Votumio as an alternative to Poll Everywhere
Both collect answers from an audience in real time. Poll Everywhere is built into presentation software; Votumio runs in the browser on its own and also does quizzes, tests and retrospectives.
The short version
Poll Everywhere is an audience response system known from lecture halls and corporate presentations: polls and questions live inside PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides, and people can respond from a browser or, in some countries, by text message. Votumio is a separate browser tool: you open an event, people join by link or QR code, and you show its projector view.
What Votumio does
- Live polls with single choice, multiple choice and free-text answers, anonymous or signed with a name.
- Timed quizzes with points and a leaderboard.
- Tests taken at each participant’s own pace, with weighted points, partial credit, grades and a review.
- Retrospectives with anonymous cards, grouping and limited voting.
- Results as a PDF or a PowerPoint deck, and an interface in 15 languages.
When Votumio fits better
- You want quizzes with a leaderboard, graded tests or team retrospectives, not only polls.
- You present from different tools, or from none, and want the same thing to work everywhere.
- You run occasional sessions and prefer to pay for one bigger event rather than keep a subscription.
When Poll Everywhere fits better
- You want the questions to appear inside your slides without switching windows.
- Your audience answers by text message, or your institution already manages it for every lecturer.
Questions and answers
Does Votumio work inside PowerPoint or Google Slides?
No. It runs in the browser next to whatever you present with: switch to the projector view or share it. Results can be downloaded as a PowerPoint deck.
Can participants answer by text message?
No. Participants open a link or scan a QR code on their phones. There is no app to install and no account to create. A browser on a phone or a laptop is enough.
Is Votumio free?
Small sessions are free and need no card. You pay only for a bigger audience, more images per question or a longer history — once for a single event or as a subscription; the pricing page has the details.
Votumio in brief
- Live polls, timed quizzes with a leaderboard, self-paced tests with grades, and team retrospectives in one tool.
- Participants join from their phones by link or QR code, with no app and no account.
- Runs in the browser, with a projector view for the room; results download as a PDF or a PowerPoint deck.
- Interface in 15 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian and Ukrainian.
- Free for small sessions; pay for a single bigger event or subscribe — see the pricing page.
- Event content is deleted automatically after the event; no advertising or analytics cookies.
- Made by CodeBucket OÜ in Estonia; data is hosted in the EU.
Poll Everywhere is a trademark of its owner; Votumio is not affiliated with it. This page describes Poll Everywhere only in general terms — see its own website for what it offers today.