Estimioo
4.1Free planning poker, retrospectives and standups for Scrum teams
Estimioo is a lightweight, browser-based agile-ceremony tool that bundles AI-assisted planning poker, a basic sprint retrospective board and async daily standups into one shared workspace. The product's centre of gravity is estimation; retrospectives are a real but thin module — a single <strong>went well / didn't go well / improve</strong> reflection board with session summaries, not a deep retro toolkit.
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Parabol
7.6Open-source agile meetings for retros, poker, standups and check-ins
Parabol is an <strong>open-source agile meeting platform</strong> spanning retrospectives, sprint poker, async standups, team check-ins and lightweight team health, with deep backlog sync to Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Linear and AI-assisted grouping, summaries, icebreakers and discussion prompts.
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Estimioo scores 4.1 overall and is best for small, distributed Scrum teams who mainly want fast, AI-assisted planning poker and async standups, and are happy with a simple reflection board for retros rather than a dedicated retro suite. It offers a free tier.
Parabol scores 7.6 overall and is best for distributed agile teams that want one open-source tool for retros, poker, standups and lightweight team health. It offers a free tier.
Estimioo leads on value. Parabol leads on ease of use, retro toolkit, fun factor, AI & insights, integrations and enterprise-grade.
Across our seven scoring dimensions, Parabol edges ahead with an overall score of 7.6. That said, the right pick depends on your team — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown below.
Scores compared
| Detail | Estimioo | Parabol |
|---|---|---|
| Category | All-in-One Agile | All-in-One Agile |
| Team size | Small | Any |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Free limit | Up to 10 participants, 5 sessions/month, 5 AI estimates/month, 1-hour session expiry | Unlimited users, 2 teams, 10 meetings/month, 30-day history, 2 custom templates |
| Starting price | $7/workspace/mo | $8/user/mo |
| Est. 3 teams × 8 people | $7/mo (Team plan is flat per-workspace, not per-seat) | $192/mo |
| Enterprise | No | Yes |
| Founded | — | 2015 |
| HQ | — | Remote |
| Data residency | — | United States · European Union · Self-hosted |
| Languages | English only | English only |
| Features | 10 | 43 |
| Integrations | 1 | 7 |
Feature & integration comparison
Side-by-side checklist across features, integrations and security. Hover a note for details.
| Capability | Estimioo | Parabol |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| AI Summaries | ✓ note | ✓ |
| AI grouping/clustering | — | ✓ |
| AI action items | — | — |
| Action tracking | — | ✓ |
| Team Insights | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Polling | — | ✓ note |
| Action dashboard | — | ✓ |
| Custom templates | — | ✓ note |
| Anonymous input | — | ✓ |
| Independent voting | — | ✓ |
| Async mode | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Agile Estimations | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Health Checks | — | ✓ note |
| Team Kudos | — | ✓ |
| Whiteboard | — | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Asana | — | — |
| Azure DevOps | — | ✓ |
| Basecamp | — | — |
| ClickUp | — | — |
| Confluence | — | — |
| GitHub | — | ✓ |
| GitLab | — | ✓ |
| Jira | ✓ note | ✓ |
| Linear | — | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams | — | ✓ |
| Monday.com | — | — |
| Notion | — | — |
| Shortcut | — | — |
| Slack | — | ✓ |
| Trello | — | — |
| Security & Privacy | ||
| SOC 2 | — | ✓ |
| GDPR | — | ✓ |
| SSO / SAML | — | ✓ note |
| SCIM provisioning | — | ✓ note |
| ISO 27001 | — | — |
| On-premises | — | ✓ note |
| Public API | — | ✓ |
| Webhooks | — | ✓ |
Estimioo — pros
- + Genuinely cheap — flat $7/workspace/mo Team plan (not per-seat) and a usable free tier
- + Fast, no-friction planning poker with multiple scales and hidden-until-reveal voting
- + AI story-point suggestions and estimation-accuracy tracking, powered by Claude with zero data retention
- + Guests join without signup via link or QR code — low overhead for distributed teams
- + Three ceremonies (poker, retro, standup) in one shared workspace
Estimioo — cons
- − Retrospectives are a single fixed went-well/didn't/improve board — no template library, dot voting, grouping, anonymity, timer or action items with owners
- − AI is aimed at estimation, not retros — no theme clustering, sentiment or retro summaries
- − No Slack/Teams, Confluence, GitHub, Linear or Azure DevOps integrations; Jira is a paste-URL preview for poker only
- − No SSO, SOC 2, audit logs or published data-residency — not built for enterprise procurement
- − Free sessions expire after 1 hour and cap at 5/month; no recurring retros or persistent retro history
Parabol — pros
- + Open source (AGPL-3.0) with self-host and on-prem options
- + 40+ retro templates plus poker, standups, check-ins and team health in one tool
- + Strong backlog write-back to Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Linear
- + AI summaries, suggested groupings and discussion prompts that surface real themes
- + Anonymous reflections and lightweight team health check built in
Parabol — cons
- − Free tier capped at 10 meetings/month and 30-day history
- − No native whiteboard, presentation mode or screen-share mode
- − Health-check is a single emoji poll — no custom radars or trend dashboards
- − SSO, SCIM, audit-grade controls and uptime SLA gated to Enterprise
- − No Confluence, Trello or multi-language support