Ask the room. Watch the answers land.
Live polling for any room — town halls, classrooms, conferences, brainstorms. Seven question types, live result streaming, anonymous mode, and AI-drafted prompts. Free to start.
What polls are for
The room has an opinion. Surface it.
Polls aren't trivia. There's no right answer, no scoreboard, no winner — just a live read on what the audience actually thinks.
Town halls & all-hands
Take the room's temperature in real time. Anonymous mode keeps honest answers honest, and live distributions update on the projector as votes land.
Conference keynotes
Wake up the audience between slides. Drop in a multiple-choice or slider poll, project the live bars, and pivot the talk based on what the room actually thinks.
Classrooms & lectures
Formative check-ins without the LMS friction. Run a quick poll to confirm the room's ready to move on — or discover they're not.
Brainstorms & retros
Open-text and ordering polls turn meetings into structured input. Collect ideas, rank them by the group, and end the session with a decision.
Customer & employee feedback
Run a quick pulse survey on a new feature, a process change, or last quarter's priorities. No survey-tool subscription required.
Team check-ins
Sentiment polls, agenda voting, retro categories. Quick to set up, no scoring, no leaderboard — just the room's answer at a glance.
Question types
Seven ways to ask. One live view.
Every type renders a purpose-built live distribution — bars, stats, ranks, or response lists.
Multiple choice
Single-select with live horizontal bars per option.
True / false
Fastest possible read — two bars, instant pulse.
Slider
Numeric range with mean, median, and distribution.
Open text
Free-form responses. Anonymous mode strips identity.
Ordering
Group-ranked lists with mean rank per item.
Matching & numeric
Pair items or capture exact numbers, all aggregated live.
Live results, or save the reveal
Stream the running distribution as votes land — great for energy in the room — or keep it hidden until the question closes so early voters don't sway the rest. Per-poll toggle, your call.
Anonymous when it matters
Strip identities from the live broadcast for sensitive topics — sentiment, performance, org changes. The server still dedupes server-side, so each person votes exactly once.
AI drafts the prompts
Type a topic or upload a PDF — a deck, an agenda, meeting notes — and AI drafts poll prompts you can edit before launch. Polls are unscored regardless of how they're authored.
Cast to the projector
Pair a TV at /connect-tv and the lobby, live distribution, and reveals show on the big screen automatically.
Side by side
Stacked against the usual suspects.
Most polling tools paywall anonymous mode, AI, and the larger room sizes. Nontrivial puts the features you actually use on the free plan.
| Feature | Nontrivial | Mentimeter | Slido | Poll Everywhere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free to start | Included | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Live result streaming | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Anonymous responses | Included | Paid | Paid | Paid |
| AI-generated polls | Included | Paid | ||
| PDF upload to generate polls | Included | |||
| Cast to TV / big screen | Included | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| No app download to respond | ||||
| Mix polls with scored trivia | Included | |||
| Question types | 7 | 13 | 5 | 8 |
From idea to live in minutes
Three steps to a live poll.
Same builder as trivia. Flip one toggle and you're collecting opinions instead of points.
Try it now — it's freePick "Poll" when you create a session.
Same builder as trivia — flip the toggle and the leaderboard disappears. Write prompts yourself, upload a PDF, or let AI draft them.
Choose live results and anonymity.
Decide whether the distribution streams while votes come in, or only reveals at the end. Toggle anonymous if the topic is sensitive.
Share the code. Watch the bars move.
Respondents join from any browser. Cast to a paired TV for the projector, or keep the host view on your laptop.
One platform, two modes.
Polls when you want input. Trivia when you want a winner.
Most teams need both — a quick sentiment pulse on Monday, a Friday all-hands trivia. Nontrivial covers both modes with the same builder, the same join flow, and the same free plan. Switch with one toggle.
Common questions
Ready to poll the room?
Build your first poll in minutes. Cast it to the big screen, watch the bars move, decide together.
Used by teachers, event hosts, HR teams, and team leads who run live sessions.