Polly is the most popular Slack polling app, but its free plan caps you at 3 polls per month and locks anonymous voting behind a paid tier. Chooseday gives you unlimited polls, genuine anonymous mode, automatic reminders, and a declared winner, all free, all without installing anything in Slack.
Polly is a Slack-native polling bot. It is fast, it is convenient for teams already in Slack all day, and it works without leaving the app. But its core constraint is that it lives inside Slack, and that creates real limitations. Polls are ephemeral: they scroll off in busy channels, get buried under other messages, and the results disappear from view within hours. The free plan restricts you to 25 responses per poll, anonymous voting requires an upgrade, and there is no permanent record of what your team decided. Polly is good for lightweight pulse checks. It is not designed for decisions that matter.
Teams looking for a Polly alternative are typically scaling past what a Slack bot can handle: they want more than 25 voters, they want anonymous voting without paying, they want results that persist beyond the Slack thread, or they want a decision tool that works for teammates who are not in Slack, contractors, clients, or team members on different platforms.
When evaluating a Polly alternative, look for a tool that works independently of any specific messaging platform. A shareable link means anyone can vote, Slack users, email recipients, people on other tools, without needing an account or joining a channel. Unlimited free voters matters if your team is larger than 25. Genuine anonymous voting, not a paid add-on. A decision log that persists long after the vote closes. And ideally, automatic reminders so you are not manually chasing non-responders in a thread.
Chooseday works across every platform because it is link-based, paste the decision URL in Slack, email, Notion, or anywhere else and your team votes from their browser without installing anything. There are no voter limits on the free plan. Anonymous voting is fully included. Reminders are sent automatically to people who have not voted yet, removing the need to follow up manually. Every decision is permanently archived with its options, results, and declared winner. For teams that started with Polly for quick polls and now need something more structured and permanent, Chooseday is the natural next step.
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The problems Chooseday was built to solve
Chooseday has no monthly poll limit on the free plan. Create as many decisions as your team needs, you're only limited to 5 active at once, which resets when you close old ones.
Anonymous voting is fully included on Chooseday's free plan. Enable it with one toggle, votes are hidden from everyone, including the creator, until the deadline.
Every Chooseday decision closes with a declared winner. No manual tallying, no ambiguity about what the group actually decided.
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We switched from Polly when we hit the 3-poll limit for the second month in a row. Chooseday has no cap and actually tells you who won.
The anonymous voting on Polly requires a plan we couldn't justify. Chooseday gives it free, which was the whole reason we wanted it, honest feedback without politics.
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