Poll Everywhere vs Mentimeter vs Wooclap: Which one is better?

We tested Poll Everywhere, Mentimeter, and Wooclap side by side and reviewed each vendor’s latest releases. Full transparency: Wooclap is our product, so we stick to features you can check yourself. Each tool has a clear sweet spot.

Poll Everywhere is a web-based audience response system for live polls, surveys, quizzes, and Q&A, known for its detailed reports. Its new 2.0 platform adds AI tools, works with PowerPoint, and connects to major LMS such as Canvas and Moodle.

Mentimeter is now a suite of three products: Menti Live for interactive presentations, Menti Form for asynchronous feedback, and Menti Pulse for recurring team check-ins. Menti Live remains its core, with polls, word clouds, Q&A, and quizzes, a famously clean interface, and built-in AI. Most of its question types collect opinions rather than check understanding, which makes it a strong fit for professional presentation settings like meetings, workshops, and employee engagement.

Poll Everywhere and Mentimeter are both strong at engaging an audience, but neither platform perfectly balances presentation, interaction, and gamification. Wooclap, an alternative to both, engages just as well and is also built to support learning, which is why we added it to the comparison.

Wooclap is an active learning platform for higher education and professional training. It covers everything you would expect, from polls and quizzes to word clouds and Q&A, and adds what learning requires: 21 question types including image labeling, matching, and concordance questions, live and self-paced activities in the same event, AI that helps instructors prepare and facilitate, and LTI 1.3 integration with major LMS. Every participant answers, practices, and gets feedback, live or at their own pace.

Let’s take a closer look at Poll Everywhere vs Mentimeter vs Wooclap and see how they differ in the following key areas:

1. Live Sessions

2. Question Types

3. Integrations

4. Price

We’ll also touch on reporting, ease of onboarding, and customer support in the comparison summary below to give you a comprehensive overview of each tool.

Comparison Summary: Poll Everywhere vs Mentimeter vs Wooclap

What is Poll Everywhere?

Poll Everywhere allows users to make interactive presentations with live polls, word clouds, quizzes, competitions, Q&As, and more. Most activity types let presenters engage their audience and gather responses, while the Competition activity fosters gamification with live quizzes. It supports multiple response methods: web browsers, text messages, and mobile apps, ensuring accessibility for diverse audiences. After a presentation, you can generate detailed participation summaries and reports that emphasize both engagement and performance.

Poll Everywhere is a good fit when you need quick polls and detailed reports, from a Gradebook report to response pivot tables. It is well established in US higher education, where its LMS integration syncs rosters and grades, and remains a quick and easy option for interactive webinars and audience feedback.

What is Mentimeter?

Since September 2026, Mentimeter has offered three products. Menti Live is the interactive presentation tool it is known for: polls, word clouds, Q&A, quizzes, and emoji reactions, with Menti AI to draft presentations and group live responses. Menti Form collects input asynchronously, and Menti Pulse tracks team sentiment over time with recurring questions.

These features make it ideal for corporate trainers, public event speakers, and professionals looking to improve audience engagement in workshops, seminars, and presentations.

 What is Wooclap?

Wooclap shows its roots in neuroscience through tools based on how people actually learn. Its 21 question types, from image labeling and matching to concordance questions, let instructors engage learners with interactive exercises, encourage knowledge retention, and gauge where they get confused in real time, thanks to the “I am confused” button. After each session, instructors get detailed reports on learner performance and can send feedback to participants. Wooclap also connects to the LMS institutions already use through LTI 1.3. Whether in-person, in distance learning, or at the learner’s own pace, Wooclap supports you through it all.

Wooclap also supports gamification features that instructors love, like a flexible competition mode with leaderboards. Most of its features, though, are made for higher education and professional training, where knowledge retention is the priority.

All three tools let participants respond live, but they differ in what the presenter can do with those responses.

Mentimeter gives you access to interactive tools for your live events.

