Best Planning Poker Apps for Jira in 2026: 10 Apps Compared
In short
The best Planning Poker app for Jira depends on how your team votes and what else you need. Appfire's Planning Poker and Agile Pulse's Planning Poker Agility are the most installed; Async Poker and Agile Poker are the strongest for time-shifted voting; AgileBox, Easy Agile TeamRhythm and Agile Toolbox bundle retrospectives with estimation. Every paid app is free on Jira sites with up to 10 users, so for a small team the decision is about fit, not price.
On this page
Choosing a Planning Poker plugin for Jira Cloud? A Marketplace search returns hundreds of results, and the top ten alone cover three different ways of voting, two pricing models and a wide spread of what else comes in the box. This post compares the ten apps that show up first, feature by feature. Our complete guide to Planning Poker in Jira covers how the ceremony itself works; this post is about the apps.
Disclosure: This comparison is published by Liquitim, the team behind Agile Toolbox. Every claim below comes from the apps’ own Marketplace listings and documentation as of September 2026. We have tried to be fair and factual, and we say plainly where a competitor does something ours does not.
How we compared
All ten apps run on Jira Cloud and are installed from the Atlassian Marketplace. We looked at:
- How the team votes. Live, with everyone in the room at once; asynchronously, with a deadline; or both.
- Where estimation starts. From a single issue, from the backlog or a sprint, from a JQL filter.
- Decks and results. Which card sets are supported, and how the final number is calculated and saved.
- What else is included. Retrospective boards, AI suggestions, analytics, Data Center support.
- Pricing model. Free for any team size, or paid through Atlassian.
Feature availability changes; check each listing for the current state and for ratings and install counts.
Quick comparison
| App | Vendor | Pricing | Live voting | Async voting | Decks | Retro boards | Also notable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Poker® | Appfire | Paid | Yes | Ad-hoc from issue view | Points, T-shirt, custom | No | Largest install base; Data Center too |
| Agile Poker | Appfire | Paid | Yes | Yes (Wideband Delphi mode) | Fibonacci, T-shirt, custom | No | Four estimation methods, AI insights, analytics |
| Planning Poker Agility | Agile Pulse | Free | Yes | No | Fibonacci, time-based, custom | No | Free and unlimited; vendor now steers to SprintPoker |
| SprintPoker | Agile Pulse | Paid (free edition listed separately) | Yes | Yes | Configurable | No | AI estimation insights, quick estimate from the issue |
| Async Poker | Do Async | Paid | Reveal together | Yes, async first | Configurable | No | Slack and email notifications, written reasoning per vote |
| Sync Poker | Do Async | Free | Yes | No | Fibonacci, T-shirt, custom | No | Runs on Atlassian, JQL selection, timers |
| Free Planning Poker | Smart Guess | Free | Yes | Yes | Configurable | No | Free and unlimited; upsell to predictability analytics |
| Predictive Planning Poker | Smart Guess | Paid | Yes | Yes, plus silent mode | Configurable | No | Predictability and flow analytics |
| AgileBox | DevSamurai | Paid | Yes | No | Fibonacci, T-shirt, custom | Yes | Daily standups, Slack and Teams, Data Center too |
| Easy Agile TeamRhythm | Easy Agile | Paid | Yes | No | Configurable | Yes | User story map, AI delivery insights, Data Center too |
| Agile Toolbox | Liquitim | Paid | Yes | No | Fibonacci, powers of two, T-shirt, custom | Yes | Four estimation methods, consensus label, EU/US residency |
“Paid” means paid through Atlassian, which on Jira Cloud also means free on sites with up to 10 users. More on that below.
The estimation specialists
Planning Poker® by Appfire
Best for: Teams that want the most established option.
The reference app for the category, with the largest install base and a Data Center edition. It supports a moderated “strict game” with a facilitator, and ad-hoc interactive or asynchronous estimates started from the issue view. Story points, T-shirt sizes and custom values are all supported, and estimates save to the Jira field you choose. Cloud Fortified, with a trust centre and bug bounty programme.
Limitations: No retrospective boards. The name is a registered trademark of Mountain Goat Software, which is why every other app in this list calls itself something else.
Agile Poker by Appfire
Best for: Teams that want more than one estimation method.
Appfire’s second estimation app is a toolkit rather than a single game: interactive Planning Poker, a relative “bucket” method inspired by Magic Estimation, an asynchronous mode based on Wideband Delphi, and a prioritisation poker. Appfire AI flags risks and suggests effort from past data. Multi-field estimation, reference issues, session analytics and a capacity calculator round it out. Available for Data Center as well as Cloud.
Limitations: No retrospective boards. The breadth is the point, so expect more setup than a single-mode app.
Planning Poker Agility by Agile Pulse
Best for: Teams that want a free, no-setup live game.
The best-known free option: unlimited use, one-click setup, real-time voting with automatic reveal once everyone has voted, and issue editing inside the session. Fibonacci, time-based and custom values. Cloud Fortified.
Limitations: Live sessions only, no asynchronous voting, no retrospectives. It is built on the older Connect platform, and the vendor’s own listing points users to SprintPoker as “the upgraded experience”, so treat it as the maintained-but-not-growing option.
SprintPoker by Agile Pulse
Best for: Teams that want live and async voting with AI suggestions.
The Forge-based successor to Planning Poker Agility. Sessions run live or asynchronously, a Quick Estimation mode lets you vote from the issue panel with no session at all, and AI-generated complexity insights sit beside matched historical issues. Cloud Fortified, with a trust centre. A separate free edition is listed on the Marketplace.
Limitations: No retrospective boards; Agile Pulse sells those separately as SprintRetro.
Async Poker by Do Async
Best for: Distributed teams that want to estimate without a meeting.
