Kahoot: Top 4 of its alternatives
02.01.2025 • 3 minutes
Well-known in classrooms and learning contexts all around the world, Kahoot is an online platform and a set of great tools and features that allow you to create fun, live and interactive game based learning presentations with quizzes and various types of questions. Its purpose is to boost learning through engaging, fun and interactive online games, making it very popular with teachers wanting to promote student engagement in their classroom, as well as students. However, you may be looking for alternative platforms that offer more features or is less focused on game based online learning. Check out our tips to help you make the best choice!
Kahoot alternatives: advantages and disadvantages
Kahoot alternatives: advantages and disadvantages
Wooclap
Wooclap is a versatile platform and set of tools that seeks to meet every possible use case. More than Kahoot, Wooclap is flexible whatever plan you chose, meaning you can avoid having to subscribe to multiple plans. It also has useful extra tools and features for teachers, such as the ability to fill out attendance sheets.
| Advantages | Disadvantages |
✅ Offers up to 1,000 users with the free plan | ❌ The presentations appear less like games than with Kahoot |
✅ Clear plans making it easy to find the best plan for you | ❌ Less attractive for younger students |
✅ 11 tool integrations | |
✅ More appropriate for professional settings such as trainings and meetings, or in Higher Education. | |
Mentimeter
Widely used in higher education and the world of work, Mentimeter aims to be more professional and less aimed at engaging children and students than Kahoot It therefore focuses less on the fun and game aspect of content and presentations, and offers fewer types of questions for quizzes.
| Advantages | Disadvantages |
✅ Ideal for professional contexts | ❌ Focuses much less on gamification |
✅ Allows you to cover a subject in depth and offers various templates | ❌ Not very accessible to young students |
✅ Offers interactive tools suitable for live, online presentations | ❌ Fewer types of questions |
Slido
While Kahoot is primarily a quiz creation tool, Slido focuses on online live polling and feedback and data gathering in real time.
| Advantages | Disadvantages |
✅ Polling and data collection in real time | ❌ No integration with IA tools or features |
✅ Creation of real-time word clouds | ❌ Less oriented to learning, teachers and students |
✅ Offers up to 100 users with the free plan | ❌ Quite expensive paid plans |
Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere is a platform and a set of tools focused on polls and questions for collecting data and feedback. Whereas Kahoot is popular among teachers and educational establishments, Poll Everywhere is a platform widely used in large companies, such as Google or Microsoft, and for remote virtual online events.
| Advantages | Disadvantages |
✅ More sophisticated questions and polls | ❌ The game aspect of questions is not emphasized |
✅ Users can respond via text message (SMS), browsers or application | ❌ Not the best for the context of a primary or secondary school classroom |
✅ Integrates with lots of tools | ❌ A high price to have access to all tools and features |
What Kahoot alternative to choose?
It’s clear that Kahoot is the leading online platform and set of tools when it comes to game based learning and the creation of fun, engaging and interactive learning content, quizzes and presentations. However, it is not necessarily the best fit for all use cases: not all interactive presentations need games or quizzes!
Why not try Wooclap? Its varied tools and great features make Wooclap! very flexible and suitable for any use! If you are still in doubt, why not check out our Kahoot vs Wooclap comparison!
Kahoot and its features
The different Kahoot plans
Kahoot offers a wide range of plans aimed at different categories of users, including teachers, students, teams of teachers, businesses, and individuals. For each category, there are several plans offered, depending on the exact tools and features you want. It may therefore be difficult to find the Kahoot plan to suit you best.
Kahoot for teachers: plans offering game based online learning tools and features aimed at primary and secondary school teachers. The free plan allows you to create engaging online learning quiz content and multiple-choice questions, and run live, interactive quizzes and games for up to 40 student users. The paid plans - Bronze (€4.99 per month), Silver (€9.99) and Gold (€17.99) - allow up to 50, 100 and 200 student users, and offer other types of questions. The Gold version also comes with integrated online AI tools and features.
Kahoot for higher ed educators: plans for higher ed educators, also including a free plan, this time limited to 10 users. The paid Bronze (€3.99), Silver (€7.99) and Gold (€14.99) plans allow more student users and give access to more online tools, features, games and types of questions. There is also a plan called Kahoot EDU, which is aimed at institutions rather than individual teachers, and has pricing plans that vary depending on the number of licenses purchased.
Kahoot 360: this version of Kahoot is designed for businesses, training and boosting audience engagement. There is no free plan, but rather different pricing plans depending on the size of your team or teams, ranging from €10 to €54 per month, and for 20 up to 2,000 users. The Presenter and Pro plans also offer online AI tools and features.
Kahoot Event: plans for one-off events, range in price from €250 to €750. These offer many types of engaging questions and the ability to create teams and accommodate large audiences of 100 up to 2,000 users. This makes it great for training, remote virtual online events, and team building and team engagement boosting exercises.
Feature | |||||
| Create quizzes | Edit quizzes | Share quizzes | Question bank | Work in teams | Report tool |
Description | |||||
Create engaging Kahoots quickly on any subject | Copy and edit existing Kahoots | Send Kahoots to other users | Search for questions in an online bank of existing questions | Create online content, games, quizzes and questions with a team of other teachers or presenters | Create a report online and download it as a spreadsheet |
Uses
Since Kahoot emphasizes the gamification of learning, its main target is teachers, of all levels, and their students. It allows you to create a variety of online content, presentations, live quizzes and games, to make teaching more fun, engaging and interactive in the physical or remote virtual classroom.
As we have seen, there are also plans and offers designed specifically for businesses, professionals and teams. It’s all about finding the best fit for your needs!
Integration with other tools
In order to share your quizzes and presentations with your classroom or audience of users, Kahoot integrates with several of the best online video conferencing platforms: Hopin, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. It is also possible to import PowerPoint or Google Slide presentations to the online Kahoot Platform.
Need the integration of more tools? Wooclap offers 11 tool integrations, for maximum flexibility of use!
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