--- title: "Poll Everywhere Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra" description: "Is Poll Everywhere the right Audience Response solution for you? Explore 98 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice." source_url: "https://www.capterra.com/p/127096/Poll-Everywhere/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- Poll Everywhere 4.5 (98) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/127096/Poll-Everywhere/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated July 21st, 2026 # Reviews of Poll Everywhere Ease of use 4.5 Customer Service 4.3 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews JE Jeshua E DirectorProfessional Training & Coaching, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “I especially liked the range of activity types, which allowed me to check comprehension quickly and encourage participation from everyone—even in large lecture halls.“ August 30, 2025 Nichole M Founder - Journalist - Video ProducerMedia Production, Self-employedUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “It’s also incredibly frustrating that their process requires customers to jump through hoops, such as manually downgrading their accounts, even after stating they no longer want the service.“ December 11, 2024 JG Jon G Associate Vice President of Student DevelopmentHigher Education, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Poll Everywhere allows for seamless connection to presentation software so you can easily integrate your polls into your slide deck. “ October 3, 2024 AK Ama K CEOEvents Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “They charged me upfront for a year and when I told them that I wanted to cancel and asked for a refund.“ July 10, 2026 JE Jeshua E DirectorProfessional Training & Coaching, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “It’s easy to use, adds instant interactivity to presentations, and helps keep audiences engaged and responsive throughout meetings.“ August 30, 2025 Nichole M Founder - Journalist - Video ProducerMedia Production, Self-employedUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “I used it once at a live film screening to engage the audience, and it performed as expected. But while the product is decent, the customer service and company policies are incredibly disappointing.“ December 11, 2024 Nichole M Founder - Journalist - Video ProducerMedia Production, Self-employedUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “What may seem like a small $129.72 charge to a company like Poll Everywhere is, in reality, a significant amount to those of us who are working hard to create something meaningful.“ December 11, 2024 Nichole M Founder - Journalist - Video ProducerMedia Production, Self-employedUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “They have no customer service phone number, forcing you to rely on slow, email-only communication.“ December 11, 2024 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 98 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Miguel E. Director E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "An effective poll app for live or virtual meetings that only lacks a better visual interface. " April 29, 2022 3.0 It is very easy to integrate into your presentation arsenal. Pros The price is right, the poll features are adequate. Cons It lacks the visual and audio enhancements. If they only made it as pretty, fun to watch and hear (music etc) as Kahoot it would be almost perfect. Review Source MN Michelle N. Assistant Professor Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great product" February 3, 2022 5.0 Overall a great experience, I have been using this software for about 2 years now and I continue to use it. The students love it as well as it helps them to assess their learning within the class. Pros Is of use and that it can be used with mobile devices. Easy to update poll questions. Cons The polls deactivate after a while so each time the class is run I have to go in and activate the polls I am going to use that semester. Maybe this is because I am using the free version of the software. Alternatives considered [Top Hat](https://www.capterra.com/p/176406/Top-Hat/) Reason for choosing Poll Everywhere Poll Everywhere was free and easier to set up Switched from [Top Hat](https://www.capterra.com/p/176406/Top-Hat/) Poll Everywhere was free and easier to set up Review Source AK Ama K. CEO Events Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Do not buy it. It does not work." July 10, 2026 1.0 Overall I had a bad experience and would never recommend it. Save your money and do not use it. I'm sure that there are other more cost effective and more technically effective options. Pros I did not like anything. I paid for a yearly membership and it did not work the day of my event. I also went my children's school and they did a poll and it did not work there. Cons 1\. It did not work. 2. They charged me upfront for a year and when I told them that I wanted to cancel and asked for a refund. They refused. What a waste of $130! This company is not good. Review Source JM Janna M. Coordinator of Business Programs Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy to create & implement, not as easy for users" April 30, 2022 5.0 It was a great free option for small meeting engagment, but not optimal for large groups and not super easy for participants to join. Pros The competition feature of the live poll and the multiple options for participant responses. Cons The difficulty participants have getting into the poll & using the app. I often get confused people who take time to join. Also the fact that I cannot moderate competitions easily from my app, and that participants can't see leaderboard in between questions on their app. Alternatives considered [Slido](https://www.capterra.com/p/154051/Slido/)[Wayground](https://www.capterra.com/p/207437/Quizizz/)[Kahoot!](https://www.capterra.com/p/156399/Kahoot/) Reason for choosing Poll Everywhere I didn't. Poll Everywhere was the first product tried after graduating from Kahoot. Review Source JN Jean-Pierre N. Instructional