Looking for an OpaVote alternative?

OpaVote has served ranked-choice elections for years, and it's a solid tool. But if you want something more modern — live results your voters can watch, no signup friction, and simpler pricing — here's an honest comparison.

Quick comparison

• Price: OpaVote is free up to 30 voters, then paid per election by voter count (about $10 per 100 voters, scaling up). rankedchoice.app is free up to 100 voters, with a flat $19 one-time Pro upgrade for up to 2,500 voters.
• Voter experience: OpaVote uses classic web forms. Here, voters drag choices into order on any device — no account, no app, about 30 seconds.
• Results: OpaVote emails results when the count ends. Our results are a live page — watch instant-runoff eliminations play out round by round as ballots arrive, and share the results link with your whole group.
• Counting methods: OpaVote supports many academic methods (STV, Condorcet, Borda). We deliberately do one thing well: instant-runoff voting with deterministic, auditable tie-breaking. If you need multi-winner STV today, OpaVote remains the right pick.
• Voter lists: both support link-based voting; emailed one-ballot-per-voter lists are part of our Pro roadmap.

When to choose which

Choose OpaVote if you need multi-winner STV or an academic counting method. Choose rankedchoice.app if you want the fastest path from "we need to vote on this" to a decision your group can see and trust — clubs, boards, HOAs, teams, classrooms, and friend groups deciding anything.

Try it in 30 seconds

No account needed — create a poll, share the link, and watch results live.

New to the method? Read what is ranked-choice voting? or the step-by-step guide.