Spreo

Spreo (formerly Metro Retro, then Ludi — renamed Spreo on 1 July 2026 after a US trademark cease-and-desist) is a visual agile collaboration whiteboard with 100+ templates spanning retros, planning poker, icebreakers and futurespectives. Its illustrated canvas and board gadgets — a shared Jukebox music player, timers, spinners, buzzers, confetti, throwable hats — make ceremonies feel engaging. An official MCP server (beta) and a signed-in HTTP API landed during 2026, but Jira, SSO and PDF export all require the $6/user Business plan, and in-product AI stops at beta sticky-note clustering.

Spreo — Metro Retro until August 2025, then Ludi, and Spreo since 1 July 2026 after a US trademark holder's cease-and-desist — pitches itself as the whiteboard built for agile ceremonies rather than general brainstorming.

"Spreo is the online whiteboard software that's more interesting than whatever your team has open in the other tab."

It names its buyers on the nav bar: scrum masters, agile coaches, delivery managers, product owners and engineering managers. The hook is a 100+ template library covering retros, sprint planning, refinement, planning poker and story mapping, with Jira-backed refinement front and centre. The vendor claims 125,000 teams and two million meetings since 2019, and keeps the voice deliberately unserious — gadgets, throwable hats, endless confetti.

Spreo is the liveliest canvas in this set for live, same-timezone ceremonies. Private Writing is on by default in Meeting Mode, Hide Identities makes authorship and votes permanently anonymous, voting rounds are properly configurable, and the Jira integration is genuinely two-way. A shared Jukebox, emoji stamps and a quick host poll keep a room engaged. The hats and confetti are charm rather than retro mechanics, though, and ROTI, kudos and check-ins exist only as board templates.

The newest piece is an official MCP server, in beta and listed on every plan as of October 2026: Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client can read, build and edit boards under your own permissions, behind an account-owner kill switch. The vendor is blunt that "this isn't AI inside the board", and in-product AI still stops at beta sticky clustering. There's no async mode, no recurring retros, no health-check product, and no SOC 2 of its own yet. Jira, SSO and PDF export sit on the $6/user Business plan, so three teams of eight cost $144/mo billed annually.