Chooseday vs Simple Poll

Chooseday vs Simple Poll: Decision-ready features vs basic Slack polls

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.

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The honest comparison

chooseday
Recommended
  • Anonymous voting on every decision, every plan — including free
  • Ranked choice (IRV) for decisions where multiple options are viable
  • Dot voting for priority-setting and resource-allocation decisions
  • Voting deadline auto-closes the decision and declares a winner
  • Works via any shared link — no Slack workspace membership required to vote
  • Permanent decision history outside of Slack message threads
  • Free plan with 5 active decisions and unlimited voters — no monthly caps
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Simple Poll
  • Very convenient for quick polls — type /poll and you are done
  • Anonymous voting is not available — everyone in Slack can see who picked what
  • No ranked choice voting — single-choice only
  • Free plan limits polling features and the number of active polls
  • Results live in Slack — scroll up to find them or lose them in the thread
  • No deadline enforcement — polls stay open until manually closed
  • Only accessible to members of the Slack workspace

Why teams switch

The problems Chooseday was built to solve

🕵️
Simple Poll shows who voted for what in Slack — HiPPOs and team leads visibly shape the result

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.

🏆
Simple Poll shows results in real time as votes come in, creating bandwagon effects

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.

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Simple Poll results are buried in Slack threads and disappear as conversation moves on

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.

Feature breakdown

Every feature that matters, compared

Feature
Chooseday ★
Simple Poll
Anonymous voting (free plan)
Results hidden until deadline
Ranked choice voting (IRV)
Dot voting / point allocation
Voting deadline enforcement
Declared winner logic
Permanent decision history
Works outside Slack workspace
See it in action

This is what Chooseday looks like

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

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.

GM
George M.
Engineering Lead, 35-person startup

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.

FO
Faith O.
Project Coordinator, creative agency

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know

No. Simple Poll shows voter names next to their choices in the Slack message. There is no anonymous voting mode on Simple Poll. Chooseday is anonymous by default on every plan.

Simple Poll supports single-choice and multiple-choice voting but not ranked choice. Chooseday supports ranked choice using Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), which is useful when you have three or more viable options and want the most broadly preferred winner.

You share Chooseday decision links in Slack just like any other link. Voters click through to cast their vote in Chooseday. The experience is smooth, but it does open outside of Slack rather than staying in the thread.

Yes. The free plan includes 5 active decisions with unlimited voters, anonymous voting, and all three voting modes (plurality, ranked choice, and dot voting). No credit card required to get started.

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