About PollUnit

What is PollUnit?

PollUnit creates tools that facilitate collaboration, prioritization and collection of ideas and feedback, evaluation of graphics and photos, as well as surveys and collaborative arrangements within teams or with large crowds.

PollUnit is self-financed and independent. We are only committed to our users. Data protection is a must for us. We offer our tools Freemium - that means a limited version is free of charge.

Key features

Votings

Votings on dates, free text, pictures and files.

Pairwise Comparison

Compare text and image pairs and establish relative rankings.

Tables

Tables and lists for collecting information and ideas.

Collect ideas

Discuss ideas, manage feature requests and vote.

Surveys

Easily configure forms and questionnaires.

Advent calendar

Participants can open a little bag every day.

Photo Contests

with gallery, voting and photo uploader for your participants.

Video Contests

with playlist, voting, and video uploader for participants.

Music Contests

with playlist, voting, and music uploader for participants.

The history of PollUnit

The two friends Philipp Großelfinger and Markus Huber had the idea for PollUnit in 2016. Philipp organized his wedding and Markus had to prioritize different product designs. Due to the so different requirements a concept for flexible coordination and distribution of tasks was created.

About half a year later the first version of PollUnit is ready for the public. On 10 March 2017, the two Munich-based went live with PollUnit.

PollUnit has a healthy and stable growth and is in continuously development.

237009 planted trees

We spend approximately 8% of our gross sales on planting trees with plant-for-the-planet.org.

PollUnit Timeline

In continuous development

2025 July Vote once a day
2025 June Redesign
2025 May Migration from Digital Ocean to Hetzner
2025 March Submission categories in music, video, and photo contests
2024 October New table type: collaborative free table
2024 May Advent calendar with images and daily entry form
2024 April Audio/Music Contests in playlist and gallery mode
2024 March New PollUnit type for online video competitions
2024 March Add additional files as attachments to PollUnits, survey steps, ideas, and voting options.
2023 October Establishing Relative Rankings: Pairwise Comparison
2023 June Photo Contests: Submit photos as a image series
2023 March Introducing language analysis model for better evaluation of long free text in surveys
2023 February Wallets: Receive fees and donations
2022 December Question branching: customize surveys for respondends based on their answers to previous questions
2022 August We donate from now on 8% of our gross sales for planting trees
2022 April Voting table refactoring: performance and UX improvements
2022 March Matrix questions and Likert scale for surveys
2022 January Fraud Bot: AI to detect fraudulent votes
2021 October Free choice of colors in themes
2021 September Voting categories in photo contests
2021 May Rate texts, files and images in surveys
2021 April PollUnit and the entire team is transferred to a separate company
2021 February New PollUnit type for surveys and questionnaires
2020 November User authentication via Single-Sign-On (SSO)
2020 September Vote on and play YouTube and Vimeo videos
2020 June Vote on and play audio and music files
2020 May Automatic scaling at high load using Kubernetes
2020 January Introducing Submission approval dashboard
2019 October New PollUnit type for online photo competitions
2019 July Release of Feedback and Brainstorming Collections
2019 June ICS calendar integration
2019 April Introduction of organizations to share accounts within companies
2019 February Slack integration
2019 January New PollUnit type for online lists and free tables
2018 November Improvement of the performance to meet the ever-increasing number of users
2018 October Maximize data protection with peer-2-peer encryption
2018 May Redesign and improvements in admin views
2018 January Find consensus with dissenting votes
2017 May Dot Voting Feature released
2017 March Release of PollUnit
2016 June The Idea to PollUnit was born and we started development.

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Whats next?

We are constantly working on new functions and improvements. These updates are deployed many times a week. Several times a year we have a »Major Release«. Up to now these have been completely new functions as well as major architectural changes.

Many of our functions were only created because users told us their wishes. Functions that help all PollUnit users are usually implemented. This doesn't cost more than an email or a post in our support forum.

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