Alternatives and competitors

Sites like StrawPoll

The 20 closest online poll maker alternatives to StrawPoll, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 5 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to StrawPoll? The closest matches are SurveyMonkey, Calendly and SignUpGenius. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About StrawPoll

StrawPoll strawpoll.com

StrawPoll - Create a Poll in Seconds

StrawPoll offers a simple way to create instant, real-time polls and surveys for free.

English 5 technologies Crawled Nov 5, 2026
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Summary by Claude

StrawPoll is a free online tool for creating instant polls with live results, plus meeting-scheduling polls for finding a time with a group. It includes bot and VPN vote blocking, deadlines and a poll API, with paid plans available.

Who it’s for
General users, groups, teams and online communities
Business model
Freemium subscriptions

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to StrawPoll’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

Wolfram AlphaBazaarvoiceDrupalYouGovAnswersPerplexitytawk.toSignUpGeniusCalendlySurveyMonkey

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to StrawPoll

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to StrawPoll, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    SurveyMonkey surveymonkey.com Top 1K English

    SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Survey Platform

    Easily create surveys and forms with AI and templates for employee and customer feedback, market research, event registrations and more. Get started free.

  2. 02
    Calendly calendly.com Top 1K English

    Meeting Scheduling Software and AI Meeting Tools | Calendly

    Calendly connects and simplifies all of the work around meetings, from scheduling, payments, and meeting prep to notetaking, contact management, and follow-up.

  3. 03
    SignUpGenius signupgenius.com Top 10K English

    SignUpGenius: Free Sign Up Sheets, Fundraisers & Online Payments

    Create free sign up sheets, collect dues, run fundraisers, sell tickets, and more. Every way your group organizes and collects, in one place. Free to start.

  4. 04
    tawk.to Top 10K English

    tawk.to - Free Live Chat Software for Your Website

    One free inbox for all your customer channels. Live chat, ticketing, knowledge base, AI assist, and CRM — all in one place. Trusted by 6M+ businesses.

  5. 05
    Perplexity perplexity.ai Top 1K English

    Perplexity

    Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

  6. 06
    Crazy Egg crazyegg.com Top 10K English

    Crazy Egg Website — Optimization | Heatmaps, Recordings, Surveys & A/B Testing

    Use Crazy Egg to see what's hot and what's not, and to know what your web visitors are doing with tools, such as heatmaps, recordings, surveys, A/B testing & more.

  7. 07
    Answers answers.com Top 10K English

    Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions

    Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want

  8. 08
    YouGov yougov.com Top 10K English

    YouGov: Data Analytics & Market Research Services

    Explore YouGov's market research and data analytics services for valuable insights. Make informed business decisions with our consumer analysis & intelligence.

  9. 09
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  10. 10
    Bazaarvoice bazaarvoice.com Top 10K English

    Bazaarvoice | The UGC Platform for Authentic Shopper Experiences

    The leading UGC platform for authentic ratings, reviews, visual UGC, and review syndication that powers discovery, shopper trust, and higher ecommerce conversion.

  11. 11
    Wolfram Alpha wolframalpha.com Top 10K English

    Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Intelligence

    Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. For math, science, nutrition, history, geography, engineering, mathematics, linguistics, sports, finance, music…

  12. 12
    Canva canva.com Top 1K English

    Canva

    online graphic design platform

  13. 13
    Semrush semrush.com Top 10K English

    Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility

    Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.

  14. 14
    Slack slack.com Top 1K English

    Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools

    Boost productivity and save time with Slack‌ — ‌the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.

  15. 15
    Flaticon flaticon.com Top 10K English

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    database of icons

  16. 16
    Opinary opinary.com Top 10K English

    Opinary | We ask the right questions

  17. 17
    Ravelry ravelry.com Top 10K English

    Ravelry

    Ravelry is a community site, an organizational tool, and a yarn & pattern database for knitters and crocheters.

  18. 18
    Quora quora.com Top 1K English

    American question-and-answer website

  19. 19
    Chess.com chess.com Top 1K English

    Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games

    Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 250 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!

  20. 20
    Proton proton.me Top 10K English

    Proton: Privacy by default

    Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to strawpoll.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones StrawPoll uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What StrawPoll is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

Web servers
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Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com -all
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

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