Verdo vs Simple Poll: what changes when votes become decisions

Simple Poll is a good polling app, and a more capable one than most comparison pages admit. This page is about the gap that remains after the poll closes — who owns it, what counts as agreement, and whether it actually happened.

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Last verified: 28 September 2026

The honest version

Simple Poll does single select, multi select, ranked choice, scale rating and short answer. It schedules polls, closes them after a set duration, sends reminders to people who haven't responded, supports anonymous responses on its paid plan, and exports results to CSV. If you have been told it is a thumbs-up-emoji tool, that is out of date.

What it is not — and does not try to be — is a system of record for decisions. A poll is a measurement. It tells you what people picked at a moment in time. It does not name who is accountable, it does not say in advance what result would count as agreement, and it has nothing to say a month later about whether the thing was done. Verdo is built for the decisions where those three gaps are the expensive part.

Side by side

Capability
Simple Poll
Verdo
What it produces
A poll result, with CSV export.
A decision record: winning option, method, authority rule, named owner, status and timestamp.
Voting methods
Single select, multi select, ranked choice, scale rating and short answer.
Single choice only. Verdo puts the structure in the rule, the deadline and the record.
Scheduling and auto-close
Polls can be scheduled, recurring, and set to close after a duration.
Deadline set at creation; the authority rule is applied automatically when it fires.
Reminders to non-responders
Automatic reminders at intervals, plus on-demand nudges to people who haven't responded.
One DM at 24 hours and one at 1 hour before the deadline, to non-voters only.
Anonymous responses
Yes, on the paid plan.
Anonymous mode hides choices while keeping participation visible.
Named owner on the decision
Not part of the poll model — a poll has a creator, not an accountable owner.
Required at creation and tagged in Slack. The owner is who the outcome review goes to.
Authority rule fixed before the vote
Results are reported; deciding what they mean is left to you.
majority or consensus — chosen at creation, visible to everyone, applied at the deadline.
Status after the vote closes
A poll closes and that is the end of its life.
Active · Decided · Implemented · Stalled · Superseded · Reversed — logged, searchable, and reportable.
Outcome review
No follow-up once results are in.
30 days later the owner gets one DM: Success, Partial or Failed.
Audit trail
Results export.
Every mutating action writes an audit row. Audit log export is planned for Business.
Pricing shape
Free tier capped by monthly responses, then paid tiers; anonymous and multiple choice sit on the paid plan.
$49 per workspace per month, any number of people. 7-day free trial, no free tier.

Simple Poll capabilities as described on simplepoll.rocks and its Slack Marketplace listing, 28 September 2026. Simple Poll is a product of its respective owner and is not affiliated with Verdo. Products change — check their current pricing and feature pages before deciding on this table alone.

Use Simple Poll when

  • You want a fast read on what people think, and the question does not need an owner.
  • It is recurring or lightweight — meeting times, lunch, sprint mood, a quick preference check.
  • You need survey-shaped questions: scale ratings, short answers, several questions in a row.
  • Nobody will need to find the result again in three months.

Use Verdo when

  • The question is “which one do we go with?” and someone has to own the answer.
  • You need it closed by Friday under a rule everyone agreed to before voting started.
  • The decision will be questioned later and you want the reasoning on the record.
  • You want to know, a month on, whether the decision actually worked.

Frequently asked questions

Is Verdo a Simple Poll alternative?
Only if what you need is a decision rather than a poll. Simple Poll is a genuinely capable polling app — it has ranked choice, anonymous responses, scheduled and recurring polls, reminders and CSV export. If the job is collecting votes, it does that job well and Verdo is not an upgrade. Verdo is a different tool for the case where the vote is the input and a decision with an owner is the output.
Does Simple Poll have ranked choice voting?
Yes. Simple Poll lists ranked choice among its question types, alongside single select, multi select, scale rating and short answer. Verdo does not offer ranked voting: it is single choice, and puts the structure into the authority rule, the deadline and the decision record instead.
What can Verdo do that a polling app can't?
Four things that a poll has no reason to carry: a named owner accountable for follow-through, an authority rule fixed before the vote so nobody argues about what the result meant, a lifecycle after the vote (implemented, stalled, superseded, reversed), and a 30-day outcome review asking the owner whether the decision actually worked.
Can I use both?
Most teams should. Use a polling app for the lightweight and the recurring — lunch, meeting times, sprint mood. Use Verdo for the handful of decisions each quarter that someone will have to justify: vendor selection, hiring calls, scope trade-offs, budget allocation.
How does the pricing compare?
They are shaped differently. Simple Poll has a free tier capped by monthly responses and then paid tiers. Verdo Pro is $49 per workspace per month regardless of headcount, with a 7-day free trial and no free tier. Per-workspace pricing matters when a decision involves fifteen people, because per-seat pricing quietly discourages inviting them.

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Keep your polling app for the quick stuff. Put the next decision that needs an owner through Verdo and compare what you have at the end.

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