안녕하세요! PollUnit is now also available in Korean (한국어).

Over the past few months, we have started expanding PollUnit's language coverage beyond Europe, with a particular focus on Asia.

Following Japanese (日本語), Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) and, more recently, Chinese (中文), Korean (한국어) is now the latest language to join PollUnit.

Try PollUnit in Korean

PollUnit is becoming more international

PollUnit is used for polls, surveys, photo and video contests, as well as other types of competitions with participants from many different countries. Especially for international contests, we want to make it possible for as many people as possible to use PollUnit in their own language.

With Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean, PollUnit now supports three major languages in Asia.

It's not just about the people who create a PollUnit. Participants can choose their preferred interface language independently. For example, an international photo contest can be organized by a German photography club while participants from Korea use PollUnit in Korean.

Korean with the help of AI

Just like with our Chinese translation, we used AI to help us translate PollUnit into Korean.

This allows us, as a small team, to offer PollUnit in languages that none of us speak ourselves. At the same time, we know that context and linguistic nuances play an important role, especially when translating short interface texts.

That's why we don't consider the new translation finished. Instead, we want to continue improving it together with our users.

한국어 할 줄 아세요?

Do you speak Korean? Then we'd especially appreciate your help.

If you come across a translation in PollUnit that is incorrect, unclear, or simply doesn't sound natural, please let us know. Your feedback helps us continuously improve the Korean version.

With every new language, PollUnit gets one step closer to our goal: making polls and contests accessible to as many people as possible, regardless of language or origin.

With our latest update, there is a new setting for PollUnit polls, photo, video and audio contests, and idea collections: All options must be rated.

With this feature, you can ensure that every voter rates all available options before their votes are included in the results.

Why is this feature useful?

In many polls and contests, participants should not only rate their favorites but also consider all submissions. This helps create results that are as fair and meaningful as possible.

Without this setting, some options may not receive any ratings, or voters may focus only on a few favorites. With the new feature, votes are therefore only counted once all available options have been rated.

How the setting works

In the advanced settings of the »Poll Maker«, you will find the option »All options must be rated«. When enabled, votes are initially saved but are only considered valid once all available options have been rated.

Only valid votes are:

• included in the ranking
• included in the points calculation
• and counted in the results

Incomplete votes remain visible to administrators. They can be viewed at any time in the evaluation area and can also be analyzed via exports.

Which polls and contests support this feature?

The setting is available for the following PollUnit types:

• Polls
• Photo contests
• Video contests
• Audio contests
• Idea collections

A voting type with a rating scale is required, for example:

• Stars
• Thumbs up / down
• Number or point scales
• other rating methods with multiple levels

Simple approval systems such as hearts, likes, or similar upvote variants do not support this feature because they do not allow every option to be rated.

Important note

If new options are added later, votes that have already been marked as valid remain valid. Completed ratings therefore do not need to be updated.

For this reason, we recommend using this feature primarily when the submission process has already been completed and no new options will be added.

Fairer results with complete ratings

With the new setting, you can ensure that all participants have the same basis for their ratings. Especially in contests with many submissions, this leads to fairer rankings and a significantly more meaningful distribution of points.

Try the new feature in your next poll or contest.

We're happy to announce that PollUnit is now available in Hungarian.

From now on, organizers and participants can use PollUnit in »Magyar«, making it even easier to create polls, surveys, photo contests, and voting projects for Hungarian-speaking communities.

Why Hungarian?

PollUnit is used by organizations, schools, companies, associations, and communities all over the world. By adding Hungarian, we continue our goal of making online voting and surveys accessible to as many people as possible.

Whether you need a poll maker for quick decisions, a professional survey tool, or a platform for photo contests, rankings, and collaborative voting, PollUnit now offers the complete experience in Hungarian. Organizers and participants alike can interact with the platform in their native language, making projects more accessible and easier to use.

Automatic Language Detection

PollUnit automatically detects the preferred language of each visitor whenever possible. Users can also switch languages manually at any time.

This means international projects can easily be used by participants from different countries without additional setup.

More Than Just a Translation

The Hungarian version includes the complete PollUnit interface, allowing organizers and participants to use all major features in Hungarian.

As always, new features added to PollUnit will also become available in Hungarian.

Growing Internationally

Hungarian joins our growing list of supported languages, helping even more people organize fair, transparent, and easy-to-use voting projects.

We're continuously improving our translations and welcome feedback from native speakers. If you notice anything that could be translated better, we'd love to hear from you.

Try PollUnit in Hungarian

Simply open PollUnit and select »Magyar« as your preferred language or let PollUnit detect it automatically.

We hope our Hungarian users enjoy the new localization!

We're excited to introduce a new feature in PollUnit: Option Archiving.

Until now, organizers had to decide whether to keep an option active or delete it entirely. With archiving, there is now a third option.

Archived options remain part of the PollUnit, but they are excluded from rankings and evaluations. Their votes are ignored, while all data remains available and can be restored at any time.

Why Archive Options?

Deleting an option permanently removes it from your workflow. Archiving allows you to hide options from the current ranking without losing submissions, files, comments, or voting history.

This makes it easier to manage large polls, contests, and long-running voting processes.

Ideal for Photo Contests

A common use case is a photo contest with many submissions.

Imagine a contest with 500 photos. After reviewing the results, you decide that only the best 200 photos should continue to the next phase.

Instead of deleting the remaining photos, simply archive them. The contest becomes much easier to manage, while all submissions remain available for later review.

Because archived options no longer influence rankings, organizers can gradually reduce the number of active entries and focus attention on the strongest candidates.

More Flexible Than Starting Over

Some organizers want to conduct voting in multiple rounds. Until now, this often required creating a new PollUnit or resetting votes, which means losing the previous voting results.

Archiving offers a practical alternative. Instead of starting over, you can simply archive the options that should no longer participate and continue working with the remaining entries.

This preserves all submissions and allows you to narrow down the field without deleting data.

Additional Use Cases

• Feature request and product roadmap voting
• Employee idea management
• Award competitions and jury selections
• Logo, design, and naming contests
• Event and meeting planning
• Community suggestion platforms
• Project prioritization and decision making
• Candidate shortlisting and application reviews
• Bulk Archive and Restore

Managing large numbers of options is easy.

Options can be archived directly from their context menu or from the evaluation area.

The evaluation area now includes multi-select functionality with bulk actions, allowing you to archive or restore multiple options at once.

Keep Your Data, Reduce Complexity

Archiving is a simple but powerful addition to PollUnit. It helps organizers focus on relevant options while keeping all submissions available for future reference.

No data loss. No unnecessary duplicates. Just a cleaner and more flexible workflow.

Creating large votings or surveys with many text options used to be tedious: typing options manually, copying them, or inserting them line by line. With the new »Option Import« feature, you can now import prepared data directly from files.

You can now upload the following file formats:

• Excel files (.xlsx)
• CSV files (.csv)
• Text files (.txt)

The importer scans each row and automatically uses the first non-empty column and, in text files, each line as the option text. This makes it possible to create hundreds of options within seconds.

Ideal for Large Votings

The new feature is especially useful for:

• large text votings
• name lists
• topic or idea collections
• prioritization and rating lists
• contests with many entries

Instead of creating options manually, you can directly import existing lists from Excel or other tools.

Perfect for Votings in Surveys and Likert Scales

The import works not only for classic votings, but also within survey steps containing text options.

For example, you can quickly import prepared:

• Likert scales
• rating options
• answer lists
• A/B or multiple ratings

Especially for more complex surveys, this saves a lot of time and reduces errors caused by manual copying.