How to create your own poll for free using FormBuilder

You can create your own poll for free using FormBuilder and use features such as an AI form generator, conditional logic and form analytics.

So if you are not sure how to word your questions, describe the poll you have in mind and the AI form generator will draft it for you in seconds.

You’ll also find form analytics that show how many people open, start and complete your poll, so you can spot where respondents drop off and improve completion rates.

Below, we’ll discuss how you can create your own poll for free inside FormBuilder and use features that help you improve form completion.

Note: We’re FormBuilder, an online form builder with a free plan that includes 5 active forms and 100 responses per month, no credit card needed. If you’d like to build your own poll in another tab while following this guide, you can sign up for free here.

Step 1: Log into FormBuilder and choose a template

To create your own poll, log into your free FormBuilder account and open your dashboard.

Click “Create form” and choose your preferred template. For polls, we suggest going for a template that lets you ask one question at a time. This eliminates survey fatigue, which is where users scroll through your entire poll, decide it’s too much work, and leave.

Alternatively, you can use the AI form generator to have FormBuilder create a poll for you.

Tell the AI what type of poll you’d like to create; for example, you could say, “Create a poll that asks my YouTube subscribers what video I should do next.”

From here, FormBuilder’s AI will create a poll for you, and you can customize it by changing the headings, questions, answers, and theme.

Step 2: Add your questions

Next, add questions to your form by dragging and dropping question fields from the sidebar onto your form.

Inside this sidebar, you’ll find rating questions, scale questions, and open-text questions, but when creating your own poll, you’ll mainly work with multiple-choice questions.

Drag and drop multiple-choice question fields onto your form depending on how many questions you want to ask. On top of each multiple-choice question field, type your question, and below this, type your potential answers as options.

Step 3: Set up conditional logic

If you’d like your form to automatically change future questions based on what users previously responded with, then use FormBuilder’s conditional logic. Conditional logic uses simple IF/THEN rules to determine what the user sees next.

For example, you could say IF the user responds yes to the question “Do you like working here” THEN continue with the poll. IF the user responds with no, THEN show them the question “What can we do to improve your working experience.”

To set up conditional logic inside FormBuilder, open the logic settings for the question you want to control and add your IF/THEN rules there.

Step 4: Customize the design

Once you’re happy with all your questions and the logic behind them, open the design settings, where you can customize your form design.

Choose the theme you think will match your form best.

You can also access more advanced settings, such as the ability to add a customized form background, change the font style and size, adjust your form’s width, and change the colors of borders and buttons.

Step 5: Publish your poll

Save all your changes by clicking the “Publish” button and then share your form with respondents from the share options. The publish, share and embed guide walks through each one.

Here, you’ll find three ways to share your poll:

• Publish it on your website: The most common way to share your poll is to publish it on your website, where your audience can fill it out. To do this, copy the embed snippet and go to your website builder (WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow or plain HTML all work).

Add a custom HTML block to the page you want to embed your form on, paste the snippet into this block, and you’re good to go.

• Share it with a link: Alternatively, if you want to send your poll directly to your respondents, you can copy the form link and send it via email or text. For extra security, you can also add a password to your form, and only users with this password can access it.

• Share it via email: The last sharing option is sending your form via email. Paste the form link into your email, or, if your email provider supports HTML blocks, paste the embed snippet there.

Step 6: Check up on your form analytics

Once your form is published, your job isn’t done yet. You still have to monitor your form analytics and understand where respondents are dropping off so you can improve completion rates.

With FormBuilder, this process is simple because every form comes with analytics. Open your form’s analytics to see how many people viewed the poll, how many started it, and how many submitted it.

So, for example, if you see everyone leaving before a specific question and this question is longer than the rest, split it up into two. Or, if nobody is answering an optional question, consider removing it.

Why we believe we’re the best online form builder

These are some factors that set FormBuilder apart from other form builders:

• AI form generator

• Conditional logic and multi-page forms

• Form analytics

• Google Sheets, webhooks and Zapier integrations

AI form generator

You’ll access an AI feature that creates forms around your specific prompts. All you have to do is type a prompt like “Create an NPS poll asking my customers six questions about my marketing attribution software.”

You can get very specific with your prompts by describing your product in more detail, what it does, and what type of feedback you’re trying to get from customers.

If you’d like to tailor the AI’s outputs (questions, headings, potential answers) you can do so inside the FormBuilder editor. This helps you save time because you don’t have to build each poll from scratch.

Conditional logic and multi-page forms

Show each respondent only the questions that apply to them, and split longer polls into pages with a progress bar. Both keep polls short from the respondent’s point of view, which is what keeps completion rates up.

Form analytics

Once you’ve published your form, you can head to your analytics and get a view of how your poll is performing. You’ll understand how many people view, start and complete it, which tells you where to look when completion rates fall.

Integrations

Send every response to Google Sheets with the native integration, or connect your poll to thousands of other apps through webhooks and Zapier. That way the results land wherever your team already works.

Next steps

If you’re looking to create your own poll and want an AI form generator, conditional logic and form analytics on a free plan, consider signing up for FormBuilder for free.