Polls for iMessage User Reviews

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Great App!!! but, what about editable text?

This app is great! Wondering if you can make text copyable. Let’s say I want to add a URL to the voting options so my friends can click on various menu options to restaurants we are deciding on. The text is static and can’t be copied!! This would be awesome.

Nice work on this!

A little frustrating

So I’m using this for the first time with 3 other people and I’ve got 7 votes in a poll. What’s up with that? I checked and you can in fact vote more than once which defeats the purpose. Also, I can see what people vote for which also defeats the purpose of using an app rather than everyone just texting their answer. Everyone should only be allowed to vote once and the results should be a secret. Make it where you can only see the votes once it’s completed or until the poll owner says it’s complete. Another thing, I had two separate polls and one of the answers are the same in both. Whenever someone votes that answer in one poll the same vote is reflected in the second poll. Kind of a mess to deal with.

Edit: after reading the other comments I realized how useful voting on multiple options can be. But definitely should be an option.
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Response from developer

Hi there! Thanks so much for your feedback! I'm sorry that you're frustrated with the app. Voting on multiple options was a highly requested feature but I understand it's not perfect for every case. In the upcoming version this will be a setting you can change. Regarding anonymous polls, that's a very good idea! I will consider it for the next update as well. For the issue with a vote on one option also counting on other polls with an option that has the same name, I'm very surprised by that, I haven't been able to reproduce it but I'll keep looking into this. Feel free to reach me at jeff@pollsforimessage.com for any other issues or feedback. Input like yours is what will make this app great ❤️ Hope you have found the app to be useful 😊 -Jeff

Great App Very Useful

(Updated review)I really like this app because I can create polls now on my iPad.
Something I also like is that the developer is very responsive to reviews. The one thing I would change would be that you should be able to submit a vote without opening the app. Overall it is a fantastic app that I recommend to all.

I updated this review because I later discovered that this app is very good and useful :) ( ◠‿◠ )
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Response from developer

Hey, sor­ry I know it's very hard to find. Un­for­tu­nate­ly noth­ing I can do to make it eas­i­er for peo­ple to delete. Here's what you do. Open iMes­sage, open a con­ver­sa­tion, hit the app but­ton to the left of the text in­put so your iMes­sage apps show up above the key­board, scroll all the way to the right end of those and tap more, then find the polls app and swipe to delete, if it's fa­vorites you have to re­move from fa­vorites first. Sor­ry for the trou­ble, if you change your mind about the app feel free to change your review. This is a free app I made on my own time, not a scammer -Jeff

Allow owner to suppress notifications

I’d like to see an option where the owner of the poll can suppress notifications from being sent every time someone votes. Instead, let the owner send an imessage with results when he or she is ready to release it to the group, otherwise can be a little overwhelming for everyone.

Good, but makes everyone download

Great polling, but it requires everyone in my group chat to download the app to be able to answer, which not everyone is inclined to do.

Response from developer

Hi! Thanks for your review. I understand this is frustrating to require everyone to download but unfortunately this is the way it has to work. People have to download apps in order to use them. Might be able to find a poll website so you can send a link and then people won't have to download. Hope you've enjoyed the app and find whst you're looking for! Please know this is a free app that I made on my personal time and negative reviews hurt our rating and push other apps to the top which charge you for polls.

Could use improvements

Needs Dark mode support and UI could use some more colors for the votes.

Bug

First thing I tried didn’t work. It seems that you can’t vote for something the same time you add a new title.
I added a new title to the poll, voted for it, then updated, and my title never appeared.

Regardless, there is a workaround and I still think this app completes the original intent of the design.

Turns out you need to update the poll and the vote separately and it will work.
1) make new title
2) update
3) vote for title
4) update

Can’t do it this way
1) make new title
2) vote for new title
3) update

Last thing to mention. By default it doesn’t allow for a poll with one option. Can this be changed? Others can add their own options. If I’m having An accumulative poll with a group, it makes sense to allow the options to start with the ideas from a single person
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Response from developer

Hi! Thanks for your review and bug report, I appreciate you giving 4 stars despite the issue you ran into. The steps you gave should work, in fact I just tried them. Assuming by title you mean you added a new option to the poll after you'd already sent it. You should be able to add an option and vote for it in the same go. Were there other people voting at the same time? There is a possibility of a timing issue where someone's vote could have overwritten you adding the new option and removed it. In either case I'll be sure to test and fix any issues in the next version. Hope you are enjoying the app!

Love polls, can’t wait for a few more features

I love that I can quickly send these to my friends, and they are well designed/Easy to understand. Even better is that multiple choices were available!

I do wish there was the ability to:

- edit a choice instead of deleting and recreating

- choose the number of answers allowed by a person, or even just the ability to choose between 1 answer or multiple

- this one might be limited by how iMessage apps work and what data you have access to. An option to only show the end results after everyone in the group chat has voted.
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Good Idea with one major flaw

I like the idea, but it has one major flaw, you can vote twice because of a glitch. If you switch betweem two options after voting, you can vote for two seperate things simultaneously, and I'm pretty sure you can also vote for the same thing twice. If it didn't have this problem it'd be 5 stars.

Wow. How Awesome!

Only unappreciative people could find a way to complain about this add on. Having the ability to essential use the BEST WeChat feature in IMessage are life changing. This add on has streamlined our group message planning 10x. Love this and can’t wait to see how it’s utility grows!

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