Gorgeous real-time results

Customize, present, and wow people with vibrant designs.

Moderation

Manually approve each message to prevent inappropriate, off-topic, duplicate, or irrelevant responses from showing up on your screens. Can be combined with auto-censoring too. ($) Learn more >>

100% Web-based

No software to install. Using PowerPoint is optional. You can create and run everything right from a web browser.

Free Response (Q&A)

Invite the audience to send in anything such as a phrase, event feedback, or a question for the panel or presenter. Learn more >>

Mac OS X Keynote

Just like PowerPoint on Windows, you can show beautiful, full-featured polls directly in your Apple Keynote or PowerPoint Mac presentation. Learn more >>

Twitter

Tweet your polls directly to your Twitter stream and allow audiences to respond by tweeting. Works in real-time just like regular text messaging or the web.

No Spam or Advertisements

No advertisements or text message spam for you or your participants, ever.

Works in PowerPoint

Download slides that show live results. Nothing to install. (?)

Customer Support

Customers can call or email us for support. Free users can help themselves more quickly by using our FAQ or GetSatisfaction community to ask any question.

Smartphones & Laptops

Anyone with a smartphone (or computer) and internet access can respond and skip text messaging. Learn more >>

Privacy Conscious

By default, everyone's identity is protected unless they give you permission to know something unique about them. Phone numbers are never shared.

Download Reports

Download any reports into Excel, Google Spreadsheets, or Numbers for offline data analysis or sharing.

Archived Results

Re-use the same poll over and over. Compare separate runs of the poll with different audiences (which audience is smarter?). Never lose results again. ($) Learn more >>

Cross-poll reporting

Add many questions together and use this approach to correlate results by who responded. ($) Learn more >>

International Text Messaging

No matter where your audience is from or currently located, they probably will be able to respond using one of our international text messaging numbers. Learn more >>

Identify Participants

Use one poll to ask names or emails. Then line that up with other polls. ($) Learn more >>

Heatmaps

When people in the US participate by texting, you can see a "heatmap" by state of where people responded from.

Share Your Account

This is great for events with breakout sessions or many presenters interacting with different audiences. ($) Learn more >>

Text messaging (SMS)

With text messaging, virtually everyone can participate.

Let us help you

With additional support and consulting services for your production needs, we can help with 24x7 support, on-site help, or pre-event logistical and event consulting. Contact us if you think you might need this.

Multiple Choice Polls

Define options for people to vote on. See a real-time chart of the results.

Goal Polls

Goal polls let everyone text in donation pledges. A live thermometer rises towards your defined goal.

Select How People Participate

Allow or restrict participation by selecting any combination of Twitter, SMS, Web, or Smartphones.

Organize your polls

Drag & drop polls into groups to keep organized.

Confirmation Messages

Give your audience assurance their response was received. Send them follow-up information on how to connect with you after they participate.

Vote with "1", "2", "3"

If you ask many questions in a row, consider organizing polls into an event. They can vote using single-letter/digit responses to your questions.

Surveys

Group a few polls to turn them into a web survey that you can share with people. They respond on their own time from computer or smartphone.

Collaborate

Share questions amongst sub-users. This is great for educators and corporate trainers to better re-use questions. Your tech experts can help your everyday users manage their polls. ($) Learn more >>

Automatic Censoring

For common profanity or inappropriate words, you can automatically reject or censor those responses from showing up on your screen.

Registered Participants

Perfect for educators who poll frequently, you can allow students to register with you. You can report on their responses to your questions for class credit, attendance or grading. ($) Learn more >>

See what others are asking

If you chose to share your polls, you can search other shared polls. Find the perfect question about anything.

Device Independent

View your real-time polls on any device, even devices that do not support Flash, such as iPads, netbooks, and mobile phones.

Bulk Import Registered Participants

If you have a lot of participants you would like to register, we make it super easy to get all of them into Poll Everywhere. Utilizing a CSV file that can be exported from any spreadsheet application, we're able to import all of your participants in one fell swoop. ($)

Private Polls

Protect your polls from search engines if there is confidential information in the title (results aren't shared). Share polls and responses only with specific people by sending them a private link.

Limit who can participate

Control who is allowed to vote or text to your slides. Use an optional pre-registration process that even verifies their mobile phone. SMS voting is incredibly secure. ($) Learn more >>

Custom Keywords

All text message voting systems use "keywords". Premium plans let you pick keywords from the available dictionary, and we show you what's available as you type. ($) Learn more >>

API

Use our API to get at various pieces of information about your polls, including the live results. Build your own branded visualizations or store results in a Mongo DB if that's what flavors your bacon.

Posterous Polls

Email Posterous a link to one of your Poll Everywhere polls and it will turn into a widget in your new blog post.

Share on Facebook

Post your Poll Everywhere polls to your Facebook Wall. Your friends will be able to see real-time poll results directly in Facebook.

Publish Results

You can share results with participants or sponsors after your event using a link to the poll or share a static chart image on your website or download the results and send it to others.

Limit Responses

Restrict the number of times people can respond. This is great for "American Idol"-style contests where you might want to allow only 1 response per person.

RSS Results Feed

Consume results from your polls using RSS feeds. This allows you to build your own visualizations or feed results digital signs.

Web widgets

Choose between live results displays and widgets that also allow web participation that can be placed in your own websites. Visitors can respond directly from your website.

Instant Plan Upgrades

Change and upgrade your subscription plan at any time. Don't need Poll Everywhere for a few months? Downgrade to the free plan. You won't lose your data.

Visualize Conversations & Chatwalls

Use the Cluster effect in our Free Text Polls for large group brainstorming, conversations about a topic, visualizing tweets, and Text2Screen walls.

Grade and Score Responses

By marking answers correct and incorrect, you can run reports to get individualized scores across questions (or determine a winner). ($) Learn more >>

Mobile Result Summaries

No internet? No problem.

Just text us the word "results", and we'll reply with a summary of your poll's activity. Unlimited, and free.

Segmentation

Put people in teams for competitions or make inferences using any two questions (e.g. Between staff and management, how many have been with our company more than 5 years?) ($) Learn more >>

Import Many Polls

With a single copy-paste

Works in Prezi

Prezi can display questions and real-time results inside your Prezi presentations by downloading a file from us to upload into your Prezi.