Chooseday vs Polly

Chooseday vs Polly: Decisions that work everywhere, not just in Slack

Polly is a good Slack poll tool but its free plan is nearly unusable and anonymous voting costs extra. Chooseday gives you all of that, free.

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Team vote · Live8 of 9 voted
Where should we hold the Q3 offsite?
🏔️ Mountain retreat62%
🏖️ Beach resort24%
🏙️ City co-working14%
🔒 Anonymous · closes Friday
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Side by side

The honest comparison

chooseday
Recommended
  • No response cap — unlimited voters on every decision, every plan
  • Anonymous voting is on by default, free, on every plan
  • Ranked choice (IRV) and dot voting available on free and paid plans
  • Works via any shared link — no Slack, Teams, or app install required
  • Voting deadline closes the poll and declares a winner automatically
  • Permanent decision history accessible outside of Slack
  • Free plan supports 5 active decisions with no response limits
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Polly
  • Free plan allows only 25 responses/month — easily exhausted by one medium-sized team
  • Anonymous voting requires a paid plan — a core team need locked behind a paywall
  • Ranked choice voting is not available — single-choice or multiple-choice only
  • Results live inside Slack — no decision archive outside your message history
  • Only works inside Slack or Microsoft Teams — external participants cannot vote
  • No automatic winner declaration — you read the results and decide yourself

Why teams switch

The problems Chooseday was built to solve

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Polly's free plan is capped at 25 responses per month — your team blows through that in a day

Chooseday has no response limits on any plan. Run as many decisions as you need and invite as many voters as your decision requires, without watching a response counter tick down.

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Anonymous voting in Polly is a paid feature — on the free plan, everyone can see who voted what

Anonymous voting is on by default in Chooseday on every plan, including free. Votes are attributed to tokens, not identities. Nobody — including admins — can see how individuals voted.

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Polly only works for people already inside your Slack or Teams workspace

Chooseday decisions run on a link. Share it in Slack, by email, in Notion, or in a text message. Anyone you want can vote — no workspace membership required.

Feature breakdown

Every feature that matters, compared

Feature
Chooseday ★
Polly
Anonymous voting on free plan
Unlimited responses / voters
Ranked choice voting (IRV)
Dot voting / point allocation
No app install to vote
Voting deadline enforcement
Declared winner logic
Permanent decision history
See it in action

This is what Chooseday looks like

🔒app.chooseday.co/vote/q4-features
Ranked choice · drag to reorder
Rank these Q4 features by priority
1st
🔔Notification system
2nd
🎨Dashboard redesign
3rd
📊Analytics v2
4th
🔗Slack integration
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What teams are saying

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We hit Polly's 25-response cap in the first week. Switched to Chooseday and never thought about limits again. Also, anonymous voting being free was a big deal for us.

TH
Tom H.
Engineering Lead, 40-person team
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Polly is fine inside Slack. But we have contractors and partners who are not in our workspace. Chooseday's link-based voting means everyone who matters can weigh in.

AN
Aisha N.
Project Manager, consulting firm

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know

Chooseday is not a Slack app — it is a standalone decision platform that works via any link. You can paste the decision link into Slack to share it, but voters do not need to be in your Slack workspace to participate.

When votes are visible, people are influenced by what others have already chosen — especially if a manager voted first. Anonymous voting ensures each team member votes on their genuine preference, not on what looks socially safe.

You can share Chooseday decision links in Slack directly. Full Slack-native notifications are on the roadmap for 2026. In the meantime, sharing a link in a Slack message takes about five seconds.

When the deadline passes, voting closes automatically, results are revealed to all participants, and the winning option is declared. The decision and its outcome are saved permanently to your decision history.

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