Honest roundup
6 Free Kahoot Alternatives for Teachers in 2026
- Pick QR Wall if
- you want every student's sentence or photo of their work on the projector, with no accounts — not a scored quiz.
- Pick Gimkit or Blooket if
- you want a quiz game with points and a leaderboard; QR Wall has no quizzes.
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The best free Kahoot! alternatives for a quiz game are Gimkit (free Basic with no player cap) and Blooket (game modes students love), with Wayground, formerly Quizizz, for self-paced quizzes and homework; Mentimeter and Slido suit polls and Q&A in a lesson. Kahoot!'s own free plan, Kahoot! Go, is limited to 10 or 40 players per game depending on which part of its page you read, and teacher plans start at $3 a month billed annually (as of November 2026). QR Wall (our product) is not a quiz tool; it is here for putting every student's answer or photo on the projector.
Last checked November 2026 against Kahoot!'s own site.
Last updated: November 2026
Disclosure: QR Wall is our product. It is not a quiz game and is listed last, for a different job — student answers and work on the screen. The quiz tools above it are the real Kahoot! alternatives.
All 6 Kahoot! alternatives at a glance
Tool, best-for, starting price, and whether guests need an app.
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | No app needed | Live wall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gimkit | A free quiz game with no player cap | Free (Basic); Pro $14.99/mo or $59.88/yr (as of November 2026) | Yes — join by code in the browser | No — game screens and a leaderboard |
| Blooket | Game modes younger students ask for by name | Free plan; Plus paid (see their site for current prices) | Yes — join by code in the browser | No — game screens |
| Wayground (formerly Quizizz) | Self-paced quizzes and homework with reports | Free Basic plan; school plans (see their site for current education prices) | Yes — join by code in the browser | No — quiz screens and reports |
| Mentimeter | Polls, word clouds and quizzes inside a lesson deck | Free (50 participants per month); Education Basic $8.99 per presenter per month, billed yearly (as of October 2026) | Yes | No — results slides |
| Slido | Anonymous Q&A with upvoting in a lecture or assembly | Free (100 participants per event); education plans (see their site for current education prices) | Yes | No — Q&A and poll results |
| QR Wall (that's us) | Every student's answer or photo on the projector — not a quiz | Free ($0); $10.99/mo; Unlock this wall $14.99 once | Yes — browser, no account | Yes — Slideshow and Grid; TV view on paid plans |
The 6 alternatives, reviewed
1. Gimkit
Best for: A free quiz game with no player cap • Starting price: Free (Basic); Pro $14.99/mo or $59.88/yr (as of November 2026)
Gimkit is a quiz game where students earn in-game money for right answers and spend it on upgrades, which keeps a review session going longer than a straight quiz. Its free Basic plan has no cap on players; the limit is game modes, usually about three free ones at a time on rotation. Pro is $14.99 a month or $59.88 a year and unlocks every mode, homework assignments, and images and audio in questions (Gimkit's help centre, as of November 2026).
Strengths
- ✓ No player cap on the free plan
- ✓ Strategy layer keeps older students engaged
Watch out for
- – Free modes rotate, so a favourite may not be available
- – Images in questions need Pro
2. Blooket
Best for: Game modes younger students ask for by name • Starting price: Free plan; Plus paid (see their site for current prices)
Blooket wraps question sets in arcade-style game modes, from racing to tower defence, and students play from the browser with a game code. The free plan runs live games and homework from your own or community question sets; Blooket Plus adds more players per game, more modes and detailed reports. Blooket's pricing page would not load for us in November 2026, so we don't quote a price; check it in your account before paying.
Strengths
- ✓ Huge library of community question sets
- ✓ Very popular with primary and middle-school students
Watch out for
- – Detailed reports need Plus
- – Some modes favour luck over knowledge
3. Wayground (formerly Quizizz)
Best for: Self-paced quizzes and homework with reports • Starting price: Free Basic plan; school plans (see their site for current education prices)
Wayground, the new name for Quizizz, lets each student move through a quiz at their own pace, live in class or as homework, with memes and power-ups and detailed reports for the teacher. In 2026 it renamed its free teacher plan Basic, free with no card required. School and district plans add LMS integrations; their prices are quoted, so check before budgeting.
Strengths
- ✓ Self-paced mode suits mixed-ability classes
- ✓ Strong reports per student and question
Watch out for
- – The free Basic plan limits question types and stored activities
- – Name change means older guides still say Quizizz
4. Mentimeter
Best for: Polls, word clouds and quizzes inside a lesson deck • Starting price: Free (50 participants per month); Education Basic $8.99 per presenter per month, billed yearly (as of October 2026)
Mentimeter turns a slide deck into an interactive lesson with multiple choice, scales, word clouds, open text and a quiz mode with a leaderboard. It is the better pick when the activity is a question whose answers you want to count or chart. The free plan allows 50 participants a month, so one class twice in a month runs out; education plans are discounted.
