The questions people ask us most. What the app does, what you get from it, what we get from it, and how people actually use it. Straight answers, including the ones that don’t make us look good.
OpinionSphere is a place where anyone can ask a question and see what other people think. Just vote in a poll, and you’ll see the results immediately.
What makes OpinionSphere different is that the polls don’t disappear after a day. Polls on X or Instagram usually expire in 24 hours, and conversations in WhatsApp quickly get buried. Here, every poll has its own page and link, so it can stay open and keep collecting votes for months.
We also save snapshots of the results over time, so you can see how opinions changed instead of only seeing the latest numbers.
Most polls today are about cricket, but you’ll also find movies, technology, lifestyle, and many other topics.
OpinionSphere is useful in a few different ways.
Settle debates with real numbers instead of opinions. Rather than arguing louder, you can see what thousands of people actually voted.
Find out whether your opinion is popular. Sometimes you’ll be in the majority, and sometimes you’ll discover you’re not.
Watch opinions change over time. A poll that looks one way today may look very different a month later.
Vote instantly. There’s no account required, nothing to install, and no cost. Just open a poll and vote.
Ask your own question whenever you want. Other people can vote and share their opinions, giving you perspectives beyond your own circle.
Right now, we don’t.
OpinionSphere is free to use. There are no ads, and we’re not selling anything.
We’re a small independent team, and the app is still in beta. Right now, our focus is on building something people enjoy using and want to come back to.
In the future, we may introduce sponsored polls, polls that other websites can embed, opinion reports for companies or news organizations, and better tools for creators. These are only ideas at this stage, and nothing has been finalized.
Whatever we build will use the same anonymous poll totals that everyone already sees. We don’t sell your personal information. If that ever changes, we’ll explain it clearly on this page before it happens.
Partly.
Your vote is counted the moment you tap an option, and the updated percentage appears immediately.
What doesn’t happen is the numbers constantly changing while you’re looking at the page. To see the latest votes, simply refresh the poll or open it again later.
We also save snapshots of the results at fixed times: once a day for normal polls, and once every hour for Pulse polls and timed polls.
This is intentional. Numbers changing every second don’t add much value, and storing results this way keeps the app affordable to run while allowing polls to stay online for years.
People use OpinionSphere in lots of different ways.
During live events. Before a cricket match starts, someone might ask, “Will India win today?” and close the poll when the first ball is bowled. Later, the poll becomes a record of what people believed before the match began.
To settle group debates. When friends disagree, someone can create a poll and share the link in a WhatsApp group. A few dozen votes later, everyone can see what the group thinks.
To ask an audience. Creators, streamers, and community pages use polls to ask their followers questions. Unlike social media polls, the link continues to work long after the original post or video.
To make decisions. Whether you’re choosing between two names, two designs, or two ideas, a poll lets you quickly gather opinions from people outside your own circle.
For long-term questions. Some questions never become outdated. Polls like “Who is India’s greatest ODI captain?” can continue collecting votes for months or even years.
Just for fun. Simple questions like “Tea or coffee?” are often the most shared polls on the platform.
OpinionSphere is built by a small independent team.
The app is still in beta, so you’ll probably come across a few rough edges while we continue improving it.
That’s why your feedback matters so much. If something is confusing, doesn’t work properly, or simply feels awkward, please tell us through the Feedback button in the menu. Reading that feedback is one of the most valuable ways we improve the app.
No.
Anyone can vote without creating an account. Just open the poll link, choose an option, and you’re done. There’s no email, password, or app to install.
Your vote is remembered on the device you used, so when you return to the same poll you’ll still see your choice and how the results have changed since you voted.
You only need an account if you want to create polls, write comments, receive alerts, or access your votes across multiple devices.
It depends on the type of poll.
For a normal poll, your vote is final. This keeps the history of the poll accurate, because people can always see what voters thought at that point in time.
The exception is a Pulse poll. Pulse polls let you change your vote whenever you want, making them useful for topics where opinions naturally change over time. Every Pulse poll is clearly marked with a Pulse badge before you vote.
A Pulse poll is a poll where people can change their vote whenever they want.
Unlike a normal poll, where each vote is permanent, a Pulse poll is designed for questions where opinions naturally change over time. Because people can update their choices, the results can move in either direction instead of gradually settling.
To capture those changes, we save a snapshot of the results every hour instead of once a day. This creates a detailed graph that shows how opinion shifted over time.
Pulse polls are best for topics that keep evolving, such as a player’s form, an ongoing news story, or a TV show that’s still airing.
