The reveal

The reveal is the payoff of every ballot: the moment the votes are counted, the verdict stamps in, and the whole crew sees how it went. On sealed ballots it's the first time anyone sees the tally at all.

Who can do what: everyone on the trip can see the reveal. Organizers can Share the verdict or Reopen voting.

When reveals happen

A ballot resolves, and the reveal appears, when any of these happens:

• Everyone eligible has voted. The ballot closes immediately.
• The deadline passes with minimum participation met. The verdict is called from the votes that are in. If participation is too low, the ballot closes and waits for an organizer instead of showing a reveal.
• An organizer ends it with Decide now. That reveals the tally on the spot, sealed or not.

A ballot never closes early just because the yes votes are winning, it holds open to the deadline so nobody's vote gets cut off, sending a last call to anyone who hasn't voted. The rules that turn votes into a verdict are covered in How group voting works.

What the reveal card shows

From top to bottom:

• The stamp, a tilted APPROVED (green) or REJECTED (red) stamp slams in over the plan name, with a "Decided 2 hours ago" line under it.
• Tally bars, Yes, No, and Abstain bars animate out to their final counts.
• Voter rows, each voter's avatar and name with a colored choice icon and label: Yes, No, or Abstain.
• Didn't vote, the crew members who never cast a ballot, by name, with the house rule spelled out: "No vote, no complaints."
• Share the verdict, posts the result anywhere (more below).

Anonymous ballots: tallies only

If the ballot was set to anonymous voting, the reveal protects identities forever. Instead of voter rows, the card shows a note: "Votes were anonymous, tallies only." You still get the stamp, the bars, and the counts, you just never learn who voted which way.

Anonymity covers choices, not participation: the Didn't vote row still names the people who sat it out. See Sealed and anonymous ballots.

Where reveals show up

• Voting → Votes inside the trip, resolved ballots move into the Approved Plans and Rejected Plans sections as full reveal cards.
• The full-screen voting dashboard, opened from a voting notification, shows the same approved and rejected sections.
• Trip chat, a ballot card in the conversation flips in place to a compact verdict banner with the final tally, like "Approved, 8 yes · 2 no · 1 abstain". The full reveal with voter rows lives on the dashboards.

Share the verdict

1. 1
   Open the resolved ballot under Voting → Votes or on the full-screen dashboard.
2. 2
   Tap Share the verdict.
3. 3
   Pick any app from your device's share sheet: group chat, messages, anywhere.

The message writes itself, for example: "Sunset Catamaran (Lisbon Crew): APPROVED 8–2 ✅ decided on Limbo".

It also carries a public reveal link, a /r/... address on web.getlimbo.app. Anyone can tap it, with or without the app, and see the same reveal in their browser: the verdict stamp, the final tally, and the "X of Y voted" turnout. Sealed ballots stay sealed on the web too, the page shows nothing until the ballot has resolved. There's a start your own ballot button on it, so a shared result quietly does your recruiting for you.

Get the result by email

You don't have to keep checking back for the outcome:

• Voting from a browser link? Tap Email me the result, especially handy on sealed ballots, where there's no tally to watch. Limbo emails you the verdict the moment the ballot closes.
• When a ballot you're on resolves, Limbo can also send you a "Decision reached" email with the outcome, so you get the result even on a day you never open the app.

Both are covered in Reminders and result emails.

After the reveal

The verdict stands unless an organizer steps in. Organizers see a Reopen voting button on every reveal card, it wipes all previous votes and starts a fresh 48-hour ballot, so use it deliberately. The full walkthrough is in Organizer powers.