Desinger Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The Best Tool to engage Learners" December 12, 2025 5.0 Overall, Poll Everywhere is an excellent tool to engage the audience and is a friendly user. It can be integrated seamlessly with PowerPoint. Pros I found this software user-friendly, easy to set up polls and questions. It is an excellent tool to engage learners. Cons It is very difficult to reach the customer service via a phone conversation, thus it can take a long time to solve a technical issue. Review Source EV Engela V. Teacher Higher Education Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Be careful! You can't use this app for a once off event!" February 21, 2025 1.0 They have no leniency for a one event user. Pros Not a difficult app. Easy to set up questions. Cons I only needed it for one event and still had to pay for a year. It would have been great if there was options for shorter periods like a month. I will definitely be warning my colleagues and students at the university about this app - way too expensive for a one off event. Switched from [Mentimeter](https://www.capterra.com/p/160936/Mentimeter/) I thought I could use it for one event for a large audience, pay a month and then downgrade. Review Source JE Jeshua E. Director Professional Training & Coaching Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Poll Everywhere Review" August 30, 2025 5.0 Overall, my experience with Poll Everywhere has been excellent. It’s easy to use, adds instant interactivity to presentations, and helps keep audiences engaged and responsive throughout meetings. Pros Poll Everywhere made it incredibly easy to engage students in real time. I especially liked the range of activity types, which allowed me to check comprehension quickly and encourage participation from everyone—even in large lecture halls. Cons The reporting features are powerful, but I wish the export options were a bit more customizable out of the box. It would help streamline post-session analysis. Review Source Nichole M. Founder - Journalist - Video Producer Media Production Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Okay Product, But Shockingly Poor Customer Service and Inflexible Policies" December 11, 2024 3.0 In October, I noticed a charge of $129.72 on my bank account—an account I no longer actively use since transitioning to a new job. This account was tied to my former small business, which I haven’t closed but am not currently operating. The charge caused my account to overdraft, which was not only stressful but also financially impactful. I reached out to Poll Everywhere immediately to explain the situation and request a refund, but what I received in return was a rigid, policy-driven response that completely ignored my unique circumstances. Despite me clearly stating that I no longer need or use the service—and the fact that I had used it only once—they refused to offer any flexibility or refund. They cited “fairness and consistency,” but it’s clear this approach serves their bottom line, not their customers. Why This Matters: I am a journalist who produces independent documentary films. Anyone who has ever tried to build a small business or create independent films knows how difficult it is to stay afloat financially. What may seem like a small $129.72 charge to a company like Poll Everywhere is, in reality, a significant amount to those of us who are working hard to create something meaningful. It’s also incredibly frustrating that their process requires customers to jump through hoops, such as manually downgrading their accounts, even after stating they no longer want the service. They have no customer service phone number, forcing you to rely on slow, email-only communication. This makes resolving issues a time-consuming process that could be avoided with a simple phone call. A Missed Opportunity for Good Customer Service: Policies should serve as guidelines, not barriers to doing the right thing. Good companies know when to consider context and make exceptions for honest mistakes, especially when the evidence is clear: no service usage for an entire year and an inadvertent overdraft. Instead, Poll Everywhere chose to hide behind their policy, demonstrating a lack of empathy and integrity. Consider These Alternatives: If you need an interactive polling tool and want to work with a company that values its customers, I recommend considering these alternatives: Mentimeter: User-friendly polling and Q&A tools with responsive customer support. www.mentimeter.com Kahoot!: Great for interactive quizzes and polls, with strong community support. www.kahoot.com Slido: Seamless integrations and excellent customer service. www.slido.com Vevox: Known for live polling and a customer-first approach. www.vevox.com Final Thoughts: Poll Everywhere may offer a good product, but true value comes from how a company treats its customers. If you’re looking for a service that cares about more than just your subscription fee, I recommend looking elsewhere. Pros Live Audience Response to a Poll. I hosted one event in a theater where I wanted to ask the audience one question in real time and in a way they could immediately see what everyone else's answers were. Cons Poll Everywhere offers a good product. If you’re looking for an interactive polling tool for presentations or events, the platform itself works well. I used it once at a live film screening to engage the audience, and it performed as expected. But while the product is decent, the customer service and company policies are incredibly disappointing. Reason for choosing Poll Everywhere It seemed like an easy way to have live audience response to a question. Review Source Chandrakeerthan P. student Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great Survey builder and also for polls" March 12, 2023 5.0 I have had a great overall experience using poll anywhere, and I use it to build effective polls. Several users create polls and surveys using the poll everywhere. Pros My favourite aspect of Poll everywhere is that it can be used to design effective polls. The user interface is quite straightforward, easy to use, and