Free Kahoot alternative
Giga Quizzes is a free live quiz game like Kahoot. Up to 500 people can join one game from any phone or laptop with a room code, your quiz can mix 11 question types, and nobody needs an account to play. There is no trial and no paid plan.
Free plans compared · September 2026
The same questions for each: how many people can play one live game for free, which question types are included, and what paying unlocks.
| Compared | Giga Quizzes | Kahoot | Blooket | Wayground (Quizizz) | Gimkit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players in one live game, free | Up to 500 | 10 (40 on a school teacher account) | Up to 60 | Up to 100 | No cap in featured modes; 5 in Pro-only modes |
| Question types, free | All 11 | Quiz and true/false | Not stated on its help pages | Basic types, such as multiple choice, fill in the blank and poll | Not stated on its help pages |
| What paying unlocks | Nothing to unlock: there is no paid plan | More players: 50 from $3 a month, up to 4,000 | Plus: up to 300 players and Plus game modes | Up to 1,000 participants and advanced question types | Pro: every game mode, without the 5-player cap |
Competitor details come from each company's own help centre and plans pages, read in September 2026: Kahoot’s “How many participants can play a kahoot?” and school plans page, Blooket’s “Is Blooket Free?”, Wayground’s “Understanding Wayground plans”, and Gimkit’s “Player maximums”. Plans change, so check their sites for current terms. “Not stated” means their help pages do not list it.
Not only the player count
The player limit is why most people start looking, but the question types are what change the game itself. Beyond multiple choice and true/false, a game can ask players to tap the right spot on a picture, drag a slider to a number, put steps in order, match pairs, fill in blanks or type their own answer — and a poll turns written answers into a live word cloud.
One correct answer out of up to 6 options.
Several correct answers — players pick every one, with partial credit.
A binary yes/no question.
Players type a free-text reply, matched against a list of accepted answers.
Players enter a number; scored within a configurable tolerance.
Complete a sentence with up to 10 blanks, each with its own accepted answers.
Arrange a list of items into the correct sequence.
Connect items on the left to their correct pair on the right.
Click the correct area on an image, scored within a tolerance radius.
Drag a marker to the correct value on a number line, within a tolerance.
An opinion question with no correct answer and no scoring. Answered either by picking from options, or by everyone writing their own answer — written answers appear on the class screen as they arrive and group into a word cloud at the reveal.
Everything below is included without a paid plan or a trial.
Classic has timed questions and a live leaderboard. In Hacker mode players earn crypto and hack each other, racing to a target or the clock.
Up to 6 teams in either mode, split automatically or chosen by the players in the lobby.
Players can play Flappy, Memory and more while they wait, or challenge each other to Tic-Tac-Toe.
Type a topic in any language, choose the question types, and edit what comes back. Up to 30 generations a day.
Final standings, how each question went, and what every player answered. Download it all as a ZIP of images.
Create a group, invite people to it, and assign a quiz for them to finish in their own time.
Cover a picture with a grid of tiles that clears while players think, at the speed you choose.
Bring a Blooket question set across from its PDF export, right-to-left text included.
The site comes in 8 languages, and quizzes can be written in any language, including Hebrew and Arabic.
Up to 500 people can join one game from their own phones with a room code or QR code. Kahoot’s free plan allows 10 players (40 on a school teacher account) and Blooket’s allows 60, so a room this size is where free plans usually run out. The largest Giga Quizzes game so far had 497 players.
Students type a room code and a nickname in the browser they already have open. No app, no email and no password. Only the teacher who builds the quiz needs a free account, and the report still shows what every student answered.
Share the host screen on Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams and let people join from their own phones with the room code or QR code. The game does not care whether the room is one hall or forty living rooms, and the report afterwards reads the same either way.
One room code on the hall screen, a year group answering from their own phones, and a report showing how each question went across the whole cohort. A free plan that stops at 10 or 60 players ends this kind of event before it starts.
Trivia night, a scout troop, a youth group or a family gathering. Hacker mode and the waiting-room mini-games are there for the part of an evening where a plain question-and-answer round would run out of steam.
Nothing about it assumes a classroom. Host from a laptop on a shared screen or a video call, let people join from their phones, and use teams, polls and open answers to get the room talking.
Blooket’s free Starter plan hosts games of up to 60 players, and Blooket Plus raises that to 300, except in Racing and team modes. Giga Quizzes allows up to 500 players for free, and a Blooket question set can be imported from its PDF export so your existing questions come with you.
Wayground’s free Starter plan allows up to 100 participants per session with basic question types; up to 1,000 participants and advanced question types come with its paid plans. Giga Quizzes includes all 11 question types and up to 500 players for free.
Gimkit’s free Basic plan has no player cap in its featured modes, but its Pro-exclusive modes are limited to 5 players, and which modes are featured rotates every few weeks. In Giga Quizzes both game modes and every question type are always available, for up to 500 players.
These come up often enough to be worth placing. No plan details are quoted for them — only what kind of tool each one is, and where this overlaps.
Quizlet Live turns a study set into a team game, and it starts from flashcards you already have. Giga Quizzes starts from a quiz you write, generate from a topic or take off the Discover shelf, and it scores individuals or teams on a live leaderboard.
Mentimeter is built around live audience response inside a presentation. Giga Quizzes is a scored game first, but it makes the same "ask the room" move: poll questions are not scored at all, and written poll answers gather into a live word cloud on the host screen as they arrive.
Slido is a meeting companion — audience questions, polls and upvotes running alongside a talk. Giga Quizzes is the quiz half of that idea on its own, sized for a room of up to 500 people joining from their phones with no account.
