Spreo Alternatives

We’re building an all-in-one platform for IT managers to manage their SaaS access, spend and vendors. Although we’re small, we are doing retros regularly, especially with Spreo. The UX is just fantastic. I really don’t like Miro, it’s so uninspired. Spreo is so much better for it. They reinvented a few UX things that just makes everything nicer to use. It’s a pleasure and fun to use it. Reminds me about Apple products in the early days. For instance, little details like everyone has a different writing font for their stickies. :-)

As a Founder in Residence at EF I have been doing loads of customer calls. Taking notes on those doesn’t really work well on Notion as you don’t have stickies to move around later and better organise your thoughts.

I tried Miro but it’s just so slow. I used to use Spreo (formerly Metro Retro) for retros at my previous company and I knew it was fast, and now I use it as my main “customer discovery note-taking” tool of choice!

Spreo has been a game-changer for collaboration.

I coach many different teams as an Agile coach and I’m always on the lookout for tools that genuinely enhance collaboration and efficiency.

The simplicity of Spreo is important. I’ve experimented with other whiteboards but they were overcomplicated, whereas the teams embraced Spreo without hesitation.

I run retrospectives and interactive training sessions but also use Spreo to analyze the root causes of problems (like the 5 Whys), structure meetings with Lean Coffee, use sprint planning poker for estimation, or just for a brainstorming session to identify or solve problems.

Spreo’s focused list of features combined with ease of use is a major differentiator and why we continue to prefer it over more complex online tools.

We first used it to power online brainstorming sessions. The ability to build our own digital boards with ease and get first time users to use them after a short briefing was amazing.

We then moved to using it for our Scrum Taskboards, Story Maps and Product Roadmaps with the same positive results.

Our engineering team has used Spreo (formerly Metro Retro) for years. We love it! They’ve thought through all the small things that make a retro fun, as opposed to using a generic whiteboarding application. For us, it’s the small things. Hats, confetti, slaps. It makes retros super fun and engaging.

MediaWorks is a not-for-profit consultancy providing relevant print and digital media to Christian ministries. We are using Spreo for our biweekly Scrum Sprint Retrospectives for a web-based product we are building. Spreo gives us a fit-to-purpose tool for retrospectives.

Instead of using a generic whiteboarding tool, we are able to take advantage of the functionality you want during retrospectives. I especially like private stickies feature and each person being in full control of what they share and when. Voting on stickies is easy. Capturing action items is easy. Having a visible timer countdown is excellent. Confetti and similar add some fun to it all.

Work should be efficient and fun and Spreo gives that to us for the 2 hours per month we are in retrospective events.