Planning poker for teams, right in the browser

It Depends is a free planning poker app for agile and Scrum teams. Estimate user stories together in real time, remote or in the same room: create a room, share the link, and everyone votes with cards. No accounts, no sign-up, nothing to install.

How it works

Create a room One click gives your team a room with its own link. Add the items you want to estimate, one per line.
Vote with cards Everyone picks a card on their own: Fibonacci story points, T-shirt sizes or a deck of your own. The cards turn over together, with the lowest, the highest, the mean and the median.
Agree and move on Talk through a wide spread, vote again if you need to, and save the estimate you agree on. Download the result as a snapshot when you are done.

Why teams like it

Private by design The room lives in your team’s browsers and travels directly between them. Our server only introduces the participants; your items and votes never pass through it.
No accounts Pick a name and an avatar and you are in. Your browser remembers them, and keeps your rooms so you can come back later.
Your decks, your rules Fibonacci, T-shirt sizes or custom cards, text answers, an optional timer, and observers who watch without voting.
A theme for every team From Light and Dark to Comic Book and Film Noir, plus high-contrast, color-blind safe, low-light and dyslexia-friendly looks. Or bring your own CSS.

Questions

What is planning poker?

A way for a team to estimate work together. Everyone chooses a card with their estimate at the same time, so nobody is swayed by the first number said out loud. When the cards differ, the people with the lowest and the highest explain why, and the team talks it through.

Why “It Depends”?

Because it is the honest answer to every estimate, until the team has talked it through.

Where is our data stored?

In the browsers of the people in the room. The room is copied directly between them; the server only helps them find each other. Download a snapshot to keep the result, or start a new room from it.

Does it work for remote teams and on phones?

Yes. Everyone joins from their own browser, on a laptop or a phone, in the office or at home.