Because the person who created the poll chose to hide it, and that’s the default setting.
Showing the results before people vote can influence their choice. Many people naturally follow the option that’s already winning, which makes the poll less representative of what they actually think.
Most polls still include a “Show results without voting” link if you’re only curious about the outcome. The creator can turn that option off or choose to make the results visible from the beginning.
No matter which setting they choose, you’ll always be able to see the total number of votes. Once a poll closes, everyone can see the final result.
Because your vote is stored on the device you used.
If you vote without an account, your phone and laptop are treated as two separate devices. We have no way of knowing they belong to the same person.
If you sign in, the votes already stored on that device are added to your account. After that, your votes and activity follow you across all the devices where you’re signed in.
Usually, no.
By default, your vote is private. Even the person who created the poll only sees the totals, not who voted for each option.
Your name appears only if both of these settings are turned on: the poll creator enables the voter list for that poll, and you enable “Show my handle in voter lists” in your profile.
If either setting is turned off, your vote is counted anonymously. Instead of showing your name, the voter list displays anonymous voters as entries like “+42 anonymous.”
Both settings are turned off by default.
Following someone helps you keep up with the polls they create.
When you follow a creator, their new polls appear near the top of your feed, making it easier to see their latest questions.
They are not notified when you follow them.
A Repost lets you share someone else’s poll on your own profile without creating a copy of it.
You can also add your own comment above the repost to explain why you’re sharing it.
This keeps every vote in a single poll. Creating a duplicate poll would split the votes across two different pages, while reposting helps more people find the original poll and keeps all the votes together.
If they’re signed in, no.
Each signed-in account can vote only once per poll, and the database itself prevents a second vote.
Anonymous voting is more difficult to protect because someone can clear their browser data and appear as a new visitor. To reduce abuse, we also limit how many anonymous votes a single internet connection can submit to the same poll in one day, rate-limit voting activity, and enable bot checks when needed.
These measures are enough to stop most casual attempts at cheating, but they won’t stop a determined attacker. That’s one of the reasons we don’t describe OpinionSphere polls as scientific surveys.
When a poll closes, voting stops immediately.
The final results become visible to everyone, including people who never voted.
Closing a poll doesn’t remove it. The poll page stays online with its complete result history and graph, so it remains available as a record even after voting has ended.
No, and we don’t want to pretend they do.
OpinionSphere polls represent the people who found the poll and chose to vote. That isn’t a scientific sample of the country, and having more votes doesn’t change that.
What these polls do show is something different — and still valuable. They reveal which side is currently larger, how big the difference is, and how opinions change over time.
That’s why every poll includes a reminder that its results should not be treated as a measurement of what the whole country thinks.
The graph shows how the poll results changed over time.
It’s one of the features that makes OpinionSphere different from a typical polling app. Instead of showing only the current percentages, we save snapshots of the results so you can see how opinions evolved.
Normal polls are saved once a day, while Pulse polls and timed polls are saved once every hour.
The longer a poll stays active, the more interesting its story becomes. A week-old poll already shows how opinions developed. A poll that’s been collecting votes for a year can show long-term changes that would otherwise be impossible to see.
These are two sections at the top of the home page that help you discover interesting polls.
Moving now highlights polls where the leading option changed recently. These are the polls where opinion is actively shifting.
Closing soon shows timed polls that are about to lock. If you want your vote to count, you’ll need to vote before they close.
It means you predicted the correct outcome.
Some polls ask about events that will eventually have a real answer, such as who will win today’s match or which film will perform better.
Once the outcome is known, the creator marks the correct option. Everyone who voted for that option is told they “called it.”
Your successful predictions are added together on your profile, where you’ll see something like “Called 7 of 11 right.” Only polls where the creator has marked the final outcome are included in this count.
Because the creator has enabled Live Mode.
Live Mode is available for Pulse polls. Instead of saving result snapshots once an hour, the app saves them every 15 minutes.
This creates a much more detailed graph, making it easier to follow fast-changing events like live cricket matches, elections, or other situations where opinions can change quickly.
Once the event is over, the creator can switch Live Mode off again.
Because OpinionSphere allows it on purpose.
Different people may ask the same question in slightly different ways, and you’re free to vote in whichever poll you prefer — or even both.
When you create a poll, we’ll show you similar polls that already exist, but they’re only suggestions. You’re never prevented from posting your own version.
Sometimes similar polls with different vote counts are interesting in themselves because they show how different wording can change the way people respond.
Quite the opposite.
Older polls are often the most valuable because they’ve had more time to collect votes and build a history of how opinions changed.