Baamboozle is a team review game run from the teacher’s screen, where a class answers out loud rather than on their own devices. Giga Quizzes gives every player a device, which is what makes the per-student report at the end possible.
See the full list of free Kahoot alternatives, with their free plans side by side →
Yes. Giga Quizzes lets up to 500 people play one live game on the free plan. For comparison, as of September 2026 Kahoot’s free plan allows 10 players (40 on a school teacher account), Blooket’s free plan 60 and Wayground’s free plan 100. The largest Giga Quizzes game so far had 497 players.
No. Giga Quizzes also has 11 question types, all of them free, and they change how a live game plays. Hotspot questions ask players to tap the right spot on a picture, sliders ask for a number on a number line, and there are ordering, matching, fill-in-the-blank, open-answer and numeric questions alongside single choice, select all that apply and true/false. Polls have no right answer, and written poll answers gather into a live word cloud. Kahoot’s free plan includes quiz and true/false questions. On top of the question types come a second game mode, teams, mini-games, and a report of what every player answered.
Giga Quizzes is built for groups bigger than free plans usually allow: up to 500 players in one game, joining by room code or QR code from any phone, with no player accounts. It is used for lecture halls, school assemblies, university orientations, conferences and company all-hands.
The same one. What you get does not change with the size of the room: up to 500 players, all 11 question types, teams, mini-games and a full report are there for a class of thirty and for a lecture hall of three hundred. Most free plans are sized for the small case and simply stop before the large one.
It has been run. The largest game so far had 497 players in one room, 481 of them present at once. Up to 20 September 2026, 44 games have had 100 players or more, 18 of them 200 or more.
Yes, and there is nothing to install. It runs in a normal web browser, so a Chromebook, a school iPad, a shared laptop or a student’s own phone all join the same way: open the site, type the room code, pick a nickname. No app, no extension, and no app-store request to file with IT.
Yes. Share the host screen on the call and let people join from their phones with the room code or the QR code. Nothing about it assumes everyone is sitting in the same room, so remote classes, webinars and distributed all-hands work the same way an assembly does.
They rejoin and keep their score. A phone that locks itself, a laptop that hands over to another access point or a student who switches to mobile data comes back to the same room and lands on the question in progress. In the 497-player game, connections were opened about twice per person across the hour and it still ran to the last question.
The site at giga-quizzes.com and its API at api.giga-quizzes.com, Google’s public STUN servers on UDP 19302, and a Cloudflare relay handed out per room for players whose direct connection is blocked. The for-schools page lists all of it in one place for an IT department.
Students never create an account and never give an email address — they type a room code and a nickname. Their answers are stored in the report saved to the hosting teacher’s library, which that teacher can open and delete. Giga Quizzes is run by one independent developer and holds no COPPA or FERPA certification; the for-schools page sets out exactly what is and is not collected, so a school can decide for itself.
Nothing, and there is nothing to buy. No per-teacher licence, no seat count to share between staff and no purchase order to raise: every teacher makes a free account and hosts games of up to 500 players. Several teachers can host at the same time, each in their own room with its own code.
It covers much of the same ground. Quizlet Live turns a study set into a team game, while Mentimeter and Slido are built around live audience response inside a presentation. Giga Quizzes is a scored live quiz game with a leaderboard, and its poll questions are unscored — written answers gather into a live word cloud — so it does the "ask the room" part too. Their plan details are not quoted here, because only what a company publishes on its own help pages goes on this page.
Yes. Discover is a free shelf of ready-made quizzes — logos, flags, geography and general knowledge among them — and any of them can be hosted in one click or copied into your library and edited first. Nothing has to be built before your first game.
No. Players open the site, type the room code and a nickname, and they are in. It works in the browser on any phone, tablet, Chromebook or laptop. Only the person who builds and hosts the quiz needs a free account.
Really free. There is no trial period, no card, no player cap to unlock and no paid plan. The limits that exist apply to everyone: up to 100 saved quizzes with up to 100 questions each, and 30 AI generations a day.
Yes. Type a topic in any language, choose how many questions and which of 9 question types to use, and edit the questions before you host. Each account can generate up to 30 times a day.
Yes. Export your set from Blooket as a PDF with its Question Set feature, then import that PDF into your Giga Quizzes library. Hebrew and other right-to-left text is supported.
Yes. Every hosted game is saved as a report with the final standings, how many got each question right, which options people picked, and what each player answered. You can download a report as a ZIP of images: the standings, the question breakdown and a card for every player.
Yes. Create a group, invite the people in it, and assign a quiz for them to complete in their own time. Live games and assignments are both free.
Yes, it is the same kind of live quiz game. On their free plans as of September 2026, Blooket allows up to 60 players, Wayground up to 100 participants with basic question types, and Gimkit limits its Pro-exclusive modes to 5 players. Giga Quizzes allows up to 500 players with every question type and both game modes.
Yes. Besides classrooms it is used for company training, onboarding, university orientations, conference sessions, webinars and team socials. Players join from their phones with a room code, so it works in a room or over a video call.
Yes. The site is available in 8 languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Hebrew. Quizzes can be written in any language, including right-to-left languages, and players see them exactly as written.
The largest game so far, in September 2026, had 497 players. Games with a few hundred players happen regularly, mostly university orientations and school events.
The game waits. A host who refreshes or closes the tab by accident has five minutes to come back, players stay where they are, and the game continues from the same question with the same scores.
Who runs Giga Quizzes, what pays for it, exactly what is stored about a student, the certifications it does not hold, and the domains a school network has to allow.
All 11 question types, Classic and Hacker modes and their settings, teams, mini-games, game reports, Discover and sharing, in one place.
No trial and no card. Build a quiz in a few minutes, or join a game someone is hosting with its room code.