Start a ballot on the web

Sometimes you just need a decision — which Airbnb, which night, which restaurant — and you need it before anyone gets around to installing anything. Open web.getlimbo.app/new in any browser and you have a group ballot in under a minute. No app. No account. One link does the rest.

Who can do what: anyone can start a web ballot and anyone with the link can vote — no Limbo account required on either side. You start the ballot with your name and email, and that email is how you later claim it into a real trip that you own owner.

Start one at web.getlimbo.app/new

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   Go to web.getlimbo.app/new in any browser — phone or laptop.
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   Give the ballot a title — the question you're settling, like "Where do we stay in Lisbon?"
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   Add the options the crew should choose between.
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   Set a deadline for when the vote should close.
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   Enter your name and email — the email is where your ballot and manage link go, and how you claim it later.
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   Tap Create the ballot to get your shareable link.

Share one link with the crew

A web ballot has a single group link — the same link for everyone. Drop it in the group chat, text it around, paste it anywhere. There's nothing to install and no invite to accept; whoever opens the link can vote.

Everyone enters their name

Because there are no accounts, the ballot keeps track of who's who by name.

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   Open the group link.
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   Type your name — use the exact same name if you've voted before, and you'll get your own voting link back.
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   Tap your choice. Done.

A web ballot is deliberately lightweight, so it doesn't carry the trip-level privacy controls that in-app proposals do — there's no sealed tally or anonymous mode here. Voters pick their own name, so it's an open, on-the-record vote by design. If you need sealed or anonymous voting, run the decision as a full trip in the app — see Sealed and anonymous ballots.

Winner takes most at the deadline

When the deadline hits, the ballot closes and the option with the most votes wins — plain and simple. Everyone who's got the link sees the same result: the winning option and how the votes fell. No thresholds to hit, no math to argue about — most votes takes it.

Claim your ballot later

A web ballot doesn't have to stay a one-off. If you started it — or voted on it — with an email address, you can pull it into the app later:

• Install Limbo and sign in with the same email you used on the web.
• The ballot (and the trip it belongs to) shows up in your account, ready to grow — add plans, split costs, run the next vote sealed.

That's the point: a quick browser decision can graduate into a real, planned trip without anyone re-entering a thing.

The fine print: daily and voter caps

To keep web ballots useful and spam-free, there are a couple of sensible limits:

• A daily cap on how many new ballots one email address can start in a day.
• A voter cap on how many people can vote on a single ballot.

They're set high enough that a normal group decision never bumps into them — they're only there to stop abuse. If you're planning for a big crew or want no limits at all, run the trip in the app, where full trip proposals aren't capped this way. Learn how in-app voting works in How group voting works.