PollSlide
PollSlide adds live audience activities to presentations, including polls, asynchronous surveys, graded quizzes and study sets.
What PollSlide is
PollSlide adds live audience activities to presentations, including polls, asynchronous surveys, graded quizzes and study sets. Responses appear live, and participants can join by scanning a QR code or entering a code at pollslide.com/join without an app or account. Its suite comprises PollSlide, SurveySlide, QuizSlide, StudySlide and PresentSlide, and it runs on the web and macOS. Questions support single choice, multi-select, ratings, word clouds and free text. Polly can draft questions from a topic or notes; AI Insights groups open-text responses into themes and sentiment. Reports show results by question and participant, with CSV export. PollSlide works alongside Keynote, PowerPoint and PDFs. The free Mac Companion overlays live results and requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later; the PowerPoint add-in is listed as coming soon. The free plan includes three presentations, small audiences and a monthly Polly AI allowance.
Good
- Participants join without an app or account.
- Supports polls, surveys, quizzes and study sets.
- Reports include per-question and per-participant results.
- Responses can be exported to CSV.
- Free plan includes three presentations.
Watch out
- Mac Companion requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
- PowerPoint add-in is listed as coming soon.
- Free plan is limited to small audiences.
Who it suits
PollSlide suits teachers, trainers, speakers, sales teams and event hosts who want audience participation alongside presentations. Its no-app, no-account join option also fits groups where participants should be able to respond quickly.
Verdict
PollSlide combines several audience-response formats with presentation workflows and gives participants a simple way to join. Check the Mac Companion requirement and free-plan audience limit against your setup.
Plans and prices
From PollSlide's own pricing page, checked 21 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| 20 credits | $8 a month | 20 credits · Credits never expire and roll over month to month. |
| 100 credits | $30 a month | 100 credits · Credits never expire and roll over month to month. |
| 200 credits | $50 a month | 200 credits · Credits never expire and roll over month to month. |
| 500 credits | $100 a month | 500 credits · Credits never expire and roll over month to month. |
| PollSlide Free | Free | 3 presentations · small audiences · monthly Polly AI allowance |
The facts
Each one read from PollSlide's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI
- Polly can draft question sets from a topic or notes, while AI Insights summarizes open-text responses into themes and sentiment.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Anonymous responses
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Audience access
- Participants can scan a QR code or visit pollslide.com/join and enter a code; they do not need an app or account.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- PollSlide works alongside Keynote, PowerPoint and PDFs; its free Mac Companion overlays live results, while the PowerPoint add-in is listed as coming soon.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The site lists teachers and professors, corporate trainers, keynote speakers, sales teams, event hosts and other audience-led groups as use cases.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- PollSlide says participants are not tracked and the Mac Companion reads the screen locally only to detect its QR code; it says nothing is recorded, saved or sent.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Products
- The suite includes PollSlide, SurveySlide, QuizSlide, StudySlide and PresentSlide.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- PollSlide runs live polls, async surveys, graded quizzes and study sets alongside presentations, with audience responses appearing live.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Question types
- Questions can use single choice, multi-select, ratings, word clouds or free text.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Quiz mode
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Reports
- Response reports include per-question and per-participant results, and responses can be exported to CSV.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Security
- The home page states that data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.2 or higher, and describes the service as GDPR and CCPA compliant.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Support
- The Help Center directs users who need help to email [email protected].checked 2 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Mac requirements
- The Mac Companion requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later and supports Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.checked 2 Oct 2026
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