Make a free poll in two minutes
and share it with anyone
Write your questions, publish, send the link. Unlimited responses, no card, no response cap, and results that update on their own while the poll is open.
Then, when an answer has to hold up, send your questions as a separate verified vote: we email each person on your list their own ballot and confirm the address before their answer counts.
Free, and not a trial
No response limit, no expiry, no card. Everything below is what you get for nothing.
13 question types
Pick from answers: multiple choice, checkboxes, dropdown, yes/no or ranking. Give a score: rating scale or Net Promoter Score. Type an answer: short answer, long answer, email, number, date or phone. Mix as many as you like in one poll.
Live results
New responses show up on their own while the poll is open, with a clean breakdown by option, and the whole thing exports to CSV whenever you want it.
Anonymous by default
Answers are not tied to anyone unless you ask for a name or email, and even then you can keep the two unlinked so nobody can be matched to their answer.
Answers in one tap
People answer from a phone, tablet or laptop with nothing to install and no account to create. The fewer steps between the link and the answer, the more answers you get.
Share it anywhere
One link for an email, a group chat or a newsletter, a QR code to print for the noticeboard, and a code that puts the poll on your own website. Set a close date or leave it open as long as you like.
Pick the look
Pick one of eight preset themes, and attach a PDF when people need to read something before they answer.
What an open link cannot do
Ours included. An open link is fast and useful right up to the moment the result has to convince someone who did not like it.
Anyone can answer as many times as they want
An open poll identifies people by browser cookie or by nothing at all. One person with a private window can swing the whole thing. Fine for picking a lunch spot, not for a board seat.
No proof the result is real
When a result is close or contested, "trust me, I counted" is not enough. An open link gives you the answers and the time each one arrived, but no proof of who sent them. There is nothing to fall back on.
No way to keep it to your group
Public links get shared and brigaded. Without a list of who may answer you cannot keep the decision to your members, your team, or your community.
Send the poll and verify emails before voting
Your questions, sent rather than posted. They carry over into a separate vote with its own link: instead of one link that anyone can open, each person on your list gets their own ballot and confirms their address before their answer counts. Your open poll, and any answers it already has, stay where they are.
You keep
- Anyone with the link can answer
- Unlimited responses, no card
- Anonymous by default
- 13 question types, from multiple choice to a Net Promoter Score
- Live results, CSV export and a PDF board report
Verification adds
- We email each person their own ballot
- Each address is confirmed before the answer counts
- One answer per person, and you see who has not replied
- Timestamped record of who took part
Free for up to 25 people. Charged once for the whole vote, never per answer. No subscription.
You can start one from the builder, or from a poll’s results, whenever you want it. It becomes its own vote, and your free poll stays exactly as it is.
Where a free poll stops being enough
Our free poll is an open link. The last column is the line you cross by sending the same questions as a verified vote.
| Feature | Our free poll | Verified vote |
|---|---|---|
| Free to create | ||
| Unlimited responses | One per person | |
| Ranked and rating questions | ||
| Anonymous answers | ||
| Export to CSV | ||
| Stops one person answering twice | ||
| Confirms each email before it counts | ||
| Keeps the poll to your people | ||
| Shows you who has not replied | ||
| Verified record of who took part |
How to create a poll
Four steps, about two minutes
Write your questions
Add options and pick how people answer. Start from a template if you want a head start.
Publish
One click. Your poll is live and you get a link.
Share the link
Send it anywhere. Anyone who has it can answer in one tap, with no account.
Watch results come in
Results update on their own and export to CSV. If the answer needs to hold up, send it as a verified vote instead.
What you can put to a vote
From a quick team decision to a formal board election
A free poll maker that grows into an election
Create a poll in minutes
Creating a poll should be fast, and with vote.direct it is. Write your question, add as many options as you need, and choose how people answer, whether that is a single choice, checkboxes, a ranking, a rating scale, or a simple yes or no. Then share the link and the responses start coming in, with results updating on their own and everything exportable to CSV.
That is the free poll, and it is free in the ordinary sense of the word: no response cap, no expiry, no card. All you need is an account, which is also where your results live so you can come back to them.
