A Mentimeter alternative built for quiz games

Mentimeter is an interactive presentation tool made by Mentimeter AB, a privately held company founded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2014. Presenters build decks that mix content slides with polls, word clouds, open questions, Q&A and quiz slides, and the audience responds on their phones at menti.com with an 8-digit code, a QR code or a link. Its quiz competition supports select-answer and type-answer questions, gives faster answers more points and shows leaderboards. A September 2025 plan update added 1-1 sharing and team workspaces, and the product line now includes Menti Live, Form and Pulse.

Best for: Presenters, trainers and lecturers who want polls, word clouds and Q&A woven into a slide deck, with an occasional quiz competition.

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• The free plan counts participants across your whole account — 50 a month, resetting on your signup day — so two small sessions can use it up.
• Basic and Pro are billed yearly in most countries, so even one event means paying $143.88 or $299.88 per presenter up front.
• Pricing is per presenter, which gets expensive for teams of trainers and for people who only present a few times a year.
• Prices change with your location — Basic is $11.99 a month in US dollars but €14 in euro markets — and 2025–2026 reviews call the pricing confusing.
• Reviewers often describe the quiz mode as presentation-first and less game-like than a dedicated quiz game.

• Pay monthly, cancel anytime

  Quizzo is $9 a month with no yearly contract, so you can subscribe for one event, one term or one busy season. Mentimeter's Basic and Pro plans are billed a year up front in most countries.

• No monthly participant pool

  Run as many games as you like, each with up to 500 players. Mentimeter's free plan stops at 50 participants a month across your account.

• Feels like a game show

  Quizzo is built only for live quizzes: an answer chart and top-5 leaderboard after every question, a podium with confetti, and built-in music and sound effects. On Mentimeter, the quiz is one slide type inside a presentation.

• Lower cost for business use

  A full year of Quizzo costs $108, against $143.88 for Mentimeter Basic or $299.88 for Pro, per presenter. Mentimeter's education Basic plan ($107.88 a year) costs about the same.

• Polls, word clouds and Q&A

  Even the free plan includes 23 slide types, among them word clouds, open-ended questions, scales, ranking, Q&A and type-answer quiz questions. Quizzo is multiple choice only.

• Slides and integrations

  You can build a full deck, import PowerPoint, Keynote or PDF files on Basic and up, and present through the PowerPoint add-in, Microsoft Teams or Zoom. Quizzo has no slides or integrations.

• AI on every plan

  Menti AI generates presentations and quizzes from a prompt and groups open-text answers, even on the free plan. Quizzo has no AI features.

• Bigger audiences and exports

  Paid plans have no audience limit on most slides, quiz slides take up to 2,000 people at once, and results export to Excel or PDF. Enterprise adds SSO and LMS integration.

As of October 2026, Mentimeter's US-dollar prices are $11.99 (Basic) and $24.99 (Pro) per presenter per month, billed yearly ($143.88 and $299.88 a year), with education plans at $8.99 and $14.99 a month ($107.88 and $179.88 a year). Prices depend on your location — euro markets pay €14 for Basic and €28 for Pro — and conference packages cost $350 or $750 for one month. Quizzo is $9/month for up to 500 players, billed monthly. Twelve months of Quizzo ($108) cost about the same as Mentimeter's education Basic plan and less than business Basic or Pro; if you only need a paid plan for a month or a short course, Quizzo costs far less because there's no yearly commitment.

Stay with Mentimeter if your sessions are mainly presentations — polls, word clouds, Q&A and imported slides with a quiz now and then — or if you need AI deck creation, exports or enterprise sign-on. Switch to Quizzo if the quiz is the main event: a game-show format for up to 500 players, no monthly participant pool, and one $9 plan you pay for only in the months you use it.

1. Create your Quizzo account and open the dashboard.
2. Click “New quiz”, paste in your questions and answers, and mark the correct one. Add images and timers where you need them.
3. Press “Start game” to open the lobby, then show the PIN or QR code on the big screen.
4. Players join at playquizzo.com/join on their phones — no app, no account — and you're live.

Quizzo doesn't import quizzes from other tools yet, so plan a few minutes to copy your questions over.

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