ReactLive is the modern Pigeonhole Live alternative. Live Q&A, polls, surveys, quizzes, moderation, branding, in-person and virtual and hybrid events — all the features you rely on, the same audience experience your attendees know. The difference: repeat questions get answered automatically with citations, sentiment is tracked across every track and session, polls draft themselves the moment they become useful, and the post-event debrief writes itself before the room empties. Your event team stops triaging the queue and starts running the event.
Pigeonhole Live built one of the more thoughtful audience engagement platforms on the market. Hybrid event support is genuinely good. AI translation across 54 languages is real and useful. The security posture is solid. We respect the work. ReactLive matches the audience-facing experience — Q&A, polls, surveys, quizzes, moderation, branding, integrations, the same in-person/virtual/hybrid support. What's different is what your team has to do during and after the event.
With Pigeonhole, your moderators triage every queue, your producers build every poll in advance, and someone spends Monday morning writing the recap. With ReactLive, repeats get answered automatically, polls draft themselves, sentiment surfaces minute-by-minute, and the recap is written before the room empties. No per-event pricing. No annual-only billing. No logo gated behind the Business tier.
Honest, line by line. Where we match Pigeonhole, we say so. Where we go further, we explain how. Where Pigeonhole has the edge, we mark it.
| Feature | Pigeonhole Live | ReactLive |
|---|---|---|
| Core Q&A & engagement | ||
| Live Q&A with upvoting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous questions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Question filtering & moderation | Business tier and above Pro plan does not support filtering | ✓ Plus AI ranking by relevance, not just upvotes |
| Live polls (multiple choice, word cloud, rating, ranking) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Surveys (pre / post / async) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live quizzes with leaderboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live chat & reactions | Reactions on Captivate plan only | ✓ Full chat + emoji reactions, all tiers |
| Projector / Stage panel | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-person, virtual & hybrid | ||
| Native support for in-person, virtual & hybrid | ✓ | ✓ |
| QR code or passcode join | ✓ | ✓ |
| No downloads, no logins | ✓ | ✓ |
| Speaker overlay (Zoom Layers-style) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time-to-first-event | Documented learning curve G2 reviewers cite "lots of practice runs" | <90 seconds AI generates the event from your agenda |
| Branding & customisation | ||
| Custom themes (colors, background) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom logo on audience app & panels | Business tier and above Not on free or Pro | ✓ Free tier included |
| Custom event passcodes & URLs | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Zoom (incl. Zoom Layers) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Teams | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cisco Webex | ✓ | ✓ |
| PowerPoint & Google Slides | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom embed for any event platform | ✓ | ✓ One-line embed, full API |
| MCP connector for AI tools (Claude, Cursor, agents) | ✗ | ✓ Build agent workflows directly |
| AI capabilities | ||
| UI translation (audience app interface) | 54 languages | Browser-native translation Wider UI coverage on Pigeonhole today |
| Real-time speaker transcription | ✗ | 100+ languages Whisper-class, <400ms — market-leading coverage |
| Auto-answer repeated questions from transcript | ✗ | ✓ The Auto-Answer Loop. 0.8s median. |
| Live sentiment tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| AI-suggested polls from speaker context | ✗ | ✓ |
| AI event setup from agenda or slides | ✗ | ✓ |
| Configurable AI persona (tone, red lines, escalation) | ✗ | ✓ SOUL.md — version-controllable |
| Post-event AI debrief & summary | ✗ | ✓ |
| Analytics & exports | ||
| Live engagement analytics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Excel & PDF exports | Pro tier and above G2 reviewers note "messy panel-by-panel" data | ✓ Free tier included; consolidated reports |
| Team workspace / multi-account access | Team Workspace plans only Per-event Pigeonholes are single-account | ✓ Collaboration on every paid tier |
| Enterprise & security | ||
| SSO | Team Workspace+ | ✓ |
| Encryption (TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest) | ✓ | ✓ |
| GDPR-compliant | ✓ | ✓ |
| Regional data residency | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| No model training on your event content | Not stated | ✓ Explicit policy |
| Pricing model | ||
| Free tier | 1 Q&A + 5 polls + 1 survey per event | Unlimited sessions; AI features included |
| Per-event pricing required | $338–$928 per event without an annual plan | Never. Events are unlimited on every paid tier. |
| Monthly billing option | ✗ Annual-only | ✓ Monthly or annual |
| Logo branding on entry tier | ✗ Business+ only | ✓ All tiers |
| Self-serve sign-up | ✓ | ✓ |
Pigeonhole gives your team the tools to run a hybrid event — they still have to do all the work. Here's what the AI takes off your plate.
Half the questions in any audience queue were already answered on stage three minutes ago. ReactLive transcribes the speaker in real time, embeds each incoming question, and matches against the live transcript. If confidence clears your threshold, the questioner gets a grounded, cited answer in under a second — and the moderator never sees noise.
Sentiment is tracked across every question, reaction, and poll response — minute by minute. When confusion or frustration is rising, your moderator sees it before the chat does. No more discovering on Monday morning that the audience checked out at minute 22.
ReactLive listens to what's being said on stage and to what the audience is asking, then drafts polls one click from going live. The moderator approves; the room votes. Pigeonhole waits for you to set the poll up in advance. ReactLive proposes it the second it becomes useful.
