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6 best Kahoot alternatives for parties

Kahoot is built for a classroom, and a living room is a different room. These six all put a quiz on a shared screen and let players answer from their phones, and each one is better than the others at something. Every price and limit here comes from the vendor's own page, checked on the date below.

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For a house party, a pub night or a company quiz, pick The Party Quiz, Quizado or Factile: all three put a point-value board on a television and hand the buzzers to phones. Between the first two it is mostly scale and price: Quizado allows unlimited players and manages several venues, while we cover commercial events from €9 a month and a single paid night for €9. For a meeting or a webinar, AhaSlides is the one built for an audience rather than a room. For the cheapest possible Jeopardy board with nothing to learn, JeopardyLabs.

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1. The Party Quiz – best for a party, a pub night or a company event

Ours. A gameshow board with phone buzzers, a written pub quiz with printable answer sheets and host marking, and a Quickfire round scored on every phone, and you can mix their rounds in one quiz. Describe a theme and the AI drafts the questions in any of 93 languages; the player screens come in seven.

Quiz Starter is free and hosts 10 phones in up to 4 teams, with 5 saved quizzes and 250 Quiz Coins a month. Paid plans start at €2 a month. Players need no account and nothing to install.

It is priced for professional hosting too, which is the part people miss. Quizmaster is €9 a month including the first host, covers company and ticketed events, carries 100 connected phones and 2,000 Quiz Coins a month, and takes extra host seats for a team. For a single paid night there is a €9 Quiz Night pass and no subscription at all. A venue running a quiz every week needs new material every week, which is the job the AI generator is for.

Worse than Kahoot at: a ready-made library. There is no public catalogue of quizzes here, so somebody has to write it or ask the AI to.

2. Quizado – best for a big room, several venues, or questions you do not write

The closest thing to the same product: a browser on a screen, phones as buzzers, a point-value board called QuizoParty, plus Music Bingo and a Family Feud-style round that a bar crowd recognises. Three things here are genuinely theirs. Paid plans allow unlimited players, where we stop at 100 connected phones. The product manages more than one venue. And a question library means nobody on your staff writes anything.

What it costs is the other half. The free plan is up to 4 player phones, 2 games a day and 1 venue; paid plans start at €49 a month excluding VAT. Our commercial tier is €9 a month, and a single paid night is a €9 pass, so for one pub with a room of under a hundred we are the cheaper way to run the same evening by a wide margin.

Worse than Kahoot at: cost for a one-off. There is no pass for a single night here, so one birthday means a venue subscription.

3. Factile – best ready-made Jeopardy library

A polished Jeopardy-style game maker with six ways to play, aimed at teachers and trainers, and a very large library of games other people have already built. If you want a board on a subject tonight and do not want to write it, this is the shortest path.

The free plan allows 3 custom games and up to 5 teams, and says plainly that Buzzer Mode is not included. Paid plans start at $4 a month, or $48 billed yearly.

Worse than Kahoot at: nothing much, for a classroom. For a party, the buzzers being paid is the catch.

4. JeopardyLabs – best for the cheapest possible board

The oldest and plainest of these. It makes a Jeopardy template without PowerPoint, with a scoreboard attached, and thousands of games are built on it daily; public games can be cloned by anyone. A membership is $20 for life, and the site is ad-free for everyone.

It is a board and a scoreboard, by design. Players buzz by shouting or raising a hand, or through the chat on a video call; a separate free buzzer app exists but is not part of it.

Worse than Kahoot at: phones. Nobody answers on a device here.

5. AhaSlides – best for a meeting or a webinar

Interactive presentation software rather than a quiz app: live polls, quizzes and word clouds inside a deck. If the quiz is five minutes in the middle of a presentation, this is the tool shaped for that, and its free plan engages up to 50 participants live with unlimited presentations a month.

Worse than Kahoot at: being a game. It is a slide deck with questions in it, which is right for a webinar and flat in a living room.

6. Kahoot itself – still the right answer for a classroom

Worth saying on a page like this: if you are teaching, Kahoot is probably still it. The ready-made library is enormous, the reporting is built for a teacher, and everyone in the room has already played it.

For a party the catch is the free plan, which is up to 10 players per game. Kahoot!+ Gold is $14.99 per host per month, or $180 a year.

Free plans and prices, side by side

	Free plan	Paid from	Point-value board	Phone buzzers
The Party Quiz	10 phones, 4 teams, 5 saved quizzes	€2/month, or €9/month with commercial rights	Yes	Yes, free
Quizado	4 player phones, 2 games a day	€49/month, excl. VAT	Yes	Yes
Factile	3 games, 5 teams	$4/month	Yes	Not on the free plan
JeopardyLabs	Free to use	$20 for life	Yes	No
AhaSlides	50 participants live	Not listed on their pricing page	No	No
Kahoot!	10 players per game	$14.99 per host/month	No	No

Every claim below is from each product's own website, checked on 2 November 2026: kahoot.com/home, ahaslides.com/pricing, quizado.com/pricing, playfactile.com/plans, jeopardylabs.com/about. Prices and limits change, and a figure we could not find on the vendor's own page is left out rather than guessed. The Party Quiz is ours, which is why it is first to say so.

Choosing between them

What is the best free Kahoot alternative?

For a party, The Party Quiz: Quiz Starter is free, hosts 10 phones in up to 4 teams, and the buzzers are not a paid feature. For a classroom board with a ready-made library, Factile's free plan allows 3 games and 5 teams, though its Buzzer Mode is paid. JeopardyLabs is free to use if you only need a board and a scoreboard.

Which of these works on a TV?

The Party Quiz, Quizado, Factile and JeopardyLabs all run in a browser, so any screen with a browser will do: a smart TV, a laptop on HDMI, a cast tab or a projector. AhaSlides and Kahoot are usually shown from a presenter's screen instead.

Do players need an app or an account?

Not for The Party Quiz: players open a link or scan a QR code, type a first name, and that is the whole joining process. Most of the others also join by code without an account; check each one, because it is the thing most likely to change.

Why is The Party Quiz on its own list?

Because leaving it off would be stranger than including it, and every vendor ranking for this search does the same. What we can do instead is show our working: every number in the table is from the other product's own website, with the date it was checked, and anything we could not find there is left blank rather than guessed.

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