Planning poker features Everything a round needs.

• Hidden votes

  Votes are kept on the server until the reveal, so nobody can peek early, not even with developer tools.

• Reveal countdown

  A short countdown runs before the cards turn over, and votes lock when it starts.

• Discussion timer

  In a live room, the host or a facilitator starts a clock for everyone from the top bar, up to an hour, and can add a minute, restart or cancel it.

• Auto-reveal

  In a live room, the cards turn over by themselves once everyone connected has voted, on the extra questions too, as long as the host or a facilitator is in the room.

• See who’s ready

  The table shows who has voted, without showing what. Teammates who lose their connection are greyed out until they’re back.

• Spectator mode

  Product owners and observers join as spectators, or switch in Settings, and watch without holding up the count.

• Change your mind

  Pick another card or take your vote back before the countdown. After the reveal, anyone who voted can still change their card.

• “🙈” and “?” cards

  Ask for a break, or (in decks that have “?”) say you’re unsure. Neither counts towards the results.

• Your seat, your options

  Point at your own seat to change your vote once you’ve cast one, or at someone else’s to throw an emoji at them.

• Charts at a glance

  Votes per card, the most-picked card with its share of the votes, and the average for numeric decks.

• Consensus and spread

  When everyone picks the same card, Estimay says so, with a little confetti. Votes far apart are flagged as a large spread, the cue to talk.

• Estimates saved for you

  The smallest card at or above the average is saved at the reveal, and follows any card changed after it. The host or a facilitator can pick another in one click, and then it stays.

• Revote or look back

  Revote starts a story over after a discussion. Any estimated story opens from the queue with its cards, charts and estimate, while the table stays where it is.

• A stories panel

  Everything to estimate, with ticket keys such as PROJ-123 and a running total of saved estimates. Stories without a key are numbered S-1, S-2 and so on.

• You choose the order

  Next takes the next story, a drag (or Move up and Move down) changes the order, and any story can go on the table straight away. A skipped story waits its turn again.

• Edit or delete

  Change or delete stories at any time, or clear the whole list.

• Estimates per discipline

  Choose up to 6 disciplines for a room, such as FE, BE and QA. Each votes on its own part of a story, and the panel adds them up into the story’s total.

• Import from Trello

  The host or a facilitator connects the room (Stories “⋯” → Import from a tracker), picks a board and a list, and imports its cards. Each final estimate goes back to its card as a comment.

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• Import from Jira

  Pick a Jira Cloud project and its backlog, a sprint or every open issue, and tick the issues to import with their keys. Each final estimate goes to the story points field and a comment.

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• Import from Linear

  Pick a team and its backlog, a cycle or every open issue, and tick the issues to import (ENG-123). Each final estimate goes back as a comment and, on the team’s scale, as its estimate.

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• Import from Asana

  Pick a project and one of its sections or all of it, and tick the open tasks to import. Each final estimate goes back as a comment and into a Story points field where the task has one.

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• Import from CSV

  Up to 200 stories at once, such as an Azure DevOps or Jira Server export. Comma, semicolon and tab-separated files work, repeated rows are skipped, and you see a preview first.

• Download as CSV

  Everyone can download the stories with their disciplines, estimates and extra questions, in a file that opens in Excel with proper columns, on Windows and Mac.

• A last chance to save

  When the host ends and deletes the room, the results can still be downloaded from the “Session ended” page.

• The room’s own connection

  A tracker connection belongs to the room, not to anyone’s account, and its tokens are deleted when the room ends. Estimay reads only the boards, projects and issues you pick.

• Vote when it suits you

  Choose Async when you create the room. Every story opens for voting as it is added, and each person works through the list in their own time.

• Revealed when you are ready

  A story’s cards turn over when the host or a facilitator reveals it, never just because everyone has voted, since someone may still be on their way.

• See what’s waiting

  The Stories button counts the stories still waiting for your card, story chips say “Your turn” or “Voted”, and Next jumps to the next one.

• Your seat stays yours

  Your identity is kept for 30 days after your last visit, and an async room for 30 days after it was last used, so you can carry on tomorrow.

• AI tokens

  How much model usage will the story take? Cards from 10k to 10M+.

• Agent-ready

  Could an AI agent build it on its own, a person pairing with one, or only a person? Agent, Pair or Human.

• Risk

  How much could go wrong? Low, Med or High.

• Clarity

  Is the story clear enough to build? Clear, Gaps or Vague.

Answering them is optional: a vote counts as soon as the estimate is picked. The most-picked card of each question is saved on the story and as a column in the CSV download, and the more worrying answer wins a tie. Switch them on when you create the room, or later in Settings. Planning poker for AI teams →

• Set up the room

  Hand it the stories, from your notes or your tracker’s own MCP server, and it creates the room with them in order and gives you the invitation link.

• Run the round

  When you ask, it adds a story mid-meeting, puts one on the table, reveals, starts a revote or the discussion timer, changes the deck or makes someone a facilitator.

• Record the outcome

  It saves the agreed estimates, writes them back to Jira, Linear, Trello or Asana through the room’s own connection, and exports the results as a Markdown table or CSV.

• The vote stays human

  It sees votes only once they are revealed, and votes for you only with the card you chose. It is asked never to offer the team a number before the reveal.

• Signed in as you

  OAuth in your browser, as the guest that browser already is, so the rooms it creates are yours to host. No account and no API key to keep safe.

• Your choice of access

  Read only, or read and write. Disconnect it any time under Connected assistants; a connection unused for 30 days is deleted.

• Phones and tablets

  Every page fits a small screen. In a room, the stories slide in as a drawer and the cards wait at the bottom, by your thumb. Scan the invite’s QR code to join from your phone.

• Presenter view

  “Present” opens the room in its own window, with a QR code to join, and “Full screen” fills the meeting-room display. The deck and the controls stay in your tab.

• Floating scoreboard

  In Chrome and Edge on desktop, Float puts an always-on-top window over your other apps: the story, who has voted, your cards, the estimate and, for the host and facilitators, Reveal and Next.

• Opens when you leave

  Where the browser allows automatic Picture-in-Picture, the scoreboard appears by itself when you switch to another tab, such as the ticket or your editor.

Whoever creates the room is its host. In Settings, the host can make anyone a facilitator, several people at once, so someone else can run the game while the host takes part, or stands in if the host’s connection drops. A host who has to go can hand the room to someone else instead of ending and deleting it, so the others carry on; closing the tab asks first, too.

• Anonymous voting

  Turn it on when you create a room, and nobody ever sees who voted what, only how many people picked each card.

• Room passwords

  Newcomers need the password to join; people already in the room rejoin freely. Wrong guesses are limited.

• Short-lived data

  A room is deleted as soon as the host ends it, or 7 days after it was last used (30 for an async room). There are no backups.

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