ARSnova vs Crowdpurr

ARSnova provides live quizzes, numeric estimation questions, Q&A, word-cloud analysis, and Pulse Check feedback for education and organizations. Sessions can include up to 500 participants. Hosts can start without an account, and participants join with a code or QR without signing up. Question types include short answers, estimates, matching, ordering, categorization, multiple choice, and ratings. The Q&A wall supports moderation before posting, pinning, archiving, voting, and sorting by support, quality, or controversy. Hosts can create quizzes and run sessions on a phone, with an option to pair a second device for presenting. After a session, results are available in a PDF report, and tabular data can be exported as CSV. Quiz content remains on the host’s device while live sessions process data needed for interaction. The open-source platform is licensed under MIT and can be self-hosted with Docker, PostgreSQL, and Redis. The site states WCAG 2.2 Level AA conformance and PDF/UA-1 validation for its results report. Matching, ordering, and categorization questions do not award partial credit.

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.