Honest comparison
QR Wall vs Pigeonhole Live: A live photo wall, or moderated conference Q&A?
- Pick QR Wall if
- you want attendees' photos and messages live on the screen — breaks, receptions, celebrations — with no app and a free plan to start.
- Pick Pigeonhole Live if
- your sessions run on moderated Q&A, polls and surveys, or you need SSO and an API. QR Wall has no polls.
Free to start, no card. Set up in about a minute.
Last checked October 2026 against Pigeonhole Live's own site.
Pigeonhole Live is a Q&A and polling platform for conferences and meetings: attendees join in the browser, ask and upvote questions that a moderator approves, answer polls and surveys, and the results show in a projector view. It has no photo upload and no wall of guest content. QR Wall is a live event wall: guests scan a QR code on the screen and their photos, messages and emoji reactions appear on it within a second.
Both start free, and both are subscriptions. Pigeonhole's free Starter plan takes 100 participants and 1 user; Presenter is $13 a month billed yearly ($156 a year) for 250 participants, and Standard $150 a month billed yearly for 2,000. QR Wall's free plan shows 5 posts at a time and keeps the first 30; Premium is $10.99 a month, billed monthly, cancel any time.
Pigeonhole Live is an audience-interaction platform for events — moderated Q&A, polls, chats and surveys shown in a presentation view. QR Wall is a live event wall — guests post photos, text messages and reactions from their phones to a shared screen, with no app.
Feature by feature
QR Wall from our own plan table; Pigeonhole Live read on pigeonholelive.com/pricing in October 2026.
| Feature | QR Wall | Pigeonhole Live |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free ($0); Premium $10.99/mo, Professional $19.99/mo, cancel any time | Free (Starter); Presenter $13/mo billed yearly ($156/yr); Standard $150/mo billed yearly |
| Free plan | 5 posts on screen at a time (rotating); the first 30 posts per wall are kept, later ones arrive locked | Starter: 100 participants, 1 user, all interactive features |
| Pricing model | Monthly subscription, unlimited walls on every plan | Monthly or yearly subscription, cancel any time; no per-event price |
| Guest photo sharing | Yes, every plan, including Free — photos, messages and emoji reactions | No photo upload |
| Live Q&A | Guests' text messages on the wall, every plan (no upvoting) | Yes — Q&A with upvoting; moderated on Presenter and up |
| Polls and surveys | No — messages and emoji reactions only | Yes — polls, chats and surveys on every plan |
| Display wall | Slideshow and Grid on every plan; TV view on Premium and Professional | No guest-content wall; projector view of Q&A and polls |
| App for guests | None — scan and post in the browser | None — join in the browser |
| Moderation | Yes, Professional plan — AI screening of text, photos and video, plus an approval queue. Premium: remove any post in one tap. Free: no screening | Manual moderation of Q&A and polls on Presenter and up; no AI moderation listed |
| Custom branding | Yes, Professional plan — custom background and your logo inside the QR code | Custom themes and logos on Presenter; sponsor logos on Standard |
| Participants | No guest cap on any plan; for 1,000+ phones posting in the same few minutes, contact support first | Starter 100, Presenter 250, Standard 2,000, Enterprise 5,000+ |
| After the event | Yes, Premium and Professional — download every photo, video and message, plus a gallery link | Insights export to PDF and Excel on Presenter and up; no media archive |
Where Pigeonhole Live wins
- A free Starter plan for 100 participants with every interactive feature
- Moderated Q&A with upvoting — questions approved before they're shown
- Polls, chats and surveys — QR Wall has none
- Large conferences: 2,000 participants on Standard, 5,000+ with SSO and an API on Enterprise
- An AI translation add-on for multilingual sessions
Where QR Wall wins
- Guests' photos on the screen — Pigeonhole takes none
- A live wall in the room: Slideshow, Grid, and TV view on paid plans
- AI moderation of text, photos and video plus an approval queue on Professional ($19.99/mo)
- Weddings, receptions and celebrations, where nobody wants a survey
- Billed monthly — one month for one event, then cancel
- A gallery link and a download of everything afterwards (Premium and Professional)
Pricing side by side
Both start free and both are subscriptions. Pigeonhole's monthly figures are billed yearly; QR Wall bills monthly.
