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Meftun Akarsu
Open source · Oct 2026

Oyla

Live polls · Word clouds · Self-hosted

Open-source live polls, word clouds and open questions for talks, classes and meetings.

Your audience joins from their phones with a 6-digit code or a QR code, with no accounts and no app to install, and their answers appear live on your screen. You run it on your own computer or server. “Oyla” means “vote!” in Turkish.

License
MIT
Interface
EN · TR
Website & docs (opens in a new tab)Source on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
DemoA short walkthrough: asking a question, joining from a phone, watching results arrive live and picking a theme.

How it works

  1. Create

    Start a presentation and add your questions: multiple choice, word cloud, open question or scale.

  2. Share the code

    Put the presenter screen up. People open your Oyla server on their phones and type the 6-digit code, or scan the QR code.

  3. Watch answers arrive

    Votes, words and answers show up on the big screen live while people respond.

Features

  • The audience joins from their phones with a 6-digit code or a QR code. No accounts, no app.
  • Four question types: multiple choice, word cloud, open question and scale.
  • Results update live on the presenter screen as answers come in.
  • Four colour themes per presentation; phones follow the presenter's choice.
  • English and Turkish interface, light and dark mode.
  • Self-hosted: one Docker container with Node.js, Fastify, Socket.IO, SQLite and React.
  • Open source under the MIT license.

Screenshots

The Oyla editor with four questions and the theme picker on the left and a multiple-choice question with four options being edited on the right
Fig 1The editor. Add questions, reorder them, pick a theme and copy the join link.
A phone screen showing the question “Which feature should we build next?” with four answer options and a Send vote buttonA phone screen with a green “voted” stamp and the message “Answer sent”
Fig 2On a phone. Pick an answer, send it, then watch the big screen.
The presenter screen showing live multiple-choice results as horizontal bars with percentages and vote counts
Fig 3The presenter screen. Bars fill up as votes come in; the join code stays at the top.
A word cloud on the presenter screen: “momentum” largest in the middle, other words smaller, some of them written vertically
Fig 4A word cloud. The more people give a word, the bigger it gets.

Built with

Node.js · Fastify · Socket.IO · SQLite · React · Docker

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