Frequently asked questions.

Yes. Every feature available today, the Slack, Jira, Trello, Linear and Asana integrations included, is free for every team, and you don't need a card to use it. Read how Estimay is free.

Estimay shows ads, and that's how it pays for itself. Every feature is free to use, and you don't need to sign up or give us your email address. Your room's names, stories and votes are never shared with advertisers. The tools you connect, such as Jira or Slack, are free on our side; their own plans are between you and them.

Running Estimay costs money: servers, a database and the domain. Ads by Google pay those bills, which is how every feature is free for everyone today. Ads appear only on public pages like this one: rooms never show ads, and neither does Estimay inside a chat app.

Yes. In Europe and the UK, Google asks for your consent before showing personalised ads or using advertising cookies, and refusing changes nothing about how Estimay works. You can change your choice at any time with "Privacy & cookie settings" at the bottom of the page. See our Cookie Policy.

Paid options may come later. Everything this page describes is free today.

No. Create as many rooms as you need, invite your whole team, and add as many stories as your backlog holds.

No. There is no registration and no password to remember. You only type the name your teammates will see. To connect Jira, Trello, Linear, Asana or Slack, you sign in with that tool's own account; that still creates no Estimay account, and teammates who only vote need neither.

Scrum poker is another name for planning poker: a way for scrum and agile teams to estimate stories together. Everyone picks a card in secret, then all the cards are revealed at once. Estimay is a free online scrum poker tool, so a distributed team can play it from a link.

Yes. Scrum poker, planning poker and agile poker are different names for the same estimation game, usually played with Fibonacci or T-shirt size cards in sprint planning and backlog refinement.

Planning poker is a way for agile teams to estimate work together. Everyone picks a card in secret, then all cards are revealed at once. Hidden votes stop the first or loudest opinion from anchoring everyone else, and big differences start the conversation that matters.

Create a room: give it a name, choose a card deck and enter your name. Then copy the invitation link and share it with your team in chat or a meeting.

They open the invitation link and type their name. That's all: nothing to install and no account to create. It works in any modern browser, on desktop and on phones, and inside Telegram, Discord and Slack, where their name there is used, and Google Meet.

Yes. Every page fits a small screen, rooms included: the stories slide in as a drawer, the cards sit at the bottom of the screen, and the top bar keeps to icons. There is no app to install; open the invitation link or scan the QR code in the invite panel.

Yes. Estimay runs as a Telegram Mini App: open @storyvoteappbot, or a room's Telegram link, and the room opens inside Telegram on phone and desktop. Telegram gives Estimay your name, so there is no name prompt. The Invite button's "Share via Telegram" row copies a room's Telegram link or opens Telegram's chat picker. People in Telegram and people in a browser play in the same room.

Yes. Estimay runs as a Discord Activity: add it to Discord, then start it from Activities in a voice channel or call. Everyone who joins the Activity in that channel lands in the same room, with their Discord name, so there is no name prompt. The Invite button's link brings in people in a browser, who play in the same room. More on scrum poker in Discord.

Yes: add it to Slack, then type /storyvote and the room's name in a channel (start with "async" for an async room). Estimay posts the room's card there. Clicking it, then "Open in browser", opens the room with each person's Slack name, so there is no name prompt. More on scrum poker in Slack.

Yes: add it to Google Meet, then in a call open Activities, pick Estimay and press Start for everyone. The room opens on the main stage, and everyone in the call joins it from Meet's invitation, typing the name they want to show. Add-ons run in Meet on a computer; anyone on a phone joins with the room's link. More on scrum poker in Google Meet.

Yes. A product owner or anyone else who only wants to follow along can turn on "Join as a spectator" when they join, or Spectator mode in Settings at any time. Spectators see every round but don't vote, and the "voted" count leaves them out.

Yes. "Present" opens a clean, read-only view in its own window, with the story, the seats, the reveal and a QR code to join, and a "Full screen" button. You keep voting and running the game in your own tab. In Chrome and Edge on desktop, "Float" also puts a small scoreboard over your other apps.

• Fibonacci (0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 🙈)
• Modified Fibonacci (0, ½, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100, 🙈)
• T-shirts (XS, S, M, L, XL, ?, 🙈)
• Powers of 2 (0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 🙈)
• AI tokens (10k, 25k, 50k, 100k, 250k, 500k, 1M, 2.5M, 5M, 10M+, ?)
• Risk (Low, Med, High, ?)
• Clarity (Clear, Gaps, Vague, ?)
• Agent-ready (Agent, Pair, Human, ?)
• Custom deck (your own cards)

Pick "Custom deck" to type your own cards instead, for example "1, 2, 4, 8" or "Easy, Hard": up to 20 cards of up to 5 characters each. "🙈" asks for a break, and some decks also have "?" for unsure; neither counts towards the results. The host or a facilitator can change the deck at any time in Settings.

Whoever creates the room is its host. The host can make any participant a facilitator, and facilitators can add and edit stories, start voting, reveal the cards, save estimates and change the deck, extra questions, disciplines and auto-reveal, and run the discussion timer. Choosing facilitators, removing people and ending the session stay with the host.