Async first, and the most complete version of that idea. Create a game from a board, sprint, backlog, JQL filter or a hand-picked set of work items; each person votes on their own schedule and writes a short reason; Slack and email notifications nudge the stragglers and announce deadlines; then a Review step reveals votes and reasoning together so the team only discusses the outliers. Optional AI Insight through Atlassian Rovo. SOC 2 Type 2 certified, Cloud Fortified.
Limitations: No retrospective boards. If your team estimates live in a call, the async workflow is more process than you need.
Sync Poker by Do Async
Best for: Teams that want a free live game with strong issue selection.
Do Async’s free, live counterpart. Private votes, simultaneous reveal, revotes, timers and skip flows; work items filtered by type, status, label, epic or full JQL and reordered before the session; average, median, mode and range after every round; reference work items for consistency. Built on Forge and carries the Runs on Atlassian badge, meaning no data leaves Atlassian’s infrastructure.
Limitations: No asynchronous mode and no retrospectives. The install base and review count are still small.
Free Planning Poker and Predictive Planning Poker by Smart Guess
Best for: Teams that want to check whether their estimates predict delivery.
Smart Guess ships two listings. Free Planning Poker for Jira is free and unlimited, with live, async and “silent” estimation modes. Predictive Planning Poker is the paid edition that adds the analytics: predictability of estimates against actual delivery, flow intelligence, time in status and AI-guided insights. Both store data on the Atlassian platform.
Limitations: No retrospective boards. The paid edition’s value is in the analytics, so it suits teams that already have a few sprints of Jira history to analyse.
The bundles: estimation plus retrospectives
AgileBox by DevSamurai
Best for: Teams that want poker, retros and daily standups from one vendor.
Planning Poker per project or across several boards, with Fibonacci, T-shirt and custom decks and a story-point field setting; retrospective boards with a long template list (DAKI, Energy Levels, Glad Sad Mad, 4Ls, SWOT, Hopes and Fears and more); daily standup logs and team health checks; Slack and Microsoft Teams integration. Cloud and Data Center. Cloud Fortified.
Limitations: No asynchronous estimation. DevSamurai points backlog refinement at a separate app, ProductGo.
Easy Agile TeamRhythm
Best for: Teams that want a user story map and delivery analytics alongside the ceremonies.
Less a poker app than a planning workspace. The user story map is the centrepiece; Planning Poker estimates issues on it; retrospectives offer anonymous items, mood surveys, templates, votes and reactions, and convert actions into Jira issues that resurface if left incomplete. AI delivery insights explain cycle-time and work-in-progress patterns. Cloud and Data Center, Cloud Fortified, with one of the largest install bases in the list.
Limitations: No asynchronous estimation. It is the broadest and most expensive-feeling option here; if you only need to estimate and reflect, most of the surface goes unused.
Agile Toolbox by Liquitim
Best for: Teams that want estimation and retrospectives in one simple native app.
Our own app, so read this paragraph with the disclosure above in mind. Planning Poker rooms open from any issue, or as refinements built from the backlog, a sprint or a Kanban board. Decks are Fibonacci, powers of two, T-shirt or custom, with an optional “?” card; the room calculates the result by most voted card, average, median or highest, labels each reveal Unanimous, Close or Split, runs a round timer, and saves the number to your story-point field in one click. Retrospective boards come with nine templates or custom columns, vote budgets, a facilitator-controlled voting phase, emoji reactions, card grouping, anonymous mode, an action column that creates a Jira issue for every card, and archives per board. Built on Forge, it follows the Jira light or dark theme, and data is hosted in the EU or US region.
Limitations: Sessions are live only. “Allow offline voting” keeps a participant’s card through a disconnect, but there is no vote-by-deadline mode; our sync vs. async guide shows how to run a hybrid rhythm without one. No AI suggestions, no analytics beyond the room, no Data Center edition, and the newest and smallest install base in this comparison.
What “free up to 10 users” really means
Atlassian’s cloud pricing rule applies to every app sold through the Marketplace: a paid app costs nothing on a Jira site with 10 or fewer users. Appfire, Do Async, Agile Pulse, Smart Guess, DevSamurai, Easy Agile and Liquitim all show “Free, up to 10 users” on their pricing tabs because of that rule, not because of anything special about any one app. Above 10 users, each vendor sets its own per-user tiers, and Atlassian bills for all of them.
The apps that are free at any team size are the three marked Free in the table: Planning Poker Agility, Sync Poker and Free Planning Poker for Jira. Two of those three come from vendors that sell a paid sibling, so expect an upsell inside the app.
For a team of ten or fewer the practical conclusion is simple: price is not the deciding factor for any app in this list. Choose on fit.
How to choose
Pick Planning Poker® by Appfire if you want the safest, most established option, or you also run Data Center.
Pick Async Poker or Agile Poker if your team spans time zones and needs true time-shifted voting with a deadline.
Pick Planning Poker Agility, Sync Poker or Free Planning Poker if you need a free live game for a team larger than ten and nothing else.
Pick SprintPoker or Predictive Planning Poker if AI suggestions or predictability analytics are what you are missing.
Pick AgileBox or Easy Agile TeamRhythm if you want retrospectives bundled and you will also use the standups, story map or delivery insights they add.
Pick Agile Toolbox if you want estimation and retrospectives in one app with the smallest surface area: live rooms, a consensus check on every round, retro actions that become Jira issues, and nothing to configure beyond the deck.
Try before you decide
Install two or three options, run a sprint with each, and let the team decide. Estimation tools are judged on feel more than feature lists, and a sprint is enough to tell. Every app here installs in a minute and, on a site of ten or fewer users, costs nothing to try.
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