Why verified voting matters
A free online poll is only as good as the responses behind it. An open link is trivial to game: open a private window, answer again, repeat. For an office debate that is harmless. For a board seat, a budget, a bylaw amendment, or any result someone might dispute, it is a real weakness, and an open link cannot fix it, ours included, because fixing it means knowing who each person is.
That is what a verified vote does. Rather than posting one link, you give us the list of people who may take part and we email each of them their own ballot. They confirm their address before their answer counts, so one person gets one answer, bots are blocked, and you can see who has not replied yet and remind them. Every answer lands in a timestamped record, so when somebody asks how you know, you can show them.
One tool for both
Most groups need both over the course of a year: a handful of quick polls, and one or two decisions that have to be done properly. Running those in two different places means two accounts, two exports and two sets of results. On vote.direct both live in one account, and when a casual poll needs to become an official one, its questions carry over into the verified vote: you add the list of voters and send it. That is why HOAs, nonprofits, unions, co-ops and clubs use vote.direct for everything from a Tuesday poll to an annual board election, where ranked ballots, weighted votes and per-unit voting are available too.
Free poll maker FAQs
Common questions about creating polls and verified online voting
A poll is one link: anyone who has it can answer, and it is free. A verified vote is a separate vote, with its own link, built from the questions you already wrote. We send each person on your list their own ballot, confirm their address before their answer counts, and record who took part. Use the open link to read the room. Send a verified vote when the result decides something and somebody might challenge it.
Yes, and it is not a trial. Free polls have no charge and no response limit, with 13 question types, live results, CSV export and a PDF board report. You do need a free account to build one, and there is no card. The only thing that can cost money is a verified vote, which is $4.99 for up to 50 people and free for up to 25, charged once for the whole vote rather than per response.
On a free poll, yes. It is an open link with no verification, so the same person can answer again from another browser and there is no way to prove they did not. That is true of any open link, ours included, and it is the reason the verified vote exists. On a verified vote, each person on your list is confirmed by email before their answer counts, so one person gets one answer and bots are blocked.
Write your questions, pick how people answer, and publish. That takes about two minutes and gives you a link to share, free. If you would rather send it to specific people, choose to verify emails from the builder: your questions carry over into a separate verified vote, you add the list, we email each person their own ballot, and the price for your headcount is shown before anything is charged.
Yes, either way. Free polls are anonymous by default and you can optionally ask for a name or email. On a verified vote, Anonymous mode keeps each voter's identity out of the results, the per-ballot view and every export, so you still get a verified count and proof that only eligible people voted; organizers never see the link, which vote.direct keeps only in restricted storage for vote changes and recounts. Choose Sealed ballots and no link to the voter is stored at all.
That is what a verified vote does. You add the people by hand, from your contacts, or by CSV upload, and only those addresses can take part. An open link cannot be limited: anyone who has it can answer, which is the trade you make for it being open and free.
No. vote.direct runs in any web browser, so people answer from a phone, tablet or laptop with nothing to install. You build and manage everything from the same place, and once a poll is live you can copy an embed code that puts it on your own website, where people answer without leaving the page.
Free polls have 13 question types. Pick from answers: multiple choice, checkboxes, dropdown, yes/no or ranking. Give a score: rating scale or Net Promoter Score. Type an answer: short answer, long answer, email, number, date or phone. Email, number, date and phone answers are checked before they count. Multiple choice and checkbox questions can add an "Other (please specify)" answer, a Net Promoter Score question shows its score in your results, and a ranking question shows each option's average position. Verified votes add cumulative and weighted voting, per-unit ballots for HOAs, write-in candidates and an abstain option. An election ballot is plainer, though: in a verified vote a dropdown becomes multiple choice, a Net Promoter Score a 0 to 10 rating, and an email, number, date or phone answer a written one. On a verified vote, ranked questions collect each voter's full order of preference and are counted by instant-runoff, eliminating the lowest-placed candidate each round and transferring their ballots until one passes a majority; every round is published with the result.
Create your free poll now
Two minutes to build, one link to share, unlimited responses. For the day you need it, a verified vote starts from the builder: $4.99 for up to 50 people, and free for up to 25.