ARSnova vs Simple Poll

ARSnova provides live quizzes, numeric estimation questions, Q&A, word-cloud analysis, and Pulse Check feedback for education and organizations. Sessions can include up to 500 participants. Hosts can start without an account, and participants join with a code or QR without signing up. Question types include short answers, estimates, matching, ordering, categorization, multiple choice, and ratings. The Q&A wall supports moderation before posting, pinning, archiving, voting, and sorting by support, quality, or controversy. Hosts can create quizzes and run sessions on a phone, with an option to pair a second device for presenting. After a session, results are available in a PDF report, and tabular data can be exported as CSV. Quiz content remains on the host’s device while live sessions process data needed for interaction. The open-source platform is licensed under MIT and can be self-hosted with Docker, PostgreSQL, and Redis. The site states WCAG 2.2 Level AA conformance and PDF/UA-1 validation for its results report. Matching, ordering, and categorization questions do not award partial credit.

Simple Poll lets teams create polls and surveys within Slack channels, direct messages, and group direct messages. Poll formats include ranked choice, recurring check-ins, and surveys with up to 20 questions. Controls can make responses anonymous, limit votes, let voters add options, hide results, or close polls automatically. Survey answers collect in a dashboard with CSV export. The Free plan costs nothing, includes unlimited polls and up to five options per poll, and allows 100 responses per calendar month. After that limit, the workspace cannot add further responses until the next month. Premium costs $49 a month, billed annually at $588/yr per workspace, for 1–24 members; it includes unlimited responses, up to 45 options, surveys, and API access. The API creates and retrieves polls and reads results, but cannot schedule polls; automatic closing and reminders remain supported. Enterprise pricing is custom. Simple Poll says it is GDPR compliant, ISO 27001 certified, and encrypts data in transit and at rest.