Acadly vs Crowdpurr

Acadly automates class attendance and provides tools for in-class engagement, including polls, quizzes, word clouds, discussions, and a class backchannel. Instructors can configure the roster, schedule, and attendance rules in advance so sessions run automatically. Acadly says its mesh-network technology verifies physical presence without GPS or QR codes, does not track geolocation, and flags suspicious patterns for instructor review. A native PowerPoint add-in can launch attendance and polls from slides and is described as working on Mac and PC. Institutional deployments support LTI compatibility with Moodle, Brightspace, Blackboard, and Canvas, as well as Zoom and PowerPoint integrations. Basic is listed at $3 a month; its pricing details also show a teacher-pays rate of $3 per course or student-pays rate of $5 per course. Pro is listed at $5 a month, with teacher-pays at $5 per course or student-pays at $10 per course. A First Course Free option covers one course for up to five months, but excludes fraud alerts. Acadly is available on Android, iOS, macOS, and the web.

Crowdpurr creates interactive experiences for live, virtual and hybrid events, including polls, trivia games, social walls and bingo. Participants join through a browser, with no native app download required. Hosts can show Presentation View on a projector or TV, stream it on YouTube Live or OBS, or share it in Zoom or Webex. A Webex Embedded App can launch Crowdpurr inside a Webex meeting. The trivia library contains over 2,000 games, and Crowdpurr AI can generate games, add questions, create notes and rewrite questions. Social Walls can collect hashtag posts from X (Twitter) and Instagram, while participants can upload photos. Responses, results, lead capture and rankings can be exported to Excel or Google Sheets. The free Basic Plan allows 20 participants and 15 questions per experience, three simultaneous experiences and 15 minutes of host live streaming. Paid plans start at $24.99/mo; Classroom is listed at $49.99 a month and includes 100 participants per experience, 100 questions and 10 simultaneous experiences. Crowdpurr says it hosts on Amazon Web Services and uses SHA-256 AES/CBC encryption across SSL protocols.