— One list · one link · anyone votes
A free group voting app for any shared list.
Featurevote lets any group vote on items in a shared list, free and without accounts.
Put the options on a board and drop one link in the group chat. Nobody signs up to vote, nobody counts hands, and the list re-ranks itself as the votes land. Groups use it to pick the film for movie night, the songs for a weekend away, a scout pack's next activities or the next book club read.
Invite as many voters as you need.
— Let the group add to the list
Need a poll where people can add their own options?
Start with a few ideas and let the group fill in the gaps. On a featurevote board, people can suggest another option and everyone else can vote for it. The list stays open as new ideas arrive.
It works for a book club shortlist, activities for the next meetup, or ideas a community keeps adding to. Each person can support several items, with one vote per item in their browser.
Set it up in your board settings
- Create a shared list and add your first options.
- Under Items from visitors, choose whether suggestions appear right away or wait for your approval.
- Want suggestions without email? Set Visitor email to Not needed. Voting already needs no account or email by default.
Free includes unlimited items, votes and voters. You create an account to manage the board; the people taking part do not need one.
— Sheets · Notion · Trello · Teams
Voting where your list already lives.
Google Sheets, Notion, Trello and Microsoft Teams can each run a vote on a list. Here is how each one does it, and what it asks of the people voting.
- Google Sheets
- Each voter gets their own column of checkboxes, and a formula counts the ticks in each row. The ticks are ordinary cells, so anyone who can edit the sheet can change them unless you protect those cells.
- Notion
- Notion's own upvote guide has people tag themselves in a Person property, and a formula counts the tags. Voters sign in to Notion and need to be a member or guest of your workspace.
- Trello
- The Voting Power-Up adds a Vote button to each card and lets you sort a list by most votes. Each vote is saved to a Trello account, so everyone voting needs one.
- Microsoft Teams
- A Teams poll asks the people in a chat or channel one question with a set of choices. For a list that stays, Microsoft Lists and SharePoint lists can show Likes or star ratings on each item.
- Featurevote
- A board is its own page with its own link, separate from those tools. By default people vote with one click and no account or email. Each browser gets one vote per item, which stops everyday duplicates but not someone set on voting twice.
If everyone voting already uses one of these tools, voting there keeps the list in one place. A voting list is easier when some of the voters are outside it, like parents, guests or a whole club, or when you would rather not give everyone edit access.
Free, with no limit on items or voters.
Sources, checked in October 2026: Google Sheets checkboxes, Notion upvote guide, Trello Voting Power-Up, Teams polls and Microsoft list ratings.
— One shared list · 27 seconds
A new list, shared and voted on.
The owner adds an option and shares the link. Other people open it, vote without an account, and one of them adds an item. This example lets suggestions appear immediately. Recorded in an earlier layout.
Narrated with an AI-generated voice. · Transcript
— How it works
Three steps, no setup meeting.
- Make the listCreate a board and add the options yourself. Let the group add their own too, or turn that off so the list stays the one you wrote.
- Share one linkThe board lives at a public URL. Drop it in a Discord server, a group chat, a newsletter, or pin it to a noticeboard as a QR code. Nobody needs an invite.
- Watch it rankVotes count the moment they are tapped, and the list reorders by vote count. People can vote on as many items as they like — the most-supported ones rise to the top.
The part that makes it work for a group: voting needs no account. Someone in the chat taps the link, taps an item, and is done — here is exactly how that works and what the trade-off is.
— Real lists, on real boards
The lists people actually run.
Ways boards are used today, kept anonymous. None of them are product roadmaps.
- A university dorm
- Sixty people deciding what to buy for the common room. The link goes in the group chat, votes land in minutes, and everyone can see where the group stands.
- A translation project
- A congregation keeps a list of books worth translating and votes on which one is next — the queue orders itself.
- A reading group
- Candidate books for the next meeting, ranked by the whole group — including the members who would never sign up for a tool to do it.
Running a list at work? Here is how teams use it for priorities and budgets.
— Boards and polls
A poll closes. A list keeps going.
Plenty of these groups are on Discord, where a poll is free and already there. It is the right tool for a quick question. Here is where a poll and a board differ.
- How many options
- Discord's built-in poll holds up to ten answers. On a board people can add as many items as they like, on every plan.
- How long it runs
- Discord's built-in poll closes after a week at the most. A board stays open, and the votes keep adding up for as long as the list matters.
- Who can vote
- A poll is answered by people who are already inside the group. A board is a link, so anyone you send it to can vote without joining anything.
- Where it lives
- A poll scrolls away in the conversation. A board has its own address you can pin, embed on a site, or print as a QR code.
— the Discord figures are from its own Polls FAQ, for the built-in poll.
— Questions, answered short
The fine print, in plain words.
- Do voters need an account?
- No. Anyone with the link taps the vote button once and the vote counts — no account, no email. If you would rather collect emails, every board has a "Visitor email" setting.
- Can people add their own items to the list?
- Yes, if you want them to. Anyone with the link can suggest an item from the board's post form, with no account. By default the form asks for an email. Set "Visitor email" to "Not needed" and the email box becomes optional. In your board settings you choose whether new items show right away, wait for your approval, or are turned off so only you add them. You can also merge duplicates or archive items at any time.
- Is it only for software features?
- No. Featurevote was built as feature-voting software, but a board is just a list with voting on it. Groups use boards to rank merch designs, book lists, common-room purchases, and community projects.
- Can I just use a Discord poll instead?
- For a quick question, yes. Discord's built-in poll takes up to ten answers and closes after a week at the most, so it suits a decision that has an answer. A board suits a list that stays open, holds more items than that, and can be voted on by anyone with the link — including people who are not in the server.
- What does it cost?
- The free plan is permanent. People can add and vote on as many items as they like, and you can manage as many as you like too. Paid plans add a bigger email list.
- Can someone vote twice?
- Not on the same item: each browser gets one vote per item, enforced by an anonymous token plus a rate limit. Someone can support as many different items as they like. Clearing browser data gets around the limit — it is built to keep a group list honest, not to run an election.