Simple Poll makes it easy to run a quick /poll in Slack. Chooseday gives your team anonymous voting, ranked choice, deadlines, and a permanent record, all on the free plan.
There’s a version of team decision-making where Simple Poll is exactly right. It’s a quick pulse check. The stakes are low. Nobody cares deeply about the outcome. You type /poll, post it to the channel, and move on. Simple Poll was made for that.
It’s when the question actually matters that simple stops being enough.
No anonymous voting on the free plan means people vote for what’s politically safe, not what they genuinely prefer. When your manager has already voted, or the most vocal person on the team has picked an option, the visible votes that follow start to cluster, not because everyone agrees, but because nobody wants to be the lone dissenter in a shared Slack channel.
Results visible in the Slack thread mean later voters anchor to earlier ones. This is textbook social influence, and it plays out in every public real-time poll: the first option to take a lead tends to keep it, not because it’s the best option, but because it established momentum.
No deadline means the poll stays open until someone remembers to close it, which often means it drifts indefinitely, never producing a formal outcome. No archive means the result disappears into the channel scroll, lost after a week of normal conversation. And no ability to vote from outside the Slack workspace means contractors, clients, or anyone you’ve onboarded differently simply can’t participate.
Chooseday is the natural upgrade path from Simple Poll. The workflow is just as easy, share a link, your team votes. But the structure underneath it is built to produce a result you can trust: anonymous voting so people say what they actually think; results hidden until the deadline so no one’s choice is shaped by what others chose; a hard deadline that closes the vote and declares the winner automatically; and a permanent archive so the decision exists beyond the channel thread.
All of that is free. No voter caps, no anonymity paywall, no feature tier required. For decisions that don’t matter much, Simple Poll does the job. For decisions that do, Chooseday is the tool that gives the result credibility.
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The problems Chooseday was built to solve
Chooseday votes are anonymous by default. No one, not even admins, can see how individuals voted. Every team member votes without social pressure, which gives you a more honest result.
Chooseday hides results until the deadline. Voters see only the options, not the running totals. The declared winner reflects genuine preferences, not who voted first.
Chooseday stores every decision permanently. Search for any past decision by topic, see who participated in aggregate, and review the outcome at any time, from any device, outside of Slack.
Every feature that matters, compared
Simple Poll is so convenient that we kept using it even when it gave bad results. Once I realised votes were visible and people were copying the manager, we switched to Chooseday immediately.
We needed to include a few contractors who are not in our Slack. Simple Poll could not do it. Chooseday link, shared in an email, and everyone voted in 10 minutes.
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