A Doodle Alternative from the Makers of Scrum Poker Online

We have spent years building tools that help agile teams collaborate more effectively. Scrum Poker Online grew from a simple idea — that estimation sessions should be fast, free, and accessible — into a tool used by thousands of teams around the world. Along the way, we kept noticing another recurring problem that our users faced: coordinating group activities outside of sprint planning.

Scheduling meetings, organizing events, and figuring out who can bring what to a team lunch — these everyday coordination tasks are surprisingly painful. Doodle has long been the go-to solution for scheduling polls, but it has grown increasingly cluttered with ads, upsells, and friction for users who just want a clean, quick way to coordinate.

That’s why we built Whocan.org.

What Is Whocan?

Whocan is a free group coordination tool designed for teams, communities, and anyone who needs to organize activities with multiple people. Like everything we build, it prioritizes simplicity: no unnecessary setup, no mandatory registration, and no advertising getting in the way of the task at hand.

The name reflects the core question the tool answers: who can do this? Who can make it on Thursday? Who can bring the dessert? Who can take on this task?

What You Can Do With Whocan

Attendance polls: Create a simple poll to find out when everyone is available. Participants can indicate which time slots work for them, and the poll automatically surfaces the option with the most availability. This is the classic Doodle use case, done without the noise.

Task distribution: Organizing a project kickoff, an office event, or a community gathering often means coordinating who handles what. Whocan lets you list tasks and have participants claim the ones they can take on — no spreadsheet required.

Potluck organization: Planning a team lunch or a bring-your-own event? Whocan makes it easy to see what people are already bringing so that you don’t end up with five portions of potato salad and no drinks.

Preference polling: Sometimes you just need to know what the group prefers. Whocan supports open preference polls where participants can vote on options — useful for everything from choosing a team restaurant to deciding which new feature to prioritize informally.

Why We Built It

The honest answer is that we were dogfooding. We were using Doodle to schedule meetings for the Scrum Poker Online team and growing frustrated with it. The free tier felt more like a bait-and-switch than a genuine product. We kept asking participants to click through ads or deal with confusing prompts to upgrade.

We had already solved a coordination problem for agile estimation. Solving a coordination problem for scheduling felt like a natural extension of the same philosophy: take something that should be simple, remove the friction, and build something that respects the user’s time.

Try It Today

Whocan is free to use. You can create your first poll in under a minute without creating an account. Visit whocan.org to get started.

If you use Scrum Poker Online and find yourself also coordinating team events or scheduling across time zones, Whocan is built with exactly that workflow in mind. We think you’ll like it.