Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere's free plan supports ~40–50 participants. Basic paid scales to 700 with LMS, reporting, and AI features. Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, and governance. The free plan never expires and needs no credit card.
Hands-on comparison
Poll Everywhere vs. Wooclap (2026)
Both serve higher education — the difference is compliance depth, slide integration, and assessment philosophy.
Poll Everywhere and Wooclap are both used extensively in higher education. This comparison is more nuanced than most in this category — both support LTI, both target the same buyer. The meaningful differences are in security posture, PowerPoint integration, and how each tool approaches the question of whether polling is primarily for engagement or assessment.
The bottom line
Poll Everywhere has stronger security compliance and a more reliable PowerPoint integration, and more mature enterprise governance controls. For institutions where procurement requires SOC 2 or ISO 27001, Poll Everywhere is easier to clear. Poll Everywhere 2.0 has also added question depth like ranking while implementing Accessibility solutions for complex cases like Clickable Image Polls. Wooclap has some good assessment-style question depth — drag-and-drop and correctness-based feedback are more central to its design.
Side-by-side comparison
| Feature | Poll Everywhere | Wooclap |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Enterprise, higher ed, PowerPoint-native, compliance-sensitive institutional deployments | Assessment-style classroom and training use, Moodle and Blackboard-centric environments |
| Free audience limit | ~40–50 participants | 3 polls per session max |
| Paid audience limit | Up to 700 (basic paid) | Unlimited interactions (basic paid) |
| Native PowerPoint plug-in | Yes — native, stable plug-in | No |
| LMS / LTI support | LTI 1.3 Advantage; Canvas Partner | LTI 1.3; Canvas Partner |
| Security certifications | SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 + 27701 | ISO 27001:2022 certified. LTI 1.3 support. Canvas Partner. |
| Q&A moderation | Supported; advanced moderation in Q2 roadmap | Limited — not optimized for open Q&A |
| Anonymous participation | Supported | Supported |
| AI-assisted creation | Available; best used in preparation | Available on top paid plan |
Which tool is right for you?
| Choose Poll Everywhere if… | Choose Wooclap if… |
|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type 2 or ISO 27001 certification is required for institutional procurement | Assessment-style questions (correctness-based, ranking, drag-and-drop) are central to your pedagogical approach |
| A stable native PowerPoint plug-in is needed for recurring lecture use | Your LMS is Moodle or Blackboard and you want deeper integration with those platforms specifically |
| Enterprise admin controls, SSO, or SCIM are part of the deployment requirement | Security certifications are not yet a formal procurement requirement at your institution |
| Your institution uses Canvas and a recognized Canvas Partner status is required | Wooclap is already established in your academic community, reducing onboarding friction |
How each tool performs by scenario
Both tools can handle basic polling. The differences show up in specific conditions. Below is a direct comparison across the six use cases covered in our hands-on testing.
| Scenario | Poll Everywhere | Wooclap |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching a class | Yes — LaTeX, native slide integration, reusable polls, anonymous participation, LMS grade passback. Strong fit for technical subjects. | Yes — strong for assessment-style instruction. Well-suited for correctness-based questions. Creating and editing questions can feel slower than lighter tools. |
| All courses at a university | Yes — LTI 1.3, Canvas Partner, SOC 2 certified. Scales for departmental and institutional deployment. | Yes — LTI 1.3, Canvas Partner, strong Moodle and Blackboard depth. Holds ISO 27001:2022, though not SOC 2 — worth confirming against your institution's specific certification requirement. |
| Team meeting | Yes — professional and reliable. Works inside slide decks. | Sometimes — can support meetings focused on alignment or knowledge checks. Correctness-assumption design can feel heavy for conversational meetings. |
| Company-wide Q&A | Yes — scales to large audiences. Voting and ranking features. | Limited — not optimized for open-ended Q&A. Best when interaction is structured and questions have defined outcomes. |
| New employee onboarding | Yes — reusable across cohorts, data reviewable. | Yes for structured training programs with knowledge checks. Can feel over-engineered for lightweight social onboarding. |
| Conference presentation | Yes — reliable at scale, wide question types. | Sometimes — works for educational conference sessions with assessment-style interaction. Less suited to large informal audiences. |
Watch our unedited first-time tests
Unedited first-time recordings of both tools — no scripts, no retakes.
