Polly review

Polly is a workplace participation platform for polls, surveys, Q&A, quizzes and interactive presentations. It brings those activities into tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, so teams can collect input or run live activities where they already communicate.

The product covers quick votes and pulse checks, employee feedback, audience questions, knowledge checks and team rituals. For meetings and town halls, attendees can ask questions and upvote them. For presentations, organizers can add polls, quizzes, Q&A and trivia. Polly also offers team pairings and activities for celebrations and connection.

The main distinction is its range of participation formats, not a single survey use case. The available plan determines which tools you get: the Free plan is aimed at basic polls, while surveys, presentations and audience engagement features are spread across paid plans. This review concerns the workplace participation product, not PollyEnglish, which appears in some unrelated Reddit discussions.

Polly covers several common reasons to ask a group for input without requiring a separate tool for every format. Teams can use it for quick decisions, ongoing feedback, live meeting questions, quizzes and presentation interactions. That makes it relevant to both day-to-day Slack or Teams use and more structured events such as town halls.

The plan lineup gives individuals a way to start small. The Free plan lists unlimited responses, a 45-day results history, sending pollys to any channel and voting links that can be shared anywhere. Basic adds surveys, standups, trivia, scheduling options and unlimited results history. Pro adds presentations, quizzes and Q&A, plus anonymity, privacy and direct-message options, custom themes and branding, and unlimited participants and responses.

For teams, the listed Team plan includes five users, one workflow for up to 100 users, demographic filters and the ability to add an audience by email. It also lists free migration from Slido, Menti or PollEv. That migration offer is a concrete switching benefit, though the published pricing details do not explain its scope.

The free tier is narrow: it offers basic polls and keeps results for 45 days. Users who need surveys or standups start at Basic, listed at $19 per license per month; presentations and Q&A require Pro, listed at $29 per license per month. The pricing page says subscriptions are billed annually by credit card, so those monthly figures are not month-to-month rates.

Pro includes one license, with up to nine extra licenses available, but the extra-license price is not published. The Team plan is $249 per month for five users and one workflow covering up to 100 users. The published details do not state the cost of adding users or workflows. Enterprise has custom pricing, so buyers cannot compare its total from the listed rates.

Pairings is a separate add-on listed at $24 per month, billed annually; prices for other team-size tiers are not published. A seven-day trial is listed, but the trial price and terms are not published. The Team plan's migration offer is limited to Slido, Menti or PollEv.

Polly has a free plan, but paid subscriptions are billed annually by credit card. The listed monthly prices are equivalents, not month-to-month rates. Basic costs $19 per license per month for one license; Pro is $29 per license per month, with up to nine extra licenses available at an unpublished price. The jump buys Pro features such as presentations, quizzes, Q&A, custom branding, and unlimited participants and responses.

Team costs $249 per month for five users and includes one workflow for up to 100 users. That is a steep step from an individual Pro license, and the plan still lists only one workflow. Enterprise pricing is custom and not published.

The free plan includes unlimited responses, but keeps results for 45 days. Basic and Pro include unlimited results history. Pairings is a $24-per-month add-on, billed annually; other team-size prices are not published. Polly also lists a seven-day trial, while the price of its separate one-time seven-day plan is not published.

Polly’s pricing page lists free migration from Slido, Mentimeter (Menti), and Poll Everywhere (PollEv) on the Team plan. That is a specific offer, not evidence that every survey, response, setting, or integration transfers. The published information does not say what the migration includes, and Polly’s data-export options are not published here. Check export formats and retention before moving historical results; Free keeps results for 45 days, while Basic and Pro list unlimited results history.

Polly runs polls, surveys, Q&A, quizzes, and presentations inside workplace tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, so a switch also means checking where your team actually runs those activities. We don’t have Reddit posts or comments in the published material to support claims about why users leave or how migration goes in practice. Treat user-reported switching problems as unverified, not as a reason to assume Polly locks up your data. If you need multiple workflows, note that Team lists one workflow for up to 100 users; Enterprise offers unlimited workflows, but its price is custom.