ReactLive is the modern Slido alternative. Live Q&A, polls, quizzes, moderation, integrations, attendee check-in, notifications — every feature you'd expect, battle-tested at conferences with thousands of attendees. The difference: half the questions in the queue get answered automatically from your speaker's transcript, sentiment is tracked while the event is happening, polls draft themselves the moment they become relevant, and the post-event email writes itself before the room empties. Your moderator stops triaging and starts moderating.
Slido is a good Q&A and polling platform. We know — we've built one too, embedded in the world's largest tech conferences for over a decade. The audience experience is the same: Q&A, polls, quizzes, moderation, integrations, every feature you rely on. What's different is what your team's day looks like.
With Slido, your moderator scrolls a queue, picks questions, launches polls manually, and writes the follow-up email two weeks later (when they remember). With ReactLive, the queue triages itself, polls draft themselves, sentiment surfaces itself, and the follow-up email is already written when the meeting ends. The moderator's job becomes the part that needs a human — the judgment calls. Everything else, the software handles.
Honest, line by line. Where we match Slido, we say so. Where we go further, we explain how. Where Slido has the edge, we mark it.
| Feature | Slido | ReactLive |
|---|---|---|
| Core Q&A & engagement | ||
| Live Q&A with upvoting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous questions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Question moderation | ✓ | ✓ Plus AI ranking by relevance, not just upvotes |
| Live polls (multiple choice, word cloud, rating, ranking, open-ended) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live quizzes with leaderboard | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live chat & reactions | Limited | ✓ Full chat + emoji reactions, not just upvotes |
| Surveys (pre / post / async) | ✓ | ✓ |
| UI translation (audience app interface) | 32 languages | Browser-native translation |
| Real-time speech transcription | ✗ | 100+ languages Market-leading coverage |
| Audience experience | ||
| No downloads, no logins | ✓ | ✓ |
| QR code join | ✓ | ✓ QR-first design for conferences |
| Custom event codes & URLs | ✓ | ✓ |
| Attendee check-in | ✓ | ✓ |
| Push notifications & announcements | ✓ Manual | ✓ AI drafts contextual nudges in real time |
| Time-to-first-event | ~5–10 min | <90 seconds AI generates the event from your agenda |
| Integrations | ||
| PowerPoint | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Slides | ✓ | ✓ |
| Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex | ✓ | ✓ |
| Embed anywhere (LMS, intranet, custom) | Limited | ✓ One-line embed, full API |
| MCP connector for AI tools (Claude, Cursor, agents) | ✗ | ✓ Build agent workflows directly |
| AI capabilities | ||
| Real-time speaker transcription | ✗ | ✓ Whisper-class, <400ms latency, 100+ languages |
| Auto-answer repeated questions from transcript | ✗ | ✓ The Auto-Answer Loop. 0.8s median latency. |
| 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 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export to PDF, Excel, Google Sheets | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom branding & themes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enterprise & security | ||
| SSO | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audit logging | ✓ | ✓ |
| Regional data residency | ✓ | ✓ |
| No model training on your event content | Not stated | ✓ Explicit policy. Your data, your terms. |
| Pricing model | ||
| Free tier | Limited (capped events) | Unlimited events, real AI included |
| Per-seat licensing | Required on most plans | Never. Credit-based, usage-metered. |
| Self-serve sign-up for paid plans | Up to a point | All non-enterprise tiers |
Every other tool on this page asks one human to do all the busywork: scroll the queue, sort the questions, build the polls in advance, write the recap afterwards. 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. Slido waits for you to build the poll. ReactLive proposes it.
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 Slido is bad. It's a mature product that works. 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 Slido's published structure.
Unlimited events. Real AI features, not a crippled preview. No three-poll-per-event ceiling — 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 Slido does — live Q&A, live polls, quizzes, word clouds, moderation, integrations, attendee check-in, notifications. What's different is what your moderator has to do during the event. With Slido, your moderator scrolls every queue, picks every question, launches every poll manually, and writes the recap two weeks later. With ReactLive, the queue triages itself: repeats get answered automatically with citations from the speaker's transcript. Sentiment is tracked while the event is happening. Polls draft themselves the moment they become useful. The post-event email writes itself before the room empties. The moderator's job becomes the part that needs a human.
Yes. Live Q&A with upvoting, anonymous questions, multi-type live polls (multiple choice, word cloud, rating, ranking, open-ended), live quizzes with leaderboards, moderation tools, attendee check-in, push notifications, real-time analytics, exports to PDF and Excel, custom branding, embed widgets, and integrations with PowerPoint, Google Slides, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Webex 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 for what we're committing to. The shape: a real free tier with unlimited events and the AI features included (not a crippled preview), self-serve paid plans priced at a level marketing teams can approve themselves, and enterprise contracts when you genuinely need them. No per-seat licensing, no contact-sales gating for standard features. Slido's equivalent capabilities typically require its Engage tier (per-user) or Professional tier (per-event), which start meaningfully higher than what we're committing to. Waitlist members get final pricing locked in and three events free.
Yes. Most teams switch over in under an hour. Event setup mirrors Slido's flow — create an event, share a code or QR link, attendees join with no downloads or logins. Existing Q&A, poll, 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 your organisation is deeply embedded in the Cisco Webex ecosystem and uses Slido through the native Webex integration, the switching cost may not be worth it. If you have a long-standing Slido enterprise contract with regulatory or procurement constraints, sticking is often easier. And if your events genuinely don't benefit from AI — for example, simple icebreakers in small workshops — Slido's product is mature and works well.
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 Slido replacement with a better free tier and modern UI. 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 Slido, ReactLive supports anonymous Q&A, attendee codes, and event passcodes for confidential sessions.
Worth knowing about both. Mentimeter is a polished interactive-presentation product — great for slide-by-slide polls, less focused on Q&A and event management — see our Mentimeter comparison for the breakdown. Pigeonhole is closer to Slido in shape and adds AI translation, but the audience-engagement-AI gap is the same. Most teams evaluating Slido 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 audience experience your team trusts. None of the busywork. The full Slido feature set, all the AI handling repeats and sentiment and polls and follow-up, a free tier that doesn't insult you. Most teams are running their first event in under 90 seconds.