QR Wall
- Free — $0
5 posts on screen at a time, rotating; the first 30 posts per wall are kept. Photos, messages and reactions, Slideshow and Grid views, no card. - Premium — $10.99/mo
Every post on screen, short guest videos, TV view, remove any post in one tap, download everything and a shareable gallery. - Professional — $19.99/mo
AI moderation and an approval queue, custom background and your logo in the QR code, contact capture with CSV, Keynote theme. First month $11.99.
Pigeonhole Live
- Starter — $0
Free forever. 100 participants, 1 user, all interactive features. - Presenter — $13/mo
Billed yearly ($156/yr); monthly billing listed at $816/yr. 250 participants, moderated Q&A and polls, custom themes and logos, exports. - Standard — $150/mo
Billed yearly ($1,800/yr); monthly billing listed at $5,616/yr. 2,000 participants, 3 users, sponsor logos. - Enterprise — Custom
5,000+ participants, SSO, API.
Pigeonhole Live prices read on pigeonholelive.com/pricing on 15 October 2026, in USD (the page also shows SGD). An AI Translation add-on is $144 per user a year. Check their site before you buy.
What changed since March 2026
This comparison was written in March 2026, when we described Pigeonhole Live as priced per event; it is a subscription with a free Starter plan, corrected in October 2026. What QR Wall added since is the enterprise-shaped features a Pigeonhole buyer expects.
Prices changed in July 2026
QR Wall now costs $10.99 per month on Premium and $19.99 per month on Professional, billed monthly with no contract; the Free plan is still $0, shows 5 posts on screen at a time and keeps the first 30 posts per wall.
Manual approval before anything reaches the screen
On Professional every post can wait for a one-tap approval on the host's phone, and the same plan adds AI screening of messages, photos and videos with 5 sensitivity levels.
Attendee contact capture with a CSV export
Professional can ask each guest once for an email or phone number before their first post and exports the deduplicated attendee list as a CSV.
A $29.00 add-on for big rooms
Event Performance Boost is a one-off $29.00 add-on to Professional for events with 200 or more guests posting at once: reserved capacity, a pre-event check and first place in the support queue.
The wall runs on a smart TV with no laptop
Open qrwall.live/tv on any TV browser, scan the pairing code with your phone and pick a wall; the TV never sees a password and the phone stays the remote.
Your logo inside the QR code
Professional embeds the host's logo in the centre of the QR code on the wall, the printed poster and the downloads, at an error-correction level tested to scan from a projected screen.
Pigeonhole Live's side of the table above was re-checked against its public pricing and feature pages on 15 October 2026; prices change, so check Pigeonhole Live's site before deciding on price alone. Page last updated: October 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Is QR Wall a good Pigeonhole Live alternative?
If you need attendees' photos on the screen, yes — Pigeonhole Live has no photo upload and no wall of guest content. If your event runs on moderated Q&A, polls and surveys, Pigeonhole is the stronger tool. QR Wall starts free, shows photos, messages and reactions live, and adds AI moderation and an approval queue on Professional ($19.99/month).
Does Pigeonhole Live charge per event?
No. Pigeonhole Live sells subscriptions: a free Starter plan for 100 participants, Presenter at $13 a month billed yearly, Standard at $150 a month billed yearly, and custom Enterprise pricing. Monthly billing is available at a higher rate, and you can cancel after one event. QR Wall is also a subscription, billed monthly, with unlimited walls on every plan.
Which is better for conference Q&A?
Pigeonhole Live. It has upvoting, manual moderation of questions on Presenter and up, and polls and surveys alongside. QR Wall's Q&A is simpler: attendees' messages appear live on the wall, with no upvoting. Pick QR Wall when you want a visual wall that mixes messages with photos.
Does Pigeonhole Live support photo sharing?
No. Its pricing and feature pages list Q&A, polls, chats and surveys, with no photo upload. QR Wall was built for photos and messages from day one, with a shareable gallery and a download of everything on Premium and Professional.
Which is cheaper for recurring events?
It depends on size. Both have free plans: Pigeonhole's Starter takes 100 participants; QR Wall's shows 5 posts at a time and keeps the first 30 per wall. Paid, QR Wall Premium is $10.99 a month billed monthly with unlimited walls, and Professional $19.99; Pigeonhole Presenter is $13 a month billed yearly for 250 participants, and Standard $150 a month billed yearly for 2,000.
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