Find out what your friends actually think

Open the Insights of a poll and the compare row shows the people you follow who have also answered it. Pick one and their answer sits next to yours. On a yes/no or multiple choice poll the verdict is plain: “You and Maya share the same opinion!” or “You and Maya have conflicting opinions.” No scrolling through a thread to work out where someone stands.

Because the rule applies to everyone, you can only compare on polls you have both actually answered. Nobody gets to peek at a friend's view and then pick a side.

Ranking polls ask for a full order, so “same or different” is not enough. Instead you get a score: how many of your rankings match, and how close the two orders are overall. Two people who put the same option first but disagree about the rest will score differently from two people who inverted the whole list. It is a small thing that starts long conversations.

The compare row is built from the people you follow. Follow someone, and once you have both answered a poll, they appear in the row. It is never a list of everyone who voted; results are totals, and the only person told about an individual answer is the person who asked the question, who is notified by username.

Private accounts, hiding your answered polls, blocking and reporting all work exactly as you would expect, and they all carry over to compare.

Every poll has a comment thread with @mentions, likes and saves, and a share button that opens the poll directly in the app for anyone who has it. Share a poll to a group chat and the conversation has a number in it before the first message.

The point of comparing is not to win the thread. It is to find out that the person across the table thinks the voting age should be lowered, or that pineapple belongs on pizza, and to ask them why. Peopoll gives you the number; the conversation is yours.