Yes. Choose "Async" when you create the room. Every story opens for voting as it is added, and everyone votes in their own time. A story's cards turn over when the host or a facilitator reveals it, never just because everyone has voted, since someone may still join. Your seat is kept for 30 days after your last visit, so you can come back tomorrow and carry on in the same browser.

Yes, in a live room. Turn on "Auto-reveal" in Settings (or when creating the room) and the usual countdown starts as soon as everyone who is connected has voted, as long as the host or a facilitator is in the room. It is not available in async rooms, where someone may still join.

Next to the estimate, a room can ask Risk (low, medium, high), Clarity (clear, gaps, vague), Agent-ready (could an AI agent build it, with a person, or only a person?) and AI tokens. Everyone answers with a short row of cards, the answers stay hidden until the reveal, and the most-picked card of each is saved on the story and in the CSV download. Votes count as soon as the estimate is picked, so the questions never hold the round up. Turn them on when creating the room or later in Settings. Teams building with AI often use AI tokens and Agent-ready: see planning poker for AI teams.

In the order of the stories panel. "Next" puts the next story waiting on the table, the host or a facilitator can drag stories (or use Move up and Move down) to change the order, and any story can go on the table straight away with "Vote now". A story you skip goes back to the queue as if it was never voted on.

Yes. When you create a room you can choose disciplines, for example FE, BE and QA (up to 6). A story can then be split so each discipline gets its own estimate, and the stories panel shows the total.

Yes. Until the reveal, pick another card or click yours again to take it back. Once the cards are revealed, anyone who voted can still change their card: point at your seat and choose "Change vote". The results update for everyone, and so does the saved estimate, unless the host has already picked one.

Open Settings in the room's top bar, type your new name in "Your name" and press Save. Everyone sees the new name.

Yes. The host points at that person's seat and chooses "Remove from session". They leave the table at once, though they can come back with the invitation link. To keep a room closed to people who shouldn't be there, give it a password when you create it.

Yes. Turn on anonymous voting when creating a room. Everyone then sees only how many people picked each card, never who voted what.

Yes. Set a password when creating the room. New participants must enter it once; people already in the room can rejoin freely.

Nothing. Your identity is kept in a cookie that lasts 30 days after your last visit, and it is shared across tabs. Open the invitation link again in the same browser and you are back in your seat, and a host gets their room back. Another browser or device is a new participant. In the Telegram Mini App, the Discord Activity and Slack you are recognised by your Telegram, Discord or Slack account, so you keep your seat on any device you open it on. In Google Meet, the browser keeps your name and seat for the next time you open it there.

In Settings, "End and delete room" lets the host hand the room to someone else (a facilitator is suggested first) so the others carry on, or end it and delete it for everyone. Closing the tab asks first, and staying opens the same choice.

With Jira Cloud, Linear, Asana and Trello, yes: the host or a facilitator connects the room, imports a sprint's, cycle's or the backlog's issues (or an Asana project's tasks, or a Trello list's cards) as stories, and each final estimate goes back: into the Jira issue's story points field and a comment, the Linear issue's estimate and a comment, the Asana task's story points field and a comment, or a comment on the Trello card. The connection belongs to the room and ends with it. Azure DevOps and Jira Data Center are not connected directly: import your stories from a CSV file (Estimay reads title and ticket columns such as Jira's Summary and Issue key) and download the results as CSV when you're done, or add a ticket key such as PROJ-123 by hand. Estimay only reaches into a tool you connect yourself. Estimay with Jira · Estimay with Linear · Estimay with Asana · Estimay with Trello.

Yes. Estimay has an MCP server: connect Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT or another MCP client, allow it in your browser (read only, or read and write), and it can set up a room with your stories and record the agreed estimates as you, with no account. It sees what you would see in the room, never a card before the reveal, and you can disconnect it at any time. Estimay for AI assistants · Developer reference.

Rooms, names, stories and votes are deleted as soon as the host chooses "End and delete room". Rooms that are never ended are deleted automatically 7 days after they were last used, or 30 days for async rooms, which run across a sprint. We keep no backups, so deleted means gone. Want something deleted sooner? Email us the room code.

Estimay keeps the connection's tokens encrypted on its server and the stories you import, and deletes them when the room is disconnected or ends. What it wrote into your tools stays there: the estimate comments in Jira, Trello, Linear or Asana, Jira's and Asana's story points and Linear's estimates, and the room's card in a Slack channel, which then says the room has ended. Delete those in the tool itself if you want them gone. Our Integrations Policy lists what each integration reads, writes and keeps.

All traffic is encrypted, votes stay on the server until they're revealed, integration tokens are encrypted and never reach a browser, rooms show no ads, and we collect only what a session needs. See Security and our Privacy Policy for details.

Yes, as long as your organisation allows it and everyone you invite may see them: anyone with the room's link sees every story's title and link, without needing an account in the tracker. Set a password for sensitive sessions. Leave out sensitive personal data, such as health data, and passwords or other secrets. We use room content only to run the room. See section 3 of our Integrations Policy.

Estimay needs just one, which keeps you signed in to your rooms for 30 days after your last visit. In the Telegram Mini App, the Discord Activity and Slack it isn't used: Telegram, Discord or Slack identifies you instead. In Google Meet, where it can't be set, your browser's local storage keeps you instead. Google's advertising cookies are used only if you consent. See our Cookie Policy for details.

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