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Retrospectives · UK · Founded 2020
Ludi
Playful collaborative whiteboard for agile teams
Overall score
6.9
Playful collaborative whiteboard for agile teams
Best for: Agile teams who want retros, planning and workshops to feel visual and fun, with a solid Jira-backed delivery loop.
Ludi (formerly Metro Retro) pitches itself as the online whiteboard that makes team collaboration focused and fun. Following its August 2025 rebrand, the company explicitly broadened its scope from retrospectives to general agile collaboration, naming scrum masters, product owners, engineering managers, agile coaches, delivery managers and product designers as target users.
"More than 250,000 agile teams" — Ludi homepage
It leans on a 100+ template library spanning retros, planning, estimation, icebreakers and futurespectives, and emphasises Jira-backed refinement and estimation alongside its long-standing retro and icebreaker formats. The voice is deliberately warm and playful — gestures, gadgets, hats, and an illustrated canvas — positioned against drier rivals.
Ludi (formerly Metro Retro) remains one of the most charming retro experiences on the market, and the rebrand has widened its toolkit without diluting that. The template library spans retros, icebreakers, futurespectives, planning poker, story mapping and check-ins, and the Jira integration genuinely supports two-way refinement, estimation and issue creation. February 2026 brought a first AI feature — Sort into Topics auto-groups stickies into labelled clusters — and shipping has continued steadily through Q1 2026 (calendar, object tray, new templates).
Through the agile-buyer lens, gaps remain: no built-in health check or longitudinal pulse product, no AI summaries, action-item extraction or sentiment, no async or recurring retros, and integrations beyond Jira are absent. SSO is Enterprise-only; SCIM, audit logs and domain restrictions are not advertised. Best for live, visual ceremonies on top of a Jira-driven backlog — less suited to organisations needing async retros, cross-team rollups, deeper AI tooling, or a hardened enterprise control plane.