Find out what your group cares about most.
With dot voting, one person can pile every dot on their pet idea. Here, everyone gets the same budget, and each extra vote on the same option costs more. So the ranking shows what the group actually wants. Runs on a phone in 90 seconds.
No signup. Nothing to pay. Same credits for everyone.
Pick the decision. We’ll set it up.
Each template pre-fills a title and options you can edit. Share one link and people vote from their phones.
- Team retroPick what to fix first — not just what’s loudest.
- RoadmapRank features by how much the team actually cares.
- Offsite agendaChoose the sessions worth the whole team’s time.
- Budget splitDecide where shared money goes.
- Group tripFriends or family — find the place most people love.
- Start from scratch
One rule: stacking gets expensive.
Same credits for everyone
Each voter gets the same budget, usually 100 credits. They aren't money and nobody can buy more.
Each extra vote costs more
Your first vote on an option costs 1 credit, the next 3, then 5. You can back one idea hard or several a little, not everything at once.
Results you can check
See how many people backed each option and how many votes each gave, so broad support and one loud voter look different.
Feel the cost curve
2 votes costs 4 credits
The math is simple but it changes everything: cost = votes². Doubling your impact quadruples the price.
Tap any cell to jump there. Going from 3 votes to 4 costs 7 extra credits — more than you spent on the first three combined.
Dot voting vs quadratic voting
Why piling your dots on one idea stops working.
Dot voting is quick and easy to understand, which is why it's everywhere. But it treats five dots from one person the same as one dot from five people. Quadratic voting charges for stacking, so the ranking reflects how many people care as well as how much.
The full comparison- Yes No
One person can stack everything on a pet idea
5 dots on one sticky = 5 people each giving one. Here, 5 votes on one option cost 25 credits.
- Partly Yes
Shows the gap between “love it” and “fine”
Extra votes cost more each time, so people only stack where they really care.
- No Yes
Broad support beats one loud voter
Four people × 1 vote = 4 votes for 4 credits. One person × 4 votes = 4 votes for 16.
- Partly Yes
You can check how each total was reached
Every result shows how many voters backed an option and how many votes each gave.
- Yes Partly
Nothing to learn
One thing to learn: your second vote on an option costs 3, the third costs 5. The first taps teach it.
Used in the wild
Colorado lawmakers used it for five years. Then a judge stopped them.
From 2019, Colorado House Democrats used quadratic voting to rank which bills should get a share of limited state money. In January 2024 a Denver judge ordered them to stop. The method worked; the problem was that the ballots were secret, and a legislature must decide in public.
That's why ballots here are anonymous by default, and when a group should own its choices, organizers with personal voter links can switch to named ballots. Voters are always told before they vote.
Read the Colorado Sun storyStraight answers
Do people pay for votes?
No. Every voter gets the same number of credits for free. Credits only measure how much each option matters to you. You can't buy more, and there's no money anywhere in the system.
Isn't it complicated?
There's one thing to learn: each extra vote on the same option costs more (1, then 3, then 5 credits). The first taps on the voting page teach it, and most people finish in about 90 seconds.
When should I use a normal poll instead?
For yes/no questions, or when you just need one winner quickly. Quadratic voting is useful when there are several options competing for limited time, money or attention, and you want to know how strongly people feel.
Can people game it?
On an open link, one vote per browser: someone determined could clear cookies and vote again. When it matters, use personal voter links, which each work once. Two voters can agree to split their credits across each other's picks. In a small group of people who know each other, that's usually just a compromise.
Is my vote anonymous?
By default, yes: results show totals and a per-option breakdown, never who voted what. The only exception is a poll with named ballots, which you'll be told about on the voting page before you vote.
Does it work for small groups?
Yes, that's the main use: a team, a committee, friends or family. In a small group one enthusiastic voter can move the ranking, so every result shows how many people backed each option.
Try it on a real decision.
What to fix first. What to build next. Where to go this summer. Two minutes to set up, one link to share.