Your audience can communicate with you through comments and Q&A sections if you enable them. They can also react to your slides with emoji reactions. This lets you see how they feel about your content on the go.

There’s also a Mentimote feature, available on the Pro plan, that works like the Microsoft PowerPoint presenter view. You can use it to control slides and view presenter notes simultaneously. It also works from your phone, so you don't have to use a computer.

Mentimeter's presenter view has two menus at the bottom right and left. The left menu allows you to control the presentation, while the right one shows interaction options.

Wooclap's live event features are designed to show instructors where learners stand, while there is still time to adapt.

It features real-time messaging where students can post text and images on the Message wall. This enables them to ask questions, share ideas, and provide feedback without speaking.

They can also like each other's messages, allowing you to see how many need help or support a particular idea.

During presentations, you can assign custom labels for student questions to categorize and address them effectively. Learners can also react with emojis, and a moderator mode lets you approve messages before they appear. During brainstorming, Wooclap AI can group ideas into themes and suggest follow-up questions. Questionnaires can also run at the learner’s own pace, before or after the live session, in the same event.

Wooclap also offers a unique interaction—the “I am confused” button—which allows students to anonymously express difficulties in following your presentation. The number of confused students is displayed in real time at the top of your presenter view and can be reset after issues are resolved.

Poll Everywhere’s approach to live interactions is quite different from Mentimeter and Wooclap.

Rather than incorporate feedback into presentations, you need to create dedicated feedback activities using options like Q&A, Presentation feedback, Short answers, and more. You can pin activities in the background and collect responses, while going forward to other questions.

Participants can react with emojis in Q&A activities, and presenters can moderate responses before they appear to the audience.

Wooclap's reports focus on performance, Mentimeter's focus on participation rates, and Poll Everywhere emphasizes both.

Mentimeter shows the percentage of participants who answered questions and their raw scores. But it doesn't detail how many got each question right.

The app stores all questions raised during an event and lets you export results as Excel or PDF files. Participants can be identified by name, or via SSO on the Enterprise plan. These features emphasize participation, making it more suitable for business settings.

Like Mentimeter, Wooclap's event report feature has Questions and Participants sections to track your student's understanding of each question.

Setting up an authentication system allows you to send personalized reports to participants with the click of a button, making it perfect for higher education, where students benefit from instant feedback after lectures. You can download the reports in Excel or PDF format.

Wooclap lets you review the entire event, check participants' performance for every question, analyze each participant's overall performance, and display data in a grid view.

Session Overview shows each session’s engagement and answer accuracy at a glance, along with AI recommendations on what to revisit. Results can also feed the LMS gradebook through LTI 1.3.

With Poll Everywhere, you can generate different reports and export them as CSV, PDF, or Excel files. The reports include:

• Executive Summary — an overview of the total responses, participants, and engagement for all the activities you choose to include in the report.
• Participant Response History — the total number of responses, how individual participants responded to each activity, the means they used (web link or text), and the date and time of response.
• Audience Response Report — participant responses in sequence; each section is dedicated to a participant, with one line per question.
• Response Pivot Table — a detailed report of each response; can be used to group or compute sums and averages.
• Gradebook Report — a compact table showing a list of participants and how they performed during a quiz or presentation; you can export it directly to your learning management system (LMS) to sync your grade books.

You can customize the Executive summary, Participant response history, and Audience response report to show total responses, engagement, correctness, average responses, and aggregate results.

Poll Everywhere has 8 core activity types (23+ in total), Mentimeter has 13, and Wooclap has 21 question types.

Poll Everywhere has eight main question types with additional variations of the primary ones. The primary question types include the usual multiple-choice, open-ended, and word cloud questions, while the sub-types present unique questions like:

• Icebreaker, which you can use to lighten the mood by asking informal questions,
• and Retrospective for asking questions on past activities.

Most question types in Poll Everywhere collect audience responses. If you want your audience to compete, use the Competition question type (more on this below).

