You’re seeing this before almost anyone else. Below: making a poll, what every switch on that screen actually does, the short journeys people take once a poll exists, and the corners worth wandering into. Ten minutes, tops.
Open any poll link, tap the option you agree with, and the result appears underneath. That’s the whole loop — no sign-up, no email, no install. Everything else is what happens once you’re curious enough to keep going.
Tap Create in the bottom bar. One screen, top to bottom, then a review step.
The best polls here are short and force a side: “The greatest Indian batter of all time?”, “Chai or coffee — settle it?” If someone has to read it twice, they scroll past.
Ask something people already argue about. You want the reaction “obviously it’s X, how is this even close”.
Optional, and folded away until you tap it. Use it for the background a stranger needs to answer honestly. It shows under the question on the poll page and on the card in the feed, and it freezes with the question when 10 people have taken part, including anyone who later withdraws.
It isn’t searched. Put the words people would search for in the question itself.
One tap opens the list, and it isn’t cosmetic — the category is how people filter the home feed, so it decides who stumbles onto your poll months later.
If it doesn’t clearly fit, choose General. A mis-filed poll is worse than an unfiled one.
The question and these options lock after 10 people take part. New options can still be added after that. Up to 20 options.
Two minimum, twenty maximum — but past five or six the votes spread so thin that no result feels meaningful. Three or four is the sweet spot.
Get these right before you share the link. Once 10 people have taken part, including anyone who withdraws, the options already there are locked. You can still add a new one: it starts at zero and everyone keeps their answer. Before then you can also remove or rename a choice; if anyone answered, their version stays under Previous results and the changed poll opens unanswered (see Editing).
Hiding results makes voting the payoff — the total count always stays visible.
Vote to reveal is the default and nearly always right. Results stay hidden, but a “Show results without voting” link lets the genuinely curious peek — which stops people bouncing.
Vote required removes that escape hatch: cleaner numbers, at the cost of some visitors leaving rather than committing. Always visible suits polls where the running total is the attraction.
All off except Comments. You can ignore every one of them and still post a perfectly good poll — the defaults are the common case.
Turning on Timed adds a date-and-time picker underneath; the poll won’t post until you set a closing moment.
Voting on the original keeps opinion in one place.
You can edit or delete this until 10 people have taken part, including anyone who withdraws. After that the question, context and existing options are permanent, but you can still add new options.
One last screen showing the poll as others will see it, plus two kinds of help. Neither one blocks you.
If someone already asked something close, you’ll see it — with a nudge to go vote there instead, since scattered duplicates split the crowd. Post anyway if your angle is genuinely different. You may also get wording, category or extra-option suggestions; tap Apply to take one, or don’t. If two of your options have the same text, the review says so; that is allowed, but it is usually a slip.
Every poll posts as Public. Unlisted and Private are set afterwards, from the poll’s menu — see the next section.
The panels above are built from the same styles as the real create screen.
You can edit or delete a poll until 10 people have taken part, counting anyone who withdrew. Earlier answers are always preserved.
If anyone has already answered, those answers stay in Previous results and a new version starts. Everyone can answer the updated poll.
One safe save. If nobody has answered yet, the poll updates in place. If someone has answered, their version and results are archived and the changed poll opens unanswered. Nothing they answered is deleted or relabelled.
Changing the question, or adding, renaming or removing an option in this edit form, all follow the same rule. The old version stays under Previous results; the updated version starts at zero so everyone can answer what is now being asked. To add an option without starting a new version, use Add an option instead: the new option starts at zero from today, and everyone keeps their answer.
When 10 people have taken part, the content locks permanently. Withdrawals do not lower that lifetime count. The question, context and existing options stay as they are. You can still add a new option, close the poll, switch comments or the voter list, change its category, or change who can find it.
Visibility. Public is the default and is findable in the feed, in search and on your profile. Unlisted is hidden from all three, but anyone who has the link can open it and vote, including anyone the link is forwarded to. Private is yours alone. You can change it at any time, votes or not.
Which filter tab your poll appears under on the home feed.
Reach for it when: Always. It's how people find it later.
Up to 500 characters under the question, for the background a stranger needs. Shown on the poll page and the feed card; not searched.
Reach for it when: The question depends on something the reader might not know about.
Whether the split is hidden until someone votes, hidden with no escape hatch, or open to all.
Reach for it when: Leave it. Switch to Always visible only when the live total is the attraction.
Lets people change their vote while the poll is open, and samples the standing every hour so the trend can move both ways.
Reach for it when: Opinion can genuinely shift. Form, mood, an unfolding story.
Adds a closing time. Afterwards the poll locks, shows final results to everyone who can open it, and fades out of search.
Reach for it when: The question has an answer soon. A match, a result, a premiere.
Shows names under the poll, but only for voters who separately opted in on their own profile. Everyone else is counted as anonymous.
Reach for it when: Rarely. It needs both sides to agree, so most lists stay mostly anonymous.