beginner friendly. It makes the process of making polls seamless. Other applications can be integrated with it. Cons As poll Perfect is the most popular of the others, I can't think of any drawbacks. Review Source Sadie R. Assistant Director, MIS Career Management Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Poll Everywhere Review" November 19, 2019 5.0 I have utilized this software in my work life when doing presentations with college students. It was a great way to engage the audience and allowed for better presentations and engagement from students! We saw an increase in participation during our presentations after utilizing the software. I would recommend the software for anyone who wants an easy to use polling software! Pros Poll Everywhere is great because it is so easy, quick, and efficient. It is a great technology for multiple purposes, such as classrooms, presentations, or events. It makes asking questions fun, engaging, and simple! Cons There is nothing negative about this software. It is very easy to use that anyone can pick it up and implement it for their needs. The technology is simple but effective and the interface is very appealing! Review Source JG Jon G. Associate Vice President of Student Development Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Poll Everywhere makes it easy to get your audience engaged. " October 3, 2024 5.0 Great software that is really user friendly. Pros Poll Everywhere was one of the first "text in" polling options available and I was an early adopter. I work on a college campus and I have used the software for everything from allowing students to text in their vote at a talent show to polling the audience during a talk to incoming students. Poll Everywhere allows for seamless connection to presentation software so you can easily integrate your polls into your slide deck. It's also easy for the audience to send in their response, even if they've never used the program. Finally, the realtime polls allow you to get instant feedback, so you know what your audience is thinking. Cons I don't have many complaints with Poll Everywhere. I would say that they need some improvements in the their pricing options, but this is minor. The only adjustment I would like to see is a smaller price tag for a one time event. Review Source EF Emanuela F. Student Arts and Crafts Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Out of the ordinary software" February 26, 2023 4.0 An optimal experience for the use you make Pros It has features that other similar ones don't have, and I appreciate the fact that it tries to make survey proposals personalized Cons The difficulty sometimes in viewing the responses to surveys from consumers Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Deskside Support Specialist - Teamlead Legal Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy to Use, Highly Functional Polling Software" April 19, 2019 5.0 Pros This app is extremely easy to use and deploy for events. - Highly customizable - Polls Surveys, integration to various software platforms. - Easy to use for attendees. Simple setup, instructions. -Incredibly reliable. - Excellent value for money compared to renting expensive AV equipment. Cons Unfortunately, a lot of the best features are based in the upper tiers of the pricing features. Currently, I can't see our organization maintaining the higher pricing if the application is not in use more often. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Student Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A student's view on Poll Everywhere " November 22, 2023 4.0 Pros Poll everywhere is easy in use. It's an added value to the lectures. Cons I haven't found any negative aspects about Poll Everywhere yet. Review Source PM Paul M. Student physician Medical Practice Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best option for polling" August 22, 2019 5.0 A must have for everyone in a polling situation Pros This was a revolutionary software for ease of polling a group of people. It can be used remotely as well. It just allows for excellent anonymous polling of Audience and groups of all kinds. And allows for a cool pop up of different answers. Plenty of features for the more complicated polls and easy use for the beginner. A must have in the academic settings for quick quizzing of students. Cons I only find that having to have an account can be a complication but it’s free and easy to make one and I believe you can still poll even without an account, I might be wrong about that though. Overall, just seriously no complaints. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Dental Student Higher Education Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Does the job" March 25, 2019 4.0 Pros Lately, my professors have gotten into the habit of using Poll Everywhere to conduct an interactive lecture. By showing the link on the screen, every student can participate quickly in polling during the class. It's simple and easy to use, and also easy to set up. Instead of having students buy clickers, this is an awesome, free alternative to get students engaged. Cons Some of the modes of presenting the data results are very hard to read and understand. There needs to be improvement to the options of presenting the data. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CEO Apparel & Fashion Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best Poll and Survey Tool" December 21, 2021 4.0 Pros It helps with polls. I usually send poll to employees getting reviews related to diffrent work load and Yes, This tool helps extremely. 100% recommended and should be used. Cons It has nithing which I dont like. Have all the features. Wish It could have something like scraping data from the polls and separately targetting them. