What's Included in the Free Plan
EstiVote's free plan is not a stripped-down trial. It includes everything a team needs to run effective planning poker sessions:
- Unlimited rooms — create as many rooms as you want, keep them running as long as you need.
- All card decks — Fibonacci, T-shirt sizes (XS–XXL), hours, powers of two, and custom decks you define yourself.
- Unlimited participants — no cap on how many teammates can join a room.
- Real-time voting and reveal — simultaneous reveal with no polling delay.
- Facilitator controls — reveal cards, reset rounds, and move to the next story.
- Spectator mode — observers can watch without affecting the vote.
- Round timer — optional countdown per round to keep sessions crisp.
- Custom room URLs — claim a room at estivote.com/r/your-team for recurring sprints.
No Account Required — For Anyone
Most free tools require everyone to sign up, or at minimum require the host to create an account before sharing. EstiVote is different: the person creating the room can start immediately without an account, and every teammate who joins only needs to enter a name.
This matters because the barrier to joining a planning poker session should be zero. If a developer has to stop what they're doing to create an account before they can vote, the tool is already slowing the team down. With EstiVote, the flow from "sprint planning starts" to "first vote cast" takes seconds.
Free vs. Pro: What Changes
The free plan covers everything needed for consistent, high-quality agile estimation. Pro is designed for teams that want a few additional conveniences:
- No ads — clean interface with no advertising.
- Persistent session history — every round's story, votes, average, and consensus flag saved across sessions.
- Saved custom decks — define a deck once and reuse it across rooms without re-entering values.
- Priority room names — shorter, more memorable custom URLs.
If your team is just getting started with planning poker, the free plan is the right place to begin. Upgrade when you know what you need.
Why Free?
Planning poker is a straightforward technique that should be accessible to every agile team, including small teams, startups, and open-source projects that have no tool budget. EstiVote is built on the belief that the estimation process itself should not have a price tag.
The business model is simple: free users see unobtrusive ads, and teams that prefer an ad-free environment upgrade to Pro. This means the free plan stays genuinely free — not a time-limited trial or a feature-limited version designed to push you toward a paywall.