Free Planning Poker for Agile Teams

Point Poker is a free online planning poker tool for agile and scrum teams. Create a room, drop the link into Slack, Teams or Zoom, and everyone reveals their estimate at the same time. There is nothing to install and no account needed to play.

Every feature is free for every team. Other planning poker tools cap the free tier at seven participants, or nine votes a game, or they put the timer and the averages behind a paid plan. Here you get 20 people per room, unlimited voting rounds, unlimited stories, all three card decks, the timer, the full facilitator analytics and export, for nothing.

Simultaneous reveal is the whole point. Everyone votes privately, the cards flip together, and nobody anchors on the first number said out loud. Where the estimates differ, the spread and the outliers are marked so the discussion starts at the disagreement instead of finding its way there.

If you know the ceremony as scrum poker, pointing poker, poker planning, sprint poker, estimation poker or agile poker, this is that. Six names, one game, and the same room runs all of them.

Built for the person running the session

Most of the friction in an estimation meeting lands on the facilitator, so most of the tooling here is theirs.

What it costs, and where the catch usually is

Free planning poker tools normally have a limit somewhere. These are the ones teams actually run into, and where this tool sits against each.

Works with the tools you already have

Nothing to install, for anyone, including whoever administers your tracker.

Paste a backlog straight out of Jira, Linear, Azure DevOps or a spreadsheet into the queue, size it as a team, then export the agreed estimates as CSV and bulk-update the tracker. There is no plugin, no OAuth prompt and no admin approval ticket standing between you and Thursday's refinement session.

Sharing works the same way. The room is a URL, so it goes into Slack, Teams, Zoom, Meet or a calendar invite and everyone joins from the browser they already have open, on a laptop or a phone.

How it works

  1. Create a room, or open a link someone shared with you
  2. Add the story or task you are estimating
  3. Everyone plays a card at the same time — Fibonacci, T-shirt, or Powers of 2
  4. Reveal together, and discuss only where the estimates differ
  5. The facilitator records the agreed estimate
  6. Move straight to the next item without resetting the room

Frequently asked questions

Is this planning poker tool actually free?

Yes, all of it, for everyone. Up to 20 participants, unlimited voting rounds, unlimited stories, all three card decks, the queue, the countdown timer, facilitator analytics, CSV and clipboard export, and two fixed Team Rooms. There is no credit card field anywhere, no trial clock and no advertising.

Do I need to create an account?

No. Type your name, create a room, share the link. A free account does two things and nothing else: it reserves two permanent Team Room URLs to you so no other team can claim them, and it keeps your sprint history when you switch devices.

How many people can join a planning poker session?

Up to 20 people per room, and that count includes facilitators as well as voters. For a bigger group than that, run two rooms side by side and merge the results.

How is this different from other free planning poker tools?

Most free tiers cap something that matters. Seven participants. Nine votes a game. Five issues a session. Or they run ads and keep the timer and the averages for paying customers. Nothing here is capped and there are no ads.

Why use Fibonacci numbers for story points?

Nobody can reliably tell a 7 from an 8. The widening Fibonacci gaps (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34) force a choice between sizes that are actually different, which makes the estimate faster and more honest.

Does this work for remote and distributed teams?

Yes. Paste the room link into Slack, Teams or the meeting chat and everyone joins from the browser they already have open, on desktop or phone.

Is scrum poker the same as planning poker?

Yes, and so are pointing poker, poker planning, sprint poker, estimation poker and agile poker. Six names, one ceremony: private sizing, simultaneous reveal, then a discussion wherever the cards disagree. This tool runs all of them, because they are the same thing.

Can we estimate in hours instead of story points?

You can put any numbers you like on the cards, but hours undo most of what the ceremony is for: they invite false precision, and they stop being comparable the moment the team's makeup changes. Points measure relative size instead, and a date comes from measured velocity rather than from converting each card.

Do I need a Jira plugin to use this?

No, and there isn't one. Paste your issues into the room queue in a single go, estimate together, then export the agreed points as CSV and bulk-update Jira, Linear or Azure DevOps from the file. Nothing to install and no admin approval needed.

What is the Team Alignment score?

The Team Alignment score, which only facilitators see, is the percentage of stories that reached consensus on the first vote — every voter playing the same card. A high score means the backlog is well defined. A low one flags stories that need clearer acceptance criteria before the sprint starts, which is more useful than it sounds.

What happens to my session data?

Rooms are temporary. A room and its votes are deleted when the session ends, and idle rooms are swept automatically. There is no advertising and there are no third-party analytics cookies. Sprint history is stored only if you are signed in, and only for you.

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