ReactLive is the modern Poll Everywhere alternative. Live polls, Q&A, surveys, word clouds, ranking, attendance tracking, branding, integrations — every feature you've been using for years. The difference: repeat questions get answered automatically with citations, sentiment is tracked while the event is happening, polls draft themselves the moment they become useful, and the post-event email writes itself before your team logs off. One pricing model for everyone — no separate Business and Education tracks, no annual lock-in on entry plans.
Poll Everywhere has been a category-defining product. Used by 75% of the Fortune 500, founded back when SMS-based polling was the cutting edge. The basic idea — text a code, see the audience response on a screen — was transformative in 2007. ReactLive matches everything Poll Everywhere does today: live polls, word clouds, Q&A, surveys, ranking, attendance tracking, all the integrations. The audience can't tell which one you're using.
What's different is what your team does. With Poll Everywhere, your moderator scrolls every Q&A queue by hand, your trainer builds every poll in advance, your facilitator writes the recap two weeks later. With ReactLive, the queue triages itself, polls draft themselves the moment they become useful, sentiment surfaces minute-by-minute, and the recap is written before the room empties. One pricing model for everyone — Business and Education on the same plans. Monthly billing on every tier. Self-serve up to enterprise scale.
Honest, line by line. Where we match Poll Everywhere, we say so. Where we go further, we explain how. Where Poll Everywhere has the edge, we mark it.
| Feature | Poll Everywhere | ReactLive |
|---|---|---|
| Polls & activities | ||
| Multiple choice polls | ✓ | ✓ |
| Word clouds | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open-ended responses | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ranking / order | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clickable image polls | ✓ | ✓ |
| Q&A with upvoting | ✓ | ✓ Plus AI ranking by relevance, not just upvotes |
| Surveys | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quizzes with leaderboards | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous responses | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audience experience | ||
| No downloads, no logins | ✓ | ✓ |
| QR code or short URL join | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMS-based response | ✓ Original Poll Everywhere mechanism | ✗ QR / link only — most modern audiences |
| Attendance tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom branding & themes | Teams plan and above | ✓ All paid tiers |
| Integrations | ||
| PowerPoint add-in | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Slides | ✓ | ✓ |
| Apple Keynote | ✓ | ✓ |
| Zoom & Microsoft Teams | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cisco Webex | ✗ | ✓ |
| LMS integrations (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle) | ✓ Campus-wide plans only | Roadmap Embed widget works in any LMS today |
| Custom embed for any platform | Limited | ✓ One-line embed, full API |
| MCP connector for AI tools (Claude, Cursor, agents) | ✗ | ✓ Build agent workflows directly |
| AI capabilities | ||
| AI-assisted activity creation | ✓ Engage tier and above | ✓ From slides, agenda, or transcript — all tiers |
| Real-time speaker transcription | ✗ | ✓ Whisper-class, <400ms, 100+ languages |
| Auto-answer repeated questions from transcript | ✗ | ✓ The Auto-Answer Loop. 0.8s median. |
| Live sentiment tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| AI-suggested polls from speaker context | ✗ | ✓ |
| Configurable AI persona (tone, red lines) | ✗ | ✓ SOUL.md — version-controllable |
| Post-event AI debrief | ✗ | ✓ |
| Analytics & exports | ||
| Live engagement analytics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Excel & PDF exports | Engage tier and above | ✓ All paid tiers |
| Advanced reporting | Engage tier and above | ✓ |
| Enterprise & security | ||
| SOC 2 Type 2 | ✓ Enterprise / Campus-wide only | ✓ |
| SSO | Enterprise / Campus-wide only | ✓ |
| Audit logging | Enterprise | ✓ |
| Phone support | Events Plus and above No phone support on most plans | ✓ All paid tiers |
| Pricing model | ||
| Free tier | 25-participant cap Hard limit, no exceptions | Generous limits, AI included |
| Two-track Business vs Education pricing | Yes — separate price lists | No. One pricing model for everyone. |
| Monthly billing option | Engage & Teams only Other plans annual-only | ✓ All tiers |
| Per-presenter licensing | Required on Teams plan | Never. Credit-based, usage-metered. |
| Self-serve sign-up | ✓ | ✓ |
Poll Everywhere has been faithfully reproducing the 2007 model of audience engagement: build every poll in advance, click through them by hand, scroll the queue manually, write the recap two weeks later. 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 the 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. Poll Everywhere waits for you to build the activity 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 Poll Everywhere is bad. It defined this category. 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 Poll Everywhere's published structure.
