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PointHuddle vs Planning Poker (Appfire)
Appfire’s Planning Poker is a Jira app: it runs inside Jira and is priced per Jira user above 10 users. PointHuddle runs in the browser, is free, and adds a free Jira app to start rooms from an issue.
Price and limits
| PointHuddle | Planning Poker (Appfire) | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | pointhuddle.com, plus Microsoft Teams and Google Meet panels | Inside Jira Cloud |
| Who can vote | Anyone with the room link, no account | People signed in to your Jira site |
| Free tier | Everything, up to 200 people per room | Up to 10 Jira users |
| Paid price | None | $2.92 per user a month for 11–100 users; about $2,920 a year for 100 users, through Atlassian |
| Jira | Free Jira app on the issue view, plus a Jira Cloud connection in the room that imports a sprint and writes story points back | Native: estimates saved on the issue, automation rules |
| Async voting | Voting windows with a deadline and reminders | Ad-hoc and async mode |
Planning Poker (Appfire) details from its Marketplace listing and the Marketplace pricing API, checked on 12 October 2026.
What PointHuddle adds after the reveal
- The spread, not just an average. Cards line up along your deck with the median marked and the lowest and highest voters highlighted. See when estimates disagree.
- Revote only the extremes on a short timer, and a confidence vote that catches “everyone agreed, nobody was sure”.
- Estimate vs actual. Record what stories really took and see how each card held up.
- Slack and Microsoft Teams posts for each accepted estimate, free.
Where Planning Poker (Appfire) is stronger
- It lives in Jira. Everyone signs in with Jira, so your Atlassian login, SSO and project permissions apply. There is no second tool and no room link to share.
- Automation rules and an ad-hoc or async mode, all inside Jira.
- Widely used: 3,507 installs on the Marketplace, rated 4.6 from 134 reviews.
Which one fits
- Choose PointHuddle if people outside your Jira site join the session (contractors, stakeholders, other teams), if you don’t want a per-user bill as the site grows, or if you want the reveal to show where the team disagrees.
- Choose Planning Poker (Appfire) if everyone who estimates is already in Jira and your organisation wants estimation to stay inside Jira’s login and permissions.
Try it with your team
Create a room, share the link, and vote. No accounts, no sign-up, free.
Start a planning poker room