A free Mentimeter alternative, compared honestly

Your second meeting this month still works.

Mentimeter's free plan counts 50 participants a month, across everything you present. Once you reach 50, you can't present anything else until the month comes round again. Shatuga Chooser's live polls count people per poll, not per month, so next week's meeting starts fresh. Mentimeter still does some things better, and they're listed first below.

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Side by side

As of 26 October 2026. Both products change; if something here has gone out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.

Where Mentimeter is better

  • More robust Q&A. The audience sends questions and upvotes each other's, and paid plans let you moderate them. Chooser can collect the room's questions live with a free-text poll, but it doesn't have upvoting or moderation yet.
  • Quizzes. Mentimeter has quiz slides. Chooser doesn't have quizzes.
  • It works with your slides. Paid plans import PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides decks, or embed them. Chooser runs in its own browser tab beside your slides.
  • Ready for schools and companies. It connects to Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard and D2L, and offers single sign-on and verified participants on its enterprise plan.
  • More polish and more variety. Two dozen slide types on the free plan alone, and AI help writing questions.

Where Chooser is better

  • No monthly allowance. With a free account, up to 500 people can answer each poll, and every poll gets its own 500. Without an account, it's 50 per poll.
  • Your data comes with you, free. A free account can download everything it has made and every response. (It comes as a database file, not a spreadsheet.) Mentimeter keeps export for paid plans.
  • No subscriptions, ever. Chooser's everyday tools are free. The extras that cost us money to run, like a big batch of email credits or a custom banner, you buy outright when you need them; we don't sell subscriptions at all. Mentimeter's paid plans are subscriptions, per presenter.
  • More than polls. Pick a date, find a meeting time, run a sign-up sheet, or hold a secret-ballot vote with ranked choice, all from the same place.

Both are free of ads for the people answering, and neither asks them to make an account.

Which one fits

If you run a conference session with a big Q&A, quizzes, or slides that need the poll built in, Mentimeter is the better tool right now.

If you run a class, a club or a team meeting every week and keep hitting the monthly wall, try Chooser.

Chooser is made by a small, independent company. Your data is never stuck here: a free account can download everything, any time. And we're committed to making our software open source as well, once we've gotten a good start.

Quick answers

Is there a free Mentimeter alternative without a monthly participant limit?

Yes. Shatuga Chooser's live polls count people per poll, not per month. With a free account, up to 500 people can answer each poll, and every poll gets its own 500; without an account, 50 per poll. The people answering don't need an account and never see an ad.

What does Mentimeter do better than Chooser?

Q&A with upvoting, and moderation on paid plans; quizzes; importing or embedding your slides on paid plans; connections to Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard and D2L; and more slide types, with AI help writing questions. For a conference session built on Q&A, quizzes or slides, Mentimeter is the better choice.

Is Chooser really free?

Yes, for everyday use: live polls, date picking, meeting times and sign-up sheets are free, with no ads for anyone. The extras that cost us money to run, like a big batch of email credits, a custom banner or room for more people, you buy outright when you need them. We don't sell subscriptions at all.

Where these facts come from

Here's Mars, the person behind Shatuga, in case you want to put a face to the otter.

Try it at your next meeting.

Make a poll or a word cloud, put the QR code on the screen, and watch the answers arrive.

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