A free Slido alternative, compared honestly

Your fourth poll is free too.

Slido's free plan allows three polls and one quiz per event. Shatuga Chooser's live polls have no such limit: add as many questions as the meeting needs. Slido still does some things better, especially Q&A, 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 Both products change; if something here has gone out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.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 Slido is better

  • More robust Q&A. Slido started as a Q&A tool and it shows: the audience asks questions and votes for their favorites, there are replies and labels, and paid plans add moderation. Chooser can collect the room's questions live with a free-text poll, but it doesn't have voting on questions or moderation yet.
  • It lives inside the tools you already use. PowerPoint, Google Slides, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Webex. Chooser runs in its own browser tab beside them.
  • Quizzes and surveys. Chooser doesn't have quizzes.
  • Built for big events. Co-hosts, multiple rooms, and paid plans that reach thousands of participants, with single sign-on for large organizations. Slido has been part of Cisco since 2021.

Where Chooser is better

  • No limit on polls. Ask as many questions as you like, free, at every meeting.
  • More people on the free plan. With a free account, up to 500 people can answer each poll. Slido's free plan stops at 100 devices joining over the course of an event.
  • No year-long commitment. 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. Slido doesn't sell monthly plans: you pay for a year, or for a single event.
  • 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.) Slido keeps data export for paid plans.
  • 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 the heart of your session is the audience's questions, or the poll has to run inside PowerPoint, Teams or Zoom, Slido is the better tool right now.

If you mostly ask the room things, and you keep running out of polls, 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 alternative to Slido?

Yes. Shatuga Chooser runs live polls for free, with no limit on how many polls you run at a meeting. With a free account, up to 500 people can answer each poll; without an account, 50. The people answering don't need an account and never see an ad.

What does Slido do better than Chooser?

Q&A, above all: Slido's audience can vote on questions, and paid plans add moderation. Slido also runs inside PowerPoint, Google Slides, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Webex, has quizzes and surveys, and is built for very large events. If those are the heart of your session, Slido 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.

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