What is Shatuga Chooser?
Chooser lets you create a set of choices. Then your group picks among them:
Task Chooser
Claim a Task — capacity-based sign-up sheets:
- Set a capacity for each role or slot
- People claim Yes or mark Available
- Runs across one or more dates
- Coverage fills in as they respond
Date Chooser
What Date is Best — poll your group for the right day:
- Propose any set of candidate dates
- People mark each Yes, Maybe, or No
- Click or drag to mark many at once
- The best-covered date rises to the top
Time Chooser
When To Meet — an availability grid for meetings and events:
- Lay out a week — or specific dates — in time blocks or custom periods
- Participants shade when they're free
- Click or drag across the grid to answer
- The best overlap is easy to spot
Poll
What We Think — quick polls for decisions and feedback:
- Single- or multiple-choice, free-form, or word-cloud answers
- Add as many questions as you need
- Present to a large group with a QR code
- Results tally instantly — bars, pie, or cloud
Perfect for scheduling times, selecting dates, or organizing potlucks and events — and just as handy for gathering feedback, running quick polls, and keeping post-event follow-through on track.
- No email collected
- No login
- No ads
- Free to use
Create your Chooser
Ready to create your first selection session? Get Started!
Features
- 🔓 No Logins or Emails Required: Create and participate instantly without accounts or registration
- 📅 Multiple Chooser Types: Weekly time slots, date selection, contribution items, and more
- ⚙️ Customizable Options: Enable/disable specific choices and customize labels
- ✅ Multiple Selections: Participants can select multiple options
- 🔗 Easy Sharing: Your chooser gets a unique link and participants can recall choices using their name
- 🔄 Easy Updates: Your participants can easily update their selections
- 🆓 Accounts are Free and Optional: Sign up only if you want to save and maintain your choosers
With a small one-time payment (NOT subscription)
These extras add on to your free account to unlock extra capacity with a small one-time top-up.
- 📧 Upload participants in advance with name and email
- 🔔 Notify participants of their invitations with generous email notification credits, sent straight from your chooser's private admin link
- 🖼️ Custom banners: a default for all your choosers, with per-chooser override
- 📅 Soon: Send calendar invites
- 👥 Soon: Group lists — maintain regular participant groups across choosers
- 🌐 Eventually: Run it on your own subdomain
We don't like subscriptions either. Purchase a very generous allowance of email credits for next-to-nothing. All of what is left over goes to pay our expenses, modest compensation, and then to charity!
Common uses
Shatuga Chooser handles all kinds of group coordination. A few of the most common:
Scheduling
- Poll your group for the best date to meet — everyone marks yes / maybe / no and the winner rises to the top. A free Doodle alternative for group date polls.
- Find the time to meet across a week or a set of dates by shading availability on a grid. An ad-free When2meet alternative.
Sign-ups & shifts
- Post sign-up sheets for volunteers, potlucks, and event roles — with no ads and no email address collected. A free SignUpGenius alternative.
- Build a shift schedule with per-slot capacities and recurring coverage for volunteer or staff rotations.
Polls & meetings
- Run a quick poll to settle a decision, or gather feedback after a meeting or event.
- Chain several steps into one guided session — collect availability, assign tasks, and take a vote through a single shared link.
FAQ
Do I need an account to use Shatuga Chooser?
For participants? No — joining and responding never needs an account. For creators? Usually not — creating, sharing, and checking results are all accountless. A few things need a free account to keep track of themselves, like Flow (which ties several choosers into one ongoing session) and saving, branding, or emailing from the choosers you've made. Accounts are always free.
Is the service free to use?
Yes! The core app is free. We earn a bit of revenue selling email credits — 10,000 for 20 bucks. Generous, huh? But not only that: Shatuga, LLC gives all profits to charities. Visit shatuga.com and check the "About" menu for more info.
How long will my choosers live?
We keep them around for about 6 months past the last participation or admin update. After this, we'll clean them up and delete all the data. So visit your Chooser to keep it up to date.
How do I access a Chooser I make?
We'll give you a unique link once you create it.
What if I lose my Chooser link?
Because there's no login (see above), that link is your only way back in — so keep it somewhere safe. Use it to administer your chooser and check results. If you lose it, we have no way to know who made what chooser, and no way to recover the link. It's likely, though, that your links are in your browser history. Look there if you lose it!
Can I brand it for myself? Upload a banner?
Yes! Branding comes with a Plus account, which includes storage for your banner alongside a generous batch of email credits. Set one default banner across all your choosers, and override it per chooser whenever you like.
Open Source
Chooser will be open source software licensed under the AGPL v3. View the source code on GitHub. (coming soon)