Do you need an account or payment to use pollly?

No. According to pollly's own site description, you can gather ideas and opinions in real time with no registration required, and the service is described as free. There is no sign-up step standing between you and a poll or brainstorming session.

That said, two practical conditions are worth knowing before you rely on it.

What "no registration" means in practice

You can create or join a poll without creating a username, password, or profile. The site positions this as its main convenience: participants can contribute immediately instead of being funneled through an account wall.

The trade-off is that anonymous, account-free tools generally give you less control over who can participate and how you find your session again. Keep your poll link somewhere safe, because there is no account dashboard to recover it from.

The JavaScript requirement

pollly's page returns this message when scripts are blocked:

We're sorry but pollly-web doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.

So "no registration" does not mean "no requirements." You need a browser with JavaScript enabled. If you are on a locked-down corporate network, a privacy extension that blocks scripts, or a text-only browser, the app will not load at all — regardless of whether you have an account.

Free, but read that carefully

The site describes itself as free. The page contains no pricing table, no payment links, and no payment platform references, so there is nothing on it that suggests a paid tier, a trial, or a checkout flow.

What the page does not state is equally important:

Because no limits are published, treat "free" as covering the core polling and brainstorming function as described. If your use case depends on a specific cap — a large number of participants, long-term storage of results, or exporting data — verify that inside the tool before you commit a real session to it.

When this is a good fit

pollly suits situations where speed matters more than administration:

• A live meeting or workshop where you want ideas on a screen within seconds
• A quick opinion check among people who will not tolerate a sign-up form
• Brainstorming where the goal is collecting raw input, not tracking who said what

It is a weaker fit if you need participant identity, access control, or a durable record tied to your account. Those needs point toward tools with registration — which is exactly the friction pollly is designed to remove.