PollsLive vs StreamAlive
PollsLive
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| Figure | PollsLive | StreamAlive |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $8/mo | $20/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 11 | 11 |
| Spec score · Audience Response Systems | 9.1 (#7) | 8.8 (#17) |
| Spec score · Virtual Town Hall Software | 8.6 (#8) | 8.4 (#12) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Headquarters | Netherlands | 8 Battalion Drive, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920, United States |
| 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 company describes the product for trainers, facilitators, professional presenters, training organizations, educators, and people running webinars or live streams. |
| Product | PollsLive provides live polls, quizzes and Q&A, with responses shown to the presenter in real time. | StreamAlive turns audience chat responses into live visual interactions during presentations, meetings, and streams. |
| Paid from | 5 | 20 |
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
StreamAlive
- FreeFree
- Starter$20 a month
- Pro$60 a month
- Scale$150 a month
- Starter (annual)$20 a month
- Starter (monthly)$50 a month
- Pro (annual)$60 a month
- Pro (monthly)$150 a month
- Scale (annual)$150 a month
- Scale (monthly)$375 a month
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.
StreamAlive
StreamAlive turns audience chat into visual interactions during presentations, meetings and streams. Its formats include polls, word clouds, maps, tiles, spinner wheels, quizzes, Q&A and emoji interactions. On supported virtual platforms, participants respond through meeting or stream chat. Apps or add-ins are available for PowerPoint and Google Slides, with apps for Teams, Zoom, Miro and StreamDeck. Listed integrations include Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, YouTube Live, Twitch, Kick, Restream, StreamYard, LinkedIn Live, Webex, Vimeo and Airmeet. Some integrations, including LinkedIn Live and Webex, use a free Chrome extension to read chat. AI features can create interactions, summarize responses and identify and categorize questions. Post-session analytics are included on the Free plan. The free option allows unlimited sessions for up to five participants per session. Starter costs $20 a month billed annually and allows ten sessions monthly; Pro costs $60 a month billed annually, and Scale costs $150 a month billed annually. The company says it encrypts data in transit and at rest and monitors systems around the clock.