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Free online planning poker, straight to the conversation

Create the room, share the code and get your team voting. No signup, no install and no paid plan — the browser is enough.

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The whole deck, from 0 to the break card.

How a round works

From an empty room to an agreed number, without leaving the meeting your team would have anyway.

  1. Create the room

    Pick a nickname and that's it: no account, no email. You get a 4-character code to invite the team.

  2. Share the code

    Send the code or the link to the channel where your team already talks. Everyone joins from the browser, on desktop or phone.

  3. Vote in secret

    Each person picks a card from the Fibonacci deck — 0, ½, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 — or the break card, without seeing anyone else's vote.

  4. Reveal together

    With every vote on the table, anyone can reveal. Median, mean, range and the full distribution appear at once.

  5. Talk about the difference

    The votes that stand out show where the story is still unclear. That's where the conversation pays off more than the number.

  6. Move to the next one

    Once the value is agreed, start a new round. The room stays the same while your team is in it.

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Built for the ritual, not for the tool

What the team needs to estimate together, with nothing in the way.

  • No signup, for real

    Nobody creates an account or shares an email. The whole team is voting in under a minute.

  • Ephemeral room

    The room exists while the team is in it and disappears when everyone leaves. No history left behind to clean up.

  • Round results right away

    Median, mean and range calculated at the reveal, with numbers in tabular figures. If there are only break or missing votes, the table says that too.

  • The conversation at the center

    Pointly doesn't estimate for the team: it shows where the votes disagree so the discussion starts in the right place.

The ritual in one sentence

Planning poker is a group estimation technique: each person votes in secret on how much effort a story takes, all cards turn at the same time and the team talks through the differences until it reaches a number everyone stands behind.

Simultaneous voting prevents anchoring: nobody adjusts their vote to match whoever spoke first. That's why the reveal — the moment the cards turn — is the heart of the round.

An example: the story “password reset by email” gets 3, 5, 5 and 8. At the reveal, the person who voted 8 explains the link expiration case they considered, the one who voted 3 realizes they missed it and the team closes on 5 with a shared understanding of the story.

Why Fibonacci? The sequence grows fast because uncertainty grows with it: the gap between 2 and 3 is small, but between 8 and 13 nobody can safely claim one story is exactly one point bigger than the other. The break card completes the deck for cases where context is missing — it counts as presence, but stays out of the math.

The reveal: what the table shows

When the team reveals, Pointly calculates the median, the mean and the range of the numeric votes. The median is usually the agreed number, because it doesn't let an extreme vote pull the result.

The table also groups votes by card — 2×5, 1×8 — and flags unanimous or divergent rounds. If there are only break or missing votes, it says so instead of inventing an average.

The goal isn't the number itself, but what the distribution reveals: a 13 among three 5s almost always means a detail of the story that one person sees and the rest of the team doesn't yet.

No signup, no history

There is no account to create, no email to confirm, no password to store. The nickname is the only identification, and the room lives only while the team is in it: when the last person leaves, it ceases to exist along with the votes in it.

That removes the friction to start — anyone joins from the link in seconds — and also the weight of managing a history nobody will ever read. There is no paid tier hiding features: the whole ritual is the product.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need an account to play?
No. Pick a nickname and you're in the room. Pointly never asks for an email or password, and there is no signup step at any point.
How many people fit in a room?
Pointly is designed for teams of 3 to 12 people. You can play with more, but the conversation works best in that range.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. The room opens in any browser, desktop or phone, with nothing to install. Everyone uses the same link.
What happens to the data after the session?
The room is ephemeral: it ceases to exist when the last participant leaves, and there is no estimate history to manage.
Which deck does Pointly use?
The Fibonacci deck: 0, ½, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 13, plus a break card for when the story needs context before it can be estimated.
Can we estimate with a remote team?
That's exactly what it's for. Each person joins from their own browser, wherever they are, and the reveal happens at the same time for everyone.
How much does Pointly cost?
Nothing. Pointly is free with no paid plan: creating a room, voting and revealing are the whole product, with no limit hidden behind a subscription.

Ready to estimate without friction?

Create the room, send the code to your team and start the first round in seconds.

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Prefer to understand the ritual first? start with the planning poker guides.

Does your team call this ritual scrum poker? It's the same table: see the scrum poker page.