Slido Alternatives: 7 Tools Compared for Polling, Q&A, and Event Engagement

Slido is a live polling, Q&A, and feedback tool used during meetings, webinars, and events, now owned by Cisco and bundled with Webex. The strongest alternatives in 2026 are Nunify (for teams that need polling, feedback, and gamification built into a full event platform with check-in and badging), Mentimeter, Vevox, Pigeonhole Live, Poll Everywhere, and AhaSlides for teams that only need standalone polling.

Most teams don't start out looking for a Slido alternative. They start out planning a town hall, a conference, or a quarterly all-hands, and Slido shows up as the obvious tool for live polls, Q&A, and feedback collection. It does that job well. The friction shows up later.

Slido's free Basic plan caps participants and limits you to a handful of polls and one quiz per event, which is fine for a small team meeting and tight for anything larger. Paid plans bill annually only, with cost scaling by participant count and by the number of members who can create and manage sessions. Pricing on Slido's own site requires a live quote rather than a published table, and third-party pricing trackers disagree with each other on exact tiers, so the only reliable move is to verify current pricing directly with Slido before budgeting. For a single recurring meeting series, that's manageable. For a business running quarterly conferences, regional town halls, and the occasional all-hands, the real cost shows up in what Slido doesn't do. It has no check-in, no badging, no attendee app, no analytics that connect engagement back to who actually showed up. You'll be buying a second platform for the rest of the event regardless.

That's the real decision buried inside "Slido alternatives." Are you looking for a better polling and feedback tool, or are you looking for a polling tool because nobody told you that engagement, analytics, check-in, and badging could live in the same platform? We've covered the broader case for this in how event apps transform audience engagement, but the short version is that engagement tools work better when they're not an afterthought bolted onto the agenda.

Nunify is event management software built for the person who got handed event planning without asking for it, the HR manager, marketing coordinator, or ops lead running internal town halls, customer conferences, and trade show booths without a dedicated event team behind them. This is the same buyer who's usually also responsible for employee engagement metrics or customer experience scores after the event ends, and standalone polling tools don't help with either, because the data dies in the polling tool instead of flowing into a dashboard tied to who actually checked in.

Where Slido and most of its alternatives are point tools you add to an event, Nunify treats live polling, Q&A, feedback collection, and gamification as a native part of the event app itself, running through Qzero, alongside check-in, badging, and registration through SNAP, with Zuno handling AI-powered attendee assistance across the event app, WhatsApp, and email. The practical difference: attendees use one app for their agenda, their badge, their networking, and the live poll during the keynote, instead of switching between the event app and a separate Slido link or PowerPoint plugin.

This matters more than it sounds. Nunify data across 200+ events shows 60-70% of attendees arrive in the first 30 minutes of an event, which is exactly when check-in friction and app-switching cause the most disengagement. A standalone polling tool doesn't see that problem because it never touches check-in. An event platform with engagement built in does. The same app that scanned the QR code at the door is the one running the live poll an hour later, and the same analytics dashboard that tracks attendance also tracks who actually participated in the Q&A.

For hybrid events with a web conferencing layer (Zoom, Teams, or Webex on the remote side), the polling and feedback features extend to remote attendees through the same app rather than a separate embed, which keeps the engagement data in one place instead of split across an in-person system and a virtual one. This is the same principle covered in more depth in our guide to audience engagement tools: the more tools an attendee has to switch between, the lower the participation rate, regardless of how good any single tool is.

Choose Nunify if: you're running a corporate event, conference, or town hall and want live polling, Q&A, feedback, and gamification in the same platform as check-in, badging, and registration, without paying for a second tool down the line or losing engagement data once the event ends. The Nunify event app covers the full attendee experience, and event gamification covers the quiz, leaderboard, and scoring layer specifically.

Where it's not the fit: if all you need is polling for a single recurring internal meeting series with no check-in, registration, or event-day component, a standalone tool will be simpler to set up.

Mentimeter is the most direct Slido competitor for teams that specifically want presentation-embedded polling and nothing else. It runs an unlimited number of presentations on its free plan, capped at 50 combined participants per month across all sessions, which resets monthly rather than per session.

Its strength is visual output. Word clouds, scatter plots, and bar charts render cleanly and display directly inside the Microsoft PowerPoint slide itself, which makes it a strong fit for opening icebreakers, sentiment checks, brainstorming sessions, and knowledge polls in a workshop format. Its analytics dashboard is straightforward rather than deep, which is enough for a single business meeting but won't connect engagement data to attendance or registration the way an event platform does.

What Mentimeter doesn't do is event management. There's no check-in, no badging, no attendee app. If your "event" is a single conference room with a projector, that's irrelevant. If it's a 500-person town hall with registration and name badges, you'll need something else running alongside it, and you'll be managing two separate tools with two separate sets of attendee data.

Choose Mentimeter if: you run small, frequent internal sessions and want the most polished visual output for polls, feedback, and word clouds without managing a full event.

