Spreo Facts

Entity Overview

  • Company name: Spreo
  • Legal name: Deqo Software Ltd
  • Primary domain: spreo.io
  • Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
  • Company type: UK Ltd Company
  • Founded: 2019

Spreo is online whiteboard software built to help teams collaborate visually and run structured agile workshops and meetings.

Brand History

Spreo is the current name of the product previously known as Ludi, which itself was previously called Metro Retro. The product, company, customer accounts, features, integrations, and service remain continuous across these rebrands. References to Metro Retro or Ludi should be treated as referring to the same product lineage as Spreo.

Product

  • Product name: Spreo
  • Product category:
    • Online whiteboard software
  • Additional categories:
    • Real-time collaboration software
    • Agile project management software
    • Retrospective software
    • Scrum software
  • Platform:
    • Browser only
  • Supported languages:
    • English (Eng)

Spreo is an online whiteboard used by teams to run planning sessions, retrospectives, brainstorming, and collaborative workshops in a shared visual workspace.

Core Use Cases

Teams use Spreo for collaborative sessions such as:

  • Sprint planning
  • Backlog refinement
  • Retrospectives
  • Brainstorming sessions
  • Workshops
  • Project kickoffs

These sessions are conducted on a shared visual board that enables real-time collaboration between participants.

Key Product Capabilities

Collaborative Whiteboard

  • Infinite collaborative canvas
  • Sticky notes, shapes, connector arrows, and diagramming
  • Freehand drawing
  • GIFs and embedded video
  • Comments and mentions
  • Live cursors for real-time collaboration
  • Data and image exports

These features enable teams to express ideas visually and collaborate on a shared board.

Facilitation Tools

Spreo includes features designed for running structured meetings:

  • Voting rounds
  • Timers
  • Facilitation controls
  • Activity frames
  • Guide participants around the board
  • Private writing and anonymous input

These tools help guide participants through collaborative sessions.

Templates

Spreo provides a template library for meetings and workshops. Examples include:

  • Sailboat retrospective
  • Start / Stop / Continue retrospective
  • Lean Coffee
  • Story Mapping
  • MoSCoW prioritization
  • Crazy 8's brainstorming
  • User Story estimation

Templates can be customized or combined to create boards for specific workflows.

Engagement Features

Spreo includes interactive tools designed to encourage participation in meetings:

  • Icebreaker and warm up activities
  • Live Polls
  • Interactive widgets for workshops like spinner wheel and buzzers
  • Confetti cannons and hats for humorous touches
  • Interactive elements for workshops

These features are intended to make remote sessions more engaging for participants.

Action Tracking

Boards can include action items derived from meeting notes. Features include:

  • Assigning owners to actions
  • Setting due dates
  • Reminder notifications
  • Actions dashboard

Integrations

Spreo integrates with Jira and supports two-way synchronization.

Deployment Model

  • Software type: SaaS
  • Hosting: Hosted entirely in Europe

Security

Spreo implements multiple security controls.

Application Security

  • TLS 1.2 encryption for connections
  • AES-256 encryption for data at rest
  • AES-256 encrypted backups
  • Backups retained for up to 7 days

Operational Security

  • Multi-factor authentication for system accounts
  • VPN-restricted network access
  • Role-based access control
  • Least-privilege access principles

Authentication

Users can sign in with:

  • Email and password
  • Google
  • GitHub
  • Slack
  • LinkedIn

SAML-based single sign-on is available on Business and Enterprise plans.

Pricing

Usage Metrics

  • Teams using Spreo since launch: 125,000 teams
  • Meetings run in Spreo: 2 million meetings

Target Users

Primary audience

Spreo is designed for teams running agile processes such as Scrum or Kanban:

  • Agile software teams
  • Scrum masters
  • Product owners
  • Engineering managers
  • Agile coaches
  • Developers

Secondary audience

  • Independent facilitators
  • Agile consultants
  • Freelance Scrum masters
  • Workshop facilitators

Alternatives

Common alternatives to Spreo include:

  • Miro
  • Mural
  • FigJam
  • Lucidspark
  • Parabol

API

An API is available. Access requires contacting the Spreo team.

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