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The Best Free Online Planning Poker Tool for Agile Teams

Illustrated distributed team playing planning poker online, holding up estimation cards toward their screens
Matt Lewandowski

Matt Lewandowski

Last updated 19/07/20265 min read

A free online planning poker tool should get your team from "let's estimate" to the first vote in under a minute, without accounts, downloads, or a paywall interrupting round four. This post covers what to check before picking one, and why Kollabe is our answer.

What to check before you pick

No signup required, for the facilitator or the voters

No cap on rooms or rounds you'll hit mid-sprint

The scales your team uses: Fibonacci, T-shirt, or custom

Anonymous voting, so estimates aren't anchored by seniority

Async support if your team spans time zones

Plenty of tools fail the first two: some cap free games at 9 votes, some require accounts for every voter, and some are 30-day trials wearing a free-plan costume. The full field is compared in our best free planning poker tools guide.

Why Kollabe is the best free online planning poker tool

Ten seconds to the first vote. Create a room, share the link, estimate. Nobody registers, nobody installs anything, and there's no cap on how many rooms or rounds you run. Free rooms hold up to 10 participants and stay accessible for 7 days. Every scale your team might argue for. Fibonacci, modified Fibonacci, T-shirt sizes, powers of two, and fully custom decks with a description per card. Across 5.4 million votes on the platform, the most popular custom deck is Fibonacci trimmed to cap at 13, and you can build exactly that in a minute. Voting that avoids anchoring. Votes stay hidden until everyone has cast, anonymous mode is one toggle, and async voting lets teammates in other time zones estimate on their own schedule before the reveal. A session that feels alive. Built-in chat, reactions, GIFs, and a coffee card for when the team needs a break. The coffee card gets played more than the number 13, which says something about sprint planning meetings. Room to grow, priced flat. When you need bi-directional Jira, Azure DevOps, or Linear sync, unlimited participants, and AI tools, the paid plan is $29/month for the whole team, not per user.

The data behind it

Kollabe publishes aggregate estimation data, which no other tool in this category does:
  • 5.4 million votes across 180,000+ planning poker sessions
  • The most common story point in the world is 3
  • Teams agree unanimously on the first vote only 1 in 6 times
The numbers refresh quarterly on the planning poker statistics page.

Running your first session

  1. Create a room
    Go to Kollabe planning poker and create a room. Pick a deck or build a custom one.
  2. Add your stories
    Paste story titles in manually, or sync from Jira on the premium plan.
  3. Vote and reveal
    Everyone votes in secret, then the cards flip together. Disagreement is the point: the 1 and the 8 in the same round is where the conversation starts.
  4. Record the estimate
    Agree on the final number and move to the next story. The average session covers about six stories.
If your reveals keep splitting wide, how to handle planning poker disagreements is worth ten minutes.

How it compares

KollabePlanning Poker OnlinePlanITpokerParabol
Signup to voteNoNoNoYes
Free-plan cap10 people/room9 votes, 5 issues/game7 users/room, ads2 teams
Custom decksYes, with descriptionsStandard scalesStandard scalesStandard scales
Paid pricing$29/mo per team$30/mo per facilitatorFree (ads)$8/user/mo
Deeper comparisons: Planning Poker Online, PlanITpoker, Parabol.

Kollabe, for most teams: unlimited free rooms with up to 10 participants, no signup for anyone, anonymous and async voting, and custom decks. The main free-plan limit is the 7-day room history.

Yes. There's no time limit and no cap on rooms or rounds. The paid plan ($29/month per team) adds issue-tracker sync, unlimited participants, unlimited history, and AI tools.

No. Share the room link and everyone votes from their browser, on desktop or mobile. That includes the facilitator.

Yes. The room is real-time for live sessions, and async voting covers teammates who can't make the meeting: they vote on their own time and the reveal happens when everyone is in.

Estimate your next sprint on it

Join the live demo room to feel the flow, then create your own room for your next refinement session. And if your team also runs retros, the same free plan covers sprint retrospectives too. Pricing and limits verified July 19, 2026.