Halftime vs Polly

The short version

Polly is a workplace feedback tool. It lives inside Slack and Teams and helps teams run polls, pulse surveys, Q&A, quizzes, retrospectives, meeting feedback, and lightweight workflows. If the job is to ask the team something and collect responses, Polly is built for that.

Halftime is not a survey tool. It gives the team a new game every workday, tracks scores and streaks, crowns weekly champions, and creates a shared result people can talk about. The interaction is play-first rather than feedback-first.

The core difference: Polly asks the team questions. Halftime gives the team something to play.

Side by side

Where Polly is the better choice

Choose Polly if you need answers. Polls, sentiment checks, meeting feedback, retrospective inputs, anonymous Q&A, and recurring survey workflows all fit Polly's shape. It is especially useful when the team already works heavily in Slack or Microsoft Teams.

Polly also makes sense for managers and People teams that need repeatable feedback patterns. The data matters. The templates matter. The workflow around collecting responses matters.

Where Halftime is the better choice

Choose Halftime if the team has already been surveyed enough and what you need is a reason for people to show up voluntarily. A game is a different kind of engagement from a poll. It is lighter, less managerial, and easier to turn into a daily ritual.

• It does not feel like feedback collection. Halftime is a shared game, not another request for input. That changes how it lands with the team.
• Scores create memory. Leaderboards, records, personal bests, and weekly champions give the team something persistent to talk about beyond a single poll result.
• It works outside chat. Slack and Teams notifications are useful, but the core play experience is browser-first. The team can join without living inside one chat platform.

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