A Redtooth alternative for a pub quiz with no quizmaster
Redtooth posts or emails a paper quiz every week, and a member of your staff reads it out. Its SmartQuiz app needs a host too. Quizado can run the whole Trivia night by itself on the TV, while the bar keeps serving.
Choose Redtooth if you want a cheap weekly paper quiz and someone on staff is happy to read it out. Choose Quizado if nobody on the rota wants the microphone: on Pro and Business, Auto-Host runs the Trivia night by itself, the questions show on the TV and the phones, and the scores add up on their own.
Quizado vs. Redtooth
Why Switch from Redtooth?
Somebody has to read it out
A paper quiz is only as good as the person on the microphone. On a busy night that is a bartender who would rather pull pints, and on a quiet night it may be nobody.
On Pro and Business, Auto-Host runs the Trivia night by itself. Each question shows on the TV and the phones, the clock runs, answers lock and the scores appear. Staff only start it.
Marking sheets at the bar
Paper answer sheets have to be marked by hand, and somebody adds up the scores between rounds and between orders.
Teams answer on their own phones and Quizado scores every answer. The live leaderboard is on the TV before anyone asks.
SmartQuiz still needs a host
SmartQuiz moves the answers onto phones, but Redtooth sells it as an app you download "to host your own games". You still need a person to run each night.
Quizado works both ways. Auto-Host runs the night, or a member of staff runs it from a phone with Host Coach giving a line to say at each moment.
The same quiz as every other pub
A weekly pack is written for every pub that buys it. It cannot know your town, your team or your beer list.
Type a theme and AI questions write the round, on every paid plan. You can edit every question before the night, or write your own on any plan and host them from Pro.
One format, every week
A room that has answered the same style of paper quiz for a year starts to thin out.
Swap in a Family Face-Off or QuizoParty night, a Price Check round or Music Bingo from Pro. All seven games are in the same app.
What Makes Quizado Different
Built from the ground up for modern bar trivia and live events.
Auto-Host on Pro and Business
It runs a whole Trivia night by itself, through Buzzer Race and Music Bingo rounds too. On the big screen the MC voice reads each question aloud, then the options of a multiple-choice question, and captions and the same voice say many of the host lines.
Or a member of staff, with a script
Run the night from a phone, a laptop or the desktop app. Host Coach shows what to do now and one line to say out loud, with team names filled in. It is free on every plan.
Teams play on their own phones
They scan the QR code on the TV and join in the browser, with no app and no account. No sheets to print, hand out or collect.
Scored for you, live
Every answer is scored as it locks, and the leaderboard on the TV updates after each question. On Business, a league table carries the scores from week to week.
Questions on your theme
AI questions on every paid plan write a Trivia night to the length you pick, from 30 minutes to 2 hours. Picture questions are part of the mix.
Seven games in one app
Trivia, Family Face-Off, QuizoParty, Territory, Price Check, Music Bingo and Catch That Tune. Family Face-Off and QuizoParty are on every plan, and Music Bingo starts on Pro.
The job: a quiz night with no quizmaster
Most pubs that look at Redtooth want the same thing: a quiz night every week that fills the room, without paying a quizmaster and without asking a bartender to perform. The question is who stands at the front.
With a Redtooth paper quiz, a member of your staff reads the questions and the answers. With SmartQuiz, the answers move to phones, but a host still runs the game. With Quizado on Pro or Business, Auto-Host runs the Trivia night from start to finish. Nobody on staff has to read a question out: the MC voice reads each one aloud on the big screen, and the room also sees it on the TV and on the phones. If you have a member of staff who likes the microphone, they can run it instead, with Host Coach giving them a line at each moment.
What Redtooth costs
Redtooth sells its weekly paper quizzes "for pubs and venues only", and its shop says "All prices are + VAT" (their shop, November 2026). Smart@ss is £8.95 + VAT a week, with 15 picture sheets, 15 answer sheets and a question and answer set for "approx 90 minutes". The Daily Quiz starts at £3.75, The Big Weekly Quiz at £6.00 and It's Your Round at £7.85. Four-week trial packs start at £20.40.
Our arithmetic: 52 weeks of Smart@ss at £8.95 + VAT is £465.40 + VAT a year. That buys the questions. It does not buy the evening of the person who reads them.
SmartQuiz is sold in credits, one credit a night: "1 Credit (One Night) £26.00", "4 Credits (One Month) £90.00", "13 Credits (Three Months) £256.00", "26 Credits (Six Months) £470.00" and "52 Credits (One Year) £850.00", plus a connection licence for the number of phones (their shop, November 2026). Our arithmetic: £850.00 for 52 credits is about £16.35 a night.
Quizado is one monthly plan, cancelled any time, with no credits and no per-night charge. The pricing page shows the live price in pounds for a UK visitor. The free plan admits 4 player phones, so you can try a short Trivia game before you pay anything.
Where Redtooth is the better fit
Redtooth has supplied pubs for "over 20 years", and its site says SmartQuiz "has run games for Greene King, Stonegate, Marston's ..." (their sites, November 2026). A paper quiz needs no screen, no wifi and no phones, and some regulars like it that way. A Quizado Trivia night needs a TV and an internet connection.
If your quiz already has a good reader and the room is full, a weekly envelope is hard to beat on price. Quizado earns its place when the reader leaves, the marking eats the evening, or you want the night to run without anybody on the microphone.
Who should stay, who should switch
Stay with Redtooth if...
A paper quiz still suits a lot of pubs.
- +Your regulars like paper answer sheets and a pen
- +You only want a weekly envelope of questions, and someone on staff enjoys reading them out
- +The bar has no TV or no reliable internet
- +You want a person in the room to read every question, not a generated voice
Switch to Quizado if...
These are the reasons a pub moves from paper to Quizado.
- +Nobody on the rota wants to read the quiz, and you want the night to run by itself
- +Marking answer sheets takes your staff away from the bar
- +You want rounds about your own town, team or beer list
- +You want other games on other nights, from Family Face-Off to Music Bingo
How to switch in 3 steps
Try it on a quiet night
Make a free account and play a short Trivia game with a free pack on the TV, with up to 4 phones. Your paper quiz carries on as usual.
Let Auto-Host run one full night
On Pro or Business, build a Trivia night to the length you want and turn on Auto-Host. Put the QR code on the tables and watch the room, not the clipboard.
Stop the paper packs when you are ready
Check the terms of your Redtooth order before you stop it. On Business, start a league table so the regulars have a reason to come back next week.
What Redtooth does that we do not
A Redtooth paper quiz needs no screen, no internet and no phones, and a person reads every question to the room. A Quizado Trivia night needs a TV and internet, and our MC voice reads the questions only on the big screen. Redtooth also sells keypad quiz kits.
Read this next
New to running a night in-house? Start with the bar trivia software overview, then look at the trivia host app if you would rather run everything from a phone or laptop behind the bar.
Frequently Asked Questions
Run your first night this week
Start free with the built-in packs, put the QR code on the TV and see how the room reacts. Writing your own packs is free on every plan; playing them starts on Pro.
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