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Medical Information Associate Pharmaceuticals Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Effective interactive live audience participation tool" August 6, 2019 5.0 Pros I love Poll Everywhere as an interactive piece for presentations, anywhere from small presentations to my direct team, or having participated in larger town hall presentations where surveys are done live. Anytime you can use instant input to garner some buzz about some topic, you'll immediately get everyone's attention. The app is easy to use, interface works well, and company buy-in is convincing. Cons I would like to see PE push the envelope in terms of adding layers of complexity to its surveying ability. Perhaps some sort of stratification among demographics that you user profiles could dictate. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Trauma and Extremities Associate Sales Representative Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great for teachers, professors, training sessions etc." May 26, 2018 5.0 Keep your audience active, engaged and attentive. Pros Poll Everywhere does a great job of keeping people (whether that be students or people in a training session or meeting active and engaged). You really can't ask for much more than that. Cons Not really too many cons I can think of here...it would be nice if the free version offered deletion, but not really a huge issue for a small scale trainings I have used it for. Review Source RF Reanna F. Pharmacy Intern Pharmaceuticals Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Fun and interactive way to poll the classroom" May 21, 2019 5.0 Pros I like the different ways you can allow the users to answer. This site offers the ability to answer questions in a variety of ways such as select all, multiple choice, ranking, short answer. It keeps the user more interested. I also enjoy the fact that it shows the percentages of users who answered with a certain answer. Cons Although its great to be able to see the percentages of users who answered with a certain answer, I have had issues with the users changing their answer due to this being visible. It is probably a setting that just needs to be changed on my end. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Assistant Director of Residence Life Higher Education Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Dynamic Audience Participation!" May 31, 2019 5.0 I used Poll Everywhere to solicit audience participation during a presentation. It was very popular and I received praise from multiple attendees afterwards that they liked the novelty of being able to text a response, and that they felt more engaged. Technically, it worked without any difficulty and it was seamless. I look forward to using Poll Everywhere in the future! Pros The ability to easily integrate live audience responses into a presentation. I also appreciate how simple it is to customize the software for your specific needs; there are tons of options to tweak the type of responses, how many responses are allowed, the time frame for collecting data, and how it is displayed. The web interface is easy to use, but I also appreciate having the ability to download a desktop version to integrate with presentation software. Cons There is a slight learning curve to figuring out how to best set up questions. You can only collect responses for one question at a time, so managing this can be challenging at first. However, the software offers many ways to change it including timers, so it's easily manageable. Review Source HT Heidi T. Systems Administrator Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Fun way to get audience participation during presentations" November 13, 2019 5.0 We have used this during presentations to make audience participation fun and more quantitative than asking people to raise their hands. Pros Easy to use, install and vote anonymously on questions during presentations. Makes audience participation fun and interesting with real-time voting statistics during the presentation. Cons I personally enjoy using it but I can see how people who are shy may not want to participate during meetings and so they may find this application burdensome. Review Source SW Spencer W. Media & Technology Director Religious Institutions Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Poll Everywhere Review" July 23, 2019 5.0 Pros I really like that it's easy to use, and that you can change your subscription to use it only when you need it. It also has a lot of customizable stuff when you're setting up a poll. Cons The feature that lets you embed the poll into a presentation software never really worked for me. It also doesn't have ProPresenter as one of the available presentation options, which is what we primarily use. Review Source cW carley W. admissions counselor Higher Education Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "It was a great tool to keep listeners engaged during a presentation. " April 25, 2018 4.0 Portable software to enhance a presentation and engage a wide audience! Pros Users do not need to do any prep work before a presentation in order to participate in the polls. There are tons of different options for types of polls. You can easily keep people engaged with a new question or poll every slide. Cons It was not as easy to customize as I would have liked. You have to pay to customize and even when I paid they did not have our branded company colors. It was also a little touchy when you try to upload pictures as the background. It just takes a lot of work but eventually, I was able to customize the product and have a great presentation. The only other issue I had was it gets a little "iffy" when you have multiple people trying to give the presentation from different computers when we were not with each other. At one point I had to control the slideshow via Skype while watching my partner give the presentation in another state because he was unable to activate/deactivate the polls. Review Source CK Cindi K. Owner Human Resources Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Poll Everywhere" April 30, 2021 5.0 I create polls and questions to help make my presentations more interesting. Pros I can create polls, word clouds, and other interactive questions and puzzles to use in my presentations. Cons I have only used the free version, but for a free product, I haven’t found anything about which to complain. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.