# Spooky Planning: Free planning poker online Free online planning poker, also called scrum poker or pointing poker, for agile teams. Permanent rooms, custom voting scales, and real-time collaboration. Start as a guest with just a name: guest rooms hold up to 10 people, and an email login makes them unlimited. [Start planning now](https://spookyplanning.com/login) ## How it works 1. **Create a room.** One click to start. Choose Fibonacci, T-shirt sizes, or create custom scales. 2. **Invite your team.** Share the permanent URL. Everyone joins from any device. 3. **Vote on stories.** Anonymous voting prevents bias. Cards stay hidden until everyone decides. 4. **Reach consensus.** Reveal votes, discuss differences, and agree on the estimate. ## Highlights All free and all available as a guest. - **Hidden keyboard voting.** Press the letter under an option to vote, press it again to withdraw. Made for screen sharing, where a mouse click would give your estimate away. - **Custom voting scales.** Fibonacci, T-shirt sizes, Powers of Two, or a scale you define yourself. - **Real-time collaboration.** Votes appear instantly for the whole room, which works as well for a distributed team across time zones as for one in a meeting room. - **Viewer mode.** Facilitate without voting, and still undo a reveal and start the next round. - **Auto-reveal.** Votes reveal themselves once every non-viewer participant has voted. - **Permanent rooms and history.** The room URL keeps working next sprint, with average and agreement metrics kept per round. Also included: - **Estimation.** Story point estimation, anonymous voting, instant vote reveals. - **Team collaboration.** Unlimited participants with an email login, live participant list, moderator controls. - **Security and privacy.** Encrypted in transit (HTTPS and WSS), GDPR compliant, private rooms. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is Planning Poker? Planning Poker or Scrum Poker is a collaborative estimation technique used by agile teams to estimate the effort required for user stories and tasks. Team members use cards with numbers to vote on complexity, promoting discussion and consensus-building for more accurate sprint planning. ### How do Planning Poker rooms work? A Planning Poker room is your team's virtual space for estimation sessions. Create a room, share the permanent URL, and start voting on user stories. After each round, you'll see the average, agreement level, and other metrics to help set the final estimate in your project management tool. Rooms created with an email login support unlimited players, rooms created as a guest hold up to 10 people, and every room stays active for future sessions. ### What voting scales are available? We support multiple voting scales, including the popular Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13…), T‑shirt sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL), Powers of Two, and more. Choose the one that best fits your team's estimation style and project needs, or use Spooky Planning's exclusive feature to create and edit your own scales! ### Why should agile teams use Planning Poker? Planning Poker promotes transparency, reduces estimation bias, and ensures all team members contribute to the estimation process. It helps teams gain shared understanding of work complexity and makes sprint planning more accurate and collaborative. ### How does it improve team collaboration? By having everyone vote simultaneously and then discuss their reasoning, Planning Poker encourages open dialogue and knowledge sharing. Team members can challenge assumptions, share insights, and learn from each other's perspectives, leading to better estimates and stronger team alignment. ### What can I estimate with Planning Poker? You can estimate any work item: user stories, technical tasks, bug fixes, epics, or research spikes. Planning Poker works for any item that needs effort estimation for planning purposes, making it versatile for different types of agile work. ### How does Planning Poker reduce estimation bias? By having everyone vote anonymously first, Planning Poker prevents anchoring bias where early estimates influence others. The discussion phase allows team members to challenge assumptions and share different perspectives, leading to more balanced and accurate estimates. Spooky Planning offers an exclusive Hidden Keyboard feature, letting presenters share their screen without revealing their vote. ### When should teams use Planning Poker? Use Planning Poker during sprint planning, backlog refinement, or whenever you need to estimate work items. It's most effective when the whole team participates and you have user stories that need effort estimation before committing to a sprint. ### What browsers and devices are supported? Spooky Planning works on all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) and is fully responsive on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. No app installation required - it works directly in your browser. ### Is my data safe? Yes, your data security and privacy are our top priorities. We do not track or collect your personal information beyond what is necessary for service functionality. We only collect anonymous metrics regarding overall website usage to improve our service. You can start as a guest without registering, with every feature available; the only difference is that rooms created as a guest hold up to 10 people until an email is added. If you do create an account, you can request deletion of all your information at any time. The service runs on Cloudflare Workers with data stored in Cloudflare D1, and we operate under EU data protection rules (GDPR). We maintain transparent history of all changes and updates in our [Changelog](/changelog). ### Why is Spooky Planning the best tool for Planning Poker? Spooky Planning stands out as the ultimate Planning Poker tool because free accounts get the full experience: unlimited sessions and rooms, unlimited players once you log in with email (guest rooms hold up to 10 people), plus permanent URLs, session history, and even exclusive features like editable scales and the Hidden Keyboard (so presenters can share their screen without revealing their vote). There's no setup hassle, no ads, no email needed to start, and no core feature locked behind a paywall. While other tools charge $30+ a month for stripped‑down versions, Spooky Planning gives agile teams everything they need for estimation, with an optional membership for extras like priority support, feature requests, and beta access. ### Is Planning Poker really effective? Yes! Studies show that Planning Poker consistently produces more accurate estimates than individual estimation or traditional group discussions. The combination of independent thinking followed by collaborative discussion leverages collective intelligence while minimizing cognitive biases. Haugen, N. C., & Moløkken‑Østvold, K. (2006). An empirical study of using Planning Poker for user story estimation. In AGILE 2006 (AGILE’06 Conference) (pp. 23‑31). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/AGILE.2006.16 ## Join the teams already estimating with Spooky Planning Free forever. No sign-up to start, no pricing tiers, and no features behind a paywall. [Start planning now](https://spookyplanning.com/login), or see the [live stats](https://spookyplanning.com/stats). ## Learn planning poker - [What is planning poker?](https://spookyplanning.com/what-is-planning-poker): how a session runs, why votes stay hidden, and how planning poker, scrum poker and pointing poker relate - [Estimation scales](https://spookyplanning.com/estimation-scales): story points, Fibonacci, T-shirt sizes, Powers of Two and custom scales - [How to run sprint planning poker](https://spookyplanning.com/how-to-run-sprint-planning-poker): a step-by-step guide for the facilitator ## Pages - [Live stats](https://spookyplanning.com/stats) - [Changelog](https://spookyplanning.com/changelog) - [About](https://spookyplanning.com/about) - [Contact](https://spookyplanning.com/contact) - [Privacy Policy](https://spookyplanning.com/privacy) - [Terms of Service](https://spookyplanning.com/terms) - [Agent instructions](https://spookyplanning.com/llms.txt)