TrivNow runs the night from an app and a join code, with a cast-to-TV companion. Quizado gives the host a full console on desktop or tablet, a separate big-screen display window, and game-show formats beyond trivia.
TrivNow is an app-first trivia platform sold in monthly tiers; Quizado is a host console with its own external display window, five Bar Trivia round types and host-run Family Feud and Jeopardy on Hospitality Group.
Their tiers are drawn around how much you run, so a busy December can push you up a tier. Check their site for the current allowances.
Quizado plans are drawn around what the game can do and how many venues you have, not how many times you press start. A second night in the same week changes nothing on the bill.
A typed join code works, until somebody at the back squints at the screen, mistypes it, and asks the host to read it out for the third time.
A QR code on the display and on the table tents removes the reading step. Camera, tap, in. That matters most for the walk-ins who arrive mid-round.
A wide set of question types is a lot of variety inside one format, and it is still one format. Some rooms want a game show, with a host on a microphone and a panel on the screen.
Family Feud and Jeopardy are built in on the Hospitality Group plan. The host reads the prompt, teams shout answers, and the host awards points from the console.
A cast-to-TV companion means another device signed in, another thing to update, and another thing to fix at ten past eight when it will not connect.
Quizado opens a display window from the same session you are hosting from. Drag it to the second monitor, the HDMI output or the projector, and it stays in step with the host screen.
The screen behind the bar is prime advertising space for the venue. Trivia software often treats it as advertising space for the trivia software.
From Trivia Pro up, your logo sits on the display and on the player screens, so the night reads as your night. Fonts, colours and white-label are on Hospitality Group.
Groups that open a second bar usually end up with two accounts, two question libraries and two sets of standings that never quite line up.
The Hospitality Group plan covers up to three venues from one account, so the question library and the branding follow the group rather than the building.
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Answers, timers, team scores and the next question all sit in front of the host. The room only sees what you send to the display, which is what makes a host-run round possible.
Open the external display from the app and put it on a projector, a second monitor or the TV. It is part of the same session, so there is no second login to babysit.
Family Feud and Jeopardy run as host-led rounds. They are the formats that turn a quiet Wednesday into an event people photograph. Family Feud, Jeopardy and Music Bingo are on Hospitality Group.
From Trivia Pro up you can attach your own images, audio and video to questions, which is what Name That Tune runs on. Music Bingo is a round type on Hospitality Group. You are responsible for your own music licence.
Chain nights into a season with a running table, on Trivia Pro and up. Regulars turn up to protect a position, which is worth more to a Tuesday than any single good night.
TrivNow describes itself as a trivia hosting platform for bars, breweries and livestreams. Their plans are Casual, Premium and Legendary, billed monthly, with no setup fees and no annual commitment (trivnow.com, checked August 2026). Players join in a browser with a join code or through their mobile app, and a companion display app casts questions and leaderboards to a screen. Their feature list also includes a range of question formats and a built-in league for regulars. Check their site for current pricing and the allowances on each tier.
The interesting number there is the event allowance, because it is the one that changes how you behave. A venue on a small tier starts asking whether a quiet Sunday afternoon is worth spending an event on. Metering by usage is a perfectly reasonable way to price software, but it does put a small tax on experimenting.
Quizado prices on capability instead. Start free with Bar Trivia for up to sixteen players in one venue, using the built-in question packs and big-screen themes. Neighborhood Pub opens the premium question library and lifts the player cap. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro, which also adds media rounds, monthly AI credits, leagues and a custom logo. Hospitality Group adds Family Feud, Jeopardy, Music Bingo, bulk import and up to three venues. Nothing in that ladder counts how many games you ran, so the tenth night of the month is as free as the first. Current figures are on the pricing page.
Every trivia product eventually has to solve the same problem: the host needs to see the answers and the room must not. Solve it badly and the host spends the night hunched over a phone, tilting it away from the nearest table.
Quizado solves it with a display window that belongs to the same session as the host console. You open it, drag it to the projector or the second monitor, and it mirrors the state of the game as you drive it: the question, the countdown, the buzzer order, the standings between rounds. Nothing else has to be signed in, and there is no separate pairing step to go wrong.
TrivNow solves it with a companion TV app, which is a genuinely good fit for a venue whose only screen is a smart TV nobody can reach with a cable. If that is your room, their approach may suit you better than ours. If you have a laptop and an HDMI lead behind the bar, a display window is one less moving part.
A quiz night and a game show pull different crowds. A quiz night is heads-down: teams confer quietly, type an answer, wait for the next one. It suits a room that wants to drink and think for two hours.
A game show is heads-up. Family Feud and Jeopardy in Quizado are host-run on purpose: the host reads the prompt, players answer out loud, and the host awards the points. Nobody is looking at a phone during the good bit. It is louder, it needs a confident host, and it is the format that gets filmed and posted.
Most venues want both across a month. Three ordinary quiz nights and one game-show night is a schedule that keeps regulars interested without exhausting whoever is hosting. Having both in one app means the teams, the venue branding and the season table carry across, instead of living in two different products.
There are rooms where their shape fits better than ours.
Hosts who move usually want more control over the night itself.
Install the desktop app or open the web app, start a practice game and open the external display on your TV or projector. Five minutes here saves an argument on the night.
Print the join QR on the table tents and leave it on the display between rounds. Announce it once at the start; after that the room handles itself.
Finish your first Quizado night with a Wager round or a Name That Tune round. New formats are the cheapest way to tell regulars something has changed.
TrivNow lifts the player limit on its paid tiers, while our free plan stops at sixteen until you upgrade. They also ship a TV display app, which is easier than an HDMI cable in some rooms, and a built-in prize league for regulars, which we do not offer at all. Those are real advantages and you should weigh them before deciding.
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.
Start free with the built-in packs, put the QR code on the TV and see how the room reacts. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro.
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