Planning poker online for team estimation
Gather the team in a room behind one link, reveal the cards at once and agree on an estimate in a minute. Nothing to install, nobody to sign up.
Create a room How a round goes
Free. Guests join by the link — no account needed.
How a planning poker round goes
Create a room
One button and the table is ready. The name and the round rules change on the fly, and topics you already know can go into the queue before anyone arrives.
Invite the team by link or code
The link works without registration: a teammate opens it, says who they are and takes a seat. No accounts to create, and when a link is awkward to pass around, the room lets people in by its six-character code.
Name the item and deal the cards
Everyone sees the topic of the round, and the ones after it wait in the queue. Each person picks a card in private — until the reveal, the table shows only card backs.
Reveal and agree
Cards open at once, manually or automatically once everyone has voted. The table works out the result and points at whoever went furthest from it — those are the people worth talking to.
What you get at the table
Fibonacci deck and a card of your own
Zero, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 — and “poher” for items not worth arguing about. Missing a value? Type your own: it lands on the table as a normal card and counts towards the result.
Round timer
Two or five minutes for the discussion. When time is up the timer reminds you to decide, but it never reveals the cards — that stays with the team.
Median instead of average
The result of a round is a median or an average, whichever you agree on. A median is calmer about a single outlier and will not let it drag the whole answer.
Task queue and estimation history
Topics go into a list before the game, and every round the room takes the next one on its own; anything urgent goes onto the table out of turn. What has been estimated stays right there as history, and an item key opens as a link into your tracker.
Chat and reactions
The discussion happens next to the table, not in another window. Reactions fly onto the table — for someone sitting on their card that says more than a reminder.
Private rooms and roles
A room can be closed to outsiders; a participant can be removed or banned. Round rules and the reveal stay with the moderator.
Phone and dark theme
The table, the cards in your hand and the panels fit a narrow screen with no horizontal scrolling. The theme is light, dark or whatever the system says.
English and Russian
The whole interface switches, the “poher” card included — in Russian it reads похер. The chosen language lives in your profile and travels with the account.
The deck: Fibonacci and the “poher” card
The numbers grow along the Fibonacci sequence, and the gaps between them are not decoration. The bigger an item, the coarser its estimate should be: choosing between five and eight is a real decision, while arguing seven against eight is time spent on nothing. The extra card says in one move what other decks need words for: this item is such that precision will change nothing. The top cards, thirteen and twenty-one, usually say less about the size of an item than about it being due for splitting.
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- 1
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- 21
- poher
- custom
Frequently asked questions
What is planning poker?
Planning poker is a way for a team to estimate an item so that the loudest or the most senior voice does not answer for everyone. Each person picks a card in private, all cards are revealed at once, and a disagreement becomes a reason to discuss the item rather than a reason to average the numbers.
Is it free?
Yes. Rooms, participants and rounds are unlimited and cost nothing: neither the cards nor the estimation history sit behind a paywall.
Do we need to sign up?
Not to join by a link — saying your name at the door is enough. An account is only needed so that rooms stay yours and open from another device.
How many people fit at the table?
As many as you invite: a room is built for a whole team rather than a pair, and everyone at the table is visible in the header.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. The table is built for a narrow screen: the cards in your hand, the field and the panels fit with no horizontal scrolling, and a room link opens straight from a messenger.
What values are in the deck?
Zero, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and “poher”. If the value you need is missing, type your own: it lands on the table as a normal card and counts towards the round result.
Why is this better than voting in a chat?
Because the cards stay closed until the reveal. The first estimate said out loud pulls the rest towards it — that anchoring breaks any round of voting taken in turns, and closed cards exist precisely because of it.
Understanding estimation
What is planning poker
Where the method came from, why the cards are revealed at once, and what it actually buys a team.
How to run planning poker
The round step by step — from stating the item to recording the estimate, and what to do about a wide spread.
Story points explained
Why estimates in hours lie, what points really measure, and how a team agrees on their size.
The Fibonacci scale in estimation
Why the deck has gaps between its numbers and why those gaps are more honest than a ruler.
Agile estimation in Scrum
Where estimation sits in the sprint, how velocity comes out of it, and what not to expect from it.
Planning poker for a remote team
Running a round on a call across time zones without turning it into a half-hour meeting.
Get the team around the table now
One button creates the room, the link goes into your team chat, and the first item is estimated a minute later.
Create a room