Slido alternatives

Slido alternatives, sorted by the job.

Slido is a questions tool that also does polls. Most of its alternatives are polling tools that also do questions. That difference decides which one you want, so this compares them by what the session actually needs.

The shortlist, and what each one is actually for summary
Tool	Best for
Deckathat's us	Questions, polls and quizzes that live in your slides
Mentimeter	When the polls matter more than the questions
Vevox	Anonymous input in a serious setting
AhaSlides	Covering both jobs in one tool
Wooclap	Lectures and training with an LMS behind them
Microsoft Teams Q&A	When the meeting is already a Teams meeting
Kahoot!	Waking a room up
Pigeonhole Live	Conferences and multi-session events

Before you compare anything

Why people look past Slido

The reasons cluster, and each one points somewhere different.

The polling felt thin

Slido's polls are deliberately simple. That is a feature when the questions are the event and a limitation when the polls are. If you wanted word clouds, ranking, image-based questions and open-ended formats, you were using the wrong half of the product.

The per-event cap

Free plans in this category cap different things. Slido's shape is per event, which suits an occasional all-hands and works against a weekly meeting series.

It is another window

Even with the add-ins, the activity runs in Slido's interface next to your deck rather than in it. For a long talk with several interactive moments, that adds up.

Where these tools actually differ

Rows chosen for what each product fundamentally is rather than for a feature audit, because that is the part that does not change between releases.

Capability	Decka	Slido	Mentimeter	AhaSlides	Vevox
Upvoted question queue with live moderationHundreds of people typing, and the good question surfacing without someone reading everything. In Decka the moderation runs from the presenter remote while you talk.	Yes	Yes	Partial	Partial	Partial
A full presentation editorA freeform canvas with layers, frames, charts, media and themes. The deck itself, rather than a container the activity sits in.	Yes	Partial	Partial	Partial	No
Real-time collaborative editingTwo people in the same deck at once, the way a document works.	Yes	No	Partial	Partial	No
AI builds a whole deck onto a freeform canvasSeveral tools here have AI that produces slides. The question is what it produces them into.	Yes	No	Partial	Partial	No
The activity is a slide in PowerPoint or Google SlidesInside the deck, rather than a panel running alongside it.	Yes	Partial	Partial	Partial	Partial
Activities that are not question formatsDrawing games, structured mingling, team formation. Things the audience does, rather than questions it answers.	Yes	No	Partial	Partial	No
Template libraryReady-made starting points, which matter most when preparation time is the constraint.	Yes, and growing	Partial	Yes	Yes	Partial

yesyes, and growingpartialno. “Partial” means the product does some version of this rather than none. An add-in that runs its own panel beside your slides, or a slide editor without a freeform canvas.

What Slido is genuinely good at

If one of these is why you use it, be careful. Some of this list is worse at them rather than better.

Webex, first-party. Cisco owns both Slido and Webex, so that path is built rather than integrated, and it shows in how little setup it needs.
Full surveys. A set of polls delivered in one go, with results updating live as people work through them. That is a genuinely different thing from asking one question at a time, and Slido does it well.
Running at event scale. Screening and dismissing questions while a session is live is hard, and Slido has spent years on the operations side of large rooms.
A Microsoft Teams app that behaves itself, for organisations that run their meetings there.

The shortlist, and what each one is actually for

The Slido competitors below are ordered by distance from it. The tools closest to its questions-first shape come first, and the ones answering a different question come last.

Decka

that's us

Questions, polls and quizzes that live in your slides

What it does well: Questions, polls, quizzes and word clouds are all slides in the deck, so a session with several interactive moments never leaves the presentation. Moderation happens from the presenter remote while you are talking, so surfacing or dismissing a question does not mean opening another window. The presentation itself is built in a real editor with a freeform canvas and real-time collaboration rather than a form that produces slide-shaped output. There are 16 activity types in total, 15 of them inside PowerPoint and Google Slides, with Bingo in Decka's own editor, and several have no equivalent anywhere else.
The trade-off: It is the newest product here, so the template library is still filling out, and the event-operations tooling for a thousand-person town hall is not yet Slido's. If you want a standalone questions tool with no relationship to your slides, that is a different shape.
How it is priced: Free to build and present in. The free tier caps audience size per session, and paid plans are per presenter.

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Mentimeter

When the polls matter more than the questions

What it does well: A much wider range of question types, including scales, ranking, open text and image questions, plus a large template library that makes preparing a workshop fast.
The trade-off: Its question queue is a feature rather than the centre of the product. For a large town hall where questions need moderating and ranking, it is a step down.
How it is priced: Free tier capped by audience size and questions. Paid per presenter.

Mentimeter alternatives

Vevox

Anonymous input in a serious setting

What it does well: Anonymity handled properly rather than as a checkbox, with a track record in regulated and public-sector organisations, and a solid Microsoft Teams integration.
The trade-off: Fewer templates and less visual variety than the polling-first tools.
How it is priced: Free tier capped by participants. Paid per presenter.

AhaSlides

Covering both jobs in one tool

What it does well: Covers polling and audience questions in a single product, which suits a team that does not want to run one tool for questions and another for votes.
The trade-off: It covers both rather than excelling at either, and it is lighter on administrative control.
How it is priced: Free tier capped by audience size. Paid per presenter.

Wooclap

Lectures and training with an LMS behind them

What it does well: Education-first question types aimed at checking comprehension, with integration into the learning-management systems institutions already run.
The trade-off: Corporate meetings are not what it was designed around, and licensing assumes an institution is buying.
How it is priced: Free tier capped per event. Paid per presenter, with institutional licensing.

