A Quizlet alternative for live quizzes with your own questions

Quizlet is a flashcard study platform from Quizlet, Inc. in San Francisco, founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland and led by CEO Kurt Beidler since July 2024. Its live game, launched in 2016 and now labeled Classic Quizlet Live, sits in a Live menu alongside a second game called Blast. The host picks a flashcard set and players join at quizlet.live with a code and their name; in teams mode the answer options are split across teammates' devices so they have to work together, while individuals mode gives each player every option. Studying remains Quizlet's core — flashcards, Learn and Test modes and AI study tools — and in 2026 it acquired the AI note-taker Coconote and launched a ChatGPT integration.

Best for: Teachers and students who already study with Quizlet flashcard sets and want a quick, free, collaborative term-matching game.

Official website: quizlet.com

• Classic Quizlet Live only builds games from existing sets — term–definition pairs (at least six) or diagrams — so you can't write a question with your own wrong answers.
• Teams mode needs at least four players, and one wrong answer resets the whole team's progress.
• The format is fixed: players race to match terms, with no way to build a timed, question-by-question quiz show.
• Custom teams and audio in Live require Plus for teachers, which is billed annually.
• Quizlet keeps moving study tools behind Plus: Learn, Test and AI features now need a subscription for many users, though students in a teacher's class get Learn and Test on that class's sets.
• Blast, the second live game, isn't available in Canada or the UK.

• Your questions, your wrong answers

  Each Quizzo question has 2–4 options you write yourself, an optional image and a timer from 5 to 120 seconds. No flashcard set needed.

• A real quiz show

  Correct answers earn 500–1,000 points depending on speed, with an answer chart and top-5 leaderboard after each question and a podium with confetti and music at the end.

• From one player to 500

  There's no four-player team minimum and no six-pair set minimum. A game can start as soon as one player joins and holds up to 500.

• Every option on every phone

  Each player sees the full question and all answer options, unlike Quizlet's teams mode, where options are split across teammates. That matters in a packed hall, a hybrid lesson or a room full of adults.

• Free to host

  Teachers can run Classic Quizlet Live and Blast on a free account. Quizzo has no free plan.

• Millions of ready-made sets

  Any existing flashcard set becomes a live game in seconds, with nothing to write. Quizzo has no public library or import.

• Teamwork by design

  Splitting the answer options across teammates' devices pushes students to talk and collaborate. Quizzo has no teams mode.

• A complete study toolkit

  Flashcards, Learn, Test, assignments, AI study tools and a Google Classroom add-on keep practice going after class. Quizzo runs live games only.

As of October 2026, hosting Classic Quizlet Live and Blast is free for teachers. Plus for teachers is listed at around $35.99 a year, billed annually, in 2026 third-party reviews and the US App Store; it adds custom teams and audio in Live plus progress tracking and premium study tools. Student Plus is listed at $7.99 a month or $35.99 a year, and Quizlet uses regional pricing. Quizzo is $9/month, billed monthly. If a free term-matching game covers your needs, Quizlet costs less; Quizzo's $9 pays for your own questions and a full quiz show for up to 500 players.

Stay with Quizlet if your lessons revolve around vocabulary and flashcard sets, you want free hosting, or you value its collaborative teams mode and study tools. Switch to Quizzo when you want to write your own multiple-choice questions and run a timed quiz show with speed points, a leaderboard and a podium, for a class, a company or an event of up to 500 people.

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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