Ludi (formerly Metro Retro) is an online whiteboard tool for agile teams. Its core focus is not a general-purpose canvas, but structured collaboration meetings such as retrospectives, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Planning Poker, workshops, and team alignment sessions. It emphasizes real-time shared canvases, templated workflows, and easier participation for remote and hybrid teams.
The product offers real-time whiteboards, sticky notes, templates, activity frameworks, timers, private writing, facilitator controls, voting, grouping, comments, and mentions. Sticky notes are the main collaboration unit: teams can use them to capture ideas, cluster topics, vote, and then turn them into action items or Jira issues. Its task-tracking capabilities are fairly complete: users can create action items during meetings, assign owners and due dates, receive email reminders, and bring unfinished items back into later meetings for review. Jira integration is a highlight: backlog issues can be pulled onto the whiteboard for discussion and estimation, then synced back to Jira; sticky notes can also be converted directly into Jira issues.
The site indicates that free sign-up and Google login are supported, and that a 30-day free trial is available with no credit card required. There is also a Pricing entry on the website, but the crawled content does not disclose specific plans, prices, seat limits, or enterprise benefits, making it difficult to assess the long-term cost of use.
The main strengths are its focused use cases, especially for agile meetings; participants can join via a link, and interactions such as double-clicking to create sticky notes keep the learning curve low. Private writing and facilitator controls help reduce groupthink and off-topic discussion. Action items and Jira sync also make it easier to turn meeting outcomes into follow-through. Limitations include the lack of public information on common enterprise procurement requirements such as security compliance, SSO, audit logs, data residency, and role-based permissions. Information on third-party integrations beyond Jira is limited, and there is no clear sign of self-hosting or open API capabilities.
Ludi is suitable for Scrum Masters, agile coaches, development teams, delivery managers, product owners, and teams that need to run remote retrospectives, planning, and estimation meetings. If your organization already uses Jira and wants to consolidate discussion, estimation, and action items into the same workflow, Ludi is likely to be a strong fit.
The available content does not provide information about access from mainland China, payment methods, or local support, so practical usability is unknown. Teams in China may also want to evaluate alternatives such as Miro, Mural, FigJam, Feishu Whiteboard, BoardMix, and Tencent Docs Whiteboard.
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ludi.co is an United Kingdom SaaS Tools provider. TG4G tracks its product information, an overall rating of 7.0/10, and a China-accessibility score of Workable. Click "Visit Official Site" to reach ludi.co directly.