The AI never goes off-script because the script is yours. One markdown file defines tone, red lines, escalation rules, vocabulary — what the AI can answer, what it has to flag, how it sounds doing it. Version it in git. Ship updates between events. No prompt engineering, no black box, no "AI feature" you can't predict.
We're not here to tell you Pigeonhole is bad. It's a thoughtfully built product, especially around hybrid events. Here's when sticking with it makes sense.
We're finalising tiers with our beta cohort before public launch. Here's what you can count on — and how it compares to Pigeonhole's published structure.
Unlimited events. Real AI features, not a crippled preview. No 1-Q&A-per-event ceiling, no per-event fees — generous enough to run small events indefinitely without ever reaching for your card.
Paid plans start at a price marketing teams can approve themselves — not enterprise contract territory. Credit-based, usage-metered, no per-presenter trap. Monthly or annual, your choice.
Custom contracts for 10,000+ concurrent events, SSO, audit logging, regional data residency, and dedicated capacity. Talk to us when you're ready — not a prerequisite to start.
Waitlist members get the final pricing confirmed before anyone else — plus three events free to test drive the platform at any scale you like. No per-seat fee, no annual lock-in, no upgrade ceiling between you and the AI features.
ReactLive does everything Pigeonhole does — live Q&A, polls, surveys, quizzes, moderation, branding, integrations with Zoom and Teams and Webex, in-person and virtual and hybrid event support. What's different is what your event team has to do. With Pigeonhole, your moderators triage every queue, your producers build every poll in advance, and someone spends Monday morning writing the recap. With ReactLive, repeats get answered automatically with citations from the speaker's transcript. Sentiment is tracked across every track and session. Polls draft themselves the moment they become useful. The recap is written before the room empties. Pigeonhole has done good work on AI translation. ReactLive uses AI to take the busywork off your team.
Yes. Live Q&A with upvoting, anonymous questions, multi-type live polls, surveys, quizzes with leaderboards, question filtering and moderation, attendee tracking via passcode or external ID, projector panels for displaying questions and polls on stage, custom logo branding, custom themes, embed code for any event platform, and integrations with Zoom (including Zoom Layers-style speaker overlay), Microsoft Teams, Webex, PowerPoint, and Google Slides are all supported. The full feature set has been battle-tested at major Microsoft conferences for years through our sister product, Pubble.
We're finalising tiers with our beta cohort before public launch — see the pricing section above. The shape: a real free tier with unlimited events and the AI features included (not a crippled preview), self-serve paid plans at a level marketing teams can approve themselves, and enterprise contracts when you genuinely need them. No per-event pricing, no annual lock-in. Pigeonhole's per-event Engage plan is USD 338 per event and Captivate is USD 928 per event. Their annual Meetings plans start at USD 96/year (200-participant cap, no logo, no question filtering) and the Business plan jumps to USD 300/year. There's no monthly billing option. Logo branding and question filtering are gated to the Business tier and above. Waitlist members get final pricing locked in and three events free.
Yes. Same model — attendees join via QR code or event passcode from any device, no downloads, no logins. The presentation panel runs in any browser for projector display. Embed code drops into any event platform (Bizzabo, Hopin, Eventbrite, custom), and integrations with Zoom, Teams, and Webex are native. The audience experience is the same whether the event is in-person, fully remote, or hybrid.
Yes. Most teams switch over in under an hour. Event setup mirrors Pigeonhole's flow — create an event, share a code or QR link, attendees join. Existing Q&A, poll, survey, and quiz content can be recreated quickly using AI setup, which generates the full event from your agenda or slide deck. We help migrating teams personally during early access.
If you specifically need the audience app's UI rendered in 54 languages today, Pigeonhole has invested in that work and is ahead of us on UI localisation. (For real-time speech transcription, ReactLive supports 100+ languages — but UI translation and transcription are different capabilities.) If you've already locked into an annual Engage or Captivate contract for the year, the switching cost may not pay back until renewal. And if your events are genuinely one-off and infrequent — say, two per year — the per-event Pigeonhole pricing model can work, though even then ReactLive's free tier may be more generous than you'd expect.
Yes, completely. Every AI feature can be turned off individually or all at once, per event or permanently. With AI off, ReactLive operates as a clean, fast Q&A and polling platform — a direct Pigeonhole replacement with a more generous free tier and no per-event pricing. You can flip AI back on for a single event to evaluate it without commitment.
Transcripts, questions, and analytics are yours. ReactLive does not train models on your event content. Retention is configurable from one event to indefinite. Enterprise plans add SSO, audit logging, and regional data residency. Like Pigeonhole, ReactLive uses encrypted SSL/TLS in transit and AES-256 at rest, supports anonymous Q&A, attendee codes, and event passcodes for confidential sessions, and is GDPR-compliant.
Worth knowing about both. Slido is the most direct Pigeonhole competitor in feature shape (Q&A-led, corporate-friendly) but doesn't have an AI engagement layer either — see our Slido comparison for that breakdown. Mentimeter is positioned more as an interactive-presentation product than an event platform, with a 50-participant rolling-month cap on the free tier — different buyer, different lens. Most teams evaluating Pigeonhole end up comparing all four; the deciding factor is usually whether you want a Q&A-and-polling tool or an AI engagement teammate.
Same hybrid event experience your audience expects. None of the busywork falling on your team. The full Pigeonhole feature set, all the AI handling repeats and sentiment and polls and follow-up, a free tier that doesn't gate logo branding behind a Business-tier upgrade. Most teams are running their first event in under 90 seconds.