Microsoft Teams Q&A

When the meeting is already a Teams meeting

What it does well: Included in the licence you already hold. No extra vendor, no extra link for the audience to open, and no procurement conversation.
The trade-off: It only exists inside Teams. The moment the session is in a room, on a stage, or on any other platform, it is not an option.
How it is priced: Included with the Microsoft 365 licence you hold.

Kahoot!

Waking a room up

What it does well: Competitive quizzing with a leaderboard, and a huge library of ready-made content to draw on.
The trade-off: No serious question-queue story, and the competitive framing is wrong for the sessions Slido is usually chosen for.
How it is priced: Free for personal and classroom use. Paid work plans per host.

Pigeonhole Live

Conferences and multi-session events

What it does well: Built around event programmes with many sessions rather than around one meeting, which is a real structural difference when you are running an agenda.
The trade-off: That event orientation is overhead for a recurring internal meeting.
How it is priced: Paid by event or by subscription, with no meaningful free tier.

Every entry above carries a trade-off, including ours. Prices are described by their model rather than by a figure, because a number copied from a competitor's pricing page goes stale without warning and a stale number is worse than none.

The case for Decka, stated plainly

Slido is a questions tool that grew polls. Decka is a presentation editor that had the whole audience layer built into it. If your interactive moments keep interrupting a deck you already made, that ordering is what changes.

Every moment in the same deck

Questions, polls, quizzes, word clouds and the rest of the 16 activity types run from the same presentation, as slides in it. You never leave the deck to start one, and your audience answers in a phone browser with no app and no account.

Moderation without a second screen

Surfacing a good question, dismissing a duplicate and marking one answered all happen from the presenter remote in your hand, while you are still talking. Nobody has to run the queue from a laptop at the side of the room.

The editor is the product

A real freeform canvas with layers, frames, charts, media, themes and presenter notes, real-time collaborative editing, and free to build in. The activity is an object you place on a slide you designed rather than a form that emits one.

Activities that do not exist elsewhere

Drawing games where the room hunts an impostor, structured mingling that pairs people by what they answered, tier lists a group ranks together. The full list is below.

All 16 activity types, in full

Not a highlights reel. This is the complete list, and each one is a slide your audience joins from a phone browser with the same code. 15 of the 16 run inside PowerPoint and Google Slides; Bingo is built in Decka's own editor, because its content is bound to specific slides.

Sites like Slido, by what you are actually after

“Sites like Slido” and “apps like Slido” usually mean one of four things. Skip to the one that matches.

The same question queue, somewhere else

Pigeonhole Live for conference programmes, or Microsoft Teams Q&A if every session is already a Teams meeting. Both are closer to Slido's actual job than the polling tools are.

Better polls, and questions handled well enough

Mentimeter for range and question variety, AhaSlides for similar coverage in a simpler product. Both are upgrades on polling and downgrades on event operations.

Free, and it needs to stay free

Compare what each free tier caps, whether that is per event, by audience, or per month. The wrong cap is what ends the trial.

Not another window during the talk

Decka, which runs the questions and the polls as slides in the deck you already have, and moderates them from the presenter remote.

Question tools and polling tools are not the same product

This is worth being precise about, because it explains most of the disappointment people report after switching. A questions tool's hard problem is ranking and moderation. Hundreds of people type, most of it is duplicates or noise, and the job is getting the good one in front of the speaker without a human reading everything. A polling tool's hard problem is expression. Give a room a way to say something more interesting than picking one of four options, then put it on a screen so the shape of the answer reads at a glance.

Products that lead with one treat the other as a feature. That is not laziness. The two jobs pull the interface in opposite directions, and a tool that did both perfectly would be cluttered for whichever session you are actually running. So the useful question is not which product is better. It is which of those two problems is yours today.

If the honest answer is both, in the same hour, then the thing to optimise is not the tool at all. It is how many times you have to leave your deck to use it.

FAQ

Slido alternatives, answered

Slido vs Mentimeter, which should I use?

Slido if the audience's questions are the point, because it ranks them by upvote and gives you real moderation for a large room. Mentimeter if your questions are the point, because it has many more question formats and a template library that saves preparation time. Decka if both happen in the same hour and you would rather not leave your slides for either.

Is there a free Slido alternative?

Several, but their free plans cap different things, and which cap hurts depends entirely on your meeting pattern. A weekly fifteen-person stand-up and a quarterly four-hundred-person all-hands are stopped by different limits, so read the ceiling rather than the headline.

What can I use for audience questions inside PowerPoint?

Decka runs the question queue as a slide through its PowerPoint add-in, so questions appear in the deck rather than in a second window, and you moderate them from the presenter remote. Slido also offers a PowerPoint add-in, which puts its panel beside your slides. The difference is whether the activity is in the presentation or next to it.

Do I need Webex or Teams to use Slido?

No, it works from a browser on its own. The Webex path matters because Cisco owns both products, so it needs less setup than any third-party equivalent. If your organisation does not run on Webex, that advantage does not apply to you and should not weigh on the decision.

What is the best Slido alternative for a large conference?

Pigeonhole Live if you are running a multi-session programme, because it is built around an agenda rather than around one meeting. If venue connectivity is the risk, ask each vendor how responses arrive when several hundred phones join one congested network at once.

Keep comparing

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Polls, quizzes, word clouds and Q&A as slides — in PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Decka's own editor. Your audience joins from a phone browser with a short code.

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