OpinionSphere doesn’t push a poll down in search results just because it’s old. Only closed polls gradually move lower in the listings.
The whole idea behind the app is to preserve opinions over time, so an older poll often tells a much richer story than a brand-new one.
Anyone with an account can create a poll, and creating an account is free.
Signing in takes just one tap with Google.
Voting is different — you don’t need an account for that. We keep voting open to everyone because asking people to sign in before they vote would discourage many from participating.
Creating a poll is a public action. Your poll stays online and carries your name, and you can edit it until it reaches its first 10 votes. An account also lets you manage your polls, add new options, and receive updates about what happens after you publish them.
At least two, but three or four usually works best.
Once a poll has more than five or six options, the votes tend to spread out, making it harder for any option to stand out as a clear winner.
Keep the option names short and easy to understand. Even someone who knows nothing about the topic should be able to read the choices and decide in just a couple of seconds.
Yes, but only until your poll reaches 10 votes.
Before then you can fix a typo, reword the question, change the settings, or delete the poll completely.
If the poll already has votes, saving an edit asks you one thing first: keep the votes or reset them. Keep is for fixing wording — the votes stay exactly as they were. Reset clears them and starts the count from zero, which is the honest choice when you’ve changed what the poll is really asking. Either way the poll gets an “edited” label.
One rule can’t bend: you can’t rename or remove an option people have already voted on while keeping the votes. Those votes were cast on the old wording, so that change needs a reset. Adding a brand-new option is always fine and never touches the existing votes.
Once a poll reaches 10 votes, its question and existing options are locked. After that you can still close it, hide it, or add new options, but you can’t change or delete what people have already voted on.
That’s why it’s worth reading your poll one more time before you share it.
You most likely chose “reset votes” when you saved the edit.
When you edit a poll that already has votes, saving asks whether to keep the existing votes or reset them. Keep is the right choice for a wording fix — the votes stay exactly where they were. Reset clears them and starts the count from zero, which is meant for when the question’s meaning has changed.
A reset can’t be undone, and voters aren’t notified. So if you’re only tidying up spelling or phrasing, choose keep.
If you edited the poll before we added this choice, the votes were reset for you automatically — that older behavior is exactly what the keep-or-reset question now replaces.
Yes.
You can add new options to your poll at any time, and people who follow the poll will be notified that a new choice has been added.
What you can’t do is rename or remove an existing option. That would change the meaning of votes that people have already cast, so those options remain exactly as they were when people voted.
Yes.
When creating your poll, turn on Timed and choose the date and time you want voting to end.
At that moment, the poll automatically closes, voting stops, and the final results become visible to everyone.
The poll itself isn’t deleted. It stays online as a permanent record, complete with its results and history.
Timed polls are useful for questions with a natural deadline, such as sporting events, award shows, product launches, or election results.
Yes.
Every poll can be set to one of three visibility levels:
Public — Anyone can find it through the feed or search.
Unlisted — It won’t appear in the feed or search, but anyone with the link can open it and vote.
Private — Only you can see it.
For most group conversations, Unlisted is the best choice, because only people you send the link to can open the poll.
You can change a poll’s visibility whenever you like, even after it has collected a large number of votes.
Yes.
You can disable comments either when creating the poll or later by editing it.
Comments are turned on by default. People can reply once to another comment and react to comments that have already been posted.
If you expect a topic to become argumentative or abusive, turning comments off can help keep the discussion focused.
Anyone can read comments, but writing one requires an account.
It depends on how different your question is.
If your wording genuinely offers a different perspective, go ahead and create your poll.
If it’s essentially the same question, it’s usually better to vote on the existing poll instead. One poll with 4,000 votes tells a stronger story than two similar polls with 2,000 votes each.
Either way, the decision is yours. We’ll show you similar polls before you publish, but we never stop you from posting your own.
Yes.
Your profile includes a creator dashboard where you can see how your polls are performing.
It shows information such as total votes, shares, comments, reposts, and which of your polls is performing best.
Only you can see these creator statistics.
It depends on whether you have an account.
If you don’t sign in: We store a random ID in your browser so we can remember your votes on that device. We also keep a scrambled version of your internet address to help prevent vote abuse. Your real internet address is never stored.
If you do sign in: We store your email address, your handle, your display name (if you add one), and your bio (if you add one).
In both cases: We also record basic events, such as when a poll is opened or a vote is cast. This helps us understand how people use the app and identify parts that may be confusing. These records contain IDs and counts only — they never include anything you type into the app.
No.