A discussion thread under the poll, with one level of replies, reactions and @mentions.
Reach for it when: Turn it off for anything likely to attract heat.
Two minimum, twenty maximum. Before ten people have taken part, changing the choices creates a new version when answers exist. At ten, the existing options are permanent, and new ones can still be added.
Reach for it when: Get these right before you share the link.
Full edit and delete stay available below ten lifetime participants, including withdrawals. An answered version is archived automatically. At ten you can still add an option and manage visibility, category, comments, voter list and closing, but not change what is already there.
Reach for it when: Fix typos immediately, before you send the link anywhere.
Public is findable everywhere. Unlisted is hidden from the feed, search and your profile but open to anyone with the link. Private is only you. Set after posting, from the poll's menu.
Reach for it when: A group question: Unlisted. A draft or a note to yourself: Private.
The four things people do most after voting, each in a few taps.
Open the poll and tap Trend. The line is the share of each option over time; the legend highlights one, and a tap on the line reads out that day. Choose a range (day, week, month, year, all). On ordinary polls, a shorter range rebuilds the split from votes cast inside it, so it can differ from the all-time result. On Pulse polls, the range shows the standing over that period, not just new votes. The numbers table underneath has the exact counts.
The poll’s Share button sends the question (WhatsApp, Telegram, copy link, your share sheet); the preview shows the options and the vote count, never the split. To send the numbers, open the trend page: share there gives you the chart as an image with the range you chose, and Download CSV gives you the series. A poll with sample votes says so in both.
Signed in: Settings → Notifications has a switch per kind of alert, and the Alerts tab has one for the device you’re on. In the Android app the same switches live under Settings, and the phone’s own notification settings work too. Without an account, the browser’s site settings for opinionsphere.app are the switch.
Settings → Delete account, or the account deletion page. One choice on the way out: whether to remove your comments too. Every device is signed out straight away, and you have 30 days to sign in and restore the account. After that your email, handle, name, bio, photo, date of birth and gender go, and your handle is held for 90 days. Your polls and votes stay, without your name. Backups can hold the erased data for up to 90 days more. The Privacy Policy lists exactly what goes and what stays.
Five tabs along the bottom: Home, Search, Create, Alerts and You. Plus a menu behind the icon at the top left.
Filter chips for each category across the top. Above the list sit two strips: Moving now, polls that collected votes in the last day with the biggest swings first, and Closing soon, timed polls that lock within the week. You can vote on a card without opening it.
Vote, and everything unfolds: the split, who else voted, the comment thread, related polls, a share button. Follow a poll to hear about it later, or report it if something’s wrong.
The part that makes this different from a survey. Every poll keeps a history of how the split has moved since it was posted — daily, or hourly for Pulse and timed polls.
Finds polls by meaning, not just words — searching “batsman” surfaces the greatest-batter poll even though the word never appears in it. It searches option names too, so a player’s name finds the poll they’re listed in, and it finds people by handle.
Where you hear that a poll you voted on flipped, is about to close, gained an option, or that someone mentioned you. Turn on notifications and it reaches you with the app shut.
Everything you’ve voted on and created, in one timeline, plus the creator dashboard. Also where you’d add a photo, pin a poll, make your votes public, or set a display name and bio.
Their public polls and reposts — useful for judging whether the person behind a poll is worth following.
Notification switches, the weekly email, who you’ve blocked, appearance, and the way out: delete account.
A five-slide, tap-through explanation of the whole idea. Thirty seconds, and the rest makes more sense afterwards.
There is a native Android app on Google Play (the link is in the FAQ). There is no iPhone app. The app and the website show the same polls, the same alerts and the same account.
On any phone, the site is a proper web app — it sits on your home screen like any other icon and opens full-screen, without an app store. Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone both have the option in their share or menu button.
Reading needs a connection everywhere. On the website a vote made offline fails, and you vote again once you’re back. In the Android app a vote that can’t be sent waits on your phone and is retried; it counts only once the server accepts it, and the server can still refuse it then, for instance if the poll has closed.
Both are covered in more detail in the FAQ.
On a One answer poll you can’t change your answer — that’s what makes the historical record mean anything. You can withdraw it until the deadline the poll shows, but then you can’t vote on it again. Only Pulse polls let you change your mind, and they say so with a badge.
Every poll carries a line saying so. These are the opinions of people who happened to find the poll and chose to answer — interesting, often revealing, but not a measurement of the country. A few polls also carry votes we added at launch, and those say “Sample votes” on the page. We’d rather say that than pretend otherwise.
A question from months ago still gathering answers is the most valuable thing on the site. That’s the whole bet: what people thought, preserved, and still moving.
There’s a feedback button in the side menu, and it takes one line without an account. The useful reports are the unflattering ones — where you hesitated, what you expected to happen and didn’t, the moment you thought about closing the tab. Confusion is a bug.
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