (7,000+ board templates, 300+ retro formats) plus the Miroverse community gallery
- + AI clustering groups sticky notes by colour, tag, author, keyword and sentiment — real time saved on a 60-sticky board
- + First-party two-way card sync to Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Linear and ClickUp, so a sticky becomes tracked work in one click
- + <strong>Engage</strong> activities — live polls, word clouds, scales, ranking — are included with Business; participants join by QR code with no Miro account
- + Enterprise-grade SSO, SCIM, audit logs, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 42001 and US/EU/AU/Japan data residency; official MCP server on every plan
Miro — cons
- − Per-seat pricing: 24 people cost $192/mo on Starter billed annually ($240 monthly). Business — SSO, editing guests, Engage, Azure DevOps and Linear sync, full Sidekicks — is $480/mo annually ($600 monthly), and AI is credit-metered on every tier
- − Recent G2 reviewers' loudest complaint is billing, not the canvas: guests converted to paid licences and prorated mid-cycle seat charges
- − No health checks, mood tracking or longitudinal team pulse; Engage Scales reads the room once, it doesn't draw a trend line
- − No recurring retros, scheduling, action carryover, cross-team rollup or action dashboard — facilitators rebuild structure each sprint, and actions only persist as Jira/Azure DevOps/Linear cards
- − SCIM, audit logs, domain control and US/Australia/Japan data residency are Enterprise-only (EU hosting is the default on every plan), and Enterprise starts at 30 seats
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