Unlimited events. Real AI features, not a crippled preview. No 25-participant cap on the free plan — 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 Poll Everywhere does — live polls, Q&A, surveys, word clouds, multiple-choice questions, ranking, open-ended responses, attendance tracking, custom branding, integrations with PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. What's different is what your team has to do during the event. Poll Everywhere was built in 2007 for SMS-based polling and has been retrofitting features ever since — your moderator still scrolls every queue, your trainer still builds every poll in advance, your facilitator still writes the recap two weeks later. ReactLive uses real-time AI to handle the repeats automatically, draft the polls the moment they become relevant, track sentiment minute-by-minute, and write the recap before the room empties. Same poll types. Different century.
Yes. Live multiple-choice polls, word clouds, Q&A with upvoting, open-ended responses, ranking, clickable images, surveys, quizzes, leaderboards, custom branding and themes, attendance tracking via passcode or external ID, exports to Excel and PDF, and integrations with PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams 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 AI features included, self-serve paid plans at a level marketing teams can approve themselves, and enterprise contracts when you genuinely need them. No per-presenter licensing, no two-track Business vs Education pricing. Poll Everywhere's published structure has Business plans starting at $10/month (Present, annual-only) and rising to $84/month (Teams, 700 participants), with monthly billing only available on the higher Engage and Teams tiers. Education plans run a separate, lower-cost track. Waitlist members get final pricing locked in and three events free.
It's a legacy of how the company built its market. Education plans are substantially cheaper for similar feature sets — the Educator+ plan at $27/month supports 3,000 participants, while the comparable Teams business plan at $84/month supports 700 participants. The split predates AI, predates remote work, and predates most of the modern audience engagement category. ReactLive uses one pricing model for everyone: same plans, same features, same prices, regardless of whether you're a corporate L&D team or a university lecturer.
Yes. Most teams switch over in under an hour. Event setup mirrors Poll Everywhere's flow — create an activity, share a link or code, audience joins on any device with no app download. Existing polls, questions, and surveys can be recreated quickly using AI setup, which generates the full event from your slide deck or activity description. We help migrating teams personally during early access.
If your institution is on a Campus-wide Enterprise contract you can't break, the smart move is to evaluate ReactLive ahead of renewal. If you're an educator who specifically needs the LMS integrations Poll Everywhere has built (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle), they have a head start there — we're catching up but we're not at full LMS parity yet. And if SMS-based polling is genuinely a hard requirement for your audience, Poll Everywhere has a deeper history with that channel than most.
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 polling and Q&A platform — a direct Poll Everywhere replacement with a more generous free tier and one pricing model for everyone. 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. Like Poll Everywhere, we offer SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, SSO, audit logging, and regional data residency on enterprise plans. Anonymous Q&A, attendee codes, and event passcodes are supported on every tier for confidential sessions.
All worth knowing about. Slido is closer to Poll Everywhere in corporate-event positioning but doesn't have an AI engagement layer either — see our Slido comparison. Mentimeter is the polished interactive-presentation product with a 50-participant rolling-month cap on the free tier. Pigeonhole is strong on hybrid events and AI translation. Most teams evaluating Poll Everywhere are looking to modernise; the deciding factor is usually whether you want a polling-and-Q&A tool, or an AI engagement teammate that does more of the work for you.
Same audience experience your team trained on. None of the busywork that came with 2007. The full Poll Everywhere feature set, all the AI handling repeats and sentiment and polls and follow-up, one pricing model for everyone. Most teams are running their first event in under 90 seconds.