Poll maker

A poll maker is an online tool that helps you create a poll, gather responses, and track them in one centralized place. With Wixel's free poll maker, you can create a poll for various purposes such as testing opinions, making group decisions, gathering feedback, or boosting engagement on your website or social media.

With Wixel’s poll maker, you can:

• Create polls quickly: start from scratch, use designer-made templates, or let AI do it for you.

• Customize every detail: adjust poll questions, answer choices, colors, fonts, and layout to match your project style.

• Share your poll online: publish with a shareable link, embed it on your website, or post it directly to social platforms.

• Analyze and export data: view submissions from your dashboard, compare responses, and export data as a PDF or spreadsheet directly from Wixel.

If you want to add visual elements to your poll, explore Wixel's AI image generator to create something truly unique. You can then upload that image to our color palette generator to get a cohesive color scheme for your poll.

The best online poll maker combines ease of use with features that make your polls look professional and perform reliably. Wixel’s free poll creator offers professionally-designed templates, customization, and response collection all in one place. It lets you publish and get a shareable URL that you can use to collect responses from anywhere. Wixel's poll maker supports multiple choice poll questions and is mobile-optimized, so your online polls look sharp on every device. If you're creating a poll for an upcoming event, you can pair it with custom invitations from our wedding invitation maker, birthday invitation maker, or party invitation maker.

You can create a poll with Wixel for free.  Create one manually at no cost, or use AI to generate and edit your poll. If you choose to create and edit with AI, it costs AI credits. Wixel’s free plan offers a set number of AI credits that renew periodically, and you can use them for any of our AI features, including generating a poll. You can find out more about AI credits and how they work in this article.

If you exceed your credits, simply upgrade your plan or continue working manually. You can also explore more free tools on Wixel that work hand-in-hand with your online polls. Use the photo editor to edit graphics that announce your poll on social media. The image resizer ensures your poll announcements and result visuals fit perfectly across platforms, whether you're posting to Instagram stories, Facebook posts, or embedding images alongside your poll on a website.

The main difference comes down to the depth of the data you’re after. A poll maker is your go-to for a quick pulse check—it’s a single question with set answers designed for fast feedback. A survey, on the other hand, is a deeper dive. It uses multiple questions and branching logic to map out a respondent’s full perspective. While a survey is a commitment, a poll is a snapshot.

Because a quick poll takes only a few seconds to complete, you’ll likely see much higher participation than you would with a long-form questionnaire. It’s the perfect tool for making fast, democratic decisions or simply sparking a conversation with your audience.

• Use an online poll when you need a clear "this or that" answer from your community.

• Launch a free poll to test an idea before investing time into a full-scale project.

• Stick to one specific topic per poll to keep your engagement numbers high.

Yes. After you create a poll and publish it with Wixel's free poll maker, you'll get a shareable URL which you can paste into your blog post, landing page, or website. The online poll creator is fully responsive and mobile-friendly, so embedded polls adapt seamlessly to phones and tablets. If you want to enhance the page where your poll is embedded, add visual interest with custom graphics or apply photo filters to existing ones. You can also use the background changer to customize image backgrounds to make the page where your poll lives truly pop.

To display your results, you can export, analyze, and share them with others. Or, you can use the data to create a document that summarizes and presents the results in a well-designed format.

Online polls help increase audience interaction because they're quick, visual, and give people a voice. To maximize engagement with your poll, keep it short, specific, and ask good poll questions. Asking clear question with 3–5 answer options makes it easier for participants to respond. Use language that matches your audience, make poll questions conversational and relevant to what they care about. You should also consider enabling anonymous responses—people are more honest and more likely to participate when they know their vote is private. Display live poll results to create social proof and encourage others to join. Wixel's free poll creator makes it easy to design eye-catching polls with the AI poll generator and set response rules for anonymous poll options. To amplify your poll's reach, create compelling promotional graphics that grab attention with Wixel's AI art generator or enhance existing visuals with the AI image extender to fit different aspect ratios across platforms.

To share your online poll on social media, you must first publish your design within the Wixel editor to create a live, shareable URL. Here’s how to do that:

1. Open your project in Wixel.

2. Click Download & Share at the top right.

3. Click the Select design drop-down and choose your poll design.

4. Click Publish. Then the link will go live.

5. Copy the link to share your poll on any social platform you need.

Yes. Wixel's free poll maker supports unlimited responses, so you can create a poll and share it with as many people as you need while gathering feedback from your team or even running a poll for thousands of participants. This makes Wixel’s poll maker ideal for availability polls, quick polls on social media, straw polls for decision-making, anonymous polls for sensitive topics, or tracking polls that run over days or weeks. When you want to share poll results with stakeholders or your audience, capture screenshots and enhance them for professional presentations. Use the photo eraser to remove any distracting elements from result images, then add text to photo to highlight key insights or add captions.

Online polls work because they're fast, frictionless, and make people feel heard. Unlike long surveys or comment threads, polls let your audience participate in seconds. Here's why polls boost engagement:

• Provide social proof: when people see others participating, they're more likely to join in.

• Let users feel heard: polls signal that you care about your audience's opinions, building trust and connection.

• They’re shareable: compelling poll questions naturally spark conversation and get shared across social channels.

• Usable in different contexts: you can create a poll and embed it in a blog post to break up text, use quick polls on Instagram stories, or launch live polling at events to energize the room.

With Wixel's free poll creator, you can design polls that look professional, track votes in real time, and analyze anonymous poll responses from a single dashboard. You can then promote the poll and its results on social media. If you're sharing poll results as infographics, you can change any image color to match your brand palette, then use our background remover to remove backgrounds, perfect for layering poll graphics over presentations, social posts, or website content.

Yes, you can create your poll so that it doesn’t capture identifying information like the respondent’s name or email, allowing respondents to answer anonymously. This ensures that your audience feels comfortable providing honest, unbiased feedback, which helps significantly increase  response rates. You have full control to edit the poll questions so that the feedback you collect is anonymous.

When visitors take your poll, their entries are automatically saved in a submissions table within your project. You can download these results as a CSV file at any time to keep a backup of your data or to open it in a spreadsheet app.

To export your poll results:

1. Go to your project in Wixel.

2. Select the relevant form and click Submissions above the form preview.

3. Choose which submissions to export:

• Specific entries: Select the checkbox to the left of the submissions you want to include.

• All entries: Select the checkbox at the very top of the list to include the entire report.

1. Click Export at the top of the table.

2. Select the specific data fields you want to include in the pop-up.

3. Click Export again to save the CSV file to your device.