Feel the room.
Pulse by Defib is live anonymous polling for meetings. You ask a question, people answer from their phones, and the result builds on the shared screen while everyone watches.
Try a live poll opens defib.live, where you type the code your host puts on screen.
Ask. Tap. Watch it land.
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Ask
Put a question on the big screen. It shows a six-character code and a QR code for the room.
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Tap
People scan the QR code, or open defib.live and type the code, then answer. No app, no account, no name.
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Watch it land
The result builds on the screen as the answers arrive, and everyone sees where the room really stands.
What is in it today.
Everything listed here is built into the app today. Nothing on this page is a plan.
Eight kinds of question
Multiple choice, yes or no, a rating scale, word cloud, open text, ranking, emoji pulse, and Q&A with upvotes.
Four ways to show a count
Bars, a donut, bubbles or a mascot race. The presenter can switch style while the question is live.
Timers and lightning rounds
A lightning round runs a set of questions back to back. Each one opens with a countdown, closes by itself and shows its result before the next begins.
Quiz mode
Give a question a right answer and it becomes a quiz, with points for speed and a top five on the big screen. A leaderboard nickname is optional and chosen by the voter.
Reactions
Anyone in the room can send an emoji or a few short words that float up the big screen for three seconds. Reactions are never saved.
Moderation
Hold written answers until you approve them, so nothing reaches the screen that you have not seen first.
Reports
A saved report for a lightning round or a whole meeting, with PDF and CSV export. Exports carry answers only: no names and no per-answer times.
A summary for every voter
When a session ends, each phone shows what that person answered beside how the room answered. It is worked out for that one phone, sent only to it and never saved. Nobody else can see it.
A phone remote for the host
Large next, back and close buttons on your phone, so you can run the meeting from anywhere in the room.
Three languages
Every screen is available in English, Spanish and French.
Who signs in, and who never does.
Voters never sign in. They are a random id kept in their own browser for one session, and Pulse stores no names, IP addresses or device details for them.
People who run polls do sign in, with a passkey, a password or an emailed link. Hosts and admins see totals and anonymous text. They cannot see who voted for what, and neither can we.
Between meetings, there is Offbeat.
Not every question needs everyone in the room at once. Offbeat is the same poll, sent by email or Slack and answered in people’s own time.