Surveys can also be self-guided, so participants answer at their own pace, and Poll Everywhere 2.0 includes generative AI tools for all presenters.

Like Poll Everywhere, Mentimeter's 13 question types include multiple choice, open-ended, word cloud, Q&A, pin on image, and ranking. But they only gather audience responses.

To make your audience compete and engage with your presentation, you need to use one of the two quiz competitions: ‘select answer’ and ‘type answer’.

Menti AI, available on all plans, can also suggest questions and draft a full presentation from a prompt.

Wooclap has 21 question types for gathering students' feedback and testing their knowledge and understanding.

While some are similar to Mentimeter and Poll Everywhere's key question types, Wooclap offers some unique options. These include:

• ‘Matching’, for students to pair related items;
• ‘Fill in the blanks’ to test students' ability to complete sentences;
• ‘Concordance’ questions to train clinical reasoning in health education;
• and ‘Label an image’ to test knowledge on diagrams and pictures.

Aside from the diverse types of questions for learning, Wooclap also has question types for brainstorming and workshop settings. The two notable ones are:

• Brainstorming: lets you create interactive boards for users to collaboratively express their ideas and thoughts (shown in the screenshot below).
• Framework: uses predefined categories to make group collaboration better. It guides users' contributions, allowing for a more structured and focused group discussion.

From the Pro plan, Wooclap AI can also turn a document, a video, or a link into questions and label images automatically. You review and edit every suggestion before using it.

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All three tools offer a competition mode, but Wooclap gives you the most control over it.

Mentimeter lets you time each quiz question to make it more fun and challenging.

Unlike Wooclap and Poll Everywhere, which automatically allocate more points to faster participants, Mentimeter lets you turn the feature on or off.

You can also display a leaderboard after every question or only at the end of the quiz to show the visualization of rankings and cumulative points for the top 10 participants.

Wooclap's features are similar to Mentimeter. However, Wooclap has an extra feature to set the same time for all questions, so you don't have to go through the tedious process of setting it up for every question.

Also, Wooclap's competition mode gives you control over when and how to display rankings on leaderboards. For example, you can show the scores of the top 3, 5, 10, or 15 participants on your screen with the toggle of a button. Meanwhile, participants see their rank and score on their screens.

Poll Everywhere's competition activity has similar features. However, it allows you to set a time limit for the event, after which participants can no longer answer a question.

Unlike Wooclap, there's no special leaderboard customization, but you see the top participants in order of points obtained. Participants can also see their scores and their position on the leaderboard.

Mentimeter's event templates focus on business events, while Wooclap and Poll Everywhere's range from business to education and everything in between.

Mentimeter has dozens of templates, mainly designed for business scenarios like team meetings, team building, and training sessions.

Wooclap's has over 50 templates in its public event library. They cover multiple areas like education, business & training, co-creation, feedback, knowledge evaluation, and icebreakers.

There's also an Examples gallery if you're looking for ideas to add to an existing event quickly.

Like Wooclap, Poll Everywhere has over 50 templates for all its question types. 

While most are business-focused—think events, interactive meetings, and conferences—they have a few education and medical practice options as well.

Poll Everywhere 2.0 integrates with presentation tools and major LMS.

Poll Everywhere 2.0 offers a PowerPoint add-in, and its Live desktop app activates polls on Google Slides, Keynote, or Canva slides. On Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet, you present by sharing your screen. Native apps for Slack, Webex, Teams, and Zoom remain available on Poll Everywhere 1.0.

On its Campus-wide plan, Poll Everywhere connects to Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard, and Moodle through LTI 1.3, with roster and grade sync. You can also respond to activities from your phone or tablet using the Android or iOS app.

Mentimeter integrates with presentation tools, meeting apps, and LMS.

Mentimeter has a PowerPoint plug-in for importing slides into the event designer, making it easy to create interactive presentations.

