Planning Poker Online alternative: how SprintsPoker compares
Planning Poker Online, published by We Agile You, is the most feature-complete tool on this list. It has async voting, a discussion timer, spectator mode, a Linear integration and a separate Jira Cloud app. The free plan is capped per game rather than per person.
What Planning Poker Online is
A freemium estimation product with async voting, a Linear integration and a separate Jira Cloud app, free within per-game limits and paid per facilitator above them.
Published by We Agile You. planningpokeronline.com
The facts, as published
| Free tier | The Basic plan is $0 and covers 9 votings and 5 voted issues per game, with unlimited players, CSV issue import and permanent game URLs. Premium is listed at $30 per facilitator per month, or $300 per facilitator billed yearly, with a 15-day trial, and lifts the per-game limits and unlocks game history. |
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| Signup | Players join a web session with a display name and no signup. Only the person creating the game needs an account, made with Google, Microsoft or an email address. Inside the Jira app there is no separate account, because it uses the Jira identity. |
| Participants | No limit on any plan, including the free one, per the vendor’s own FAQ. Paid seats count facilitators, not players. |
| Integrations | Linear, connected once with OAuth, with estimates written back. CSV import and export, and issue import from pasted URLs. Jira runs through a separate Atlassian Marketplace app rather than the web app; the vendor states the web app does not connect to Jira and that the Jira app is free for Jira sites with up to 10 users, paid above that. |
| Upkeep signals | The features page carried a Last updated date of July 2026 and lists an AI estimation feature as in development for Q4 2026. The Marketplace listing for the Jira app showed 584 installs and a 4.8 out of 5 rating from 8 reviews, with the Cloud Fortified badge. |
Last checked: 27 August 2026. Everything above was read off the pages listed at the bottom of this article on that date. Vendors change pricing and limits without notice, so treat this as a starting point and confirm anything you are about to depend on.
Where Planning Poker Online is stronger
No tool wins on every axis, and pretending otherwise would make the rest of this page worthless. These are the places where Planning Poker Online does something SprintsPoker does not.
Async voting
Votes are stored per issue, so one person estimates on Monday and a teammate estimates the same issues on Tuesday, and the facilitator reveals later. For a team spread across time zones this is the feature that actually solves the problem, and SprintsPoker has nothing equivalent.
A real Jira app, with write-back
The Marketplace app imports issues by project, board, sprint, epic or JQL, works out which field holds the estimate including renamed and custom fields, and writes the agreed number back to the issue. It is free for Jira sites of up to 10 users.
Linear, CSV and URL import
The web app connects to Linear with OAuth and writes estimates back, imports and exports CSV, and turns a pasted list of issue URLs into a session. SprintsPoker imports nothing.
Voting history you can go back through
Rounds are grouped by meeting and browsable after the fact, and exportable. That is a paid feature, but it exists, and SprintsPoker only exports the current session.
Where SprintsPoker differs
No per-game limits to hit mid-session
The free Basic plan is capped at 9 votings and 5 voted issues per game. A refinement session that works through a dozen stories will pass that in one sitting. SprintsPoker has no cap on rounds or stories because it has no paid tier to protect.
Nobody needs an account
Planning Poker Online asks the person creating the game to register with Google, Microsoft or an email address. On SprintsPoker the host types a name and gets a link, and the room expires 60 minutes after the last activity unless the host extends it, up to eight hours.
A much smaller tool
This is a genuine trade rather than an advantage. If you want async voting, Jira write-back, a games dashboard and facilitator permissions, Planning Poker Online has them and SprintsPoker does not. SprintsPoker does one round of voting, well, for free.
Which one to pick
If any single item in the section above is a hard requirement, take the tool that has it and stop reading comparison pages. Estimation tooling is a small decision and the cost of picking the slightly wrong one is a session, not a quarter.
If none of them is a hard requirement, the deciding factor is usually how quickly you can get the whole team into a room on a Tuesday afternoon. Open a SprintsPoker room and try it against whatever you are using now, in the same session, on the same stories. That comparison is worth more than this page.
Common questions
What are the limits on the free Planning Poker Online plan?
The Basic plan is $0 and covers 9 votings and 5 voted issues per game, with unlimited players, CSV issue import and permanent game URLs. Unlimited votings, unlimited voted issues and game history are on the paid plan. The vendor lists Premium at $30 per facilitator per month, or $300 per facilitator billed yearly, with a 15-day trial. Checked 27 August 2026.
How much does Planning Poker Online cost?
The web app paid plan is listed at $30 per facilitator per month, or $300 per facilitator billed yearly. A facilitator is described as someone who creates paid games, and invited players never need a seat. The Jira Cloud app is priced separately on the Atlassian Marketplace and the vendor states it is free for Jira sites with up to 10 users.
Does Planning Poker Online work with Jira?
Through a separate app on the Atlassian Marketplace, yes. The vendor states plainly that the web app does not connect to Jira and that Jira import was removed from the web version, and recommends CSV import for Jira Server and Data Center. The Marketplace app imports issues by project, board, sprint, epic or JQL and writes the agreed story points back.
Why would a team pick SprintsPoker instead?
Two reasons, both narrow. Nobody has to create an account, including the host, and there are no per-game caps on how many stories you can estimate in one sitting. If you need async voting, Jira write-back or a Linear connection, Planning Poker Online does those things and SprintsPoker does not.
Compare something else
Sources
- Planning Poker Online homepage and pricing
- Planning Poker Online features
- Planning Poker Online for Jira on the Atlassian Marketplace
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