Strengths
- ✓ Polished results on the projector
- ✓ Quizzes and polls in one deck
Watch out for
- – Free is 50 participants a month, not per lesson
- – Students can't post a photo of their work
5. Slido
Best for: Anonymous Q&A with upvoting in a lecture or assembly • Starting price: Free (100 participants per event); education plans (see their site for current education prices)
Slido, owned by Cisco, is the standard for moderated Q&A: students submit questions, often anonymously, and upvote the ones they want answered, alongside polls and quizzes. It fits lectures, assemblies and parent evenings where the room asks and one person answers. The free plan allows 100 participants per event.
Strengths
- ✓ Best-in-class question upvoting
- ✓ Runs inside PowerPoint and Google Slides
Watch out for
- – Quizzes are simpler than Kahoot!'s
- – Education prices are not shown publicly
6. QR Wallthat's us
Best for: Every student's answer or photo on the projector — not a quiz • Starting price: Free ($0); $10.99/mo; Unlock this wall $14.99 once
QR Wall (that's us) is not a quiz tool and does not replace Kahoot! for revision games: there is no scoring, timer or leaderboard. It is on this list for the other thing teachers use Kahoot! to get — the whole class taking part. Put a question on the projector with the QR code under it; students scan, type a sentence or photograph their worksheet, and every answer lands on the screen in about a second, with no student accounts and no names by default. Teachers use it for exit tickets, icebreakers, vocabulary challenges and showing work.
Pricing: the free wall shows 5 posts on screen at a time and keeps the first 30 posts it receives; later posts reach the wall blurred, and unlocking this wall once ($14.99) opens it for good. Premium ($10.99/month) puts every post on screen and adds guest video (up to 20 seconds, muted on the wall), the TV view, a shareable gallery and a ZIP download of everything; Professional ($19.99/month) adds AI moderation, a manual approval queue and your logo in the QR code. Every plan allows unlimited walls. Honest caveats: no quizzes, points or results charts, so for a review game pick one of the tools above. Schools, universities and registered nonprofits pay $6.99 for their first month of Professional (approval queue and AI moderation), then the list price.
Strengths
- ✓ Free-text and photo answers from the whole class at once
- ✓ No student accounts or app
- ✓ Approval queue and AI moderation on Professional
- ✓ Education pricing: $6.99 first month of Professional
Watch out for
- – No quizzes, scoring, timer or leaderboard
- – Free wall: 5 answers on screen at a time, first 30 kept
How to choose a Kahoot! alternative
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Name the activity. A timed quiz with points: Gimkit, Blooket or Kahoot! itself. Self-paced practice or homework: Wayground. Polls and word clouds inside a lesson: Mentimeter. Questions from the room: Slido. Every student's sentence or photo on the screen: QR Wall.
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Read the free limit against your class. Kahoot! Go lists 10 or 40 players per game; Gimkit Basic has no player cap but rotates modes; Mentimeter is 50 participants a month; Slido 100 per event (as of November 2026).
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Check whether students need accounts. All six tools here let students join from a code or link without signing up; accounts only matter if you want to track progress per student.
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Decide who checks what reaches the projector. Quiz tools only show answers you wrote; open text and photos need moderation — QR Wall's approval queue holds every post until you tap yes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best free alternative to Kahoot?
For a quiz game, Gimkit: its free Basic plan has no player cap, though only about three game modes are free at a time (as of November 2026). Blooket's free plan is the favourite with younger students, and Wayground (formerly Quizizz) has a free Basic plan for self-paced quizzes. If you don't need a game, Mentimeter and Slido have free plans for polls and Q&A.
How many players can join Kahoot for free?
Kahoot!'s plans page was inconsistent when we read it in November 2026: its FAQ says the free Kahoot! Go plan allows up to 10 participants per game, while its feature table shows 40. Paid teacher plans, billed annually, allow 50 (Bronze, $3 a month), 100 (Silver), 200 (Gold) and 800 (Kahoot! One) players per game.
Is Gimkit free?
Yes. Gimkit Basic is free with no limit on players; what it limits is game modes, usually about three free at a time on rotation. Gimkit Pro is $14.99 a month or $59.88 a year and unlocks all modes, assignments and images or audio in questions (Gimkit's help centre, November 2026).
Is QR Wall a Kahoot alternative?
Not for quizzes: QR Wall has no questions with right answers, scoring or leaderboard. It replaces Kahoot! when what you wanted was participation from the whole class — every student's free-text answer or photo of their work on the projector, no accounts. Schools, universities and registered nonprofits pay $6.99 for the first month of Professional.
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