livepoll.io vs Simple Poll

livepoll.io is an audience polling platform for presenters, trainers, educators and other facilitators. It supports live polls, Q&A and quizzes, with 12 question types including multiple choice, word clouds, ranking and image choice. Responses appear in real time, and presenters control when results become visible. Participants join from a phone or laptop with a six-character code or QR code, without installing an app or creating an account. The free default allows up to 1,000 participants per session; presenters can raise that to 2,000 or 3,000 in the dashboard, while larger events require contacting the company. Sessions include unlimited questions and sessions, live results, and CSV and PDF exports. Ended sessions can be shared by link, with an optional follow-up survey. An AI session builder generates questions from a plain-English description, subject to daily per-account fair-use limits that reset the next day. Participant-facing pages may show ads, while presenter screens and exports are ad-free. The company says participant data is not passed to advertisers. A Zoom app provides polls, quizzes and Q&A in a meeting sidebar. The service is available on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web and Windows.

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.