PollsLive vs SeminarSmack
PollsLive
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seminar-smack.comSide by side
| Figure | PollsLive | SeminarSmack |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $8/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 11 | 1 |
| Spec score · Audience Response Systems | 9.1 (#7) | 7.9 (#69) |
| Anonymous responses | Yes | Yes |
| 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. | The site describes presenters building and hosting sessions and students joining to respond live from their phones or other devices. |
| Quiz mode | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosting | The published documentation describes PollsLive as hosted infrastructure and does not provide a self-hosting package. | The maker says users can self-host a copy; the README’s setup requires a Supabase project URL, publishable anon key, and Realtime enabled. |
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
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.
SeminarSmack
SeminarSmack has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.