Pointing Poker alternative: how SprintsPoker compares
Pointing Poker is one of the oldest free planning poker sites still running. It is ad-supported, needs no account, and does one job. Its own homepage counts more than 85 million votes cast, which is a reasonable proxy for how long it has been doing that job.
What Pointing Poker is
A deliberately small, ad-supported estimation site with no accounts and no data collection, plus a separate retrospective mode.
Published by Matt Ruwe. pointingpoker.com
The facts, as published
| Free tier | The whole tool. The site states it is sustained by ads and that the core service is entirely free, with no subscription, credit card or user account. There is a donation option and no paid plan. |
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| Signup | None. The site states there is no download, no installation and no registration, and that it collects no personal data. |
| Participants | No published limit. The site describes its infrastructure as handling any number of simultaneous sessions but does not state a per-session participant cap. |
| Integrations | None documented on the site. There is a separate retrospective session mode alongside the pointing session. |
| Upkeep signals | The footer copyright read 2026 on the date checked and the homepage showed live counters for sessions and players in progress, so the site is running and current. |
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 Pointing Poker is stronger
No tool wins on every axis, and pretending otherwise would make the rest of this page worthless. These are the places where Pointing Poker does something SprintsPoker does not.
It is genuinely minimal
Start a session, share the link, point. There is no deck picker to argue about and no settings screen to get lost in. For a team that wants a shared number and nothing else, less really is less work.
It has a retrospective mode too
The same site runs retro sessions alongside pointing sessions, so a team that wants one bookmark for two ceremonies can have it. SprintsPoker only does estimation.
A long, visible track record
The homepage publishes a running total of votes cast, in the tens of millions, and live counters of sessions and players. Whatever else you conclude, plenty of teams have used it and it is still up.
Where SprintsPoker differs
No ads
Pointing Poker is funded by advertising and says so plainly, which is an honest trade. SprintsPoker carries no advertising, so nothing on the screen competes with the cards during a reveal.
Five decks, with a documented question mark rule
SprintsPoker ships Fibonacci, modified Fibonacci, T-shirt sizes, a sequential deck and powers of two, each with a question mark and a coffee card. The question mark counts towards agreement but is left out of the average, so an admission of uncertainty never becomes a number.
Statistics and an export
After a reveal you get the distribution, average, median, range and an agreement percentage, and the session history exports as Markdown, CSV or JSON to paste into a ticket or a wiki page.
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
Is Pointing Poker free?
Yes. The site states that it is sustained by ads and that the core service is entirely free, with no subscription, credit card or user account required, and offers a donation link rather than a paid plan. Checked 27 August 2026.
Does Pointing Poker require a signup?
No. The site states there is no download, no installation and no registration, and that it collects no personal data. You start a session and share the link. SprintsPoker works the same way.
What does SprintsPoker do that Pointing Poker does not?
The visible differences are advertising, decks and statistics. SprintsPoker carries no ads, offers five built-in decks each with a question mark and a coffee card, and after a reveal shows the distribution, average, median, range and an agreement percentage, with the session exportable as Markdown, CSV or JSON. Pointing Poker, by design, keeps its surface small and adds a retrospective mode instead.
How many people can join a Pointing Poker session?
The site does not publish a per-session participant limit. It describes its infrastructure as handling any number of simultaneous sessions, but that is about concurrency across the service rather than a stated cap on one room. SprintsPoker publishes its limit: up to 50 participants in a room.
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