Free Poll Everywhere Alternative
ShuffleTurn is a free Poll Everywhere alternative for live polls, quizzes, word clouds and Q&A, with no signup for hosts or participants. Poll Everywhere's free Intro plan listed a 40 person audience cap on October 17, 2026, while ShuffleTurn sets no cap in the app but has not been proven at very large events.
Why people look for a Poll Everywhere alternative
Most searches come down to one number. A free Intro plan with a 40 person audience covers a seminar or a team meeting, but it stops short of a lecture hall, a town hall or a conference breakout. Moving up means paying: Present starts at $10 a month or $120 a year, and it raises the audience limit to 700. For a one-off event, some hosts would rather not start a subscription at all.
The second reason is friction. Plenty of hosts want people to scan a code and answer, with no account step for anyone. ShuffleTurn works that way by default. Participants join from the link, the QR code or a short join code in any phone browser, and the host can still ask for names or login when a session needs it.
The third reason is cost that scales with people running sessions. Poll Everywhere charges for additional presenters, and the Engage plan includes two users. ShuffleTurn has no seats or presenter pricing today, because there is nothing to buy yet. A paid plan is planned but not available, so treat free as the current state and not a promise about the future.
Plan and feature comparison
| Feature | ShuffleTurn | Poll Everywhere |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan audience size | No cap set in the app; not load-tested at large scale | Intro (free): 40 max audience size |
| Questions on the free plan | Up to 100 per poll session | Intro lists unlimited questions |
| Entry paid plan | None available (a paid plan is planned) | Present: $10/month or $120/year, 700 max audience, reporting, email support |
| Mid paid plan | N/A | Engage: $49/month or $588/year, 700 max audience, attendance management, archived results, 2 users |
| Team plan | N/A | Teams: $84/month or $999/year, 700 max audience, logo removed, custom branding, phone and email support, custom URL |
| Enterprise | Not available | Custom pricing, SAML SSO, shared polls, dedicated success manager |
| Extra presenters | No seats or presenter pricing | Charged per additional presenter |
| Data export | CSV of results and quiz leaderboard, free | Export data listed on the free Intro plan |
| Reporting | CSV export, host reveals or hides results | Reporting from Present up; not on Intro |
| Poll types | Multiple choice, quiz, rating (1 to 5), open text, word cloud, ranking | Check Poll Everywhere's site |
| Live Q&A with upvoting | Yes, free, with moderation and big-screen view | Check Poll Everywhere's site |
| Accounts for participants | Not required by default; host may require login | Check Poll Everywhere's site |
| Branding and themes | Not available | Custom branding on Teams |
| PowerPoint / Teams / Zoom integrations | Not available | Check Poll Everywhere's site |
Poll Everywhere plans from polleverywhere.com/plans checked October 17, 2026 (page updated October 17, 2026). Check the vendor site before deciding.
Where ShuffleTurn is a better fit
- One-off or occasional sessions where a subscription is not worth it
- Audiences above 40 when you want to stay on a free tool
- No account step for hosts or participants, with join by link, QR code or short code
- Written Q&A with upvoting, pinning and moderation alongside polls in the same tool
- No per-presenter charges when several people run sessions
Where Poll Everywhere is honestly stronger
- A published audience limit (700 on paid plans) instead of an untested one
- Custom branding, logo removal and a custom URL on Teams
- Reporting, attendance management and archived results on paid plans
- Phone and email support, SAML SSO and a dedicated success manager at higher tiers
How to choose without regretting it
Start with audience size. If you expect fewer than 40 people, both tools are free and the decision is about taste. Between 40 and a few hundred, ShuffleTurn costs nothing and Poll Everywhere costs at least $10 a month, but only Poll Everywhere publishes an audience ceiling. Run a short dry run with a few colleagues on the real network before the event. Above that, or when the session cannot fail, we would point you to a vendor that publishes and supports its limits.
Then look at how your content is built. Poll Everywhere is a polling product you can run during a talk. ShuffleTurn has no slide decks and no slide import, so if your questions already live inside a presentation, you will recreate them by hand in a poll session. That takes a few minutes for ten questions, but it is a real cost for a big deck.
Finally, think about who sees the results. ShuffleTurn lets the host reveal or hide results and export a CSV afterwards, with no author names in the Q&A export. If you need attendance tracking, branded screens or an audit trail for compliance, look at the higher Poll Everywhere plans, and confirm the details on their site, since this page only repeats what their plans page listed on October 17, 2026.
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