— No login · no email · one click
Voting without the signup wall.
Share a link to your board. Visitors tap the vote button once and their vote counts — no account to create, no email to hand over. That is the entire flow. One setting lets them post ideas and comment the same way too.
— How it works
Three steps, one trade-off.
- Share the linkYour board lives at a public URL. Drop it in a Discord server, a newsletter, a support reply, or embed it on your site.
- One clickA visitor taps the vote button once and it counts. Nothing to fill in, nothing to confirm.
- CountedThe vote count updates. Tap again to take your vote back.
How duplicates are prevented without emails
An anonymous per-browser token plus an IP rate limit allows one vote per idea per visitor — enough to stop everyday duplicates, not a determined ballot-stuffer. For deciding what to build next, that is usually enough; for anything election-shaped, it is not.
What you give up
An anonymous vote comes with no email — so there is no way to follow up with that voter, and they will not get a notification when the feature ships. Anonymous voters count on the board but never appear in your contacts.
The per-board “Visitor email” setting flips this: ask for an email and voters hear about it when you ship.
— Not just for software
Where no-login voting gets used.
Feature boards were built for product teams, but a list anyone can vote on without an account turns out to be useful anywhere a group has to pick from options — dorms, reading groups, Discord servers. There is a whole page on running a shared list this way.
3D Fast Track — a Discord community of game artists
A free game-art school run from Discord, whose pinned board decides which guides get written and which designs make the merch run — with members voting straight from the server.
“In my experience, a huge barrier of entry for participation is simply having to sign up, especially for smaller communities where mods/admins are trying to generate interest and support.”
— Questions, answered short
The fine print, in plain words.
- Can people vote without creating an account?
- Yes. On a public Featurevote board, a visitor taps the vote button once and the vote counts — no account, no email, no confirmation step. This is the default for every board.
- How are duplicate votes prevented without emails?
- Each browser gets an anonymous random token, kept in that browser. The database stores only a scrambled version of it and allows one vote per idea per token, plus a per-IP rate limit on top. Someone determined enough to clear their browser data or switch devices can vote again — it is built to keep everyday duplicates out of a priority list, not to run an election.
- Can visitors post ideas and comment without an email too?
- Yes, if you turn it on. Set "Visitor email" to "Not needed" and visitors post ideas and comment without leaving one. The email box stays on the form, marked optional, for anyone who wants to hear back when you reply or ship their idea. Until you change the setting, posting and commenting ask for an email.
- Can I require an email to vote instead?
- Yes. Every board has a "Visitor email" setting. Set it to "To vote, post and comment" and voters are asked for an email before their vote counts — they become contactable and get notified when the feature ships. The default keeps voting at one click.
- Does it work embedded on my site?
- Yes. The embed widget keeps the same one-click flow, and with the current embed script the vote memory is stored on your own domain — so returning visitors see what they already voted for, right inside your site.