Ludi Reviews & Product Details

Ludi (formerly Metro Retro) is an online whiteboard designed for agile teams to run retrospectives, sprint planning, estimation, roadmapping, team health checks, and workshops. It combines a realtime infinite canvas with purpose-built meeting facilitation tools, allowing Scrum Masters, agile coaches, engineering managers, and product teams to run structured agile ceremonies in a shared visual space. Over 125,000 agile teams have used Ludi to run their meetings and collaborative sessions since 2019. It is suited to distributed and hybrid teams who need to run agile ceremonies remotely with the same level of engagement and structure as in-person sessions. Key features and capabilities include: *125+ agile ceremony templates* A curated library of expert-designed templates covering retrospective formats (Sailboat, Start/Stop/Continue, 4Ls, Mad/Sad/Glad, and more), sprint planning, poker estimation, story mapping, roadmapping, icebreakers, and workshops. Teams can also create and share custom templates across their organisation. *Meeting facilitation controls* Hosts can guide participants through structured exercises using activity frames, move participants to specific areas of the board, lock content, set timers for timeboxing, run readiness checks, and spotlight items for discussion. Private writing mode hides contributions until the host reveals them, preventing groupthink. The facilitator can also choose to make contributions anonymous. *Jira integration with two-way sync* Teams can pull Jira backlog items onto the board, estimate collaboratively using Fibonacci or T-shirt sizing, drag Jira cards around the canvas, create new Jira issues from sticky notes, and sync updates back to Jira automatically. This supports sprint planning and backlog refinement workflows without manual data entry between tools. *Built-in action tracking* Any sticky note can become an action item with an assignee and due date. Automated email reminders notify team members of upcoming and overdue actions. Actions carry forward into the next meeting for review, closing the continuous improvement loop from retrospectives. *Engagement and interactivity features* Built-in icebreaker activities, voting and polling tools, confetti cannons, virtual hats, gadgets, and gestures make remote meetings more interactive and reduce screen fatigue during recurring team sessions. Ludi provides dedicated team spaces with folder organisation, role-based access, and guest collaboration on supported plans. All collaboration happens in real time with live cursors, comments, mentions, and topic clustering. An AI-assisted grouping feature can automatically sort and organise sticky notes by theme. Ludi offers a 30-day free trial with full feature access. Paid plans start at $4 per team member per month.