Poll Everywhere
Video transcript – Poll Everywhere
0:00 Okay, it's time for Poll Everywhere. I'm on a casual Friday here — not the same day as the other recordings. I'm already familiar with this product, so it's not really fair for me to do a blind run-through, but I'll do my best to do a stream-of-consciousness walkthrough.
0:20 We're starting out after sign-up and login. We're going to ask about turtles again — that's our running theme. We'll go for a Competition, which is the gamified version with leaderboards.
1:09 We could make a series of polls as well. These questions are AI-generated — trivia about the Ninja Turtles theme song. Not quite what we wanted, but we can run through it. You could edit the questions or adjust the AI prompt to improve output.
2:00 For the purpose of comparison I'm going to go ahead and present, and I'm joining with another device. Responding as "the helpful zebra." Let's see — Donatello — and the helpful zebra is in the lead.
2:48 My mistake — I started on the final slide. Let me jump back. Okay, so now we have the competition loaded. Leo. Zebra is ahead. Points are allotted based on response time. The radar visualization looks good.
3:37 You get confetti and a leaderboard at the end. There are a lot of little things you can do in a competition — showing who's connected, for example. You can also export polls to PowerPoint, view questions and correct responses, and pull reporting.
4:48 Let's look at billing quickly. We're on the Teams trial for the first 30 days, then we drop to Intro — 40-person audience size, some AI prompts per month, unlimited questions. Higher tiers increase audience size, reporting capabilities, AI access, and branding. Pricing feels fairly competitive with the others we've tested.
5:36 That's Poll Everywhere.
Wooclap
Video transcript – Wooclap
0:00 Alright, we're back — this time Wooclap. Just set up a login, dropped here. What are we going to use it for? Work. Making another collection of polls on the same topic.
0:19 I'll give it a role, leave the org name blank, heard about it on the web. Build your first interactive Wooclap event. Start from scratch — is there an AI option? Let's see. Create using AI — but I didn't notice that at first. There are categories of different types. I like the way these look.
1:36 Start with AI. Some categories. No AI on the free plan — that's what the power-up icon means. We'll make polls the old-fashioned way. No problem. Tabs are a little slow.
2:36 Looks like what we want. Save. We have to have a correct answer — okay, I'll mark all as correct since it's an opinion question. Need to check multiple answers. Got it. One more question: who's the best leader? Leo. Tabs still a little slow.
3:48 Start this event. Join with another device. Picks up cookies. We haven't started a vote yet — let's go to next. Now we have a poll up. Who's the favorite? Picked, submitted. That's snappy. Next one — best leader. Leo. Submit. Not used to the submit step but it looks good.
5:03 If I copy the link I can answer again from another session. Joining up off to the side. Who would make the best leader? Don — and now we see the bar go halfway across. Percentage and count are both visible, clearly laid out. Took about the same amount of time as the others.
5:52 Let's look at pricing before I go. On free: two questions per event, unlimited events. Unclear how many participants can respond. Paid tier gives unlimited questions. Team and advanced tiers also available. That all checks out — that's Wooclap.
Pricing and limits
Wooclap
Wooclap's free tier is limited to 3 polls per session — essentially exploratory only. Paid plans unlock unlimited interactions and LMS reporting. AI tools are available on the top paid tier. Enterprise plans available for institutional licensing.
What usually triggers a procurement conversation
Both tools target institutional procurement in higher education. Poll Everywhere holds SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 + 27701; Wooclap holds ISO 27001:2022 but does not publicly list a SOC 2 report. For US institutions where SOC 2 is a specific procurement requirement, this remains a gap for Wooclap — but the certification story is closer than it was previously.
Switching between Poll Everywhere and Wooclap
Moving from Wooclap to Poll Everywhere
Wooclap users moving to Poll Everywhere gain a stronger security compliance posture, a native PowerPoint plug-in, and more mature enterprise admin controls. The main adjustment is that Poll Everywhere's question design philosophy leans toward engagement (any answer is valid) rather than assessment (questions have correct answers) — a workflow and mindset shift for instructors used to Wooclap's approach.
Moving from Poll Everywhere to Wooclap
Poll Everywhere users moving to Wooclap typically do so for deeper assessment-style question types — ranking, drag-and-drop, correctness-based feedback — that are more central to Wooclap's design. Tradeoffs include losing the native PowerPoint plug-in, SOC 2 certification, and the full enterprise governance stack.
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