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Fifteen voting methods, each built for a different kind of standoff. Pick one, add your options, share the link. Not sure which? Answer three questions and we will pick.

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Vote on it

Straightforward ballots: pick, approve, rate, or spend points.

  • Quick poll

    A quick poll is the fastest way to put a decision to a group: add a few options, share a link, and let people vote. There's no sign up for the person creating it and none for the people voting, so it works well for a one-off question that doesn't deserve a whole scheduling tool or survey form.

    Best for fast calls, either-or picks. 2 to 30 people.

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  • Approval

    Approval voting asks a simple question for every option: would you accept this, yes or no. There's no ranking and no single pick, just a checkbox per option. A voter can approve one option or all of them, whichever matches how they actually feel.

    Best for consensus picks with no drama. 3 to 30 people.

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  • Score it

    STAR stands for Score Then Automatic Runoff. Voters rate every option on a 0 to 5 star scale instead of ranking or checking boxes, which lets them express how much they like each option, not just whether they like it. The stars for each option are added up to find the two highest-scoring finalists.

    Best for comparing a shortlist with nuance. 3 to 20 people.

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  • Budget split

    A budget split vote, also called points allocation, gives every voter the same stack of points, 100 by default, to spread across the options however they like. Someone who cares mostly about one option can put most of their points there. Someone who is fine with several options can spread points thin across all of them. Add up everyone's points per option and you get a result that reflects strength of preference, not just a single tick.

    Best for trip activities, group gifts, features. 3 to 15 people.

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Rank and narrow

Runoffs, brackets, and comparisons that cut a list down to one.

  • Ranked choice

    Ranked choice voting, also called instant runoff or RCV, asks everyone to rank the options in order of preference instead of picking just one. Nobody has to guess which choice is most likely to win before they vote, because a lower-ranked pick still counts if a favorite gets eliminated early.

    Best for restaurants, movies, trip destinations. 3 to 15 people.

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  • Bracket

    A bracket vote takes a knockout tournament bracket, the same shape used for March Madness or a sports playoff, and uses it to narrow down a list by voting instead of by score. Options are seeded into matchups, the group votes on each head-to-head pairing, and the winner of each matchup advances to the next round.

    Best for narrowing a big list with drama. 3 to 20 people.

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  • Head to head

    A pairwise comparison, also called a head to head vote, breaks a decision into a series of small choices instead of one big one. Every option is matched against every other option exactly once, and each voter simply picks the one they prefer in that pair. There's no ranking to build and no scale to calibrate, just a straightforward this-or-that for every combination.

    Best for ranking a shortlist carefully. 2 to 10 people.

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  • 2x2 matrix

    A 2x2 matrix, or decision matrix, sorts options along two axes at once instead of forcing a single ranking. Value against effort is the classic pairing, but any two dimensions work: impact against cost, urgent against important, or anything else the group needs to weigh. Each axis splits the grid in half, so every option lands in one of four quadrants.

    Best for prioritizing projects and ideas. 2 to 12 people.

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  • Veto rounds

    A veto vote flips the usual question. Instead of asking everyone what they want most, it asks what they want least, and removes that from the running. Each round, every voter casts one veto against the option they'd be least happy with. The option collecting the most vetoes is eliminated, and the field narrows by one.

    Best for cutting a list nobody agrees on. 2 to 10 people.

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Schedule it

Find the date that works for the whole group.

  • Pick a day

    A date poll, sometimes called a scheduling poll or a group scheduling poll, replaces the group chat thread where everyone lists which days they're free and someone tries to piece it together by hand. Instead, each person answers yes, maybe, or no against every candidate date directly.

    Best for dinners, trips, game nights. 3 to 20 people.

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Make it fun

Swipes, wheels, and rapid-fire picks with a payoff moment.

  • Swipe match

    Swipe match turns a group decision into a quick swiping session instead of a scrolling debate. Each person swipes through the same list of options, right for anything they'd genuinely accept and left for anything they wouldn't, the same motion people already use on dating and shopping apps.

    Best for where to eat, what to watch. 2 to 8 people.

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  • Spin the wheel

    A spin the wheel decision maker turns a group of options into a wheel and lets a random spin pick the winner. Most wheel tools online treat every option the same, giving a five-option wheel a flat one-in-five chance for each slice. Votably's version is a weighted wheel instead: the group votes first, adding weight to the options they actually like, and that weight becomes the size of each slice.

    Best for when you genuinely don't care. 2 to 20 people.

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  • This or that

    This or that is a rapid-fire either-or game: two options appear, you pick one, and your pick carries forward to face the next option in line. It's the format people already know from this or that game questions online, applied to an actual group decision instead of a random icebreaker list.

    Best for quick gut-feel decisions. 2 to 15 people.

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  • Wishlist

    A group wishlist vote splits the decision into two honest steps instead of one. First, everyone adds their own ideas to a shared list, so the options come from the group instead of whoever happened to set the poll up. Then, once the list is in, everyone approves every idea they'd genuinely accept, not just their single favorite.

    Best for brainstorm then decide. 3 to 20 people.

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  • Fair lottery

    A provably fair random picker solves the one real complaint about any random draw: how does anyone know it wasn't rigged? Before the draw happens, Votably generates a commitment, a cryptographic hash of the seed that will decide the winner, and publishes it for everyone to see. Nobody, including the creator, can change the outcome after that commitment is published, because the seed underneath it is already locked in.

    Best for who pays, who picks, raffles. 2 to 30 people.

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