It also integrates with Microsoft Teams and Zoom, which is useful for corporate environments and K-12 education where these apps are commonly used. You can combine it with Google Slides by embedding or importing your presentation, and the Enterprise plan connects to LMS through LTI 1.3.

Wooclap has the most numerous and diverse integrations.

Wooclap integrates with PowerPoint, Google Slides, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom, and can be embedded in tools such as Genially, Miro, Ubicast, and 360Learning.

Like Poll Everywhere, Wooclap's strength is its learning management system (LMS) support.

It integrates with Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, and other learning platforms through LTI 1.3. Instructors launch Wooclap from their course, and grades, attendance, and participation sync to the gradebook (Enterprise plan).

Wooclap also supports institutional single sign-on, including eduGAIN, a simple, secure service that grants access to thousands of educational services worldwide.

Poll Everywhere, Mentimeter, and Wooclap offer free plans.

Poll Everywhere's free plan allows for unlimited users and lets you create unlimited questions. However, you can only have a maximum audience size of 40 people per activity. There's an option to reset responses, after which another set of participants can partake in the activity.

Mentimeter’s free version has no limits on question types and lets you have 50 participants per month, plus one session with unlimited participants each month. Participants represent the total number of people who have voted across all your presentations. Once you hit the limit, you get an 8-hour grace period, then can’t run new sessions until your limit resets.

Wooclap's free plan unlocks all question types and unlimited participants. However, it only allows you to add five questions per month.

Where Wooclap shines is its unlimited participants, compared to Poll Everywhere’s 40 per activity and Mentimeter’s 50 per month. Also, Mentimeter doesn’t let you import slides on the free plan, while the other two do.

Poll Everywhere caps audiences at 700, except on its top education plan.

Poll Everywhere has separate pricing plans for business & non-profit organizations and for education.

For education, Poll Everywhere’s plans are billed annually: Lecture ($9/month), Educator ($16/month), and Educator+ ($27/month, up to 2,000 participants), plus a custom Campus-wide plan that adds LMS integration and SSO.

👉 Overall, Poll Everywhere’s business plans are pricier than Mentimeter and Wooclap, while its education plans are in a similar range.

Mentimeter offers unlimited participants across paid plans.

Mentimeter has two pricing models for Individuals or teams and Teachers and students (20% to 40% cheaper). Paid plans are billed annually.

👉 Overall, Mentimeter’s plans are cheaper than Poll Everywhere and around the same range as Wooclap, but higher plans don’t unlock as many features as Wooclap.

Wooclap unlocks unlimited questions and offers the most learning features for the price.

Wooclap's pricing structure is similar to Mentimeter, with about the same discounted rates for teachers and students. However, while the number of events is unlimited, Wooclap limits the number of participants to 1,000 on the Basic and Pro plans.

👉 Overall, Wooclap’s pricing structure offers the right balance between cost and features, making it ideal for both small and large institutions.

Poll Everywhere remains a reliable choice for quick polls, interactive webinars, and detailed reports, especially for LMS users on its Campus-wide plan. Mentimeter has grown into a suite for meetings, feedback, and team engagement, with a clean interface and AI on every plan. Wooclap is the one built for learning: diverse question types that make learners practice and reason, flexible gamification, AI that supports instructors, and integration with the LMS they already use. If your goal is to engage an audience, all three will do the job. If you also want to support learning, Wooclap is the better fit.

Use Poll Everywhere if:

• You want to create interactive webinars and gather feedback easily.
• You need detailed participation, engagement, and performance reports.
• Your sessions stay under 700 participants.

Use Mentimeter if:

• You want to energize business meetings, workshops, and all-hands.
• You also need async feedback forms or recurring team pulses.
• You care more about participation than about checking understanding.

Use Wooclap if:

• ou’re a lecturer, instructor, or trainer and want every participant to practice and get feedback, not just vote.
• You need specialized formats like concordance questions or image labeling.
• You want to see where learners struggle and adapt, live or between sessions. » / « You want to start for free with unlimited participants.

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