Vevox is the alternative most often recommended for large corporate town halls and all-hands meetings, and it earns that reputation through anonymous Q&A and PowerPoint and Microsoft Teams integration that's genuinely tighter than most competitors in this category.

It supports significantly larger participant counts than Slido's standard tiers without forcing an immediate jump to enterprise pricing, and its analytics cover participation trends and engagement levels per session in more depth than Slido's basic reporting. Reviewers consistently cite its support quality and transparent pricing as reasons for switching from Slido, since Vevox publishes a clearer framework for what each tier costs rather than requiring a sales call for every quote.

Like Mentimeter, it's a polling and Q&A tool, not an event platform. Badging, check-in, and registration aren't part of what it does, and there's no way to connect Vevox's engagement analytics to who physically attended your event without a separate system handling that side.

Choose Vevox if: anonymous, moderated Q&A at scale is your primary use case and you're already deep in the Microsoft ecosystem.

Pigeonhole Live has been in the audience interaction space since 2010 and is built specifically for moderated, large-scale Q&A: conferences, panels, and town halls where managing a high volume of incoming questions and structured feedback matters more than the polling features themselves.

It integrates with Webex, PowerPoint, and major streaming platforms, and its moderation tooling is built for events where you genuinely can't let every question through unfiltered. For a business running a panel-heavy summit, that moderation depth is the actual selling point over Slido. It's a strong fit for the specific job of structured Q&A, and a weak fit for anything outside that job. There's no check-in, badging, or attendee app layer, and feedback collected during the event stays inside Pigeonhole rather than feeding into a broader attendee record.

Choose Pigeonhole Live if: your primary need is moderated Q&A for a panel-heavy conference or summit, and you already have check-in and registration handled elsewhere.

Poll Everywhere leans hardest into education and training use cases among the major Slido alternatives, with LMS integration (it's a recognized Canvas partner) and PowerPoint-native polling that runs inside the slide rather than alongside it. It also integrates with the major web conferencing platforms for remote training delivery, with feedback and analytics built around assessment outcomes rather than event engagement.

For a corporate event audience, this is less relevant. Its free tier is also the tightest in the category, capping at 25 responses per activity, which becomes a real constraint fast outside of a classroom setting.

Choose Poll Everywhere if: you're running training sessions or lecture-style content with an LMS behind it, not a standalone corporate event.

AhaSlides combines polling, quizzes, word clouds, and feedback collection into one interactive slide deck, with a free tier that's noticeably more generous than Slido's, up to 50 participants per presentation with most engagement features included.

Its gamification leans further into game-show energy than Slido's quiz feature does, with spinning wheels and scored, timed quizzes built in, which works well for brainstorming sessions and workshops that want some competitive energy without forcing a heavier event platform on a small business meeting. For teams that want that energy without paying for it, it's a reasonable entry point. It remains a presentation tool, not an event platform, so check-in and badging are out of scope, and its analytics are built around session-level engagement rather than attendee-level records.

Choose AhaSlides if: budget is the primary constraint and you want more gamified energy than Slido's quiz feature provides.

Eventee shows up in Slido alternative searches because it makes a similar argument to the one this article is making: stop paying for separate tools for engagement, registration, and event management. It bundles live polls, Q&A, a social wall, and networking into one event app, and its pitch is consolidation over point-tool sprawl.

The gap is depth. Eventee's engagement features (live polls, Q&A, social wall) are real, but it doesn't go as deep on check-in and badging as a platform built around onsite event-day operations, and it doesn't have an AI attendee assistant comparable to Zuno. For a small in-person or hybrid event where the app is mainly a schedule and a networking tool, that's enough. For a corporate event where check-in speed and badge accuracy actually matter on event day, the gap shows up. If you're evaluating full event platforms rather than just the engagement layer, our Cvent alternatives guide covers that comparison in more depth.

Honest answer: if you're running a weekly internal meeting, a single department training session, or a one-off webinar with no registration or badging component, swapping Slido for Nunify is overkill. You'd be paying for check-in infrastructure and a full attendee app to run a poll during a 30-minute meeting. Mentimeter or AhaSlides will do that job for free or close to it, and you'll be set up in minutes.

The threshold where a full event platform starts paying for itself is roughly the same one event ops teams already use for check-in technology generally: under 50 attendees with no badging or registration requirement, a standalone tool wins on speed of setup. Above that, especially once you're printing badges, tracking who attended which session, or reporting engagement back to leadership or sponsors, the cost of running two disconnected tools (a polling app and a separate event/registration system) usually exceeds the cost of one platform that does both. We've seen the same threshold play out on the check-in side: Nunify data across 200+ events puts the practical break-even for moving off manual or point-tool processes at around 75 attendees, where staff time saved starts to outweigh setup effort.

One thing that trips teams up here: switching from a standalone polling tool to a full event platform mid-cycle, after invitations have already gone out referencing "join the Slido," creates real confusion. If you're going to make this switch, do it at the start of a planning cycle, not two weeks before the event.