Strawpoll is built for public, viral polling — anyone with the link can vote, and the poll lives on its own page. Polls for Gmail is built for private polling scoped to a recipient list, where the poll lives inside the email itself. Pick Strawpoll for a Twitter audience; pick Polls for Gmail for a work, school, or family audience.
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Your audience is a known email list — team, parents, customers, students. You want the poll to ride along inside the email you'd send anyway. You need spam-free results scoped to your recipients. Privacy and anonymity matter.
You want a poll anyone on the internet can vote in. You're sharing on Twitter, Discord, a public website, or a Reddit thread. Virality is the goal. You don't have an email list of your intended audience.
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Strawpoll is public polling — anyone with the link can vote, and the poll lives on a public Strawpoll URL. Polls for Gmail is private polling — the poll lives inside an email and is scoped to a recipient list you control. Different audiences, different use cases.
Polls for Gmail, because access is implicitly limited to people you email — bots can't find or vote in a poll they can't see. Strawpoll polls are public and rely on IP throttling and CAPTCHAs to manage spam.
Not by default. Polls for Gmail polls have a vote URL, but the assumption is that you share it via your own email — there's no public discovery page. If you want a vote button shareable on Twitter or a public site, Strawpoll is the better fit.
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