PollsLive vs Saval Student Response System
PollsLive
pollslive.comSaval Student Response System
saval.appSide by side
| Figure | PollsLive | Saval Student Response System |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $8/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 11 | 4 |
| Spec score · Audience Response Systems | 9.1 (#7) | 7.5 (#89) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Intended users | The About page identifies educators, event producers and team leads as users, with examples including classroom exit tickets, event icebreakers and weekly retrospectives. | Saval says it is designed for higher education, K-12 schools, and corporate training. |
| Privacy | The security page says voters do not need accounts, voter names are off by default, and vote deduplication uses a salted one-way hash rather than retaining IP addresses in vote records. | The DPA says Saval will not sell personal data, use it for advertising, build commercial student profiles, or use it to train AI models. |
| Quiz mode | Yes | Yes |
| Support | The Free plan includes community support, while Pro includes priority support. | The contact page provides a message form for questions and says the team will respond as soon as possible. |
Plans
PollsLive
- FreeFree
- Pro$9 a month
- Premium$19 a month
- Event Pass Standard$49, paid once
- Event Pass Large$99, paid once
- Pro$8 a month
- Premium$16 a month
- Event Pass Small$19, paid once
- Event Pass Standard$49, paid once
- Event Pass Large$99, paid once
Saval Student Response System
- FreeFree
- EssentialPrice not published
- ProPrice not published
- EnterprisePrice not published
In their own words
PollsLive
PollsLive is a web and API service for live polls, quizzes and Q&A, showing responses to presenters in real time. People join in a browser through a link, QR code or six-digit PIN, without downloading an app or creating an account. Question formats include multiple choice, quizzes, scales, rankings, Planning Poker, open-ended prompts, Q&A and content slides. Polls can run live or asynchronously, and published polls can be embedded with an iframe or JavaScript widget. Presenters can use it with PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and Google Meet. Integrations include REST API access, OAuth 2.0, signed webhooks, Slack incoming webhooks and Zapier workflows through Webhooks by Zapier. PollsLive says its application, database and cache use EU infrastructure, with TLS and HSTS for encrypted traffic. The free plan costs nothing, billed with no card required, and includes three published polls, 500 responses per poll, 50 live participants, three live sessions per month and one presenter. Pro starts at $9 a month, or $96 a year, per presenter.
Saval Student Response System
Saval Student Response System has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.