Metro Retro
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What is Metro Retro
Metro Retro is a web-based tool for running agile retrospectives and other structured team meetings. It helps facilitators collect input asynchronously or in real time, group and discuss themes, and track action items after the session. The product is commonly used by software and product teams running recurring retros, sprint reviews, or team health check-ins. Its focus is on collaborative boards and facilitation workflows rather than meeting recording or transcription.
Purpose-built retro facilitation
Metro Retro centers on retrospective workflows such as collecting notes, grouping, voting, and turning outcomes into actions. This makes it well-suited for recurring agile ceremonies where structure and repeatability matter. Compared with general meeting tooling, it provides a more guided experience for facilitators and participants. It also supports running sessions with distributed teams without requiring everyone to be in the same room.
Real-time collaborative boards
Participants can add and edit notes on a shared board during the meeting, which supports interactive discussion. The board format helps teams visualize themes and converge on priorities through grouping and voting. This approach works for both synchronous workshops and partially asynchronous input collection. It reduces reliance on separate whiteboarding tools for the retro portion of a meeting.
Action-oriented meeting outputs
Metro Retro emphasizes converting discussion into concrete follow-ups, which helps teams avoid retros that end without next steps. Capturing decisions and action items in the same workspace as the discussion reduces context switching. This is useful for teams that want lightweight meeting documentation without full meeting minutes. It also supports continuity across recurring retros by keeping prior sessions accessible.
Limited meeting intelligence features
Metro Retro is not primarily a meeting recording, transcription, or conversation intelligence platform. Teams looking for automated notes, searchable transcripts, speaker analytics, or highlight reels typically need separate tools. This can increase tool sprawl for organizations standardizing on AI meeting assistance. It is strongest for facilitated workshops rather than general meeting capture.
Narrower scope beyond retros
While it can be used for other workshops, the core design targets retrospectives and similar structured exercises. Organizations seeking end-to-end meeting management (agenda distribution, calendar-centric workflows, and broad meeting documentation) may find gaps. Some teams may still rely on separate systems for meeting agendas and decision logs. Fit can be less ideal for ad hoc meetings that do not follow a board-based format.
Integration depth may vary
Depending on the team’s stack, integrations with chat, issue tracking, and identity management may not cover all enterprise requirements. If action items need to flow automatically into project tracking, teams may need manual steps or custom processes. Larger organizations may also require more controls around governance, retention, and administration than smaller teams. These factors can affect scalability across multiple departments.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $4 per member/month (when billed annually; $48 per member/year) or $5 per member/month (billed monthly) | Single shared Team space; Unlimited boards; Secure (member access only) boards; Facilitation tools; All professional templates; Action tracking & mentions; Unlimited free read-only board viewers. |
| Business | $6 per member/month (when billed annually; $72 per member/year) or $8 per member/month (billed monthly) | Advanced collaboration & team management; Unlimited private teams and folders; Jira integration; Cross-team collaboration; External collaborators (2 per board); Time Machine/board history; SSO; Priority support; (for up to ~200 members). |
| Enterprise | Contact sales / custom pricing | Scaled collaboration for 100+ users; Unlimited teams; SLAs; Founder onboarding; Multi-year contracts; On-premises option; custom payment/terms. |
