The best questions, voted up by your audience.
Let attendees submit questions and upvote the ones they want answered. Screen them before the speaker sees them. Works at keynotes, fireside chats, town halls, webinars, and classrooms — no app, no signup.
Included with any Pro plan. Free tier can run one live poll to try the platform; Q&A requires Pro.
Audience view
Fireside with Dr. Lisa Randall
Questions (3) · screened before appearing
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How do you pick a good research problem?
- 31
Best advice you got from a mentor?
- 18
Any book recommendations for grad students?
Attendees scan a QR or type a channel code — that's it
Pre-screen questions, or toggle moderation off mid-event
Upvotes re-rank the speaker's list as they come in
How it works
Three surfaces, one session. The audience submits, a moderator screens, the speaker sees the ranked list.
Audience submits and upvotes
Attendees scan your QR code or type your channel code (#yourhandle) into PollQR.com. They type a question or tap ↑ on questions they want answered. Upvote deduplication is per browser — one vote per attendee per question.
Moderator screens (optional)
Pre-moderation is on by default. Submitted questions sit in a pending queue; approve, reject, or mark answered with one tap. Toggle moderation off for a smaller, trusted audience — any pending questions auto-promote so nothing gets stuck.
Speaker reads the room
The presenter view is a dark, projection-friendly screen with the top-voted question highlighted. Click any question to focus it manually if you want to answer them in a different order. Tap Mark Answered when you move on.
Everything a good Q&A needs
Upvoting with one-tap toggle
Attendees can upvote as many questions as they like; tap again to remove. The best questions rise; noise sinks.
Pre-moderation with a kill-switch
Screen every question by default, or flip moderation off when the audience is trusted. No half-state — the queue auto-drains on toggle.
Channel codes for laptop users
Not everyone has a phone camera ready. Anyone on a laptop can visit PollQR.com and type #yourhandle to jump straight into your Q&A.
Presenter-controlled focus
Auto-highlight the top vote-getter, or click any question to take it out of auto and answer in your own order. The audience still sees the votes; you pick the sequence.
CSV and JSON export
Download the full transcript after the event: every question, its status, vote count, timestamps, and submitter names if you allowed them.
Built for conference scale
Edge-cached read path absorbs thousands of concurrent attendees without touching the database. 1,000+ attendees comfortable per session.
Where it shines
Any format where an audience has more questions than time to answer them all.
Conferences & keynotes
A famous guest speaker with 1,000 people in the room. Audience submits, upvotes, and you answer the ones they actually want — not just whoever grabbed the mic fastest.
All-hands & town halls
Leadership Q&A where people want to surface real questions. Moderation lets HR screen before sensitive topics hit the screen.
Webinars & streamed events
Remote attendees aren't raising hands. Give them a channel URL on the broadcast; questions flow in alongside the talk with upvotes showing what the audience cares about most.
Classrooms & lectures
Shy students won't interrupt. They'll type. The professor sees the top-voted question and addresses the thing that's actually confusing the room.
Author talks & book signings
Collect audience questions before or during the event. Screen out duplicates and spam. Read the room to decide what to address on stage.
Internal training & workshops
Let trainees ask without stopping the flow. Answer the batch at a natural break, top-voted first.
Common questions
How does audience Q&A with upvoting work?
You display a QR code and/or channel code on screen. Attendees scan or type the code to open the Q&A page on their phone. They submit questions and upvote the ones they want answered. Top-voted questions rise to the top of the presenter's view so the speaker answers what the most people actually care about.
Can I moderate questions before the speaker sees them?
Yes. Pre-moderation is on by default. Submitted questions land in a moderator queue; only approved questions appear on the audience feed for upvoting and on the presenter's screen. You can toggle moderation off mid-event — pending questions auto-approve so nothing gets stuck.
Do attendees need to download an app or sign up?
No. Any modern smartphone opens the Q&A page directly in the browser after scanning the QR code. Laptop users can visit PollQR.com and type the channel code shown on screen. No app download, no signup, no email required.
What happens when two attendees upvote the same question?
Each attendee can upvote a given question once; tapping again removes their vote. The presenter's ranked list re-sorts as votes come in, so the most-wanted question stays at the top. The presenter can also manually focus a different question to answer them in a specific order.
Can I download a transcript after the event?
Yes. One-click CSV or JSON export from the moderator view gives you every submitted question, its status (approved, rejected, or answered), vote count, submitter name if provided, and timestamps. Useful for post-event reporting or publishing the answers.
How many attendees can a Q&A handle at once?
A single Q&A session is comfortable at conference scale — thousands of concurrent attendees. The read path is edge-cached so the dominant polling traffic never touches the database. The per-session cap is 1,000 submitted questions, which is more than enough for most events.
Run your next Q&A the way your audience wants to.
Create a session in under a minute. Put a QR on the screen. Let the questions roll in.
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