Anonymous Polls for Slack

Honest votes. No show of hands.

Anonymous polls in Slack with up to five options, live results, and no identity leakage. Unlimited on every tier — including the free forever plan. Install in 60 seconds.

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Anonymous poll · 42 votes
Should we move standup to async?
  • Yes, kill the sync meeting62%
  • Keep it but shorten to 10 min26%
  • Leave it as-is12%
Anonymous poll · 31 votes
How's morale this week?
  • 5 — great19%
  • 442%
  • 329%
  • 27%
  • 1 — rough3%
Why anonymous polling works

The first hand up anchors the room.

Open voting in team meetings isn't polling — it's conformity measurement. The moment the first person votes, the quieter half of the room reads the signal and adjusts. Anonymous polls break that loop. What you get back is the shape of opinion, not the politics of the room.

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No anchoring

Nobody sees anybody else's vote until they've cast their own. The distribution is the data — not the first person to speak.

02

No junior tax

The people with the least political cover vote honestly. On an open show of hands, they mostly don't.

03

Faster decisions

The 45-minute discussion that precedes most votes in meetings happens afterwards instead — and only if the distribution warrants it.

Use cases

Four votes every team has this month.

Retro day & time

Nothing derails a retro faster than arguing about when to hold it. Post the three candidate slots; let the team vote. Highest bar wins.

Hiring debriefs

Anonymous hire/no-hire polls among interviewers keep the loudest voice from anchoring the room. See the real distribution before anyone commits out loud.

Pulse checks

Weekly 'how's morale on a 1–5' polls in a #pulse channel. Track the trend line, not the individual answers.

Product direction

Which of these three feature directions should we ship first? The answer from the engineers who have to build it is usually different from what leadership assumed.

How to run a poll

Four keystrokes. No training.

No separate poll app to install, no modal buried five clicks deep. Type the slash command, add your options, post.

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    /anony

    Open the modal in any channel the bot is in. Switch to the Poll tab.

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    Type a question

    Keep it clear and decision-oriented — polls with vague questions produce vague signal.

  3. 3
    Add 2–5 options

    Tight option sets give you tight decisions. Resist the urge to add an 'other' catch-all.

  4. 4
    Post

    The bot posts as itself — your Slack name never appears as the poll author. Results update live.

Against the alternatives

Priced per workspace. Not per voter.

Most polling tools charge per seat. That makes the bill balloon with every new hire who might vote once a quarter. Anony Botter charges per workspace — a 5-person team and a 500-person team on the same tier pay the same price.

FAQ

Polling, the common questions.

Vote honestly. Decide faster.

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