OpinionSphere doesn’t show ads, doesn’t use third-party tracking companies, and doesn’t sell your personal information.
Even the usage data we collect stays in our own database.
If we introduce ways to earn money in the future, they’ll use anonymous poll totals rather than personal information.
Because it’s the quickest and simplest option.
Signing in with Google takes one tap and means we never have to store your password.
We already have an email-link sign-in system in development, and it’ll return once our email service is ready for public use. Until then, Google is the only sign-in method.
Remember, you don’t need an account to browse polls or vote. Signing in is only required for features like creating polls, commenting, and syncing your activity across devices.
Only a small amount of information is public.
Other people can see your handle, your display name (if you’ve added one), your bio (if you’ve added one), the public polls you’ve created, and polls you’ve reposted.
Your votes remain private unless you turn on “Show my handle in voter lists.”
Even then, your name only appears on polls where the creator has also enabled voter lists. Both settings must be turned on before your name is shown.
Not yet.
We haven’t built a self-service delete option yet, but it’s on our roadmap.
Until then, you can send us a request through the Feedback button, and we’ll remove your name from the account.
Your polls and votes will stay in the system because other people’s results depend on them. However, nothing will continue to identify those polls or votes as yours.
You’ll only receive notifications about activity that’s relevant to you.
That includes things like a poll you voted in getting a new leading option, a timed poll you voted in being about to close, someone adding a new option to a poll you follow, or someone commenting on or reposting a poll you created.
The most useful notification is when a poll you voted in changes direction. Finding out that opinion has shifted is one of the main reasons to come back to OpinionSphere.
Yes.
After you vote, OpinionSphere can ask whether you’d like to receive browser notifications for that poll.
If you allow notifications, they’ll be sent directly to that device without requiring an account.
Creating an account adds a few extra benefits: an Alerts tab inside the app, notifications that follow you across multiple devices, and alerts for polls you’ve created yourself.
We keep notifications to a minimum.
You’ll receive a notification when something meaningful happens in a poll you’ve interacted with, such as a change in the leading option.
In addition, we may send up to two short recommendations a day suggesting polls you might find interesting.
If there’s nothing useful to tell you, we won’t send anything. And if you decide you don’t want notifications anymore, you can turn them off at any time.
Only one type of email, and only if you have an account.
Once a week, on Monday, we send a summary showing what changed while you were away.
The email includes updates on polls you created, updates on polls you voted in, and a summary of how your predictions performed.
If you’d rather not receive it, you can switch it off from your profile at any time.
The steps depend on whether you’re signed in.
If you have an account: Open the Alerts tab in the app. Inside the “Push alerts” card, you’ll find a switch that turns notifications on or off for the device you’re currently using.
If you don’t have an account: Turn off notifications for opinionsphere.app in your browser settings. For example, in Chrome on Android, tap the lock (or ⓘ) icon beside the address bar and open Notifications to manage them.
No, and you don’t need one.
OpinionSphere is designed to work directly in your browser.
If you’d like it to feel like a regular app, open your browser menu and choose “Add to Home Screen”. An icon will appear on your home screen, and the app will open in full-screen mode just like a native app.
Whether you add it or not, you’ll have access to the same features, including notifications.
OpinionSphere searches by meaning, not just by exact words.
For example, searching for “batsman” can still find a poll about the greatest batter, even if the word batsman doesn’t appear anywhere in the question.
Search can also find polls where a player appears as an option rather than in the title.
You can also search for people by entering their handle.
Not really.
You may still be able to open the app, but polls, voting, comments, and results all require an internet connection.
If you try to vote while you’re offline, the vote doesn’t wait to be sent later. It simply fails, and you’ll need to vote again once you’re connected.
The app interface is currently available in English.
However, you can create polls in any language. Your question and options will appear exactly as you write them.
Only the menus, buttons, and other parts of the app itself are limited to English for now.
Every poll includes a Report option.
When you report something, we’ll ask you why you’re reporting it.
Reports are reviewed by a real person. Content isn’t removed automatically just because someone disagrees with it or dislikes it.
Please report anything that’s abusive, clearly false, or targeted at a private individual.
Use the Feedback button in the menu.
You don’t need an account, and even a single sentence is enough for us to understand the problem.
Bugs aren’t the only thing we want to hear about. If something was confusing, difficult to use, or simply didn’t make sense, we’d like to know that too. Your feedback helps us make OpinionSphere better for everyone.
There are two longer reads below. And if your question isn’t on this page, send it to us with the feedback button in the menu. One line is enough and you don’t need an account. This page is written from what people actually ask us.
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