Scrum Poker features — everything the tool actually does

Voting and estimating

This is the core, and it's available to everyone without an account. You open a room, your team joins, and each person picks a card to estimate the relative size of a user story. Everyone votes privately, then all cards are revealed at the same time so nobody anchors on someone else's number. When estimates disagree, you talk it through and vote again.

As the room owner you control the round: reveal the cards when the team is ready, reset the round to vote again, or clear the room when you're done. New to the technique? Start with how planning poker works, and if you want the reasoning behind the card values, see why the deck uses the Fibonacci sequence. For the bigger picture on estimating in points rather than hours, there's the guide to agile story points.

Sharing a room and joining

Getting people into a room is meant to take seconds, not setup. Create an instant room and share it however suits your team: send the link, or let people scan a QR code with their phone to join from mobile. Everyone joins in their own browser — there's nothing to install.

You don't need to sign up to do any of this. Scrum Poker Online uses anonymous sign-in in the background, so you pick a display name and you're in. That's deliberate: we don't ask for an email because running a quick estimation session shouldn't require an account. The full flow — create, share, vote, reveal — works without registering.

If your team also struggles to find a common time slot for the session itself, our sister tool Whocan handles group scheduling and polls. It's a separate, free tool — not part of Scrum Poker Online — but it pairs naturally with planning.

Customizing the deck and host controls

The default deck works out of the box. If you create a free account, you can change the card values to whatever fits how your team estimates — T-shirt sizes (XS to XXL), a power-of-two scale, or your own set. Values are entered as a comma-separated list, up to three characters each. There's a step-by-step guide to customizing the cards if you want the details.

A free account also gives the host a few controls over how the room behaves: you decide whether cards can be hidden, whether the room can be cleared, and whether individual estimates can be deleted. These are off-by-default toggles, so a room only does what you switch on.

Custom card values and host controls need a free account but cost nothing. A custom, reusable room name — your own short room ID instead of a generated one — is part of Premium, covered below. If you're weighing decks, Fibonacci versus other scales is a good starting point.

What Premium adds

Premium (40 USD per year) doesn't change what the tool is — it adds a handful of conveniences for teams that estimate often. The clearest one is that it removes ads. The ad-free experience is tied to the room owner, so a single Premium account covers everyone who joins that owner's room; your teammates don't each need to subscribe.

On top of ad-free, Premium adds a built-in voting timer for time-boxing each story, the automatic average and median of the estimates so you don't add them up by hand, an attendance indicator that shows who's online, and a personal reusable room ID. The timer tends to keep sessions sharp — a three-to-five-minute box per story nudges the team to either decide or split the story instead of circling.

You can compare the three tiers side by side on the pricing page. If your sessions already run fine without these extras, the free version is genuinely all you need — Premium only earns its place when ads bother your team or the timer and the automatic average and median save you real work.

Built for distributed teams

The interface is available in six languages — English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese — which helps when your team isn't all in one place or one language. We wrote up the details in which languages Scrum Poker Online supports.

Everything runs in the browser and adapts to mobile, so people can join from a laptop or a phone without downloading anything. Combined with link or QR-code sharing and no required signup, that's what makes it practical for remote and hybrid teams who just want to estimate and move on.

What Scrum Poker Online doesn't do

We'd rather be upfront about the edges. Scrum Poker Online does one thing — estimating — and on purpose it leaves a lot out. There's no native Jira integration, no backlog or user-story management, and no enterprise reporting. It also doesn't keep a round history or export results to CSV.

If your team needs estimates written straight back into Jira or a managed backlog, another tool will serve you better, and that's fine — we say as much in our take on Jira and planning poker. If you mostly want to open a room and start voting, the missing pieces probably won't matter. For an honest look at how we stack up against other tools, see the comparison of online planning poker tools.